Bai Yu didn't pay much attention to the online commotion. Apart from asking some trolls to come and stream when he was broadcasting, he didn't say much else.
When Li Shuang and Wang Hai arrived, Bai Hao also climbed up from the deck and joined them in cleaning the giant grouper.
Unlike large sea fish such as tuna and sailfish, the grouper's tail is mostly soft, so a landing net is needed to lift it up.
Fortunately, the yacht was fully equipped, and they had all the tools they needed, so there was absolutely no need to worry about that.
Moreover, this giant grouper needs to be caught as soon as possible, because Bai Yu is not holding back at all when fishing for this guy.
Although it took him a lot of time and effort, the change in water depth still put a lot of pressure on the big fish.
At this moment, the giant grouper was lying on the surface of the sea, barely moving. Judging from its appearance, it seemed that it was not far from the end of its life.
"Brother Fisherman, you're incredibly lucky! You caught such a huge grouper. That's amazing. If you took it to the dock and sold it, you'd make a fortune."
After Li Shuang arrived, he first peeked at the giant grouper floating on the sea surface, and then praised Bai Yu's luck.
This isn't flattery; it's genuine praise.
After all, Li Shuang and Bai Yu have known each other for so many years. He thinks Bai Yu is really lucky when it comes to fishing, and every time he catches something that exceeds their expectations.
Sometimes Li Shuang even suspected that their Brother Yu might have some unknown secrets, such as a system or something, since system novels are quite popular now.
But he only thought about it briefly and then laughed it off. This thing was too incredible. Rather than thinking about it that way, he thought Bai Yu was just lucky. After all, Bai Yu had been out of luck before. How could someone with a system be out of luck?
"Shuangzi, you said this giant grouper is valuable, so where do you think it's most profitable to sell it? Can you give me a suggestion?"
"How about we go to my hometown? We can dock in Guangdong province and sell all our fish catch there?"
Upon hearing Li Shuang's suggestion, Bai Yu's eyes widened instantly, and she looked at Li Shuang with an incredulous expression.
"Go to Guangdong Province? Shuangzi, are you crazy? If you're crazy, don't drag us into it. You're really something else, wanting to go to Guangdong Province to sell grouper. Don't you know that this fish is a protected species in Guangdong Province?"
"If we were to sell grouper in Guangdong Province, do you think in the end the grouper would end up in someone's stomach, or we'd end up in jail?"
The giant grouper is a slightly special species. It is indeed rare and precious, and the number of wild giant groupers is not large.
However, the protection of this species is not nationwide, but regional. In Guangdong Province, it is a key protected fish species, and the sale of wild giant grouper is not allowed.
However, Guangdong Province allows the farming of giant grouper, and there are many giant grouper farms in Guangdong Province. On the Internet, especially on Douyin, there are also live streams specifically about catching giant grouper.
Farmed grouper can be freely bought and sold, and most of the grouper here are farmed. As for whether there are wild ones being passed off as farmed ones to inflate prices, that's hard to say.
"A protected fish species in Guangdong Province? Fisherman, are you sure?"
Li Shuang didn't really know much about this, since he had been living in Hai Province for the past few years, where it was possible to fish for giant grouper.
Furthermore, since grouper is also sold in Guangdong Province, this gave Li Shuang the illusion that there was no problem selling wild grouper in Guangdong Province.
"Of course! If you don't believe me, you can search it online. Giant grouper is a key protected fish species in Guangdong Province. If we go there to sell this giant grouper, even if we didn't catch it in the protected area, it'll probably be enough to make us rich."
"However, your idea of selling seafood in Guangdong Province is a good one. Wait a moment, let me ask if there are any fishing boats from our company in our area. We can give them the grouper and sell the other seafood in Guangdong Province."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he took out his phone and made a call to his shipping company, asking them to check if there were any fishing boats that were relatively close to them.
After Bai Yu and his team delivered the grouper to the cold storage, their uncle called to tell them that a fishing boat would be passing by in two hours, and they could then hand over the goods.
Now, the number of fishing boats in Bai Yu's company is increasing day by day. Every time they go out to sea, many of their fishing boats do not operate in the South China Sea, but instead go to the East China Sea to operate.
Two hours later, a fishing boat passed by, but it wasn't a newly set sailing vessel. Instead, it had finished its work in the South China Sea and was returning with a load of cargo when it passed by Bai Yu's place.
Bai Yu's assessment of his fishing boats can be summed up in one sentence: they are hardworking and dedicated, always striving for the best results.
There is only one reason for this situation: Baiyu gave an excessively high extra bonus to the best-performing fishing boat last year.
With such high bonuses as incentives, how could these employees not work themselves to the bone and relentlessly strive for performance targets?
After all, only by boosting performance can the company's crew members receive higher monthly, quarterly, and year-end bonuses.
Bai Yu fully understands the principle that if you want a horse to run, you must feed it well and make sure it's well-fed!
Knowing that a fishing boat would arrive in two hours to pick up the giant grouper, Bai Yu and his crew continued fishing in the same spot. After handing over the giant grouper, they prepared to dock in Guangdong Province.
As my country's leading economic province, Guangdong can maximize the value of its fish catch by bringing it here for sale.
Although, given their current location, getting to a port in Guangdong Province would require taking a detour and backtracking a bit.
But none of that matters. In Bai Yu's view, as long as he can earn more money and save more for the next gas station, taking a longer route is acceptable.
Based on Li Shuang's suggestion, they plan to go to Shantou, where several of their classmates are from.
My college classmates, whose families are also in the seafood industry, are planning to go to Shantou to see if they can get a good deal and make some extra money there.
Bai Yu and the others then continued fishing, but these valuable fish weren't always available. Whether it was grouper or various kinds of sea bream, they couldn't just catch them whenever they wanted.
Bai Yu fished for over two hours, but only caught a few groupers. He didn't catch a single sea bream, and the rest were just various cheap fish, such as whitefin bream and silver pomfret.
Two hours later, a large fishing boat appeared on the sea and approached their yacht, accompanied by the sound of a horn.
When they were about ten meters away, the fishing boat stopped, and then the other boat launched a rubber boat and sailed towards the yacht.
Sailing on the open sea is quite different from driving on land; neither fishing boats nor yachts are as easy to control.
The idea of getting two boats side by side is out of the question; in this situation, maintaining a certain distance is the wisest choice.
Soon the rubber boat arrived below the yacht, and Bai Hao and the others took the giant grouper out of the cold storage and used a crane to put it onto the rubber boat so that the other party could transport it back to the fishing boat.
Throughout the entire ordeal, Bai Yu and his group only greeted the crew on the rubber boat once, and didn't say anything else.
The entire process, from handing over the giant grouper to the departure of the fish, took only a dozen minutes before the fishing boat started moving again and left.
To be honest, given the value of that giant grouper, if Yu Xue 26 were to take it back to Sanya for sale, it might not necessarily be profitable.
Because fishing boats and cars are actually quite similar, the moment they stop and start again consumes a lot of fuel.
The Yuxue No. 26 is a large ship of 75 meters, and its fuel consumption is extremely high every time it starts up.
Just now, Yuxue stopped on the 26th and then started again. In just that short time, the fuel consumption was probably at least four figures.
This is why Bai Yu caught the giant grouper. Bai Yu is the chairman of the company, and his affairs are the most important things in the company. If it were someone else, even if Yu Xue 26 passed by here, they might not stop to pick up the goods.
After Yu Xue left on the 26th, Bai Yu also started the yacht. They were heading towards Shantou, where they would spend the night.
As the yacht continued its voyage, Bai Yu also had Li Shuang call several of their university classmates.
Unfortunately, Bai Yu wasn't very familiar with most of his older classmates, except for a few.
After all, once he entered university, he spent his days either training or going out to the beach to go fishing.
After the second year of university, students start participating in competitions both domestically and internationally, leaving them with very little time to return to school.
The friendships they had with everyone in their dorm were all maintained by Li Shuang and Lu Sheng; Bai Hao and Wang Hai didn't have many close friends.
It was past 10 p.m. when Bai Yu and his friends finally arrived at the port of Shantou and met their college classmates.
Five college classmates came in total, four men and one woman. Bai Yu and Wang Hai only knew two of them, who were from the dorm next to theirs. They used to go out to the beach and play games with them.
To be honest, Bai Yu only knew the other three people; he knew they were classmates. He had basically no contact with them, whether during school or after graduation.
However, this did not prevent Li Shuang from having a good relationship with them. In order to save money, Li Shuang even extorted a dinner from these five classmates, a seafood feast.
As for the fish they brought, they sold them all to one of their classmates, but the inventory would be taken care of the next day.
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