As for the two boxes of frozen shrimp that Wang Hai brought out, they were placed in the sun to be dried until the ice coating on the outside melted away.
With the help of fans, the more than ten kilograms of shrimp were broken into small pieces, including shrimp heads and various other parts.
Bai Yu and his crew then threw it into the sea, scattering it evenly not far from the fishing boat.
Of course, we'll definitely throw them around the fishing boat.
If you cast the line too far, it won't be so easy to catch them when they start fishing.
So, to make things easier for themselves when they go fishing later, they naturally want to scatter the shrimp closer to them.
They threw in over ten kilograms of shrimp, leaving none behind. If they were going to do it, they wanted to do it big; the more bait they threw in, the more grouper they might attract.
Whether or not other grouper were attracted is another matter, but after Bai Yu and the others threw the shrimp into the sea, the nine-spined perch that were already on the surface of the sea were very happy and immediately started swimming back and forth on the surface of the sea.
Soon, Bai Yu noticed something different: a black, spotted fish had come to the surface and joined the fray.
Then two pearl grouper, a pink Eastern grouper, and several colorful groupers appeared. Bai Yu thought they looked a bit like Western grouper, but he wasn't quite sure.
"Here it comes, host! The grouper is here! Look at that pink one, isn't it a red grouper? I've eaten red grouper before, and it looks almost exactly like this guy!"
"What are those colorful fish? Are there groupers that are so colorful?"
"What's that black thing? It looks so fat, and the black color seems a bit off; it looks more like a dark purple."
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As more and more fish appeared on the surface of the sea, the deck at the stern of the boat became lively.
Some of these fish are familiar to the white-skinned fishermen, while others look somewhat familiar but are not quite sure what species they are.
After all, the grouper family is very large, and there are many different types of groupers that share many similarities in appearance and size.
In this situation, it is not easy to distinguish it unless you observe it up close.
The only way to identify these fish up close is to catch them.
That's the method, and that's what Bai Yu and the others did too; they started casting their lines at the fish.
How should I put it? This scene is like a children's fishing toy. I don't know if you've ever played with one, the kind where the fish head and hook have magnets.
Children only need to cast the hook to the head of the fish to make them stick together and then they can catch them.
At this moment, Bai Yu and the others were doing just that. They needed to cast the baited hooks in front of the fish and let them bite.
It sounds easy, but it's not easy at all in practice.
Putting aside whether you can cast accurately, sometimes you might be aiming for A, because A is a grouper, which is more valuable.
However, when you cast your fishing rod out, the hook doesn't come to A, but to b instead. But b isn't the fish you want to catch, because it's a pearl grouper, which is relatively cheap.
Even so, even if you dislike fish, it might not bite when it sees your bait.
Perhaps the splash of water after the bait fell into the sea startled it, causing it not only to not bite but also to turn around and disappear.
So overall, fishing isn't easy. Even though these groupers are right on the surface, Bai Yu and his crew are still casting their lines right in front of them.
Ultimately, the outcome depends partly on skill and partly on luck.
Bai Yu's luck wasn't great today.
It's not that Bai Yu was unlucky, but rather that he used up half of his luck today on finding schools of fish, and he didn't have much luck left.
As for his skills, Bai Yu is quite good. However, due to bad luck, he often casts his bait in front of a more valuable fish, while the fish that bites the hook is the less valuable one.
That's why Bai Yu has already caught several nine-spined bass and pearl grouper, but he hasn't caught any of the Western Star grouper.
But he had a good time and seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Soon the shrimp that had been scattered on the sea surface were all eaten. Once there is no food in a place, it means that these creatures in nature need to move to another place.
Soon, several fish disappeared from the surface of the sea, each one diving down and disappearing, clearly returning to the seabed to forage for food.
Bai Yu remained completely calm in the face of this situation. All they wanted was food, and Bai Yu and his crew always prepared plenty of bait whenever they went out to sea.
He quickly led his men to process another portion of the shrimp, picking out the two boxes of shrimp that had already thawed, and then disposed of them in the sea.
Using sea shrimp as bait is actually quite a luxury.
After all, whether it's farmed shrimp or wild-caught shrimp, the cheapest price is around twenty yuan, and if the shrimp are larger, it could be thirty or forty yuan.
Even Bai Yu, who had previously used bait, only used frozen bait that cost ten yuan per kilogram; he couldn't bear to spend money on anything more expensive.
But today is different. Today, the fish are visible to the naked eye, floating on the surface of the sea, as if they could be reached out and touched.
Moreover, they only caught grouper. Regardless of the type of grouper, even the striped sea bass, its market value is higher than that of shrimp.
So overall, Bai Yu and his team's gains exceeded their investment, which means it was profitable.
Although some of the catch went to the fans, once they returned to the dock, the fans had to keep some of the fish they wanted and sell the rest to Bai Yu and his crew at a price lower than the market price.
Although it was acquired by their company, the price was slightly lower than the market price, so their company still made a profit, just not much.
This approach by their company is a solution that all fans accept, since their company bears all the costs of each overseas trip, and they should be allowed to make some profit.
Soon another seven or eight pounds of shrimp were thrown in, and before long, there were more fish on the surface of the sea, and Bai Yu and the others could enjoy fishing again.
"Brother Fisherman, Brother Fisherman, I caught a grouper! Is our company's fishing boat qualified? Can we keep this grouper?"
After an unknown amount of time, Wang Hai's excited voice rang in Bai Yu's ears.
He turned around and saw that Wang Hai was holding a red sika deer. This guy was really beautiful. His whole body was fiery red, and apart from the dense spots, he was so gorgeous and looked so beautiful.
However, since the East Red Grouper was listed as a protected animal, it has not been so easy to catch it anymore, at least not as recklessly as it was before 2019.
Unfortunately, the fishing boat that Bai Yu and his crew were on did not have the necessary qualifications. If they caught a grouper, they would only have one option: to release it back into the wild.
Because their company's fishing boat is only for taking fans out to sea to fish. The main purpose is to let fans experience sea fishing, not to get fans hooked on sea fishing and make money from it.
Therefore, their company did not apply for certain fishing permits.
In particular, the East Red Grouper is now protected. Although qualified people can fish for it, it would still be controversial to film it and post the video online.
If they're just taking fans out to sea, then there's no need for them to do something so controversial. They could simply catch some grouper, take a picture, and prove they caught some.
Wang Hai reluctantly released the grouper back into the wild.
He was really reluctant to part with it, because besides being quite beautiful, this grouper was also exceptionally large, about 40 centimeters long, and slightly plumper than other groupers, weighing a little over five pounds.
This figure clearly shows she lives a very comfortable life, and her body must be of excellent quality.
For a foodie like Wang Hai, releasing such a top-quality grouper back into the wild was simply unacceptable.
Fortunately, Wang Hai had pretty good luck today. After releasing the Eastern Star Grouper, he caught a Western Star Grouper not long after, which made up for some of his losses.
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