"I finally caught a big fish, I hope it's not some barracuda I'm going to get. I've already prepared a bait, I can't be that unlucky."
Bai Yu muttered to himself as he pulled the fishing rod back and reeled in the line.
There's nothing he can do. Bai Yu is under a lot of pressure right now. After all, he's already missed three times. Now that he's finally caught one, if it's another worthless one, he'll really be embarrassed.
Although there are no outsiders on the fishing boat at the moment, and only Bai Yu, Li Xue and Bai Yue are at the bow, the latter two are having a good time and have not noticed Bai Yu's group.
However, Bai Yu still felt uneasy. After all, before going fishing today, he had checked his luck value, which was very high, over eighty points.
If, despite having such a high luck stat, Bai Yu still can't catch any big, valuable sea fish, then it's not a problem with Bai Yu's luck, but rather a problem with him as a person.
Therefore, Bai Yu attached great importance to this fish and was eager to see what kind of fish it was.
Even though it was a large fish weighing about ten pounds, it quickly came to the surface after Bai Yu cast his line repeatedly.
Bai Yu had been keeping a close eye on the sea surface to check the situation. When it reached a depth of one or two meters, Bai Yu had already spotted the figure of a fish that was neither quite white nor very white.
A color close to white? Neither barracuda nor trevally seem to have this color.
Bai Yu then breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't one of those two types of fish, he could rest assured.
As the fish drew closer to the surface, its features became increasingly apparent: it was a fish over half a meter long with a slightly yellowish skin.
"Its skin is a bit yellowish? It's over half a meter long and weighs nearly ten kilograms. Could this be a yellow croaker? How long has this yellow croaker grown?"
"It can't be a big yellow croaker, can it? Oh my god, it really does look like a big yellow croaker! No way, no way, I really caught a big yellow croaker?!"
Bai Yu kept reeling in the line while keeping an eye on the fish he had caught on the surface of the sea.
At first, he thought he had caught a yellow croaker. After all, the fish that appeared on the surface of the sea had yellow skin, but the yellow color was very, very pale, and it looked somewhat similar to a yellow croaker.
But when the fish came to the fishing boat, Bai Yu observed it carefully and found something was wrong. The fish's overall appearance was somewhat different from that of a yellow croaker, and it was more similar to a large yellow croaker.
As for why the color of this large yellow croaker is so light?
This is also very easy to understand, because it's daytime now, and this large yellow croaker was caught by a fisherman during the day.
The large yellow croaker is a very magical creature. It seems to have the ability to change color. Of course, this ability only makes the color more intense or lighter, but it does not change the color itself.
Large yellow croakers change their color saturation depending on the light. The brighter the light, the lighter their color becomes. Conversely, at night or in the dark seabed, their skin turns yellow.
The fisherman caught the large yellow croaker during the day, so its color wasn't as vibrant.
Bai Yu's voice also successfully attracted the attention of Li Xue and Bai Yue, who looked over as well.
"Brother, what are you saying all by yourself? How did you catch a big yellow croaker? This is a pale yellow fish, the big yellow croaker is much yellower."
Bai Yue placed her fishing rod on the stand and walked over, commenting on the fish floating on the sea.
Although Bai Yue was refuting the statement, she was not one to just talk the talk; she still picked up a net from the side and scooped up the fish.
"Yueyue, you're one of our company's vice presidents, and if I remember correctly, our company has sold large yellow croakers a few times this year. How come you don't even recognize a product you've sold before?"
"If I were to post this all online, what do you think our company's fans would think of you? All that hard work you've put into maintaining that strong, independent woman image would be ruined."
Bai Yu waved the camera at her collar at Bai Yue and said in a slightly threatening tone.
"Go ahead and post it. Anyway, I'm not some kind of strong woman, and that kind of image isn't something I want to maintain. It's good that you can help me clarify things; I'm just an ordinary person."
It's normal for ordinary people not to recognize large yellow croaker. This kind of sea fish is so expensive, and we don't usually come into contact with it, so it's not surprising that we don't recognize it.
Besides, it's not my fault. Look at how pale this fish is. If it weren't for the slight yellow tinge around its head, fins, and tail, it would be almost white. Anyone who saw it wouldn't think it was a yellow croaker, would they?
Bai Yue remained completely unfazed by Bai Yu's threats.
Especially when it comes to her image, Bai Yue doesn't care at all. What "strong woman" or "high-level elite" are just the evaluations given to her by netizens and fans. In reality, she is just an ordinary person.
However, unlike many ordinary people, she has a great older brother, a brother who has received a lot of attention online and has also achieved great success.
As Bai Yu's only younger sister, Bai Yue, who also graduated from a prestigious university and serves as the vice president of Yuxue Shipping Company, naturally attracts a lot of attention from netizens.
In the past, Bai Yue had never made any mistakes, whether she was cooperating with the company on events or organizing events on her own.
For this reason, netizens naturally labeled Bai Yue as a strong woman and a social elite.
Bai Yue didn't care about these labels at all. It didn't matter if her image collapsed, because it wouldn't affect her work at the company anyway.
Just as Bai Yue said, she was just an ordinary person and could not be omniscient or omnipotent.
Even if their company did sell large yellow croaker, they've sold countless products; you can't expect Bai Yue to remember them all.
Moreover, there are several kinds of sea fish that look similar to the large yellow croaker, and the one that Bai Yu caught is quite different from the large yellow croaker she remembers; its color is very different.
Seeing that Bai Yue wasn't taking the bait, Bai Yu gave up on teasing her. Instead, after Bai Yue scooped up the large yellow croaker, Bai Yu explained the color of the croaker to her.
Meanwhile, Bai Yu also used a hook remover to weigh the large yellow croaker: 4.86 kg.
A yellow croaker weighing nine pounds and seven ounces is only of average weight. He has caught even larger yellow croakers before, and has seen them quite a few times.
As for how to deal with this large yellow croaker, Bai Yu simply used a multi-functional hook remover to make two cuts on both sides of the gills, cutting off the gills.
This allows the blood to be drained from the large yellow croaker, thus better preserving its flesh.
What Bai Yu didn't know was that the large yellow croaker he thought wasn't very big was definitely the king of large yellow croakers in the sea area where they were now.
The fishing trips for large yellow croaker have been going on for a week now, and more than 10,000 large yellow croakers have been caught during this period. However, among these 10,000 large yellow croakers, no one has ever been heard of catching a 10-pound large yellow croaker.
Let alone a ten-pound one, even a single tail weighing more than five pounds, the number of news reports about it is no more than ten.
Bai Yu had just arrived here, and it was during the day. He had only cast his line five times when he caught a large yellow croaker weighing nine pounds and seven ounces!
And he actually said that this big yellow croaker was just so-so, its size was very average, and he even complained that it wasn't big enough?
If anyone knew what Bai Yu was thinking, they would definitely say: "What a show-off!"
Even if what Bai Yu said is true, it is also true if others think he is faking it; the two are not contradictory.
Bai Yu was neither dissatisfied nor disgusted with the large yellow croaker he caught this time.
Although it wasn't the biggest yellow croaker he had ever caught, its value was extremely high.
At this moment, Bai Yu was trying to determine whether the large yellow croaker was wild or farmed, as the difference in value was significant.
Although the large yellow croaker was caught by Bai Yu in the sea, it does not mean that the large yellow croaker is wild. This still needs to be verified.
After all, with the development of our marine technology, large yellow croaker, a type of sea fish, has long been able to be artificially farmed, and there are many farming bases along the southeast coast of my country.
And if there are farms, there will inevitably be those that escape from the farms, especially after each typhoon or other extreme weather event, when the probability of this happening increases significantly.
In recent years, many anglers have caught farmed sea fish in the wild. If it were other sea fish, it wouldn't matter much. Although there are differences between farmed and wild fish, the differences are not too great.
However, large yellow croaker is different. The difference between farmed and wild-caught sea fish is enormous, and the larger the fish, the greater the difference.
Normal wild yellow croakers weighing around one jin (500g) cost about 1,000 to 2,000 yuan per jin, one to two jin cost a little over 1,000 yuan per jin, two jin cost 2,000 yuan per jin, and a three-jin fish can sell for over 10,000 yuan.
A fish like the one Bai Yu just caught, weighing nine pounds and seven ounces, is definitely worth auctioning. It's not impossible for one to sell for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.
If you were to raise them, let alone sell them for 10,000 yuan, you'd be lucky to sell them for a few thousand yuan.
On one hand, it's a few thousand yuan, and on the other hand, it's hundreds of thousands. The difference between them is huge, does it even need to be said?
Don't assume that Bai Yu is a rich man now. He owns three companies and has a lot of money lying in his account.
But for Bai Yu, he would never complain about having too much money. Anyone else would feel the same way.
What's more, I earned this money myself through fishing, so thinking about it makes the achievement even more satisfying.
That's why Bai Yu is so focused on identifying whether this large yellow croaker is wild or farmed; this is a very important point.
There are many ways to distinguish them, whether from the size of the large yellow croaker, its scales, or its fins.
Bai Yu used a process of elimination. First, regarding its size, although this large yellow croaker was quite big, it didn't look bulky at all; its overall lines were very smooth, clearly indicating it was a swimming champion.
This is very important for wild sea fish. Since they are wild, they need to hunt for themselves, which requires a lot of exercise to expend energy, so they rarely have bloated bodies.
In addition, the scales of this large yellow croaker are very fine and orderly distributed, without any messy feeling.
This is also a characteristic of wild large yellow croakers; farmed large yellow croakers tend to have more scattered scales.
The same principle applies here. After all, farmed yellow croakers don't need to forage for food, they don't need fine, intricate scales, and they don't need a fast swimming speed.
In addition, the pectoral fins of this large yellow croaker are also very long. If they were extended upwards, they could easily cover the eyes.
This is also a characteristic of wild large yellow croaker. The reason for its long fins is the same as the two above: it increases the swimming speed of the large yellow croaker and makes it easier for them to find food.
In summary, wild-caught large yellow croakers, whether in terms of body shape, scales, or fins, are better adapted to life in the wild.
Farmed yellow croakers are better suited to a life of leisure and passive living in every way, which is the essential difference between the two.
The large yellow croaker that Bai Yu caught was a wild one. As long as Bai Yu could find a knowledgeable buyer, selling it for ten or so yuan wouldn't be a problem.
That's great! On his first day at sea, he earned back the fuel cost of his fishing boat trip to Zhoushan. That's wonderful news!
Of course, if possible, Bai Yu would like to catch two more large yellow croakers of this size.
That way, when he travels in Zhejiang Province, he can use the other two large yellow croakers to buy things for his wife and sister.
Oh ho, if you think about it that way, then he won't have to spend a single penny on this trip, and he might even make a profit.
Excellent, excellent, truly excellent!
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