The main reason why Baiyu has this psychological fluctuation is the price difference between swordfish and marlin.
Unlike the other wealthy fishermen on the boat, Bai Yu and his three companions went out to sea to fish not only because they hadn't been out to sea in a long time, but also primarily to make money.
A pound of sailfish can sell for over 100 yuan. If he had caught a sailfish weighing 100-200 pounds, it could have sold for over 10,000 yuan.
However, if it's a swordfish, the price will be significantly reduced. Swordfish are much cheaper than marlin, and usually only cost a few dozen yuan per kilogram.
Although they are two very similar-looking items, and may even have had some connection in the early stages of evolution, there is a huge difference in their prices.
Take Sanya, where Baiyu lives, for example. A sailfish of the same size can cost almost twice as much as a swordfish.
In this situation, if Bai Yu saw that he had caught a swordfish instead of a marlin, wouldn't he feel a certain sense of disappointment?
Without hesitation, Bai Yu worked with the staff to lift the swordfish, which weighed 100-200 pounds, onto the deck, and then quickly cleaned it and sent it to the freezer.
Efficiency was the primary focus throughout; while bleeding and removing the internal organs from the creature, Bai Yu remained completely unmoved.
It's like a cold-blooded killer who's been killing fish at RT-Mart for over ten years, a nemesis of fish.
It was from this swordfish that the F4 team at Ocean University officially began their period of fishing for meter-sized fish.
Thanks to the swordfish's long snout, this creature weighs less than 100 pounds, but with the added benefit of its long snout, it reaches a length of 1.3 to 1.4 meters.
Weight aside, this thing is definitely a behemoth.
Back at his fishing spot, Bai Yu baited his hook again and cast his second line of the night.
It didn't seem like it took Baiyu a long time to catch this swordfish, and in fact, it really didn't take much time; he caught it very quickly.
The reason is that this fish isn't very big, and also, not much fishing line is let out.
When Bai Yu started to exert his strength, the fishing line outside was only about 80 or 90 meters long. He only used 8 or 9 minutes to catch the fish, which was all about efficiency.
The second cast wasn't so lucky. It took seven or eight minutes after casting the line before a fish finally took the bait.
As for Bai Yu's reaction, it was the same as before: he immediately lifted the rod to set the hook, accurately grasped the timing of the hooking, and then spent more than half an hour to successfully catch the fish.
When the fish surfaced, Bai Yu was surprised to find that he had caught another swordfish, and this one was even bigger than the previous one.
He wasn't the only one; the other anglers on the fishing boat also caught swordfish, as if there was a school of swordfish in the waters they were in.
Swordfish, as predators in the ocean, occupy a relatively high position in the marine food chain.
While these predators do appear in groups, the number of swordfish in these groups is very limited, and they don't usually appear in large numbers at once.
In just forty or fifty minutes, the fishing boat had already caught seven or eight swordfish that were over a meter long, and this was not the end; there seemed to be quite a few more swordfish still swimming beneath the surface.
This is a bit unusual. With so many large swordfish gathered in one place, is the resource area of this sea really that abundant? Can it support all these big fish?
Indeed, that's true. The sea area where Bai Yu and his group were located was incredibly rich in marine resources, especially various kinds of algae.
This is why a large group of crustaceans and small fish that feed on seaweed live on the seabed here, which attracts a large number of predators to come and feed.
The two swordfish that Bai Yu caught were predators attracted by the underwater buffet and accidentally bit the bait that Bai Yu had set out.
The final result was predictable: the lives of these two swordfish came to an end, and the predator ultimately became someone else's prey.
If Bai Yu had a pair of scanning eyes, he could see the distribution of fishery resources within a two-nautical-mile radius below the sea surface.
Thirty meters to the right of the four-person fishing spot, at a depth of about 230 meters, three swords, one gold, one flag, and a shark were foraging for food on the seabed.
This only accounts for the number of large fish that are over one meter long and weigh over fifty kilograms. As for the smaller fish, there are even more of them.
After several tens of minutes of fishing, it has had no effect on the large fish attracted by the seabed resources; in fact, they seem to be enjoying their foraging here even more.
Because the amount of frozen bait thrown into the sea from the fishing boat is quite substantial. So far, the 36 anglers on board have thrown in more than 30 boxes of frozen bait, weighing over 600 kilograms.
The current underwater environment is like a giant buffet for marine life; they can find all sorts of food here.
If you want to eat vegetarian food, you can look for various seaweeds on the seabed. If you want to eat ready-made food, you can just follow the smell to eat frozen bait. If you want to eat fresh food, there are all kinds of creatures on the seabed, and you can choose freely.
The only thing to worry about is Bai Yu and the others' fishing hooks.
However, these marine creatures don't consider this at all, because their intelligence is limited, and their daily lives are simply about survival, filling their stomachs in order to stay alive.
Starting with evening fishing, whitebait can typically catch a big fish from the sea in about an hour.
This big fish includes swordfish, but is not limited to swordfish; there are also many marlin and tuna waiting for him in the ocean.
By midnight, he had caught eight fish over a meter long that day, including six that weighed over 100 pounds, making him the biggest winner on the boat.
On the other hand, Li Shuang and others who were fishing at the same spot as him also had a good catch. Although they didn't catch as many big fish as Bai Yu, each of them still caught three or four.
There was nothing he could do; Bai Yu's luck was just too good today. Even with this much, he still didn't use up his luck points for the day.
When midnight arrived, he still had more than 20 points of luck left unused. Then he could only watch helplessly as the luck panel refreshed at midnight, and his luck value of 23 points became 32 points.
Then the four of them packed up their fishing rods and headed towards the restaurant. It was time for a late-night snack.
When Bai Yu and his companions arrived at the restaurant, they weren't the first to return; some fishermen had arrived earlier than them.
However, they seemed to be in a great hurry at this moment, eating extremely fast. One guy wolfed down his food as if someone was trying to steal it from him.
When Bai Yu passed by the other person, he was afraid that the person would choke on their food because they ate too fast!
'cough cough cough'
The thought had barely formed in his mind when the fisherman suddenly coughed. He wasn't choking; he was choking...
After just a short stroll around the restaurant, Bai Yu and his companions understood why this situation had occurred—it was all because of the fish situation.
The fish weren't biting well for the past few days, but today they finally started biting, and they caught big fish. So, these anglers naturally wanted to seize every second to fish.
Putting money aside for now, these anglers really enjoy the feeling of catching big fish.
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