Chapter 103 Selling Fish
After collecting the hooks, there were about ten groupers and thirty other fish. This time, he didn't expect a great white shark, so Zhang Ze didn't have time to use the grouper bait.
The lobsters gave him a big surprise. There were 32 green lobsters, 7 flower lobsters, and several other species. Zhang Ze did not put them into the space under Zhang Qinghe's nose, so he did not know their specific scientific names.
However, there are not many varieties of lobsters in the shallow waters of the East China Sea, and the fishery station does not divide them into very detailed categories. Except for the flower lobsters, the prices of all others are the same.
Zhang Ze did not go directly back to the Wenshui City Pier, but went to Yuewan County first to find Ou Shuxiang, who had just woken up, and pulled him onto the boat with a confused look on his face.
"Huang Tian San Bao (Oh my God), what the hell is this?"
When he saw the ferocious great white shark on the boat, Ou Shuxiang was so scared that he blurted out something in the local dialect.
When exclamations like "wow" and "oh my god" were not yet popular, "Huang Tian San Bao" was the favorite dialect among the older generation here to express surprise.
The pier was already full of people. How many people had seen a six-meter-long great white shark?
A person standing next to it is not as big as a shark's head. From the proportions, you can see that a great white shark can swallow a person in one bite.
Zhang Qinghe stood at the boarding gate and kept stopping people from coming on board. This was also Zhang Ze's order.
Most of the people who appear at the dock are fishermen, and who knows if others will sneak away with a few fish.
"Hey! Aze, is this ship yours?"
"It's Aze. You can catch such a big great white shark with a net. That's awesome!"
But when Zhang Ze came back, someone still recognized him.
The main reason is that many of the fishermen who come to this dock are from Lumen Island. His identity as the son-in-law of the Tong family is well known in the village where his father-in-law lives, and even many people in the neighboring village know him.
Not to mention the betrothal gift, the betrothal gift of a bicycle is unique on the island.
"It's mine. I unexpectedly caught a great white shark when I went out to sea yesterday. I have to rush to the city of Wenshui. Let's not talk about it now." After Zhang Ze said a few words to the few people who recognized him, he quickly drove away in the boat because more and more people were gathering.
Ou Shuxiang kept circling around the great white shark, and even reached out to touch the shark's teeth and patted the shark's body.
Then he smelled his hand and said "Ugh~"
It just lay down on the side of the boat and vomited, leaving Zhang Ze, who was driving the boat, speechless. He even dared to smell a great white shark that had been dead for several hours.
This thing peed on the skin, and he didn't even want to get close to the sour smell.
Zhang Qinghe kindly brought Ou Shuxiang a bowl of water to help him relieve the pain.
After Ou Shuxiang drank some water and took a breath, he asked directly: "Where is the water? I want to wash my hands. They stink!"
"I'll take you there!" Zhang Qinghe took him to the cabin and washed his hands with soap.
After washing his hands, Ou Shuxiang came to the cab and asked, "By the way, what are you going to do with this great white shark?"
"When the time comes, hand it over to the director of the fishery station and let him deal with it!" Zhang Ze was a little helpless about this great white shark. He really didn't know how to sell it.
It is impossible to keep the specimens at home. There is simply no room for them, and it may scare the child when you have a baby in the future.
Is it true that only shark fins and livers are taken and the rest is discarded? This is obviously unrealistic.
Great white shark meat is not tasty. Its skin has tiny scales and is very rough, making it very troublesome to handle.
Moreover, the liver of the great white shark accounts for one-third of the weight of the entire shark. The main selling point is this, as it can be used to extract cod liver oil, which is very nutritious.
It is impossible for a rich person to buy fish now. If this great white shark was caught by him in the second half of the year, he would definitely publicize it to attract rich people and see if any rich person would buy it at a high price.
So after much thought, I decided that it would be best to sell it to the fishery station, and he would just get some money.
Ou Shuxiang also thought that this was the best way to deal with it, since he didn't have the ability to deal with this great white shark anyway.
When the fishing boat arrived at the Wenshui City Pier, the sensation it caused was no less than that in Yuewan County. In fact, because the pier here was larger and had more people, more people gathered around.
However, there was no one here who was particularly familiar with Zhang Ze, and the boat captain who had picked up bait several times before was not here either.
He asked Zhang Qinghe to ride a bicycle to find Lu Xuanguo and ask him to arrange a crane and a truck to transport the great white shark to the cold storage first.
Zhang Ze estimated that it would take a long time to arrange a large truck that could lift more than two tons and lower a six-meter-long truck.
There are quite a lot of big fish in the ocean these days, especially those caught in deep-sea fishing.
Therefore, aquatic stations or fishing companies will have vehicles and cranes to transport large fish.
But the fishery station in Wenshui City is not large, so Lu Xuanguo probably has to borrow a car from others.
Therefore, Zhang Ze first counted the prices of grouper and lobster on the boat.
Zhang Qinghe caught a total of 33 common groupers, weighing 97.2 jin; and 3 sea red groupers, weighing exactly 7 jin.
There were quite a few ordinary lobsters, totaling 22.5 jin, and some flower lobsters, weighing 11.2 jin.
Zhang Ze did the math for him and found that the ordinary grouper was 77.76 yuan, and the sea red grouper was 35 yuan.
He thought about it and offered a price of $1.20 for the ordinary lobster and $1.70 for the flower lobster. That is, $27 and $19.40.
Zhang Ze had to pay him a total of one hundred and fifty-eight yuan and eighty cents. When he saw this number, he raised his eyebrows.
He thought Zhang Qinghe would earn at most one hundred and fifty this time, but he didn't expect that these alone would exceed one hundred and fifty.
Adding so many hairtails and other fish, his income from this trip exceeded two hundred.
No wonder many fishermen in this era soon started riding motorcycles. If you are lucky fishing, you can really get rich overnight, especially for those like him who can go to distant seas.
Then he began to calculate the total value of his and Zhang Qinghe's catch. Just as he started, Tong Yuanhang came back in the fishing boat. He simply closed the notebook and went to see their catch first.
Just like before, they had calculated the weight and price in advance.
The common grouper weighed a total of 207.7 jin and the purchase price was 207.7 yuan.
There were not many sea grouper, only about 13.3 jin, and the purchase price was 69.16 yuan.
They also brought a batch of shrimp cages this time and caught quite a few lobsters. The ordinary lobsters weighed 62 kilograms, but there was not a single flower lobster. The purchase price was two cents more than usual. After all, they used their own boat, so the purchase price was 86.8 yuan.
Zhang Ze needed to pay 363.66 yuan. As expected, with the boat able to go to the high seas, their income exploded.
Adding in the other fish catches, minus the money spent on diesel and other expenses, each of them could get around 150 yuan from this trip.
It seems a little less than Zhang Qinghe's, but how much fish you can catch at sea depends on luck.
Zhang Ze bought it from others at a low price, and it cost him nearly five hundred yuan. The total price he sold it to Ou Shuxiang was even more incredible.
He looked at the total price of one thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents, and his lips trembled a little.
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Zhang Ze made more than 200 yuan by selling the seafood he bought from others for more than 400 yuan to him. It was normal for him to make more than 1,000 yuan by adding his own earnings.
Of course, Ou Shuxiang did not find out whether Tong Yuanhang was selling fish or working. When Tong Yuanhang and his friends came back, he borrowed a bicycle and went to contact the channels in Wenshui City.
Since he was already here, he planned to sell a batch of the fish he caught here first, and take the rest back to Yuewan County.
Originally, Zhang Ze had already dealt with everything, so he could go to Yuewan County to find him.
But because the appointment was for tomorrow, he was afraid that Ou Shuxiang was out on business, so he went there first and brought him over directly to avoid being unable to find him when it was too late.
It just consumes some diesel. He might earn a thousand dollars from this trip, so he naturally doesn't care about this little bit.
After waiting for more than an hour, a large truck slowly arrived at the dock.
This truck is big, indeed it is bigger than an ordinary truck, but if a six-meter great white shark is put on it, a large part of its tail will probably be exposed, and it will probably have to be tied up with ropes and bent.
As for the cranes and hoists he imagined, there were none!
A group of people did come, but they had to rely on manpower to transport the great white shark up there. Zhang Ze was immediately paralyzed.
Obviously, it is difficult to get some advanced equipment in a small place like Wenshui City. Large fishing companies are not here, but in nearby coastal cities with better geographical locations.
So the convenience that Zhang Ze wanted did not exist. Or maybe it did exist, but Lu Xuanguo felt that it was just a great white shark, so there was no need to do favors for others?
At least the shipyard that purchased the fishing boat will definitely be able to receive a crane and a large transport vehicle.
Lu Xuanguo naturally came as well, and he was followed by people from the Fisheries Bureau and even reporters.
He looked at the great white shark, but there was no surprise in his eyes.
After all, he was a navy man and had lived on Nanping Island before. What big fish had he not seen? When he was young and patrolling at sea, he had seen many whales that were bigger than Zhang Ze's fishing boat.
But the appearance of such a large great white shark at the Wenshui City Pier was quite big news, so it was not surprising that journalists came.
"How was the harvest on this trip to the sea?" After Lu Xuanguo arranged for someone to get the great white shark into the car, he came to Zhang Ze and asked with a smile.
"It's okay. There are more resources in the open sea, and the harvest is beyond my imagination." Strictly speaking, he only spent one night at sea, but the income of one thousand yuan was indeed a bit beyond his imagination.
It seems that he doesn't need two months to become a millionaire.
Lu Xuanguo nodded: "This white shark will be sent to the Fisheries Bureau, and it should be sent to the research institute for research. Then they will give you a reward."
Zhang Ze was stunned. So that's how it was. He thought the fishery station would purchase it directly.
But in reality there is no difference. The purchasing object has changed from the fishery station to the Marine Research Institute, and the reward is just a term.
"Uncle Lu, just take care of the arrangements." Zhang Zehan nodded with a smile. The fish had already been arranged, so what else could he say?
"By the way, Uncle Lu, I plan to go fishing in the fishery on Nanping Island in a few days, and visit my cousin by the way. Do you want to come with me?"
"In a few days?" Lu Xuanguo frowned. "I may not be able to go, but your aunt will definitely go. She will come to my house when the time comes, and Xiaoxi will also be taken over to meet her father."
"Okay." Zhang Ze nodded, thinking. Since he was bringing the child over, should he arrange a day off and bring his family over to play?
Even if I go to my uncle's house, I guess my uncle, aunt and two cousins would also like to know how my cousin is doing over there.
My aunt has high requirements for the man when it comes to marrying off her daughter and wants more dowry.
In fact, there is nothing bad about them, otherwise my uncle would not have brought some things over from time to time in the past few years.
A group of people worked together and used the principle of leverage to get the great white shark onto the car and sent it away. Zhang Ze sold the remaining hairtail fish and after cleaning the fishing boat, Ou Shuxiang just came back with a small truck following behind him, who came to take the fish.
Zhang Ze has collected all the fish he caught. His experience value has reached 770 now, and their vitality is very good.
The two people who followed saw that Huo Li was really as good as Ou Shuxiang said, so they filled two buckets at the back of the truck with sea water, scooped up the fish and sent them over, taking almost half of them.
Ou Shuxiang was going to sell the remaining half to the factory in Yuewan County. After all, it had been agreed upon. It was okay to deliver it one day in advance, but if he didn't, it would be a breach of trust.
Zhang Ze's mental state was pretty good. He asked Zhang Qinghe to go back to the cabin to sleep while he drove the boat to send Ou Shuxiang back.
(End of this chapter)
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