Chapter 123 The speed of upgrading is accelerating
At the stern, the winch was turning slowly, and Zhang Ze pulled the sub-line to collect the first fish.
"A 3.5-jin stone nine-gong? It only gives 8 experience points. Isn't this the king of fish?"
"17 jins of seven-banded grouper, good luck."
"A twenty-three-pound giant sea bream. Why don't you get one that's twice as big?"
Without outsiders around, it was very easy for Zhang Ze to collect the fish. He could just pull the sub-line back and put it into the space when it touched the fish.
Not only can you know the size of the fish at the first time, but you can also accumulate experience points.
Because of the seven-banded grouper king, he gained more than 700 experience points after his space was upgraded to level 16. After collecting all the longlines, he will probably be able to upgrade to the next level.
The water area where the longline was located this time was about seventy meters. He used one hundred experience points to exchange for ten grouper baits and fifty ordinary baits, which he mixed with the mackerel bait he bought and hung on the longline.
So it not only attracted shallow-water fish near the isolated island, but also attracted a group of deep-sea fish living on the bottom of the water.
The experience values of deep-sea fish are quite high, basically exceeding five points, while those of shallow water fish are a little lower, with some having only one or two points.
With a thousand hooks, Zhang Ze caught more than three hundred fish in total, with a total weight of more than one thousand five hundred kilograms.
All I can say is that the magic bait is very strong. Normally, if a longline with a thousand hooks can catch more than fifty fish, it is considered very good.
But now it is the 1980s, and the harvest will definitely be better than in later generations.
This time the experience points increased a lot, reaching more than 1,600 points, so he decisively chose to upgrade.
【Fishing Space (Level 17)】
[Experience: 0/1700]
【Function: Magical Bait】
【Space size: 17 cubic meters】
[Fishing experience: 782]
Even after the upgrade, there are still nearly 800 experience points. According to this progress, he can upgrade the space to level 20 by going out to sea three more times. Maybe he can upgrade it to level 70 or 80 this year. Zhang Ze suddenly felt full of motivation.
After collecting all the fish, he threw the messy longline aside and returned to give it to the fishermen tomorrow to sort it out and repair it.
The next day, Zhang Ze did not wake up the people on the other boats in advance like he did last time, but Tong Yuanhang, Zhang Zhenghong and others who had cast their nets still went to collect the nets at 5:30.
When he got up and went to the deck, several other fishing boats had already gathered. He walked into the cockpit and just heard Tong Yuanhang's voice coming from the radio.
"Aze, we are all ready, do we want to go back now?"
"Go back!"
Zhang Ze gave plenty of time today and made an appointment with Ou Shuxiang at 2 p.m.
But since everyone has finished their work, there is nothing wrong with going back early. We can just ask someone to ride a bike to call people.
Then Zhang Ze came to the front deck and slowly added a barrel of diesel into the oil tank.
With a cruising range of eighty nautical miles, they need to prepare an extra barrel of diesel on board every time they come here.
Nanping Island is fifty nautical miles away from Wenshui City, and it takes a hundred nautical miles to go back and forth. It is impossible to drive back without extra diesel.
Every time they come here, the fuel cost alone is about 100 yuan, plus the repairs of the longline, etc., the total cost of a trip to Nanping Island is about 120 yuan.
Zhang Ze's cost may be higher, after all, he often travels back and forth between Yuewan County, Lumen Island, and mangroves.
So, if you catch several hundred kilograms of small yellow croaker with a net like before, you will still lose money when you get home.
Of course, there are not many fishermen on a 15-meter fishing boat who would just catch a few hundred kilograms of small yellow croakers that are not very valuable and then go back. Basically, they will not go back unless the boat is full.
Going out to sea for two or three days is considered a short time, and going out to sea for a week is normal.
This also resulted in the fish they brought back being of average freshness, and even some fish that could be kept alive would not last more than a week in the live water tank.
The fishery station can only sell these fish within the city, and will choose to lower the price when there are a lot of fish.
As for the small wooden boats that go out to sea today and come back today, or come back the next day, the fish they catch will be relatively fresh. These will be selected and transported to some nearby cities that are not near the sea. After arriving in those cities, the freshness will also decrease a lot.
These have nothing to do with Zhang Ze and others. Their current income is quite good.
He asked Tong Yuanhang and others to count the weight of the grouper first, and he went to the cabin to spread the ice evenly in the box.
Then he put the less valuable fish in the space into these boxes one by one, including two hundred kilograms of tiger prawns.
If he sent them back alive, he would definitely be asking for trouble. It was fine to send a small number of them back alive, but if he sent more, he would have a hard time explaining how he managed to keep these shrimps alive.
Sea shrimps will die soon after being taken out of the water, and they cannot be kept in live water tanks for long.
What's more, he has to raise groupers in the live water tank, and he's afraid that at least half of them will be eaten if he puts them in.
The lobsters have not been confiscated yet, but apart from the seven-band grouper king, the remaining fish and tiger prawns in the space total more than 1,800 kilograms, and a large portion of them must be frozen in boxes.
Except for some cheap fish, the rest that Zhang Ze took out were all deep-sea fish.
Among them, six seven-band groupers were put in one box, and three-colored scorpionfish were put in one box.
Zhang Ze plans to sell these two items plus the tiger prawns to a restaurant to see if he can get a high price.
With more than 1,200 kilograms of sea fish and 200 kilograms of shrimps, the fish hold was suddenly filled with catches.
Finally, Zhang Ze picked up a box of crushed ice and spread it on an empty space. After he had it spread, he had an idea and a huge seven-band grouper appeared on the ice.
The sudden cold and lack of oxygen made the king fish feel a life-threatening crisis. It struggled hard, but its huge body became a huge burden after leaving the water.
It could only move its tail a few times with difficulty, and its open mouth moved back and forth, as if it was trying hard to breathe.
Zhang Ze went out to drive the boat, collected the lobsters, and then put them into the live water tank together with the remaining 400-pound grouper. When he came into the fish tank, the huge king fish was already dead.
Seeing this, he picked up the last box of ice and spread it over the fish's body, and even stuffed some into its mouth.
After finishing, Zhang Ze went to the kitchen, took out a bag of egg cakes, poured a large glass of water, came to the cab, and called Tong Yuanhang and others to return.
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After eating an egg cake and drinking a sip of water, he picked up the radio and asked, "Ahang, how was your harvest?"
"Well, it's a little worse than the day before yesterday. The three fishing nets only caught 600 kilograms of fish, which I estimate is only about 200 yuan. The three longlines also have more than 500 kilograms of fish, which can be sold for about 150 yuan."
"Unfortunately, the grouper was much worse this time. The longline only caught about 200 kilograms. Plus the three of us fished for a short while, the total was only about 260 kilograms, which is not as good as last time."
"The lobster is only over 50 kilograms, so it can be sold for over 100 yuan!"
Zhang Ze did some calculations. With more than 260 kilograms of grouper, if the proportion of sea grouper was higher, he could probably sell it for around 350 yuan.
Adding the income from other fish and lobsters, the total is about 800. After deducting the cost, there is about 670 or 800 left, and each person can get more than 200 points, which is already a very strong income.
He then asked several other people and learned that the harvest dropped sharply after Zhang Qinghe left his boat.
Together with his brother, the two of them caught over 150 kilograms of grouper and over 30 kilograms of lobster. Because they did not use a fishing net and only put down two longlines, the other fish weighed only over 300 kilograms.
After some estimation, the total income would be around 400 yuan. After deducting the cost, if they divided it equally, each of them would get about 120 to 130 yuan.
But Zhang Qinghe bought the boat with money borrowed from him, and he was not clear about how the two brothers divided it, so he didn't know the specific situation.
As for Zhang Ze’s three cousins, they probably got the same equal share as Tong Yuanhang and his friends.
With the help of two longlines, we caught more than 200 kilograms of grouper. We set down two fishing nets, and with the help of longlines, we caught more than 400 kilograms of other fish. There were only a few lobsters, which we caught with the longlines by sheer luck.
The total income is estimated to be around four hundred and fifty, and after deducting the costs, the three of them can share more than one hundred.
The harvest of the three cousins this time surprised him. He did not expect that these three novices would have such a good harvest on their first trip to sea.
After all, Zhang Qinghe had followed him for a long time and had more experience than them. It was quite surprising that he could earn around 400 yuan without setting down the fishing nets.
However, Zhang Ze still suggested on the radio that they should catch more fish in the future. If the catch is not full, there is no need to go out to sea today and return tomorrow like him. This way they can earn more and reduce costs in disguise.
The three of them went out to sea together, so they could take care of each other even when he was away.
Back at the dock, when Tong Yuanhang and others brought the grouper over, he went into the fish hold out of curiosity about his catch, and immediately heard several "Oh my God" sounds from inside.
Zhang Ze came up to them with a smile and said, "Keep a low profile. It's just a grouper that's 1.67 meters tall and weighs more than 200 kilograms. What's there to be surprised about? Keep your voices down. I don't want to go around in circles like before."
"How did you catch such a big fish?" Tong Yuanhang's lips trembled. This fish was so big that it was almost as tall as him.
Zhang Qinghu and Zhang Zhenghong nearby were even more stunned. They had never seen such a big fish before.
They were not like Zhang Qinghe and his friends, who had seen giant sturgeons that were over one meter long and sold for a thousand yuan, and six-meter-long white sharks.
“Can such a big fish be sold?”
"Brother, let me tell you, last time Aze sold a big sturgeon about 1.5 meters long, and sold it for 1,000 yuan!" Zhang Qinghe said to his elder brother excitedly, and no one knew what he was excited about.
"One thousand yuan!!!" Zhang Qinghu's voice suddenly rose, and that shrill voice was thought to be that of the last father-in-law in the country.
Zhang Zhenghong and his companions were also frightened. They pointed at the grouper king and said in disbelief, "Then this one can also be sold for a thousand yuan, right?"
Tong Yuanhang shook his head: "It's definitely more than that. Grouper itself is more expensive than sturgeon, and this one is even bigger, weighing more than 200 kilograms."
Zhang Ze himself couldn't say how much this grouper could be sold for, so he didn't discuss the matter. Instead, he instructed, "Ah Hang, ride your bike to contact a few restaurant owners or managers for me and tell them that I have deep-sea grouper here. The bigger this grouper is, the tastier it is. It's different from blue grouper. By the way, call Ou Shuxiang over."
"Okay." Tong Yuanhang also knew that it would not be good to attract attention like before, so he nodded and agreed.
After he left, Zhang Ze also began to count the groupers of the remaining people and asked them to send them to their own boats.
When they delivered the grouper and went back to start selling other fish, he also put all the grouper into the space to recover from the lack of oxygen.
(End of this chapter)
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