Chapter 227 Bluefin Tuna
The three king fish together could probably be sold for more than 15,000 yuan. Adding this time's catch, Zhang Ze estimated that as long as his luck was not too bad, the total income might exceed 20,000 yuan.
As for the cost, it can be ignored with such a large number.
This is all thanks to the grouper king fish that was just caught in the space. If not for it, it would take Zhang Ze a long time to accumulate 30,000 experience points.
There are now two humphead wrasses in the space, as well as the white coral at home.
Zhang Ze felt that perhaps he should pay more attention to the situation of ornamental fish. If the seafood barge makes money, he can build an extra-large fish tank when building a big ship. That would also be a feature.
Just as he was thinking about admiring the fish, it suddenly started to rain heavily on the sea to his right, making a lot of noise.
Zhang Ze was stunned. Was there a storm?
That's not right. The wind wasn't strong at the moment. He looked behind him and found that there was no movement at all. There was only something wrong on the right side.
Looking more closely, it was not raining from the sky, but simply "fish" were raining on the sea.
As expected, a huge school of fish was approaching, and the number was probably more than a few hundred million.
Zhang Ze didn't continue paying attention, but put up the bait and continued fishing.
Of course, after catching a very good-looking ornamental fish named Liujian Shenxian, the big school of fish finally came nearby.
This is an unknown small fish, about the size of a middle finger, and should be some kind of sardine.
For some reason, they kept jumping on the water, jumping very high, and a small number of them even jumped onto the boat.
“Woof woof woof~”
Xiao Hei was immediately startled and stood on the deck barking at the sardines that jumped onto the boat.
It seemed that the invasion of the sardines by the Duoyu had aroused its territorial awareness or house-guarding instinct.
However, after a while, Xiao Hei suddenly realized that these finger-sized fish did not seem to be dangerous, so he stopped shouting and went over to sniff them with his nose.
But I didn't smell anything, just a fishy smell.
Zhang Ze was not interested in these sardines, which numbered in the billions, even though he could catch a lot of them by casting a net.
These fish are not valuable. Even if he catches tens of thousands of kilograms, it will not be as profitable as fishing for coral fish now.
However, some of his attention was still on these sardines, or rather, he was paying attention to new situations on the sea.
Although it is not clear whether this special situation was caused by other fish chasing the sardines.
But even if not, such a large number of sardines will attract the attention of other fish, and Zhang Ze only needs to wait for other big fish to come.
He continued to hook a black porgy, and the sardines were still jumping around, but the big fish he was expecting finally came.
There was a sudden explosion in the water, and when he turned around, he saw several tunas emerging from the water to hunt.
Zhang Ze was a little surprised. He didn't expect that what came was tuna.
However, because the distance was a bit far, he couldn't tell what kind of tuna it was, but it was quite large, at least over one meter tall.
Zhang Ze put away his fishing rod. This time he didn't act pretentiously and fought the tuna himself.
I owe hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I have to make money quickly.
So he took out a large fishing reel, pulled out the fishing line inside and tied it to the winch, and at the same time turned on the winch to make it rotate, so as to get all the fishing line out of the fishing reel.
Afterwards, he went to get the big fish hook and spent fifty experience points to exchange for ten tuna baits.
This bait can be used to catch any tuna, and it has the same effect as grouper bait. It is not a special bait, so the chance of catching a fish only increases by 30%.
But even so, it is enough. It is difficult to attract tuna among a large number of sardines using real bait, but the magic bait can do it.
After hanging a tuna bait, Zhang Ze threw the bait into the sea at the stern of the boat, then turned the winch backwards to release some fishing line.
Because the tuna was on the water surface, he didn't need to use a lead weight, but he didn't tie a float either, letting the bait flip in the water with the waves.
The flipping of the fish gave off a fatal temptation to the tuna, and nearly one-third of the tuna in the school rushed out immediately.
The distance is about thirty meters, which is almost a blink of an eye for the tuna.
The relatively loose fishing line on the winch was suddenly tightened, but the fishing reel had a low unloading force. A larger tuna could be pulled, but the winch was different.
The fish that can be pulled by the winch must weigh at least 500 kilograms.
Although Zhang Ze only caught a glimpse of the tuna just now, he had a rough idea of the size of the fish, which was about one meter to one and a half meters.
Tuna usually move in groups of the same size, and a school of fish is basically about this size, unless another school of tuna arrives.
So even though the fishing line was stretched taut and cut ripples on the water surface, the distance of more than 20 meters did not change at all.
Zhang Ze started the winch the moment the fish was hooked, because if he didn't do it in time, the fish would easily come off the hook.
This time I was lucky, the fish did not get off the hook, but was pulled up mercilessly by the power of the winch.
Zhang Ze didn't have to wait long before a round tuna appeared on the water and was pulled to the stern of the boat.
"Fuck, bluefin tuna?"
Zhang Ze never expected that he would encounter the bluefin tuna, which became extremely famous in later generations, under such circumstances. He thought it was a large number of yellowfin tuna.
This immediately made him realize that he had made the right decision.
Even though the price has not yet risen in the country, bluefin tuna is still much more expensive than yellowfin tuna.
Unfortunately, this bluefin tuna is only about 1.5 meters long and weighs about 120 to 150 kilograms.
For most seafood, the larger the size, the more expensive it is, especially for tuna and grouper.
The price of a bluefin tuna weighing more than 100 kilograms does not have much advantage, but Zhang Ze does not know the exact amount.
He usually goes back to the dock and occasionally goes to the fishery station but never sees any bluefin tuna.
After all, few of the fishermen around the fishing village come to the open sea to fish like him, and bluefin tuna can only be encountered in the open sea.
At this time, the tuna had come to the stern of the boat. Zhang Ze immediately stretched out the hook and pierced the fish directly, then used the winch to lift the fish up.
The tuna did not consume much energy. After it was lifted into the air, its tail swung rapidly. This was a real small electric motor. It made Zhang Ze feel like he was sitting in a massage chair.
He quickly reached out and put the bluefin tuna into the space.
[Successfully caught a bluefin tuna, weighing 147.83 catties, experience +100. ]
"Sure, the experience points are actually 100?"
Zhang Ze was a little surprised, but not too surprised.
The experience points for the albacore tuna I caught last time were 60, so it’s not surprising that the more valuable bluefin tuna had 100.
He estimated that the experience points for the bigeye tuna he had not encountered were probably around 70 or 80.
It is normal to have so many tuna experience points. After all, if you fish by yourself without cheating, you can't catch many in a day.
If tuna were not also attracted to light and could be caught by tens of thousands at a time with a purse seine net, the seas in future would probably be filled with fishing boats dedicated to catching tuna.
This bluefin tuna that was pierced by the hook can survive for a while in the space. Even if the wound cannot heal, the tuna can still survive for several hours with its vitality.
So Zhang Ze was not in a hurry to kill the fish and bleed it, but quickly put up a tuna bait and continued fishing.
A group of bluefin tuna had been attracted by the bait to the stern of the Duoyu, so the moment the bait was put down, it was swallowed by a bluefin tuna that came to the surface of the water.
Zhang Ze watched it swallow the bait and then the hook pierced its mouth.
The bluefin tuna swam away decisively despite the pain. However, after it had swam a short distance, the fishing line suddenly became tight and the hook was stabbed into the fish again under the pulling force. This time, the fish could not be washed away even if it kept cleaning its gills.
Zhang Ze saw the whole scene and a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.
No wonder he has never had a hook slip when fishing with a winch. It turns out that when the fish escapes and pulls the fishing line tight, the reaction force can help the hook to penetrate deeper.
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Unless the fish washes its gills on the spot, it is basically impossible to escape.
Now, he was completely relieved.
Next, Zhang Ze kept turning on the winch repeatedly and then collecting the fish.
The morning's fishing activity was completely over only after the sardines ran away and the bluefin tuna followed.
Zhang Ze had no intention of chasing after them. The school of fish was constantly moving, and at a fairly fast speed, so it would be difficult for his boat to catch up.
As for why they stayed near the Duoyu for several hours, it was simply because the school of fish was too large and it was not a real stay.
"Thirty-eight pieces, a total of 5,445 kilograms, awesome!"
He earned 3,800 experience points and caught more than 5,400 kilograms of bluefin tuna. Zhang Ze estimated that he could sell them for more than one dollar per piece, but he didn't know if he could sell them for two dollars.
The domestic market for tuna is not big. If it were in the East China Sea, he could try his luck directly in the waters near Xiao Ri.
If you happen to meet fishermen who are making a living, these bluefin tuna can be sold to them at a high price.
In the 1980s, eating bluefin tuna had become popular, so the price there was much higher than in China.
Zhang Ze didn't have many regrets about this. If he had the channels, he would naturally make a lot of money. If he didn't have them, he would just consider himself unlucky.
After working all morning, it was already past eleven o'clock.
Zhang Ze looked at the first few bluefin tunas he caught. He was afraid that the fish would suddenly die and be expelled from the space while he was making lunch, so he decided to kill the fish and bleed them first.
Otherwise, if he appears in the kitchen or living room, it would be quite troublesome for him to carry out a fish weighing more than 100 kilograms.
He came to the deck with a fish knife, a hammer and a long nail, and with an idea in his mind, the first bluefin tuna that was caught appeared on the deck.
As soon as it came out, blood started to ooze from its wounds, and then the fish began to vibrate at an extremely fast frequency on the deck like an electric motor.
The deck was wet and the fish was slippery, causing it to move around on the deck.
"Eighty~"
Zhang Ze hit the tuna with a hammer, and the tuna's mouth opened as wide as it could. Its shaking body suddenly stopped and it was knocked unconscious by him.
He didn't expect that the tuna would still be so energetic after so much time.
But this also has something to do with him. When he set the hook, he deliberately did not aim at the fatal position, so the tuna with only minor injuries could survive for a very long time in the space.
In this case, he was very lively after eating tuna for lunch.
But since he had already started killing the fish, he could only finish processing the fish first.
Pick up the long nail, aim it at the fish's head and hammer it into it, causing the fish to die quickly.
Cut open its belly, take out the internal organs and throw them into the plastic basket next to it, then cut a knife into the gills and cut off the spine of the fish tail.
Inserting the water pipe into the fish's mouth, a large amount of blood immediately rushed out of the fish's body, staining the deck red.
Let the water pipe flush this side, Zhang Ze's heart moved, and the next bluefin tuna also appeared on the deck.
By the time he had finished with this fish and taken out its internal organs, the blood that was gushing out of the fish next to it was already very light in color, so he picked up the hose and used it to flush this one.
But the first one had already been dealt with and was just left on the deck.
It's cloudy today and the temperature is low, so there's no need to worry about the fish going bad if left outside in a short period of time.
It took more than an hour to process all 38 bluefin tuna one by one, and the internal organs filled two plastic baskets.
The fish originally weighed more than 5,400 kilograms, but after removing the internal organs and blood, it became several hundred kilograms lighter.
Zhang Ze had nothing to do, so he took a large beam scale and counted the weight of the bluefin tuna himself.
As a result, the original weight of nearly 5,500 kilograms of fish was directly reduced to 4,923 kilograms.
Fortunately, it is not he who has to pay for the lost weight, but the buyer, so the unit price of the fish will be higher.
After weighing the fish, he opened the cold storage compartment. Not bothering to use a crane, he simply carried the fish in one by one.
A fish weighing more than 100 pounds is not particularly big, and it is easy to hold if it doesn't struggle.
After finishing, Zhang Ze took off his raincoat and left it on the side of the boat. He would wash it later and eat first.
He didn't feel sleepy after lunch. His mental state is much better than in the past few months. He is very energetic after sleeping about six hours a day.
I went to wash the raincoat with laundry detergent, especially the part where I hold the fish.
Then I hung it on the corridor to dry and tied it with a rope to prevent it from being blown away by the sea breeze.
He had caught so much today, not only tuna but also white eels, which was quite good. He had already achieved what he expected for this trip, so he decided to go find Jin Sanbao and Tong Yuanhang and the others in the afternoon.
If they are free, then go play some cards or maybe go trolling in their waters.
So Zhang Ze started the Duoyu and headed towards the waters where he took Jin Sanbao to fish last time.
This time, Jin Sanbao and others went out to sea a day in advance. He estimated that they would most likely be there.
It was only half an hour's journey there. Before Zhang Ze arrived, he saw a small boat on the sea from afar. Judging from the appearance of the boat, it was most likely Jin Sanbao and his men.
When he got closer, he saw a trawler moving on the sea in the distance. It was his brother-in-law's trawler.
It was a bit surprising. I didn't expect that they wouldn't go trawling somewhere else today.
(End of this chapter)
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