Chapter 270 Crab Seedlings
After finishing the custom-made net, Zhang Ze took a small boat back to the Duoyu.
He picked up the hose to wash the mud off his feet, then exchanged for some special baits for crab tigers and started fishing for crab tigers with a bamboo pole.
He had just returned from the open sea the day before yesterday, and the seafood boat had enough stock, so he went crab fishing purely for leisure and entertainment to kill time.
He casually picked up the bamboo pole and swung it in one direction. With the weight of a small lead sinker, the bait was thrown more than thirty meters away and fell into the shallow water beside the mudflat.
Crabs generally do not go to deep places. Some places with lots of water plants or holes that are easy to hide are their ideal habitats.
But it is not easy to catch crabs in later generations, but now here, where no one cares, crabs are almost rampant, no less than mudskippers.
After waiting for about ten seconds, he felt some movement from the fishing rod, as if something was eating his bait.
After a while, there was no movement again.
Zhang Ze blinked and felt something was wrong. He lifted the crank to retrieve the hook and found that the bait had been eaten.
He looked surprised. After fishing for so long, this was the first time he encountered a small fish taking away the bait and eating it with normal fishing except longline fishing. The little creatures under the water are quite smart!
Zhang Ze was somewhat interested. After eating his bait, he wanted to escape? Didn't he know that his body no longer belonged to him? He replaced it with a special bait and continued to throw the hook to the shore.
The drop point is slightly different from before, but it doesn't have much impact.
This time, when he heard the movement on the fishing rod, he lifted it up directly. The next moment, he felt a tiny pulling force and the tip of the rod kept shaking.
Zhang Ze smiled slightly and then quickly hung up the line.
Soon, a dark brown crab goby was pulled out of the water and flew into the air, struggling in the air, swinging its tail.
This crab is not small, it should be considered big among its kind, it looks like it weighs half a pound. It has a big mouth, but it eats bait very carefully.
I don’t know if it’s just this one I caught, or if all the crabs are like this. It was Zhang Ze’s first time fishing, so he doesn’t know much about it.
He reached out and grabbed the goby, then put the fish into the space.
[Successfully caught a Chinese black snakehead, weighing 0.43 catties, experience +3. ]
The experience points didn’t seem to be much, and Zhang Ze’s interest in it immediately decreased a lot.
The exclusive bait required quite a bit of experience, so he used up the rest and switched to the regular bait.
However, gobies seem to like to gather together. After the special bait is used up, most of the fish caught with ordinary bait are gobies, followed by mudskippers.
Zhang Ze even caught three blue crabs weighing about 7 taels and two conger eels hiding here.
Before we knew it, it was high tide. The waves came one after another, causing the Duoyu to shake in a large arc.
The tide is rising!
Zhang Ze looked towards the custom network. The price had just started to rise. He could close the market once the tide had completely submerged the custom network.
However, it will take at least an hour for the tide to completely submerge the custom-made net.
Zhang Ze looked at the three blue crabs he had just caught, one of which was a female.
He placed the female into a breeding pond and selected it to breed into a butter crab.
When he saw that the experience points only needed more than 600, he was stunned. Didn't it cost 1,000? Then the breeding pool gave an explanation. This blue crab has begun to transform into a butter crab. If it waits for a while, it should be able to become the lowest level of roe crab.
But going further up becomes a bit difficult.
The proportion of wild, naturally grown butter crabs is much lower than that of farmed ones, and because of the salinity of the seawater they eat, it is impossible for them to reach the level of top-grade butter crabs.
Most of them turn into roe crabs, and the red roe inside cannot be completely dissolved, but even roe crabs are very rare.
I was lucky today and saved several hundred experience points for nothing.
Even though he has a lot of experience points now, in fact, he can only transform dozens of butter crabs at most.
King-grade seafood is not easy to get, so if he doesn't breed the butter crabs himself, it would be impossible to supply them every day.
Of course, the main purpose of breeding is to cover himself up, otherwise he would have no way to explain if some butter crabs were taken out from time to time.
It took more than an hour to wait. Zhang Ze looked at the trap that had been put down for some time.
Normally, you have to leave this thing overnight to get a big harvest, but now there are so many blue crabs, maybe the harvest will not be bad.
If the quantity is sufficient, he can cultivate some and take them back for his family to try in the evening.
As for Zhao Xianghua, let's wait for now. There's no need to give him one or two to taste, but selling them in bulk is not a good idea.
No matter how amazing the breeding pond is, he still has to follow the season of butter crabs and can't take them out all year round. Wouldn't he be exposed if science advances in the future?
My family was fine. We just happened to find a few different ones and brought them back. It’s no big deal.
So Zhang Ze took a small boat and went over to collect the trap first.
As the trap was pulled up little by little, Zhang Ze clearly felt the weight inside.
Occasionally, you can see some blue crabs, mudskippers and gobies running under the ground traps.
After the trap is completely lifted up, you can see densely packed blue crabs at the tail of the trap, and at a glance there are dozens of them.
There are so many crabs in just three hours in broad daylight. It shows how rampant the blue crabs are now.
Not only that, Zhang Ze also found a lot of large prawns at the bottom.
The trolling boat was too small, and one trap was full as soon as it was pulled up. He had no choice but to go back, find a large bamboo basket, and pour out everything inside.
The reason why they don't fall on the deck is that the blue crabs will run around.
After falling into the bamboo basket, the blue crabs nervously stepped on the bodies of their companions and crawled around.
Zhang Ze took out a pair of fire tongs, picked them up one by one and put them into the space.
He didn't dare to reach out and grab them directly, as each one was holding its pincers towards him. If he was accidentally pinched, it would be very painful.
Soon, everything in the bamboo basket was put into the space.
Don't take any small ones, not just blue crabs, but also goby mudskippers and prawns.
After throwing everything back into the water, he looked at the harvest in the trap.
Not bad, a total of 37 kilograms of blue crabs, 11 of which weighed more than one kilogram, and the two largest ones just over two kilograms.
There are also three that weigh more than one and a half kilograms, which are top-quality products that are extremely rare in later generations.
I don’t know yet whether it is thin or not, but it’s not a big problem. Just put it in the breeding pond and cultivate it.
There are two ways to cultivate blue crabs. In addition to butter crabs, there is also normal roe crabs. The maximum experience value required is only 50 points, the same as meat crabs.
There were two large blue crabs weighing two kilograms, one male and one female. Zhang Ze threw them into the breeding pond and cultivated them into meat crabs and crab roe to see what they tasted like.
Then he picked a female crab weighing 1.7 kilograms and a female crab weighing 1.3 kilograms and cultivated them into butter crabs, which cost 2,000 experience points.
Normal butter crabs are not this big. Seven taels is considered very good.
Zhang Ze estimated that these two were so delicious that their souls left their bodies.
Then he went to collect the other trap, which contained more blue crabs but fewer other things.
Some tiger crabs and prawns were bitten to death by blue crabs, so Zhang Ze released them back into the sea to nourish other creatures.
By the time the two cages were rinsed with clean water and placed on the deck to dry, the tide had reached a level that was almost submerging the custom-made nets.
Zhang Ze simply got on the boat and drove over to wait.
In just ten minutes, the tide completely submerged the custom net, and he began to pull the net in.
When the custom-made net was folded, a large group of small crabs suddenly appeared inside. The big ones were as big as a one-dollar coin, and the small ones were only as big as a fingernail.
There were other miscellaneous things, and even a few blue crabs got in.
Zhang Ze simply reached out and collected these crab seedlings and other things that had strayed into the space. The number of blue crabs in the space increased at a very fast rate and soon exceeded six digits.
Putting things into space makes it very convenient for him to screen them.
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All the useless things are thrown back into the sea, and the useful things are kept.
His farm only raises blue crabs. Normally, he can release 800 to 1,200 crab seedlings per acre, and a maximum of 120,000 crab seedlings per 100 acres.
It’s not that there are too many of them, but the density is too high and it is easy for them to grow.
However, the custom-made net caught so many crab fry in one go, far exceeding the number that the farm could raise.
Fortunately, the problem is not serious. The crab seedlings are too small to take up much space. Zhang Ze can rent a few hundred acres nearby to continue expanding the breeding, or he can save it for investment in the second half of the year.
After collecting all the customized nets, he obtained a total of more than 830,000 blue crab seedlings, which he could not use up at all.
Fortunately, the fish in the space would not swallow them all, otherwise they would probably not be enough for the grouper that had been kept in there to swallow in a few bites.
After finishing his work and achieving his goal for today, Zhang Ze left.
He took out a plastic basket and directly took out 100,000 crab seedlings. Some slightly larger crab seedlings were also taken out and placed in another basket, but the number was not that large.
These are the first batch of crab seedlings to be invested, and we can continue to invest more depending on the situation.
As for feed, Zhang Ze remembered an outrageous saying in later generations that some blue crab owners used excrement as feed.
Thinking about it now, this statement is really funny.
The most common feed for farming blue crabs is fresh-frozen miscellaneous fish, which are the worthless miscellaneous fish caught by Jin Sanbao and Tong Yuanhang in one net.
Normally these miscellaneous fish are sold to processing plants at low prices to be ground into fish meal for use as feed. But now they don’t need to sell them there and can just give them directly to Zhang Ze.
When the crab seedlings are still small, they will only eat these fish. When they grow bigger, they need to be fed with clams specifically.
In the north, white clams are called white clam.
But the white clam mentioned in the south is a more pocket-sized double shell, a very small shellfish of the family Cormicelli in the order Clamata.
Butter crabs need to eat this kind of food to greatly increase their production. Eating river snails and the like is also okay, but the proportion of butter crabs will be much lower.
Therefore, when developing the farm, Zhang Ze also rented dozens of acres of land next door to specialize in breeding white clams.
However, this can only be fed after the crab seedlings grow a little bigger and their claws can open clams.
We arrived at the farm, where there is a special dock where the Duoyu can dock.
Huang Jimin, who was in charge of the farm management and was the relative that Jiang Jiting mentioned, saw the Duoyu from afar and quickly brought the breeding teacher to the dock.
When Zhang Ze came ashore, they immediately came on the boat because he said he would deliver the crab seedlings today.
"Master, is this crab seedling okay?"
A breeding master scooped up a handful of crab seedlings, took a look, and nodded: "Okay, it looks fine."
"That's fine. Throw these crab seedlings in first. You can decide whether you need to add more crab seedlings later. If you do, tell me."
"Lin Hu will deliver the feed every morning, so you don't have to worry about it."
The seafood restaurant's cold storage warehouse is very large and has a lot of empty space, so it's no problem to put some of his feed in it.
As for Lin Hu, he either rests when he has nothing to do or goes to purchase and deliver goods, so it is just a matter of convenience for him to come here every day to deliver feed.
After giving a few instructions, Zhang Ze continued to sail upstream along the Pearl River and arrived at the fishing village.
Last year, the fishing village didn't change much throughout the whole year.
But the changes in the fishing village this year are particularly great, because more and more fishermen have joined together to buy large boats, and Zhang Ze’s fleet has hired many villagers.
Therefore, many families that were originally very poor now live very differently from before, and have all built new houses.
There are fewer and fewer old wooden houses in the village now, and red brick houses almost account for half of the houses in the village.
The village chief was very pleased. He did nothing, but the village was developing better and better. His superiors praised him several times.
What he was most grateful for was that he had taken in Zhang Ze's family, and he told the villagers to get along well with them.
Although all this was not entirely caused by Zhang Ze, it was greatly influenced by him.
Now, whenever Zhang Ze walks around in the village, every villager will take the initiative to greet him.
When he was about to go home and ride his motorcycle back to the city, Jin Sanbao's mother saw him, her eyes lit up, and she quickly greeted him, "Aze, you're back?"
"Yes, I just came back." Seeing that she seemed to have more than just a greeting and something to say, Zhang Ze stopped.
Jin Mu invited him in, poured him a cup of tea, and then asked in a low voice: "Aze, this is what I want to ask you, is it profitable to farm blue crabs?"
"You can definitely make money, but the initial investment is quite large. Auntie, is there anything you're asking?"
Jin Sanbao is doing well at sea and he definitely won't engage in breeding. I guess Jin Mu is asking this for others.
"He is my eldest son. He is seasick and cannot go out to sea, so everyone is worried about how to arrange things for him. I heard that you have set up a breeding farm, so I came to ask you about it."
Hearing what Jin's mother said, Zhang Ze immediately understood what was going on.
Jin Sanbao, as his name suggests, is the third child, with two older brothers, two younger brothers, an older sister and three younger sisters.
The eldest son of the old family just turned eighteen this year. Children in rural areas basically start working very early.
But because he was Jin's mother's first grandson, she doted on him especially and spoiled him rotten.
Before, Jin's mother asked Jin Sanbao to ask him to find a job for her eldest grandson in the city.
But Jin Sanbao knew the character of his eldest nephew, so he refused directly. This also caused his relationship with his eldest brother's family to become very tense. His eldest sister-in-law rolled her eyes when she saw them, and the children hardly played together anymore.
Zhang Ze knew everything, but he didn't expect that Jin Mu would now consider raising animals.
(End of this chapter)
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