Feng Xuan was responsible for baiting the hooks with small fish and shrimp caught yesterday by the traps and trawls.
As the longline fishing continued, fish were pulled onto the boat one after another.
Black sea bream, sea bass, toadfish, yellow sea bream, barracuda...
All kinds of fish are available, but the only drawback is the lack of large, valuable ones.
Suddenly, Feng Ye shouted excitedly, "Hahaha, a big oil spot!"
Hearing his excited shouts, Feng Xuan and A Can both looked up in surprise.
There was a fish hanging on the hook of the branch line, still hopping around on the surface of the sea, showing no sign of giving up.
Its value is evident from the patterns on its body.
It is about 30 centimeters long, oblong in shape, and light brown in color. There are six dark brown horizontal bands on its sides, and each band branches below it and is scattered with cloud-like white patches.
Its scientific name is *Scoidea micrantha*, also known as *Scoidea micrantha*, and because it is very rich in oil, it is also called oily grouper.
Oil grouper is the best among grouper fish, with high-quality flesh.
Another type of grouper has a similar body shape and appearance to the oil grouper, making it very easy to confuse them, hence it is also called the false oil grouper.
That's brown-banded grouper.
The method to distinguish between the two types of fish is to observe the characteristics of their sides: the oil-spotted fish has cloud-like white bands distributed on its sides, while the brown-banded stone-spotted fish is covered with tiny white spots.
The market prices of brown rock spot and fake oil spot are vastly different, and unscrupulous merchants often use brown rock spot to impersonate oil spot for sale.
"Holy crap, this oil stain is huge!"
Ah-Can exclaimed in surprise, grabbed the net, and stretched it out.
Feng Ye said happily, "Hahaha, I was just regretting that no valuables had taken the bait, and here they are!"
Ah-Can happily said, "I haven't gotten any good stuff for several days. I'm lucky today. I estimate I've got four or five pounds."
"Yes, there should be."
Feng Ye nodded, watching as A-Can scooped the oil stains onto the boat, untied them, and placed them in the live water tank.
Oil grouper are considered relatively small even among groupers; this one is already quite large.
This one fish alone is worth more than all the fish that were pulled up before combined.
With the oil stains entering the cabin, everyone's enthusiasm soared even higher, as if they could already see them turning into banknotes.
Feng Ye was in a great mood, humming a little tune as he continued to reel in his longline.
More fish were pulled up one after another, but none of them were particularly eye-catching; they were all common varieties.
Fortunately, there are quite a few of them, so they can be sold for a considerable amount of money.
Finally, all one thousand hooks were pulled up.
"Let's go collect the traps."
After recasting the longline, Ah-Can couldn't wait to run to the driver's seat and start the diesel engine.
The Rising Sun slowly began to move, gradually accelerating as it headed towards the reef where the traps were placed.
All three were filled with anticipation.
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