After separating the prawns from the miscellaneous fish and shrimp, he continued to pull the trap.
The second trap contained more prawns than the first one, and it weighed about ten pounds when pulled up.
"Did they disturb a shrimp's nest?"
Feng Ye muttered to himself, then happily continued playing.
The last set of traps was pulled onto the boat, and each trap was mostly filled with prawns, weighing about 60 to 70 pounds in total. With other small fish and shrimp, this set of traps yielded nearly 100 pounds of catch.
Feng Ye was very satisfied; selling these ten sets of fish traps for around a hundred yuan was no problem at all.
After putting the fish trap back into the sea, Feng Ye rowed the boat to Feng Xuan's work location.
"Brother, how many nets have you cast? Have you caught anything valuable?"
"Most of them are worthless mackerel, the valuable ones are a few black sea bream and yellow sea bream, and the largest one is a sea bass."
"It's the season for mackerel now, so it's normal for there to be a lot of them."
Blue mackerel is a migratory pelagic fish. The fishing season is generally from April to July in spring and from September to December in autumn. It can be caught along the coast all year round.
As for why it's worthless, it's because it doesn't taste good, has a strong fishy smell, and few people like to eat it. In addition, it can be caught all year round, resulting in huge production.
However, mackerel is highly nutritious and very healthy.
"Since we can't sell them for a good price, we might as well dry them into dried fish."
"That's true. They won't spoil if you dry them and keep them to eat slowly." Feng Ye said, pulling the boat closer and immediately noticing the large sea bass in the bucket: "This sea bass is pretty good. It must weigh seven or eight pounds, right?"
"More or less," Feng Xuan said. "What good catch did your trap bring in?"
"They are all shrimp and crabs, with prawns being the most numerous, weighing several dozen kilograms."
"Let me take a look."
As Feng Xuan spoke, he moved the boat closer, almost touching it.
"So many prawns, plus baby lobsters, blue crabs, orchid crabs, and red-shelled crabs—you've wrecked the net!"
"Well enough."
"Fish traps are so convenient. You can put them down and collect them the next day. It's so easy."
“Once Dad buys the fish traps for you, you can start fishing.” Feng Ye smiled. “You start casting, I’ll go collect the longline.”
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