Hearing the sound coming from the stern, Feng Jialing quickly turned around and looked back.
Seeing the mountain of small yellow croakers on the deck, their golden scales shimmering in the sunlight, filled me with excitement.
A cold, hard number can never compare to the impact of seeing it with your own eyes.
"Don't just get excited, hurry up and get the net sorted out and lowered."
Seeing the two of them laughing like idiots, Feng Jialing quickly shouted a reminder.
"Okay, okay."
The two quickly snapped out of their daze, rearranged the trawl net, and lowered it down the tail slide.
As soon as the trawl net entered the water, Feng Ye shouted to Feng Jialing in the cab, "Uncle Ling, the trawl net has been lowered."
"knew."
Feng Jialing stopped looking back frequently and refocused his attention on steering the ship, ensuring the safe navigation of the Xuri in the fishing grounds.
Feng Ye and A Can excitedly began cleaning the pile of fish, sorting out the small yellow croakers and preparing to put them in baskets.
Although almost all the fish in the net were small yellow croakers, it doesn't mean that the entire net contained only small yellow croakers; there were still other seafood mixed in.
Sea bass, sea bream, and shrimp and crab are relatively easy to distinguish and can be identified at a glance.
However, there are many other fish that look similar to the small yellow croaker, such as the croaker trout, which are also among the "seven brothers of yellow croaker." You need to be careful to distinguish them.
The so-called "Seven Brothers of Yellow Croaker" refers to the large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, yellow croaker, hairy croaker, yellow croaker, croaker, and croaker.
These seven fish are called the "Seven Brothers of Yellow Croaker" because they are either golden in color, or have the word "yellow" in their common names, or look very similar, and all belong to the Sciaenidae family of the class Osteichthyes.
The most distinctive feature of Sciaenidae fish is that they all have a pair of large otoliths inside their heads.
The most famous of these is the large yellow croaker, which is named for its golden color.
In the 21st century, wild large yellow croakers are extremely rare and are hailed as the "number one fish of the sea".
However, in terms of value, the large yellow croaker is not considered a top-tier fish.
Even among the "Seven Brothers of Yellow Croaker", it can only rank third.
Yellow croaker and hairy croaker are more expensive than large yellow croaker.
The fourth one is the pufferfish.
Lionhead fish, also known as Plumhead mackerel, has many other names, such as Plumhead mackerel, Bighead mackerel, Rotten-headed mackerel, and Red Plum mackerel.
The upper part is grayish-brown, the lower ventral side is bright yellow, and the edge of the dorsal fin spine and the end of the caudal fin are black.
They are generally small in size and belong to a species that never grows very large.
The length is mostly within 10 centimeters, and very few reach 20 centimeters.
Yellow croaker is also a type of fish that doesn't grow very large, but it's considerably larger than the clownfish, typically exceeding 10 centimeters in length, with some reaching around 40 centimeters.
Besides size, there are also differences in appearance between the croaker and the yellow croaker.
The head of the pufferfish is particularly large and rounded, accounting for about one-third of its body. The caudal peduncle is slender and the caudal fin is wedge-shaped.
While the small yellow croaker also has a large head, it is not round in shape. Its body is slender, its head is relatively small, its caudal peduncle is short, and its caudal fin is double-sectioned.
"This is difficult!"
Ah-Can sighed, "It's easy to make a mistake. If only Mei Tong Yu wasn't in this."
As he spoke, he picked up the yellow croaker that he had accidentally thrown away from the basket of small yellow croakers and threw it into another basket.
Feng Ye smiled and said, "Don't rush, it's okay to go slowly. Just make sure you don't make any mistakes. We have plenty of time."
Sorting requires patience and meticulousness, especially when dealing with items that look similar; they can easily be confused if you're not careful.
The yellow croaker is much more expensive than the yellow croaker, selling for a little over a dollar. If you mix them up, you'll only lose out.
Mixing cheap fish with expensive fish is also not feasible.
If you don't notice this when you sell it, you might make more money, but you'll lose face and people won't buy from you again.
If it's discovered on the spot, then we'll have to take our time picking through everything, which is a waste of time.
Ah-Can shook his head: "With so many items, we'll have to sort them one by one. We'll be busy."
I was so happy when the trawl nets were brought in, but now I'm so worried.
"Take your time, you'll be able to tell the difference eventually."
Faced with this huge pile of fish, Feng Ye was also somewhat perplexed.
The key point is that these fish are relatively small, with most of the small yellow croakers weighing around two or three ounces.
Many of them weigh around one or two ounces, about the same size as the pufferfish, which is why they are difficult to distinguish.
But we have to do it no matter how difficult it is, because it's all money.
Time slipped away unnoticed as the two were busy.
The sun gradually rose higher, bringing a touch of warmth.
However, there were still nearly 100 pounds left to sort on the deck when Feng Jialing's voice came from the wheelhouse.
"Why aren't you finished yet? It's time to wrap up the last catch."
Ah-Can exclaimed in surprise, "Huh? So fast?"
Feng Ye glanced at the time: "Are we closing the net so soon? It hasn't even been two hours."
"You may not have noticed, but the first network was up and running in less than two hours."
"Yeah?"
Feng Ye hadn't really noticed that.
Thinking about it now, it really is true.
He remembered that he got up at around six o'clock, then drove for an hour and arrived at the fish farm at around seven o'clock.
It's 10:30 now, and we've done two nets, with each net taking about an hour and 45 minutes on average.
"Uncle Ling, let's pack up now and start closing the net immediately."
The two stopped sorting and carried the sorted baskets of fish into the cabin, clearing the deck for later netting.
Then they cleaned the deck again, shoveling the mud, sand, and rocks that had been pulled up by the trawl net back into the sea.
Then the network generator was started, and the network was slowly collected.
As the tow line was gradually pulled back, the net bag was also slowly pulled to the stern and emerged from the water.
Another bulging, golden bag of goods, not much different from the previous one.
"The internet is exploding again!"
Ah-chan shouted with surprise.
"Haha, great, that's wonderful."
Feng Ye was overjoyed.
That's awesome!
If every net could yield this much catch, after five or six nets a day, one could catch four or five thousand catties of fish.
Even though it's flood season now and the price of small yellow croaker isn't high, the quantity is there, so the money is still considerable.
How much money would that make in a month?
We've struck it rich!
And they'll make a fortune.
Fortunately, I suddenly remembered the croaker season at the Haizhongzhou fishing grounds, so I made a special trip all the way here.
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