Chapter 100: Seafood Freedom, You Can’t Eat It All, You Can’t Eat It All (Page 1/2)
After putting away the shrimp cages, Lin Man cast a mobile fishing net in the nearby sea area and came back to pick it up when she left. Then she drove the fishing boat for another 20 nautical miles, scanned with radar, and stopped after confirming that there were mackerel and yellow croaker nearby.
Huo Qingci looked at the radar display and asked Lin Man, "Manman, it shows there are a lot of fish nearby. When should we set the net?"
"Now, if only we all knew how to sail, each of us could drive a trawler, accurately locate the fish, and if two people worked together well, we could catch 20 to 30 tons of fish with one trawler."
"We can catch dozens of tons at a time. It's more than the two of us can handle it."
Lin Man smiled and said, "Yeah, we can't do it."
It was good enough that Huo Qingci agreed to go out fishing with her, why was he thinking so much?
Seeing that the data from the underwater sonar detector showed that there was a school of swordfish nearby, Lin Man immediately dropped anchor and cast the net. Half an hour later, the fishing net was dragged onto the boat. The two ran out of the cockpit and untied the rope on the net.
Lin Man was so happy when she saw the thousand or two thousand kilograms of swordfish crashing down.
"Yeah, there are a few big yellow croakers mixed in there."
"Not only that, there are also stone fish. Quick, let's open the fish tank quickly and don't let them die."
It was also Huo Qingci's first time fishing, and the first time he caught so many fish, he was dancing with excitement.
"Manman, it's a rare opportunity for you to come out. Let's cast some nets."
"We're going to fish tonight without taking a break?"
"Go back at three. I'll be working the night shift tomorrow and sleeping during the day."
"How about going back at five?"
"It's easy to be discovered at five o'clock. Go back at three o'clock and you can get ashore at four and fifty."
"All right! We've caught so many mackerels, now we can just cast our nets and take whatever we catch."
"Whatever, as long as it's not a shark."
An hour later, a net full of miscellaneous fish was dragged up. Lin Man didn't have time to sort them, so she pushed them all into the fish hold.
I was preparing to cast the last net, then walked back and dragged the drift net onto the boat. Unexpectedly, the last net caught more than a thousand pounds of swordfish.
However, there were also a lot of hairtail, redfish, saury and pomfret mixed in the fishing net, as well as some shrimps and crabs.
Huo Qingci helped push the fish from the deck into the fish hold and suddenly said, "Manman, what kind of monster is this?"
"This ray is also called a devil ray. It's neither too big nor too small, so let's keep it. We can eat this fish."
"There are these too? Why do they look like shoe insoles? Can you eat this fish?"
"Yes, it's edible. This is called pedal fish, also known as ox tongue fish. You can call it shoe pad fish, too. We don't need to worry about these fish. Let's go and pull the drift net."
"Are the prawns and crabs not sorted out either?"
"Let's not sort them out. It's half past one now. Let's go back and drag the drift net onto the boat and then get the shrimp pots."
"good."
After all the fish, shrimps and crabs on the deck were pushed into the fish hold, Lin Man breathed a sigh of relief. She turned her sore neck, and then drove the boat back with a slightly tired look.
During this process, she also has to concentrate and carefully drag the floating fishing nets back to the boat one by one.
Huo Qingci, wearing rain pants, was busy on the deck, bent over. He reached out to take the big fish from the net and carefully distinguished whether they were alive or dead.
For those fresh fish, he would gently push them into the fish hold, while for those half-dead fish, he would throw them on the deck with some regret.
It was already two in the morning, and Huo Qingci was tired and sleepy. He looked at the pile of fishing nets, shook his head helplessly, and sighed in his heart that he had never done such hard work in his life.
However, he did not complain. Despite being exhausted and sleepy, Huo Qingci continued to work hard. He was not just working for the immediate harvest. As long as Manman was happy, he felt that everything was worth it.
Lin Man was also very sleepy, but she forced herself to stay awake. She suddenly said to Huo Qingci, "Let's forget about the fish in the net for now. Let's go get the shrimp cage."
Huo Qingci looked at her in surprise, "Then these fish will definitely die." There was a hint of worry in his tone.
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"Let's go back and do it. They won't die so easily." Lin Man believed that these fish could hold on until we got back.
It took more than an hour to go back and get the shrimp cage. Lin Man and Huo Qingci didn't even have time to see what was in the shrimp cage. They drove the fishing boat back quickly.
Because it was already 4:20, if I didn't go back, I might be easily discovered.
It was already six o'clock when the two returned to the shore. After returning home and taking a shower, it was already half past six. By then, Huo Qinghuan had already gotten up.
"Brother, sister-in-law, what are you doing back in your room?"
"Go to sleep! I didn't sleep well last night. Go to the cafeteria to buy breakfast later. Your sister-in-law and I are going to rest at home. Don't wake us up before 12:30." Huo Qingci took out the money and ticket and handed them to Huo Qinghuan.
"Brother, why didn't you sleep well last night? Are you making a baby? Isn't sister-in-law pregnant?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Don't meddle in our affairs. Just do what I say. We both couldn't sleep all night last night."
Huo Qinghuan also noticed that his elder brother and sister-in-law seemed really tired, so he happily took the money.
"Brother, since you didn't sleep well, just sleep for a few more hours. I'll make noodles for myself at noon."
"Huo Qinghuan, we're resting at home. You're not allowed to run around, especially not to the beach. Do you understand?"
"I know, I'm already several shades darker. I won't go to the beach and get sunburned."
He was really afraid that if he continued to sunbathe, his friends wouldn't recognize him when he returned to Beijing. People with dark skin can easily become ugly.
Huo Qinghuan went to the cafeteria to buy breakfast, and Huo Qingci pulled Lin Man back to the room to sleep. This time, they were really exhausted. They lay down on the bed and fell asleep in less than a minute.
When he woke up again, it was already 1:30 in the afternoon. Huo Qingci got up and cooked a bowl of egg noodles for him and Lin Man. After they finished eating, they entered the space.
Huo Qinghuan was practicing calligraphy in his room because Huo Qingci promised him that if he practiced calligraphy honestly for two hours, he would give him thirty cents to buy soda and popsicles.
After entering the space, the two went to clean the lobster cage. Huo Qingci looked at the large iron cage filled with lobsters and exclaimed:
"Manman, what kind of bait did you put out? How could there be so many big lobsters in an iron cage? It's so densely packed with lobsters, there must be hundreds in one cage. The cage must have burst!"
Looking at the big lobsters jumping around in the cage, Lin Man screamed excitedly, "I'm rich, I'm rich, the cage is bursting with joy!"
At this moment, Lin Man wanted to jump up and down on the deck to express her joy. "Qingci, we're having lobster tonight."
"Around five o'clock, I'll pick up the bag, go out for a walk, and come back. Manman, should we put these lobsters back into fish hold number one?"
"No, we put these big lobsters back into the No. 2 fish hold so that we can take them more easily."
All the twenty iron cages burst. Some of them were not filled with lobsters, and some of them even contained abalone and large conchs.
It’s incredible that the bait for the apocalyptic beast is so attractive to these hard-shelled creatures.
It took the two men another two and a half hours to put all the lobsters in the cage back into fish hold No. 2.
"Qingci, our biggest gain last night was catching over 7,000 kilograms of lobster."
"Manman, the cages, abalone, scallops, and conch weigh over three thousand kilograms, and the sea cucumbers weigh seven or eight hundred kilograms."
"Yes, we really made a fortune this time."
During one trip out to sea, they caught more than 20,000 kilograms of fish, including more than 5,000 kilograms of swordfish alone, and more than 10,000 kilograms of sea bass, large yellow croaker, yellow croaker, cod, pomfret, sea bream, grouper... in total. There were also more than 7,000 kilograms of miscellaneous small sea fish, and about 4,000 kilograms of various shrimps and crabs.
More than 7,000 kilograms of lobsters and more than 3,000 kilograms of abalone, scallops and conchs were caught using cages.
Unexpectedly, they achieved seafood freedom after secretly going out to sea once. They couldn’t eat enough seafood!
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