Old Fu was getting anxious watching them frantically try to unravel the fish, taking forever to get it off the plate.
Especially when she saw a perfectly good mullet whose scales were clumsily plucked off by Ah Qing, she was so angry that she kept grumbling, "Stop, stop!"
"I've been talking for so long, and it turns out I wasted my breath."
"The way you're doing it, the fish is crippled, and the net is broken. Look..."
Ah Qing was so embarrassed by what she was being said that she couldn't even lift her head.
Wu Ping and Mei Wu stood to the side, feeling somewhat awkward, because neither of them was much better than A Qing.
It's easy to collect it further down, but it's really difficult.
A three-layered net.
The fish was still tangled up badly.
After unhooking the fish, you have to clean up the net. If you don't clean it up, you have to take it home to untangle and repair it before you can put it back in the water.
Wu An said that the nets need to be lowered back into the sea, and only Old Fu can do this job well.
Sticking the netting together is actually quite troublesome.
People who aren't experienced fishermen usually don't do this, and even if they do, they don't understand it. A newbie from China Unicom bought a sticky net, used it once, and then stopped doing it.
Why?
The adhesive mesh is easy to break and difficult to repair.
Although the adhesive net isn't expensive, the cost still needs to be considered if it's intended for single use.
Not everyone is so lucky that they can have a great harvest as soon as they go offline.
As Old Fu spoke, he quickly untied the fish, tidied the net, and pressed the winch start button again.
Taking breaks and then working again, Old Fu kept going back and forth, and in no time he was covered in sweat.
You can't learn something just by being taught it; you can learn it quickly by being taught something.
Seeing that Old Fu was exhausted, A Qing and the other two decided to learn seriously and gradually got the hang of it.
"Yes, that's right."
"Luckily, they were all spring bream. If they were large yellow croakers, with the way you just described them, how would you sell them?" Old Fu said with a chuckle.
Even though it was meant to be a compliment, it just didn't sound very encouraging to everyone.
Just then.
As Aqing untangled the fish in the net, she said, "This spring fish is quite big."
"It's as long as my arm."
As he spoke, he untied the fish and gestured with his arm.
Old Fu straightened the net, glanced at it subconsciously, and then looked away.
Move it back.
Staring wide-eyed at the "big spring fish" in Aqing's hand, he exclaimed, "This isn't a spring fish, it's a big yellow croaker!"
Upon hearing the words "big yellow croaker," Wu Ping and Mei Wu, who were intently watching the net being caught, both turned their heads to look over.
Wu An, who was steering the boat, also leaned out and shouted, "What?"
"I think I heard something about large yellow croaker?"
"Did you catch a big yellow croaker?"
Aqing was stunned. He had been holding the fish by the head, and when he heard Old Fu shout that it was a big yellow croaker, he quickly hugged the big yellow croaker in his hands.
He asked excitedly, "Is it really a large yellow croaker?"
"You're not seeing things, are you?"
"Take a closer look."
As he spoke, he handed the large yellow croaker to Old Fu.
Old Fu took it, smiled, and said, "There's no mistake, it's a large yellow croaker."
“If you look closely, there are actually quite a few differences.”
He took a spring bream and a large yellow croaker for comparison, and everyone took a closer look and could indeed tell the difference.
Ah Qing immediately shouted at the top of his lungs, "Brother, it's a big yellow croaker! It really is a big yellow croaker!"
"We've caught a big yellow croaker!"
Wu An stopped the boat, strode over to look, and was very pleased: "Big yellow croaker."
"Wow, it really is beautiful."
Ever since he went out to sea, he had been looking forward to the day when he could catch a large yellow croaker.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was his dream fish.
Nothing more.
Large yellow croakers are very expensive, and they usually appear in groups. If you can find a large yellow croaker, you can definitely catch a whole bunch.
If you encounter a school of large yellow croakers, it's much better than catching a few groupers.
The big red fish in Old Fu's hand weighed about three or four pounds. According to Old Fu, the big yellow fish wasn't that big either.
It's just an average size.
Wu An looked at the net that had only been raised for a few dozen meters and said with shining eyes, "Don't just stand there, raise the net quickly."
There are still hundreds of meters of gillnets ahead; if we can catch a few big yellow croakers...
I dare not think about it, I dare not think about it.
The nets were set up very slowly, not because they were being slow, but because there were too many fish caught in them.
I won't even mention Chunziyu.
They're posted online in huge quantities.
Fortunately, the gillnet that Mr. Zhao sold was of good quality. Otherwise, with such a large school of fish, many gillnets would not have been able to withstand the impact and would have been smashed to pieces in the sea, making them impossible to pull out.
This also creates another problem: these broken fishing nets will become marine debris.
That's not Wu An's problem right now. The biggest problem is that besides a lot of fish, shrimp and crabs are also caught in the net.
The main purpose of the net is to catch seafood at the bottom, where there are naturally plenty of shrimp and crabs.
Not to mention Aqing and Meiwu, even Old Fu was very troubled when he saw so many shrimp and crabs hanging there.
But there's not much I can say.
These blue crabs and swimming crabs are all seafood that costs tens of yuan per kilogram. Who could complain about them? Who would dare to complain about them?
Ah Qing muttered a couple of things, and Old Fu quickly reminded him not to complain.
Aqing shut up sullenly.
What if Mazu hears this and refuses to arrange it next time?
Tie it up.
Busy, huh?
The netting is already slow to retract, and the need to tie it up when it's drenched makes it even more time-consuming.
After almost an hour, they had only managed to collect 100 meters, leaving everyone exhausted.
On the open sea, the sun at 2:30 pm was terrifyingly strong, making the seawater feel scalding hot.
In this environment, they still have to work with all their might, which is a considerable challenge for each of them.
Under these circumstances, Wu An didn't need to steer the boat. He first found some Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid and had everyone drink a bottle to prevent heatstroke.
Ah Qing, with the bottle in his mouth, tilted his head back and drank down the water. He carefully removed the large yellow croaker from the net and chuckled, "Brother, this large yellow croaker is the real magic weapon for cooling off in the summer."
"Brother, this is the fourth one."
"This one is the biggest, it must weigh six or seven pounds."
He untied all four large yellow croakers, and he was so happy that his back teeth were constantly showing, and he couldn't hide it.
He raised it, his hand trembling slightly.
Wu An quickly took it and weighed it in his hand: "Yes, yes."
"Is your hand alright?"
Aqing squatted down to continue unpacking the fish, casually saying, "It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm just tired."
"..." Wu An didn't know what to say, and said, "Then take it easy, if you can't handle it, let Brother Wu take your place."
Mei Wu, whose hands were cramping from tying up the orchid crab, instinctively called out when he heard his name called, "Are you calling me?"
Wu An saw this and said, "...You go about your business."
He looked at his older brother.
The older brother's clothes were soaked through, and strands of his rather long hair were dripping with sweat.
Ah Qing's hand trembled, and he failed to catch the fish, which slid right to his feet.
Wu An quickly said, "Let me try."
"I've never caught this big yellow croaker before."
"My hands are itching to get started."
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