Wu An said he needed to have a meeting.
Old Fu stepped aside so he could operate the machine.
"I'll drive for a bit, you can rest for a bit."
"I'm not going to sleep anymore. I'll have a smoke and rest for a bit before making dinner." Old Fu took out a cigarette and lit it. "I'm getting old, and I don't need much sleep to begin with. If I sleep now, I won't be able to sleep tonight."
"Alright." Wu An didn't insist on saying anything more and nodded: "Let's do two more nets and then take a break."
Thanks to the encounter with the tuna, 888's daily luck value has been reduced to just over 150.
It only takes two networks to deplete the entire network.
Old Fu finished his cigarette and went to cook.
By 4:30 p.m., everyone had already started eating dinner.
That's how it is on a ship; there's no fixed time for eating and drinking. Although there are only two or three hours between lunch and dinner, everyone eats quite a lot. Wu An even ate two bowls of rice.
There's a lot of physical activity on board, and you really can't keep up if you don't eat much.
After a good meal and drinks, everyone immediately went to set up the net.
After a flurry of activity, the net bag was hoisted onto the deck, bulging and plump, a sight that brought joy to all who saw it.
It was Fan Xiaozhu's turn to untangle the net.
He spat on his hands, rubbed them vigorously, and then went up to untie the rope of the net bag.
The next moment.
The deck was piled high with croaker.
Ah Qing scratched his head: "Did you catch a school of sea bass in the net?"
Fu Yongning laughed and said, "It's not sea bass, it's croaker!"
"And all kinds of croaker."
"It's really rare. Although we have croakers here, there are never many. This time, we've managed to catch a whole net full of croakers. It's truly a rare sight."
Old Fu explained, "It's not surprising."
"Have you forgotten what our internet service is all about?"
Fu Yongning said, "They are shrimp and crab."
"Yes, we also caught croakers in the last net. These croakers feed on shrimp and crabs. We just happened to stumble upon a school of croakers."
Mei Wu realized what was happening and laughed, "So this net has made us rich?"
Fu Yongning nodded.
Of course!
Although croaker isn't particularly expensive, catching two or three tons of croaker in one net is definitely a fortune.
Fan Xiaozhu smiled and said, "That's good, that's good."
to be honest.
He was somewhat reluctant to open the net. Everyone else had had good catches before, and if he were to open a big, fat fish, he would feel uncomfortable even if Wu An didn't say anything.
After all, he was just a boatman.
Now that he has caught a valuable catch, he feels a great sense of relief and happily squats down to sort through the croaker.
Fu Yongning divided it into three specifications.
Large, medium and small.
Even the smallest croaker, according to Fu Yongning, is not small, weighing a little over one or two pounds. Fu Yongning categorizes those under five pounds into one size.
Such a large croaker has very small swim bladders, so it's not worth extracting them to make fish maw, hence the lower selling price.
Five to ten pounds is considered mid-range.
This is also the most common.
Fish weighing over ten pounds need to be kept separately. The larger the croaker, the more valuable it is. Fish of this size have very valuable swim bladders.
Aqing found an exceptionally large one, weighed it, and exclaimed happily, "This one weighs twenty-five jin (12.5 kg), it should be the biggest one, right?"
Fu Yongning nodded: "Aqing has a good eye for finding good things."
“A croaker this big can sell for eight or nine hundred dollars. You can probably get two or three ounces of swim bladder from it, which can sell for five or six hundred dollars.”
Aqing was stunned: "So this 20-plus jin of fish only sells for two or three hundred?"
So, the fish only costs a dozen yuan per kilogram.
Fu Yongning smiled and nodded.
The reason why croaker can be sold at a high price is because the swim bladder in its belly can be made into fish maw. The value of fish maw is probably known to everyone, especially women, who are particularly fond of it, believing that fish maw is rich in collagen and that eating more of it can beautify the skin.
Besides its health benefits, fish maw also has an exceptional taste.
Here, there are many delicacies made with fish maw. With the addition of fish maw, the price of the dish will inevitably rise. Even an ordinary soup can be transformed into a precious delicacy.
Old Fu, seeing Ah Qing looking at the croaker with disdain, said, "These are all black croakers, which look like bass."
"The meat of the croaker is indeed inferior to its swim bladder, but it is not entirely without merit."
"It actually tastes very fresh and delicious."
"In short, every part of this fish is valuable."
After listening to him finish speaking, everyone gained a deeper understanding of croaker.
Everyone chatted and laughed while working.
Don't be fooled by how casually Old Fu speaks these words; in reality, these words cannot be found online, they are only passed down orally among old fishermen.
The essence of inheritance lies in the ordinary.
In less than an hour, all the croakers were cleaned up. Wu An looked at everyone and cleaned the deck again, feeling somewhat lost. Among the seven golden croakers, croaker, yellow croaker, and pufferfish had all been caught.
However, the yellow croaker, hairy catfish, and large yellow croaker that were previously reported are still nowhere to be found.
Yellow croaker is one thing.
After all, that thing is protected. Of course, if you "find" a dead yellow croaker at sea, can you take it back to the dock to buy it?
That will definitely work.
Anyway, you have the goods, and someone is paying for them.
Once the money is exchanged for the goods, the transaction is complete, and no one will interfere.
Wu An has no worries about sales, but without goods on hand, no matter how much he thinks, it's all in vain.
Back in the lounge.
After drinking half a cup of tea, Fu Yongning came over with a serious expression and said, "A'an, the icebox is almost full."
Wu An was taken aback: "Full?"
He quickly did the calculation.
Goodness.
You wouldn't believe it until you did the math, and the results were shocking.
It's almost full.
This ice storage facility has a capacity of about twenty tons, containing manta rays, yellow croaker, croaker, small yellow croaker, flying fish, mahi-mahi, and tuna, a miscellaneous mix, totaling at least fifteen or sixteen tons.
The fish can't be packed in completely like seawater, there will always be some wasted space. The fact that it can still fit is all thanks to Fu Yongning's good workmanship and proper arrangement.
Fu Yongning said, "I estimate that at most, we can fit two or three tons of fish."
Aqing shouted, "How can that be? It's just a matter of one net."
Fu Yongning nodded: "More or less."
Aqing was terrified: "Brother, what do we do? We've only been out for two days, we can't just go back like this, can we?"
Wu An laughed: "Let's just leave it at that."
"This is a good thing."
"We didn't go back empty-handed, we went back with our accounts wiped out."
The Fan brothers chuckled foolishly.
My account has been liquidated!
This isn't their small fishing boat, but a trawler over twenty meters long, fully loaded with tens of tons of cargo. What does that mean?
Even the cheapest catch can fetch hundreds of thousands.
Their boats were full of valuable catches, including mud crabs, blue crabs, crayfish, mantis shrimp, yellow croaker, and small yellow croaker, not to mention thousands of kilograms of tuna!
In just two days, wouldn't that be enough to earn over a million?
When they joined the group, Wu An said that if they worked hard for a few years, they could buy a car and build a house. At this pace, they could accomplish all of this in less than a year.
At that moment, they were incredibly grateful that they had agreed to work with Wu An. If they had listened to their fathers, they probably would never have been able to get along with him for the rest of their lives.
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