Chapter 146 Good business
After eating the melon, Li Changle turned around and saw the big fish that was still twitching. He suddenly thought that the price of tuna was so cheap these days, so he might not bleed it and sell it again.
"Brother, let's pick out some big tuna, drain the blood while they're still alive, and send them to the restaurant so we can sell them at a high price."
Tuna has a high blood content. The purpose of bleeding is to reduce the impact of blood on the fish. There is no slight difference between the ones that have been bled and those that have not been bled, whether in appearance, taste or freshness.
Brother Li understood what he meant as soon as he heard it, "Phoenix Restaurant wants to sell sashimi?"
Seeing that he knew, Li Changle nodded and said: "The big restaurant will definitely sell them, put a few more, and we can keep them for ourselves."
"Just keep a few small ones for yourself." Brother Li turned around and took out a wooden board and put it on top of the bucket, "Second brother, come here."
"Okay!" Brother Li picked up the big fish and put it away. He used a knife to make a cut on the lower edge of the tuna's gill cover, and scarlet blood immediately flowed out.
Li Changle saw that he had released two fish, and he also picked up one to help him work together. Seeing that he was doing it well, Brother Li thought it was his first time to bleed a fish, and he happily praised him a few times.
Chen Yongwei came back carrying the bled tuna and put it into the cabin. "Brother, why do you need to bleed the fish when it's still alive?"
"Bleeding tuna is to keep it fresh and eliminate acid. For example, if tuna without bleeding can only be sold for 2 cents per catty, tuna that has been bled can be sold for 2 yuan per catty."
"Oh! Then let's bleed all the living things. Not only selling them for two yuan a pound, but selling them for four cents is a good deal!"
"Brother, what do you think?" Li Changle thought of Akun saying that Haimen would be opening soon, and maybe these tuna could really be sold at a good price.
"Then let all the tuna go."
Brother Li also went to get a knife and joined in. The three brothers started bleeding, and Chen Yongwei was responsible for loading the fish into the cabin. They were all big fish, and it didn't take long to drain them all.
Brother Li drove the fishing boat around to the last row of longline fishing, stopped, and said to Brother Li:
"You teach them two, let one of them take up the thread, and the other hang up the sub-threads in order, and the thread groups should also be put in place..."
Li Changle looked at Brother Li who was chattering away, "My brother, why are you as verbose as my mother-in-law?"
Brother Li came over with an iron hook and said, "You brat, I'm not worried about you not being able to do it well. Once my eldest brother and I buy a boat, you will have to do it on your own from now on."
Li Changle smiled and stretched out his hand to take the hook, "If you are worried, I will show you it once."
After saying that, he stood on the side of the boat, stretched out his hand to hook up the buoy, and pulled up the main line, "Oh, it's quite tight. It looks like the first hook is good."
"Pull it up to see what kind of fish it is?" Chen Yongwei leaned over excitedly, "Maybe those killer whales drove all the fish here. Pull it up and see if it's big."
"Wait while I bring the bamboo basket over to install the line set." Brother Li hurriedly pulled the bamboo basket over. The rubber bucket will be filled with fish later, and the collected longline cannot be put in it.
Li Changle nodded, grabbed the line and pulled it up. As soon as the fish came out of the water, everyone had smiles on their faces, "It's a good start, a yellow-fin fish weighing four or five kilograms."
"Okay, okay, let's have a good start and keep up the good work!" Brother Li shouted excitedly.
Chen Yongwei said excitedly: "Brother, yellow-finned fish sells for two yuan and eighty a catty. If you sell this one, you will be able to buy diesel fuel today."
Li Changle took off the hook and handed it to Ah Wei with a smile on his face, "As long as you are willing to do it, there is plenty of diesel money in the sea!"
"Yes, it's a good start. The second hook must be good too." Brother Li took the fish and quickly sent it to the live cabin.
When Li Changle saw him running back again, he hurriedly asked: "Brother, why don't you deflate the fish?" This was caught in the sea. If you don't deflate it, it won't take long for the belly to bulge and die.
Brother Li joked: "Hey, you are a newbie on the boat, you still know how to deflate the fish?"
"I've never eaten pork, and I've never seen a pig running. Second brother, you must be looking down on me!"
"The boss of the ship has spoken, you have to do it even if you don't want to do it!" Brother Li looked at him with a smile, "Boss, did you bring the deflation needle?"
Li Changle nuzzled at Brother Li, "I left it to Brother Li."
"Boy, the deflation needle is here. We have to collect three rows of longlines today. It will take at least two or three hours. It is better to release them more safely. The price of live fish is also much higher!" Brother Li held a special one.
The long hollow needle said.
"Okay!" Brother Li took the long needle, walked to the live cabin and picked up the fish. He held the fish with his left hand and inserted the deflation needle into the swim bladder along the base of the fish's pectoral fin with his right hand.
After hearing a slight "hiss" sound, gently squeeze the fish's belly with your hands. When the fish's belly looks normal, pull out the needle and put the fish back into the live cabin.
He ran towards Li Changle desperately, "Come on, come on, work quickly!"
"Wait!"
Li Changle felt that the second hook was much heavier than the first hook. He pulled the thread up with great effort, and his hand was sore from the quilt thread. As a result, a blue-spotted Spanish mackerel emerged from the water.
"Damn it, it's this guy who's been doing this for a long time."
"That's good, it's at least eight or nine kilograms. A pound of four cents can be sold for two or three yuan." Brother Li happily took the fish and ran towards the live cabin.
Brother Li was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, "Good guy, another one."
"Brother, you pull this row, and I'll take the next row." Chen Yongwei feels that pulling longlines is much more interesting than fishing with ground cages.
"Okay!" Li Changle continued to pull the line. He felt that the catch on the third hook was not big, so he pulled it up without much effort.
When he saw the red fish body emerging from the water, Li Changle couldn't help shouting excitedly, "Brother, red sea bream."
"Hahaha, here comes another good product." Chen Yongwei leaned forward and rubbed his hands in excitement.
Li Changle lifted the line, and a red snapper weighing about two or three kilograms was completely exposed from the water.
Red snapper, also known as red snapper or sea bream, has fat and delicious meat, no fishy smell, and bright red color. It is a sign of happiness and auspiciousness, and it is also a common dish at wedding banquets.
"This is a good thing. I got another ten yuan in banknotes." Brother Li took the fish with a smile and ran back to the living cabin to deflate the fish.
Chen Yongwei put the line group away and looked at Li Changle with a smile, "Big brother said that when luck is good, one row can only catch fifty or sixty kilograms of fish.
You have only pulled three hooks, and there are already more than ten kilograms of fish. Our line group has about fifty hooks. Even if one hook weighs three kilograms on average, if half of it is available, it will still weigh more than seventy kilograms."
Father Li was worried that the hooks were arranged too densely and would easily get tangled with other hooks. When doing longline fishing, the distance between rows of hooks should be longer.
Brother Li shook his head and said: "How can there be a 50% hook-up rate? If it's 40%, it's already a meal for Master Hai Long."
"Don't say discouraging words and earn a 50% hook rate!"
"Ale, you are lucky. Work harder to bring in more good goods and try to sell more than what you sold in the morning." Brother Li thought of Li Changle's luck and thought it might be 50%.
"It's hard to tell. Look, my hook is an empty hook!" Li Changle held up the sub-line that had been bitten until only a fish head was left, showed it to the three people who were talking, and continued to pull the line.
Brother Li patted his mouth and said, "Stop talking and watch you do it quietly."
Chen Yongwei also nodded repeatedly and watched him pull the line quietly, for fear of scaring away the hooked fish.
"This hook is interesting!" Li Changle showed a smile on his face.
"Pull slowly, don't let go." Brother Li and Ah Wei couldn't help but lean forward and look at the water.
Brother Li was at the helm. When he heard that the goods were available, he had an uncontrollable smile on his face and mentally calculated today's catch.
Thinking about how we split over a hundred this morning and yesterday, and how much we caught today, we can earn enough money to buy a boat if we go out to sea a few times.
Brother Li's heart was as sweet as honey. He felt like he had endless energy. He even thought about buying a second-hand boat.
I took out all the money I had saved at home and asked Ah Le, my eldest brother, and Ah Wei to form a partnership. I also invited relatives and friends to have a meeting to raise some money to buy a ten-meter-long iron boat and go fishing in the ocean.
On the fifth hook, a new species was unlocked, a shad weighing about four to five kilograms.
Anchovy is a migratory fish that goes upstream to spawn. It usually lives in sea water. It enters the river in early summer every year and does not appear at other times, hence its name.
The fish meat has thick fat, and the scales and skin are full of fat. It is rich in nutrients. It was used as a tribute in ancient times and was also an important dish in the "Man-Han Banquet".
Chen Yongwei happily took off the fishing hook and said, "Brother, you are very lucky!"
Li Changle saw that Brother Li was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He knew that the price should be good, "Can the anchovies be sold for three yuan a catty?"
"I'm telling you, this is the best product, and it should be sold for five or six yuan a pound." Brother Li took the fish with both hands, held it like a treasure, carefully deflated it, and returned it to
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Brother Li said happily: "Today's trip was good. First there were whales sending fish, and the harvest from longline fishing was good. It's almost like picking up money."
"Today is not included. The time we caught crabs was the only time we really picked up money." Chen Yongwei sighed, "Brother, second brother, if only you came back earlier, we wouldn't have time to catch them. We wish we had ten pairs of hands."
Brother Li had a longing look on his face when he heard this, "I heard your sister-in-law say that it's hard to buy something with money, I already knew it!"
"Let's not talk about the past, there will still be opportunities in the future." Li Changle began to pull the sixth hook proudly, and it was another giant mackerel weighing seven or eight kilograms.
Then a black sea bream was pulled up, and the next few hooks were all empty hooks. Then two or three sea bass and a moray eel were pulled up one after another.
I don’t know when I reached the hook, but Li Changle pulled the line and felt that his hand was about to be strangled by the line. “Damn it, what on earth is so heavy? Could it be tuna?”
Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "It's possible that the killer whales drove them over, and when they saw something to eat hanging around, they would definitely take a bite to calm themselves down!"
Chapter completed!