Chapter 237 Cicada Shrimp (monthly ticket plus one update)
After the meal, Ye Yaodong pushed the trolley to get the sticky net, and also took back the row hooks that had been repaired a few days ago.
Then he went out to sea non-stop to collect the ground cage. Taking advantage of the high tide, the boat could go out. If he collected it quickly, he would still be able to get in before the tide ebbs.
By the way, check to see if the waves in the evening are big and whether you can go out at night, and then consider collecting some fish to use as bait.
He was not in a hurry to move the rolling wheel. He could wait until the floor cage was recovered and ask his father to go to Uncle Lin's house with him.
After he went over the order of things in his mind, he got on the boat. It hadn't been driven for a few days. He checked all the machines inside and outside the boat. If there were no problems, he refueled and drove out directly.
The sky is blue, the water is blue, the sea is rippling, and the fishing boats are sailing out, making ripples in circles. Today is a rare good weather with clear skies.
Listening to everyone chatting on the shore, fishing boats have been harvesting pretty well recently, mainly because of the price, but there are fewer types of fish that can be caught. Many people who originally used mid- and upper-level trawls now choose to add lead weights to make bottom trawls.
They don't have a net hoist on board, which requires a lot of strength. Now it depends on the situation.
He sailed the boat towards the area where he placed the ground cage, and only stopped after seeing the familiar buoy.
Amidst the sound of the diesel engine clicking, he pulled up the buoy and started to close the net. Sure enough, there were still mostly starfish in the Earth Dragon Net.
Damn it, he couldn't get excited when he saw the starfish. He was no longer as happy as when he first saw the starfish on the shore, and he was already numb.
After dumping all the goods in the net onto the boat, most of them were starfish, and there were also a few fish and shrimps. He was not in a hurry to sort them, and then continued to collect them.
They were all dumped onto the ship, and he planned to slowly sort and load them after they docked.
Unexpectedly, after collecting half of the ground cage, several super-large shrimp heads slipped out as soon as the net in his hand was untied. His eyes suddenly lit up.
This shrimp looks very fat and fat, which is very interesting. In fact, it is a kind of Zen shrimp. It has thick and short claws, dark red color, flat and pentagonal forehead, and hard and thick carapace.
The three that just fell out of the net are all very big, as big as an adult's hand, and each one costs about five taels. The price of such a large one is just as high as that of lobsters, and the price is not low now. It's a pity that there are only three of them.
Ye Yaodong single-handedly picked out the three shrimp heads in advance, and then happily continued his efforts.
Unexpectedly, a huge net was pulled up and he was surprised when he thought it was something big. However, when he was dragged out of the sea, he found that it was an oversized jellyfish.
Damn it, he cursed and dragged the net up, "Made, it's a waste of my net. When are there so many jellyfish in the sea?"
While scolding him, he went to untie the fish bag. No matter how disgusted he was with jellyfish, he would still pull the net up and throw it back into the water.
While untying the rope, he saw starfish peeking out of the fish bag. He didn't take it seriously. There were indeed too many starfish along the coast recently.
He shook the fishing net, wanting to see what else was trapped under the jellyfish, but unexpectedly some sea cicadas came out.
"Damn it, it turns out there are good things underneath. Good guy, these are all blocked by jellyfish. No wonder I didn't see them when I pulled them up..."
He quickly untied the rope with dexterous hands, and a small pile of sea cicadas slipped out, mixed with some starfish.
In fact, the scientific name of these sea cicadas is Jiefang eyebrow crab, which is also a type of cicada. However, these sea cicadas are very small, not as good as the three shrimps he just caught. Their local name is also
The distinction is very fine.
The big ones are called mantis shrimps, and the small ones are called sea cicadas. This sea cicada is a marine creature between shrimps and crabs. It can often be found on the beach when the tide is low. Its taste is more delicious than crabs.
It can be said that it is the cicada monkey that grows in the sea, but it is more delicious than the cicada monkey.
Although it is small, it is more tender and delicious than shrimp meat, and it has a lot of yellow inside, which is fatter and more delicious than crab roe. Because it looks like a cicada monkey, it is often misunderstood by people, and some people mistake it for a mole cricket.
shrimp.
Ye Yaodong was the first to throw the big white jellyfish into the water, and then started to fiddle with these sea cicadas. He estimated that they weighed about four or five kilograms. They would be worth some money in a few decades, but they wouldn't sell for much now, but they were good.
It’s true to eat.
He didn't know if there were more behind them, so he moved them to the corner first, planning to collect all the cage nets before sorting them slowly.
After putting down the floor cage just now, I started to receive the goods again.
There are still such a large number of ground cage nets, but due to the influence of starfish, the fish stock has been reduced by half.
A few days ago, there were a lot of starfish, and every net was full of stars. The people who put the cages on the ground were all laughing. But in the past two days, the number has decreased, and they can no longer laugh.
All the cage nets were collected, and the goods were poured onto the boat. Although the piles were like hills, there was not much goods, and most of them were starfish.
The sorter first threw these starfish into sacks, but only received two sacks, worth about four yuan.
Damn, I haven't collected it for four or five days, but there are only so many. It seems that the starfish are really almost gone.
Those sea cicadas and shrimps were quite impressive, and with good luck, the ground cage also caught a blue grouper weighing about two kilograms. I guess it just ran in, and it was able to make a few leaps before it died.
Ye Yaodong picked up the big shrimp head first into the bucket, and there was also half a bucket smaller, which seemed to weigh about five or six kilograms.
Then I sorted through the remaining fish. Some of them were no longer fresh. They had been left in the sea for too many days. The fish brought up from the ground cages were usually dead.
Because after the fish enter the ground cage, they will eventually be concentrated in the fish collection bag, and the space in the fish collection bag is small, which can easily lead to excessive local density, resulting in hypoxia and suffocation.
Even though the fish was dead when I received it the next day, it was still fresh. It had been four or five days, and most of the fish's gills were no longer bright red, their eyes had turned white or were sunken, and the fish's body had lost its elasticity when pressed.
Ye Yaodong regretfully picked out all the stale fish and threw them back into the sea. After tasting the sweetness, the seabirds above the sea flew around the fishing boat with eager eyes, waiting for him to throw the stale fish into the sea.
He swooped down and picked it up.
To tell whether a fish is fresh or not, mainly look at the fish's body surface and gills.
The first is to look at the fish eyes. Fresh fish have healthy and translucent eye masks; stale fish usually have bloodshot eyes and the eyeballs start to become sunken.
Second, look at the fish gills. The gills of fresh fish are bright red. If the gills are white and there is a lot of mucus, it means the fish has been dead for a long time.
Third, look at the fish body and press the fish meat with your fingers. If the fish meat is dented and does not rebound, it means it is not fresh.
The shrimps too, were mostly smelly. The stale shrimps had a musty smell, like rotten meat.
Ye Yaodong was throwing and sorting, and saw a three-four-pound sea bass and an eight-nine-pound sea wolf fish that were no longer fresh. He was so sorry that he died. When he left, he forgot to tell his father to come out to collect them, so he didn't
I know that I stayed at my mother-in-law's house for so many days.
Probably his father thought he was responsible for his eldest and second brothers, and his eldest and second brother thought he was responsible for his father.
Most of the fish and shrimps are cheap to these seabirds, only a small amount that has just been caught in the net are still fresh.
After picking out the remaining fresh goods and putting them into the bucket, the seabirds around were still flying in the air, reluctant to leave.
"Aren't you full yet? If you don't leave, I'll arrest you all!"
Because of his feeding, the nearby seabirds gathered around his fishing boat, and the number seemed quite considerable. No, this directly attracted the fishing boats not far away to come towards him.
When he raised his head and looked at the sea around him, he realized that there were seven or eight small wooden boats around him, some were close, some were far away, but they were all moving closer to him.
He was suddenly speechless...
What a complete mistake!
Most fishermen know that where seabirds gather, there are often schools of fish, but there are none today...
It's him who's feeding...
A fishing boat took the lead and rowed towards him. It circled around but saw nothing. It made it a little puzzled and moved closer to him.
"Is it A Dong? Were there any schools of fish around just now? Have they dispersed? Have you caught them?"
This was an old fisherman from their village. Ye Yaodong looked at him dumbfounded, "There are no schools of fish. These birds flew here because I just threw away a lot of stale fish."
"Ah, is that so? How many did you throw away? So many seabirds flew over..."
"Most of the harvest must have been thrown away. I was away from home for four or five days and forgot to tell my father to come and collect it. Most of the fish and shrimp in the cages are smelly."
"Well, that's a pity...feeding the birds in vain..."
He frowned and felt a little regretful. When he saw another fishing boat approaching, he quickly shouted to the people while rowing: "There are no schools of fish here, so there is no need to come over."
But how can people listen to him, how can they believe him without taking a look, how can they give up and still row in this direction.
Ye Yaodong thought so too, so he didn't waste any time shouting just now. Anyway, he would know after he came over and saw it.
All the small wooden boats around him were heading towards him, getting closer and closer, but he ignored them and gathered with them, driving the boat ahead and heading directly to the shore.
He turned on all the power and threw down all the fishing boats behind him. The fishing boats far away, seeing his big boat leaving this area, might feel regretful that they missed it... and didn't have time to get closer...
Ignore them anyway.
After approaching the dock, he took the limited harvest off the boat and weighed it.
Haizhi knew they were worthless, so he kept them all. He also kept four of the shrimp heads, and sold the rest including starfish and blue grouper.
Blue grouper is not expensive among groupers. He has caught it before, and it costs about 2 yuan per pound. The shrimp head is 8 cents per pound, one is 5 pounds and 6 taels, and two sacks of starfish are sold for 4
The total amount of goods sold in the afternoon was only over fifteen yuan, so too much was thrown away.
But it’s okay, just so-so, and the average harvest from ground cages is just like this.
Chapter completed!