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Chapter 9 The Fisherman

Lin Tianyu stood steadily on the raft, poured a can of cold beer down, and drank beer under the warm sunshine of the Mediterranean and looked at the sea view. It was so cool.

After enough rest, he threw the jar into the item box on the raft and picked up the pulp beside him.

He was wearing only a vest on his upper body, and his exposed skin was bronzed by the Mediterranean sunlight. It looked completely different from him a month ago. He was wearing half pants on his lower body, revealing his calves that were also bronzed. He was not wearing shoes, and stepped on the deck of the raft barefoot. The oars in his hand were rhythmically paddling the water, and he looked quite skillful.

He has been a fisherman intermittently for more than a month. His sea life has gradually removed the white-collar workers who have lived in big cities, and his body has become stronger and stronger in this not-too-hard physical labor. The bronze skin is the best proof. He has gradually become accustomed to this kind of life that relies on strength to make a living, and the fresh air with a salty smell of Mediterranean.

Not only the changes in the living environment, but more importantly, now he feels that life is full of fun. Compared to sitting in the office to process piles of documents, while looking at his boss's face and fighting with his colleagues, he prefers this kind of life with a wide sky and a wide sea, free and full of unknown fun. From his original fear of going to sea to his favorite to going to sea, life has become more fulfilling and full of surprises. This feeling is the first time he has felt it since he grew up.

Lin Tianyu carefully grasped the distance from the shore, about fifty or sixty meters away, and then stopped. He locked the nylon rope on the wooden stake on the raft, and then spread the hanging net to the sea.

The hanging net he used was more than ten meters long and more than three meters wide. He was originally used in the river, but he could only use it because he couldn't buy a more suitable fishing net and could only use it. Every meter away on the sea, there was a foam float on the net, and a screw pendant was correspondingly placed below. In this way, nearly twenty meters of hanging net was scattered on the sea surface, forming a horseshoe-shaped water cage surrounded by three sides. Once fish swimming within three meters of the water surface hit the net, it was usually difficult to swim out again.

Considering the needs of customers, Lin Tianyu chose a large net with a net, which was basically no danger to small fish. Only big fish would be caught. After scattering the net, he was not idle on the raft. He spread some prepared bait into the middle of the net to attract fish to throw them into the net. After scattering the bait, he could not idle, because dolphins would steal fish from the net from time to time. In the first few days of his fishing career, he was quite happy when he occasionally saw dolphins sweeping past his raft. The elves in the water were very naughty but full of kindness. They liked to circle around the raft and jump out of the water to greet him from time to time. Lin Tianyu was also happy to watch them playing in the water, but soon he discovered the hateful things about these guys.

For those unlucky fish that were caught by the net, they came up to have a feast without any psychological burden. The catch that Lin Tianyu tried hard to lure over became the on-the-trade food for these dolphins, which really made him feel a little amused.

He was not able to use these dolphins at all, but firstly, he was afraid that the blood of killing dolphins would attract sharks, and secondly, he actually liked these naughty guys, so he simply let it go. Anyway, there are countless fish here, so he never had to worry about not getting any results.

What he had to do was to prevent the dolphins from breaking the fishing net or being entangled by the fishing net. When the situation happened, the panicked dolphins often struggled to bring the fishing net into the deep sea and could never find it again. Lin Tianyu had encountered this situation before and had to buy another new fishing net.

It was not until Lin Tianyu's net that he really began to bring his own benefits to him when he watched the dolphins leave with satisfaction.

At this moment, he had nothing to do. He sat on the raft while drinking beer while watching the time. After about half an hour, he started to close the net. It didn't matter if this harvest was heavy, and it was almost impossible to drag. It seemed that the fish here had never encountered human captures. They foolishly drilled into the net, and it was very easy to catch it, and there were also a large number. When Lin Tianyu finally took back the net with a winch, the net was already full of fishing catches, and at least dozens or hundreds of kilograms.

Of course, he could not drag so many fishing catches onto the raft alone. He skillfully tied the hole of the fishing net, then used another winch to twist the nylon rope, and quickly dragged the boat to the shore.

Dig a sand pit nearby, pour the fish that were struggling wildly in the net into the sand pit, and then sort it out.

Although he harvested a lot every time, the value of different types of fish varies greatly. He harvested various fish in this month, and most of them could not name them, so he had to buy a book about marine fish and classified them according to the pictures in the book. So far, he has found sardines, cod, tits, bonito, squats, baer fish, mud-shoe, rosy, flying floes, centripetal fish and other fish species. For the first time, he discovered so many fish living here in such a narrow sea.

There are dozens of species of fish in the Mediterranean. It is not easy to distinguish them carefully. The description of these species may be as thick as a book, but that is the division of marine biologists and zoologists. In Lin Tianyu's eyes, there are only two types of fish, edible and inedible.

The former is divided into two types, more valuable and less valuable. Although Lin Tianyu tried hard to distinguish the fish he caught, even so, there were still many fish that he couldn't figure out the name. Every time he could not tell the name, he usually divided them into the inedible category. After all, it was more important than money. He would not try fish with his body like Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs.

Among the edible fish, sardines, cod and bonito are the most common fish. These three fish are generally moderate in size and are very suitable for catching and taste good. However, the value of these three fish is not very high. Perhaps because the number is too large and too common. Although it can be sold at a price of more than ten yuan or even dozens of yuan per pound, it is no longer attractive in Lin Tianyu's eyes.

The really valuable fish are those big fish. In the ocean, there are countless large fish with hundreds or even hundreds of kilograms. The only problem is that these fish are difficult to catch with Lin Tianyu’s current tools. First of all, these big fish are generally not very active on the upper level of the water surface. Occasionally, it is difficult to catch one, because too much strength often leads the fishing net away.
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