Chapter 367
“As for eating hairtail, it is best after the winter solstice and before the Spring Festival, because it has to survive the winter, and the hairtail has accumulated a lot of fat, so the hairtail at this time is the fattest and the most tender.” “Brother Mao, according to what you said, seafood in winter generally tastes better?” Achen asked. “You can say that, isn’t there an old saying here that after the winter solstice, the sand in the sea is fresh, haven’t you heard of it?” Zhao Qin picked and tried to recall, was it the yellow-eyed hairtail or the black-eyed hairtail he had eaten before? Could it be that he has never eaten a really good hairtail until now? Damn, he has been a fisherman for half a year, it would be embarrassing if this got out. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn’t remember, mainly because he didn’t pay much attention to the color of fish eyes before, but it was simple, let Achen steam a few fish later, and taste them to know if it tastes the same as before. Well, as smart as I am, will I be stumped by a small question? “Brother Mao, is the size of our net big or small?”
In Zhao Qin’s opinion, the size of the hairtails in this net is very ordinary, with a length of 70 to 80 centimeters, and the big ones are only two or three pounds, and the small ones are only about one pound.
“It’s pretty good. The size of black-eyed hairtails is generally smaller, and they grow slower than yellow-eyed hairtails. Of course, due to the waters here,
Even if they are both black-eyed hairtails, they grow faster than northern hairtails, and the taste is slightly worse.”
Then the old cat told everyone how to choose a really good hairtail. Freshness goes without saying, and everyone knows what is fresh.
The main thing is to look at the eyes. Black eyes are preferred over yellow eyes, and small eyes are preferred over big eyes. The smaller the eyes, the better the taste.
“You see, they are all black-eyed hairtails. The black-eyed hairtails in Zhoushan are a circle smaller than those here. There is a reason why the hairtails produced there are famous all over the country.
The taste is fresh and sweet, and the meat is so tender. You can try it when you have a chance in the future.”
Zhao Qin swallowed hard after hearing what Lao Mao said, but there was nothing he could do. This is because of the water area. If you want to eat fresh food, you really have to go to that place.
Well, buying a big cruise ship and eating seafood from the four major seas of the motherland is a good goal.
The hairtails need to be stacked in baskets and divided into different sizes, so it is relatively slow to sort them out. Zhao Qin suddenly realized that he had not asked the most important question, “Brother Mao, what is the price of this now?”
“If it is normal, this kind of fresh and good-sized black-eyed hairtail can be sold for about 25 yuan, but after the winter solstice, the price of seafood is rising.
I estimate that when we go back, we can sell it for at least 30 yuan per catty.”
“So high?”
Zhao Qin widened his eyes. The price is even higher than that of sea bass and yellow bream!
This is also a matter of cognition. Zhao Qin remembered that even more than ten years later, the price of fresh hairtail was only 30-40 yuan per jin, while yellow porgy and sea bass rose to 70-80 yuan per jin.
The reason why it is called cognition is that there are more and more aquaculture belts, and yellow porgy and sea bass are still very common in the sea area now, unlike more than ten years later,
These two fish are becoming more and more difficult to catch, and the prices are naturally rising.
Seeing Zhao Qin pick a few big ones and put them aside, several people tacitly kept silent. It was useless to say anything, and everyone had something to eat, so what was there to say.
After cleaning the deck, Zhuzi cleaned the few remaining hairtails, “Aqin, how do you want to eat it?”
“Just steam it.”
It was almost time to make dinner, Xia Shouzhu agreed and started to prepare dinner.
In the evening, Zhao Qin tasted the hairtail, and he finally understood that it was not that the hairtail was not high-end, but that he did not know how to eat it!
The taste of this hairtail fish is much better than the ones I ate before. It has less fishy smell, tenderer meat, and the big bone in the middle is softer than the ones I ate before.
I picked the middle part, and Brother Zhuzi cut it into large pieces. He ate three big pieces in a row, which was very satisfying.
After dinner, several people sat on the deck drinking tea and watching the afterglow of the sunset, feeling particularly relaxed.
Since noon, the number of fishing boats seen on the road has gradually increased. Some are similar to their boats, and some are larger than them.
We also encountered two or three fleets, each with at least two and at most six boats sailing together.
According to Lao Mao, those are double-boat trawling operations, that is, two boats towing the same large net to catch seafood in the middle and upper waters.
“Aqin, are you going to pull up the net?” Lao Mao sat next to him and asked.
Zhao Qin calculated the time, “Wait another hour, this net will not be released, we will rush home.”
“That’s fine.”
The sky gradually darkened, and the stars in the sky gradually increased.
After a short rest, it was finally time to pull up the net.
When the net was pulled up, it was obviously thicker than the previous one.It was a little less, but no one was discouraged. Even if the net was empty, this trip was still enough.
When the net was opened, everyone couldn’t help but frown. It wasn’t that the harvest was too bad, it was mainly that the garbage increased significantly.
“Aqin, we don’t even have enough garbage bags.”
“If it’s not enough, just push it to the side of the deck. Anyway, I don’t plan to launch any more nets, and I’m not afraid of taking up space.”
“Everyone, please work harder and try to finish the work in two hours.” After the old cat finished speaking, he whispered to Zhao Qin, then got up and returned to the wheelhouse.
Next, he had to rush home quickly. He was a little worried about Zhao Ping steering the boat alone, and planned to take over the helmsman’s position again. After all, it was night, and an extra pair of eyes would give him more protection.
There are also hairtails in this net, but not much. It is estimated that the full catch is only two to three hundred kilograms. There are a lot of shrimps, which are estimated to be close to a thousand kilograms.
This thing is really cheap. Fortunately, I saw the figure of the nine-segmented shrimp again. It looked sparse and there were only a few. But after picking them all, there were nearly three baskets, one weighing more than 100 kilograms, and dozens of them. It’s a pound.
After dividing the goods, Ah Chen and the others picked up the net again and stood by the light to catch fish. There are many kinds of light-loving fish on the sea. Some of them are stupid and will jump to the deck by themselves.
Zhao Qin found a place and silently calculated the general income of this trip in his mind.
The total number of fish caught should be less than 30 tons, but it must be more than 20 tons. Even if the average is 15 yuan per catty, this trip will still have an income of 600,000 yuan. Of course, the average of 15 yuan per catty will definitely be more than that.
The only ones with the lowest unit prices are toad fish, three-eyed crabs, shrimp shrimps, etc., and the others are higher than this price.
Excluding the subsidy, my ship received more than 680,000 yuan. Guaiguai, did I really make a profit on a ship in just three days?
Otherwise, book another one?
Such an idea suddenly popped into my mind, and then it grew like a weed, scratching my heart with hundreds of claws.
No rush, no rush!
I comforted myself and waited until I made more money to order a bigger ship.
Um?
How about ordering five or six boats of about 25 meters to form an offshore fishing team first, and then ordering three or four boats of over 70 meters to form an offshore fishing team?
Tsk tsk, what a big heart.
The trawler is about 40 meters long, larger than the one described in the book.