Chapter 306 Chance Encounter

Chapter 306 Chance Encounter

Chapter 306 Chance Encounter
Li Changle and his companions stared at the blue crabs, wishing they could turn into yellow crabs. As a result, they tied up all the crabs, except for the four that were still living in the single room.

"That's all! Four is not bad!" Li Changle thought four was not bad, and happily sent the crabs to the live tank, and everyone began to sort out the other catches.

After sorting, I found that this net had a good harvest of small yellow croaker and bighead carp, with a full basket of each. These fish can be made into fine dried fish after being dried.

"Hahaha, look at the top-quality hairtail!" Li Changle held up a hairtail with excellent appearance and proudly called a few people to watch.

The East China Sea hairtail is a cold-water hairtail with a small and narrow body. Most of them are about 4 to 7 cm wide and about 40 to 60 cm long.

The fish bones are thin, soft and fat, with no protruding bones on the back. The silvery white membrane is slightly black, and the scales fall off easily. The fish eyes are usually black, with small black pupils and a lot of white.

The South China Sea hairtail is generally green in color, with larger eyes and larger pupils. If the whites of the eyes are yellow, they are mostly imported hairtail.

The bones and fish bones of imported hairtail are relatively hard, the fish meat is rough, and the bones are large. The South China Sea hairtail even has granular hard bones in its body, but it looks good but is not practical.

The fish in his hand was as wide as his palm, more than 7 centimeters wide and more than one meter long. It was definitely a top-quality cutlassfish.

"Uncle A Le, put it here. I have about ten of these big ones." Wang Xincheng smiled and held up the bamboo basket to show them.

Father Li and his friends stretched their necks to take a look, and said with a smile: "Ah Cheng has good luck, he always finds good stuff."

"I'll also find a few big hairtails." Chen Yongwei confidently searched through the hairtail pile.

The more Brother Li picked, the happier he became. "This is a really good net of hairtail. There are many more big hairtail than the previous net."

Brother Li picked up a large hairtail from the basket, pointed at the broken belly, and said with a look of regret: "There are too many fish with broken belly, and a lot of silver membranes have been worn off. Pick out the ones with intact silver membranes and put them separately."

Li Changle nodded. "This is what the trawl net caught. If you want it to look good, you have to use longline fishing. And the hairtail we caught last time by using lights to lure fish sold for a good price. How about we use lights to lure fish tonight?"

As a deep-sea fish, most hairtails die when they come out of water, and the swim bladders of many hairtails rupture due to pressure.

The fish body struggles and rubs against each other in the fishing net, causing the silver film to become mottled. Some hairtails are crushed after their bellies burst, causing their stomachs to break. They look unattractive and their appearance is really poor. This kind of hairtail is called "net hairtail" in the market.

The corresponding to "net belt" is called "fishing belt", which is the kind they catch with longline fishing or luring fish. The silver film on the fish body is not worn, and the belly of the fish is intact, complete and flawless.

All of these are delivered to restaurants, and the price is twice as expensive as normal ones.

"Okay!" Brother Li and others agreed with his decision.

Father Li was very happy to see his hard-working son. "If you have to turn on the lights to lure fish at night, you should take a good rest in the afternoon to avoid damaging your health."

Brother Li waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's okay, we'll take turns to rest."

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather becomes cooler after a few rainy days. September and October with frequent winds and waves are here. You never know when the wind will blow on the sea. So take advantage of the good weather now and work hard. There is plenty of time to rest during the windy season.

Brother Li smiled and said to Father Li: "Dad, I remember when I was fishing in the production team, I came back and said that I caught two hairtails with one hook. Do you remember?"

"I remember that time I went longline fishing with your uncle on the same boat. When we pulled it up, we found that there was another cutlassfish biting the tail of the cutlassfish. This is called one-to-two fishing."

Father Li laughed as he spoke, "When I was on the fishing team, I heard people brag that they had pulled up more than a dozen of them biting each other all at once."

"This is a bit of an exaggeration!" Li Changle grabbed a few prawns and threw them into the bamboo basket.

Father Li smiled and nodded, "Some people are not good at doing things, but they are better at bragging than anyone else."

This net contained the most hairtail fish, estimated to be more than 1,000 kilograms. There were more than 30 top-quality large hairtail fish, four baskets of which were four fingers wide, fifteen baskets of which were between four fingers and three fingers wide, and ten baskets of which were between three fingers and two fingers wide.

There are four baskets of swordfish and two baskets of saury. There are more sauries at this time of year, and there should be more in the future.

There were also two baskets of silver pomfret and other miscellaneous fish. Most of these unnamed fish were worthless.

Because everyone has already remembered the delicious fish, such as hairtail, swordfish and silver pomfret, and the ones that cannot be remembered are those that taste bad.

After working for a while, I felt hungry again.

Li Changle picked up a few large hairtail fish with severely worn silver membranes on their bodies, grabbed them and handed them to Father Li, "Dad, kill them and marinate them so we can fry them tonight."

Cut the freshly caught hairtail into small pieces one inch long, add old wine, green onion, ginger and sea salt and marinate for half an hour. Take out and drain the water, put them into the pan piece by piece, and fry until both sides are browned. The taste makes you drool just thinking about it.

Father Li looked at the big hairtail and wanted to pick a few smaller ones, but when he looked at San'er whose face was red from the sun, he hesitated for a moment, swallowed his words, took the fish and went to the kitchen.

Li Changle and others moved the loaded baskets to the front of the cargo hold, and Li Erge jumped down to start stacking the goods.

Chen Yongwei jumped down from the cargo hold and was hit by a biting chill. He shivered involuntarily, "Fuck, it's so cold!" "It's so cool that I'm shivering!" Brother Li took the bamboo basket with a smile and sorted the items together.

Li Changle and Brother Li hooked the bamboo basket with iron hooks and put the fish down.

The two people in the cabin worked for a while before they felt a little warmer.

Dozens of baskets of fish were quickly stacked. After Brother Li and Chen Yongwei went on deck, Li Changle closed the cargo hold, made an estimate in his mind, and a bright smile appeared on his face.

By selling these two nets of fish, the cost of this trip will be recovered, and the subsequent catches will be all profit.

After the trawl was lowered, everyone swept and rinsed the deck, and Father Li had already prepared the meal.

A big bowl of sauerkraut soup and a big porcelain bowl of fried hairtail, just two simple dishes, and each person had two big bowls of dry rice.

After having dinner and resting for a while, Brother Li turned the fishing boat around and sailed towards the sea area with islands and reefs.

Li Changle and his companions brought out the bamboo baskets containing longline fishing lines, took out the sorted baits, and sat together to hang the baits.

There were originally five sets of longline fishing hooks, plus the longline fishing hooks processed by Li Yufang and two other families, there are now ten sets, with a total of 500 hooks.

As long as the hook rate is 50%, that means 500 fish will be caught, weighing an average of three pounds each. Excluding the cost of bait, it is more cost-effective than trawling.

Halfway through the voyage, a brand new iron fishing boat about eighteen or nineteen meters long came from the opposite direction. When the fishing boat saw them coming, it moved aside from a distance.

When the fishing boat was passing by, someone on the deck suddenly waved a small flag at him, and the fishing boat also headed towards them.

Brother Li slowed down, and when the fishing boat approached, Li Changle realized it was his old acquaintance Chen Amao. He walked to the side of the boat with a smile and called out, "Boss Chen, what a coincidence!"

"Boss A Le, kill Jia!" Chen Amao's dark face smiled like a flower. He held a megaphone in one hand and raised his thumb with the other hand, shouting at Li Changle in a loud voice.

Li Changle also raised his thumb and shouted to him, saying that it was a kind of fate that the two ships could meet in the vast ocean.

"I heard yesterday that Brother Li from Shatou Village bought a big steel boat, and I thought it must be you brothers." Chen Amao said while holding a megaphone.

"This boat was booked by someone else, but the owner had an accident and couldn't pick it up, so he transferred it to me." Li Changle didn't bring a megaphone, so he could only shout at the top of his voice, "When did you pick up the boat? Which shipping company did you book it from?"

"I booked the ship with Haimen Shipping Line. I did the same as you. I tested the voyage yesterday and received the ship today." Chen Amao waved at him, "Are you going back today?"

Li Changle waved his hand, "No, we'll stop at the island ahead tonight."

"I plan to go forward and stop in the sea ahead tonight, then come back to play with you." Chen Amao waved his hand to signal the boat to continue moving forward.

"Okay!" Everyone was dragging the net. Li Changle felt that his throat was really hurt from shouting at the top of his lungs, so he waved goodbye to him.

Father Li looked at Chen Amao, who was waving at them with a grin, and sighed, "Young people are really willing to work hard. Fishermen of our age would not spend money on building big iron boats even if they made money. They would just put the money in a credit union to earn interest."

Li Changle: "Dad, money will only get lighter if you save it. Now more than 20,000 yuan can buy a large steel ship of more than 20 meters. A ship can be used for many years and can also help us make money. If you put the more than 20,000 yuan for buying a ship in a credit union, you may not even be able to buy the tail of the ship in a few years."

Brother Li nodded, "Yes, that's right. When the households were just divided, the ten-meter-long wooden boat in Jindeng Village was sold to an individual for only a thousand yuan. I heard that now even someone offered two thousand yuan to buy it, but they still wouldn't sell it."

Father Li sneered, "The Jindeng boat was bought by the village cadres. Ordinary people can't even get enough to eat, so where did the money come from?

We were really poor back then. When Ah Le sold the boat to Ah Fa, your mother and I borrowed money from all our relatives, and your uncle also helped us borrow some money, before we were able to buy the boat. "

Father Li and Brother Li thought about the past days and looked at the big ship under their feet, feeling like they were dreaming.

The fishing boat dragged the net back to the sea area where the islands and reefs were. Li Changle asked Li Erge not to rush to pull up the net, but to lower several baskets of longline fishing lines into the sea around the island before preparing to pull up the net.

"Second brother, it's time to raise the net!" Li Changle went to the control panel and shouted to Second Brother Li.

Everyone took their positions and stood there watching the net bag being slowly dragged onto the deck.

Looking at the net bag swollen with fish, Brother Li was a little excited, "Big boats are better. This net needs four or five trips by a small boat."

"The two nets just now were better than each other, and this one looks good too."

"The net bag looks bulging, but I wonder if there is any big stuff inside?"

Li Changle stepped forward to take a look and then untied the net bag. More than a dozen stingrays with their tails dragging slipped out of the bag.

(End of this chapter)