Chapter 236

After the meal, Ye Yaodong pushed the flatbed cart to get the sticky net, and also had to collect the longline hooks he had taken to be repaired a few days ago.

Then, immediately after, he went out to sea to collect the ground cages without stopping. Taking advantage of the rising tide, the boat could go out, and collecting them quickly would allow him to get back before the tide receded.

By the way, see if the waves are big in the evening, whether he can go out at night, and then consider collecting some fish cargo as bait.

Moving the rolling wheel is not urgent. After collecting the ground cages, it's not too late to call his father to go to Uncle Lin's house together.

After he went through the order of things in his mind, he got on the boat. It hadn't been opened for a few days, so he checked the machine inside and outside the boat. After there was no problem, he added some oil and drove out directly.

The sky is blue and the water is blue, the sea surface is rippling, and the fishing boat sails out, rippling circle after circle. Today is rare to be a good day with clear skies and ten thousand miles.

Listening to the chat of everyone on the shore, the harvest of fishing boats has been quite good recently, mainly because of the price, but the types of fish cargo that can be caught are fewer. Many who originally used mid-to-upper layer trawl nets now choose to add lead weights to do bottom trawl nets.

Their boat doesn't have a net hauler, which is very demanding on arm strength. Now it also needs to be arranged according to the situation.

Sailing the boat to the area where he placed the ground cages, he stopped moving forward after seeing the familiar buoy.

In the sound of the diesel engine "da-da-da", he pulled up the buoy and started to collect the net. Sure enough, there were still mostly starfish in the ground cage net.

Damn it, he couldn't get excited when he saw the starfish. He had long since lost the joy he had when he first saw them on the shore, and had already become numb to collecting them.

Pouring all the cargo from this net onto the boat, most of them were starfish, and there were also a tiny bit of fish and shrimp. He wasn't in a hurry to sort them, and immediately continued to collect.

Everything was poured onto the boat. He planned to sort and pack the cargo slowly after docking.

Who knew that after collecting half of the ground cages, several super-large slipper lobsters slid out from the net he just untied in his hand, and his eyes lit up instantly.

This slipper lobster looks fat and chubby, very interesting. Actually, it is a type of slipper lobster, with thick and short claws, dark red color, flat forehead in a pentagonal shape, and a hard and thick shell.

The three that just fell out of the net were super large, as big as an adult's palm, and one weighed about five taels. The price of this big one is catching up to lobster, and the price is not low even now. It's a pity there were only three.

After Ye Yaodong picked out the three slipper lobsters separately in advance, he continued to make persistent efforts happily.

Unexpectedly, the next net he pulled up was extremely heavy. He thought there was some big cargo and was surprised, but when he dragged it out of the sea, he found it was a super large jellyfish.

Damn it, he scolded while dragging the net up, "Damn, wasted a net of mine. When did jellyfish become so many in the sea?"

While scolding, he went to untie the fish collection bag. No matter how much he disliked jellyfish, he still had to pull the net up and throw it back into the water.

While untying the rope, he saw starfish still exposed in the fish collection bag. He didn't take it to heart; there were indeed too many starfish along the coast recently.

He shook the fishing net, wanting to see what other cargo was pressed under the jellyfish, but didn't expect to shake out some "sea cicadas".

"Holy crap, it turns out there was good stuff pressed at the bottom. Good guy, these were all blocked by the jellyfish, no wonder I didn't see them when I pulled them up..."

His hands nimbly untied the rope quickly, and a small pile of sea cicadas slid out from inside, mixed with some starfish.

Actually, the scientific name of these sea cicadas is the "liberated eyebrow-footed crab", which also belongs to a type of slipper lobster, but the size of these sea cicadas is very small, incomparable to the three slipper lobsters he just caught. Their local names are also very finely distinguished.

The big ones are called slipper lobsters, and the small ones are called sea cicadas. This kind of sea cicada is a marine creature between shrimp and crab. Occasionally, they can often be picked up on the beach when the tide recedes. Its taste is more delicious than crab.

It can be said to be a cicada monkey growing in the sea, but it is more delicious than a cicada monkey.

Don't look at its small size, it is more tender and delicious than shrimp meat, and there is a lot of yellow inside, which is more fat and delicious than crab roe. It is just because it looks like a cicada monkey that it is often misunderstood, and some people mistake it for a mole cricket shrimp.

Ye Yaodong first threw the white big jellyfish that was in the way into the water, and then started to fiddle with these sea cicadas. He estimated there were about four or five jin. They are worth some money decades later, but they can't be sold for much now, but they are really delicious.

He didn't know if there were any more behind, so he first moved these to the corner, planning to sort them slowly after collecting all the ground cage nets.

After putting the ground cage he just collected back down, he immediately started to collect cargo.

It was still the same number of ground cage nets, but affected by starfish, the fish cargo was reduced by more than half.

A few days ago, the number of starfish was large, and every net exploded, making those who put down ground cages bloom with smiles, but these two days the quantity decreased, and they couldn't smile anymore.

All the ground cage nets were collected, and the cargo was poured onto the boat. Although it was piled up like a small mountain, there wasn't much cargo, and most of them were starfish.

After sorting, he first threw these starfish into the sack, but only collected two sacks, worth about four yuan.

Grass~ didn't come to collect for four or five days, and there was only this little bit. It seems the starfish are really almost gone.

Those sea cicadas and slipper lobsters were quite impressive, and he was lucky. The ground cage also caught a green grouper of about two jin, which was estimated to have just run in and could still jump twice.

Ye Yaodong first picked the large slipper lobsters into the bucket. There was half a bucket, looking like about five or six jin.

Then he picked through the remaining fish. Some were no longer fresh, having been in the sea for too many days. Fish that come up from ground cages are generally dead.

Because after the fish enter the ground cage, they will eventually concentrate in the fish collection bag, and the space in the fish collection bag is small, which is easy to cause local density to be too high and appear hypoxia, suffocating to death.

Although they were still fresh when collected the next day, it had been four or five days. Most of the fish gills were not bright red, the eyeballs had turned white or sunken, and the fish bodies had no elasticity when pressed.

Ye Yaodong regretfully picked out these unfresh fish and threw them back into the sea. The seabirds above the sea surface, after tasting the sweetness, were eyeing them covetously and kept flying around the fishing boat. As soon as he threw the unfresh fish into the sea, they dived down and picked them up.

To distinguish whether fish is fresh or not, mainly look at the fish body and fish gills.

The first is to look at the fish eyes. Those with intact and bright eye membranes are fresh fish; unfresh fish generally have bloodshot eye membranes, and the eyeballs begin to sink.

The second is to look at the fish gills. The gills of fresh fish are bright red. If the gills are white and have a lot of mucus, it means the fish has been dead for a long time.

The third is to look at the fish body. Press the fish meat with your fingers. If the fish meat sinks and is slow to rebound, it is not fresh.

Shrimp is also the same, most of it stinks. Unfresh shrimp has a musty smell, like rotten meat.

Ye Yaodong sorted while throwing. Seeing that a three or four jin sea bass and an eight or nine jin sea wolf fish were also not fresh, he felt sorry to death. He forgot to tell his father to come out to collect them when he left, and he didn't know he would stay at his mother-in-law's house for so many days.

He estimated his father thought he told his eldest brother and second brother, and his eldest brother and second brother thought he told his father.

Most of the fish and shrimp were cheap for these seabirds, only a small bit that had just been netted was considered fresh.

After picking out the remaining fresh cargo and putting it into the bucket, the surrounding seabirds were still dancing in the air, reluctant to leave.

"Still not full? If you don't leave, I'll catch you all!"

Because of his feeding, the nearby seabirds gathered around his fishing boat, and the number looked quite impressive. This didn't, it directly attracted fishing boats not far away, all coming towards him.

When he raised his head to look at the surrounding sea surface, he discovered that there were seven or eight small wooden boats around him, some close and some far, but all were approaching him.

He was speechless for a moment...

A proper misunderstanding!

General fishermen know that where seabirds gather, there will often be schools of fish, but there were none today...

It was him feeding...

A fishing boat sailed towards him first, turned around in the vicinity, but saw nothing, couldn't help but be a bit puzzled, and approached him a little more.

"Is it Adong? Was there a school of fish around just now? Has it dispersed already? Did you catch it?"

This is an old fisherman in their village. Ye Yaodong looked at him, unable to laugh or cry, "There is no school of fish. These birds are because I just threw a lot of unfresh fish cargo, so so many flew over."

"Ah, is that so? How much did you throw? So many seabirds flew over..."

"Most of the harvest was thrown away. I haven't been home for four or five days, forgot to tell my father to come over to collect it, and most of the fish and shrimp in the ground cages are rotten."

"Is that so? What a pity... fed the birds for nothing..."

He frowned, a bit regretful. Seeing other fishing boats approaching, he hurriedly shouted to them while rowing: "There is no school of fish here, no need to come over."

But how could people listen to him? Without taking a look, how could they believe it, how could they give up? They still rowed in this direction.

Ye Yaodong thought the same, so he didn't waste his breath shouting just now. Anyway, they would know after coming to see.

All the small wooden boats around sailed towards him, getting closer and closer. He didn't care about them, let them gather, drove the boat and left first, directly towards the shore.

He was at full power, throwing off all the fishing boats behind him. The fishing boats far away, seeing his big boat leave this area, might regret it there, missed it... didn't have time to approach...

Anyway, don't care about them.

After approaching the pier, he moved the limited harvest off the boat to weigh.

Sea cicadas are not worth money, he kept them all. He also kept 4 slipper lobsters, and sold the others together with starfish and green grouper.

Green grouper is not expensive among groupers. He had caught it before, and it was about 2 yuan a jin. Slipper lobsters were 8 mao a jin, there were 5 jin 6 taels, and two sacks of starfish sold for 4 yuan. The cargo in the afternoon sold for more than 15 yuan, too much was thrown away.

But it was okay, so-so. The harvest of ground cages is generally like this.