Chapter 893: Basking shark

As soon as the basking shark floated to the water surface, it was recognized by the father and son. Its big mouth was too easy to identify.

The basking shark is the second largest filter-feeding shark in the world after the whale shark.

I heard that it is still the shame of sharks. It has a huge body and always keeps its blood basin mouth open. Even when swimming forward, it is wide open, looking very scary.

But on the contrary, it is gentle in nature and never attacks humans, only feeding on small fish and plankton, similar to the habits of whale sharks.

The reason why it is called a basking shark is also because its gentle nature is like an old woman, hence the name "basking".

When it swims forward, the wide-open mouth is just waiting for food to come to its door.

Don't think that the advanced way of eating in the ocean is to prey on all sides like a great white shark. In fact, this lazy way of the basking shark is the most advanced.

Its mouth is like a vacuum cleaner, constantly sucking away food, using the gill rakers to filter plankton and small fish in the mouth.

If there are fishing boats passing by, they also like to follow the fishing boats forward, chasing relentlessly.

Not for anything else, just for the discarded miscellaneous fish or food thrown into the sea by the fishing boat from time to time, so it is also called a lazy shark, and it is also a scavenger in the ocean.

The super large cocoon composed of herring under the sea just now was swallowed directly by it in one gulp. Those herring didn't know what happened, and it was gone in front of their eyes.

It makes sense that a big mouth eats everywhere.

It's just that basking sharks generally move in groups of three or five. When there are many, they can have hundreds or thousands of them in a long line. Why is there only one here?

Is it really lost by the waves in the typhoon?

Ye Yaodong was puzzled, but his hands were not ambiguous. When the basking shark floated to the water surface, he took the camera and took a picture with a *click*.

The body is gray-brown, and the fins are light gray-brown. You can only take pictures of the half of the body exposed to the water surface.

I don't know what the effect is. Anyway, it was taken. If you can get close later, you can try a clear one at close range.

"Is this fish beaten and lost..."

Ye Fu's voice just fell, and the action of pulling the net didn't stop, and he saw this basking shark floating up and not staying for a while, and began to dodge.

And its body was clinging to quite a few barracudas. Some fell off in its struggle and shaking, but there were other barracudas, continuing to attack relentlessly.

Under the huge body of the basking shark, these barracudas, even if the big ones can be ten or twenty jin, are just small witches compared to it.

The bite wound can only bring it pain, but cannot be fatal.

But mosquitoes bite more and will feel pain, which is uncomfortable, and fish are the same.

However, the basking shark only eats small fish and plankton, so barracudas of this size are not on its predation list at all.

It dodged, swung its body to shake off the barracudas, and a few even hit the hull, *bang bang* a few times and fell back into the sea.

Ye Fu saw it when pulling the net, and couldn't help but regret it. If it fell directly onto the boat, it would be fine.

The basking shark found that floating on the water surface could not completely get rid of it. These barracudas were like crazy, remembering that it ate the prey, and chased and beat it as soon as they saw a gap.

It had to turn its body, jump on the sea level, and then hit the water heavily, trying to stun the barracudas on its body, and then quickly hide under the water again.

Ye Yaodong has been holding the camera, trying to catch a clear one again, and just happened to take a picture of it jumping on the water surface.

Suddenly satisfied.

"Hurry up, put it away after taking the picture, pull the net up, and while the fish hasn't run away, you can pull two more nets to see."

And just when Ye Yaodong put the camera on the stool temporarily, the father and son also found that there was a fishing boat not far behind them, gradually approaching this side.

The two of them threw the net and pulled the net, watching the sea surface while also paying attention to the distance behind.

"Is that boat also ours?"

"Maybe, Big Cousin and the others were also in this surrounding area just now, and could see a little bit of the boat's shadow. I guess they also saw the large group of seabirds here, so they slowly moved towards this side. I didn't look behind because I was always paying attention to the fish in the sea."

If it was driving head-on, in front, it would have been discovered long ago.

"I didn't look either."

Even if the seabirds didn't completely disperse, they continued to linger in the air, diving down from time to time to steal fish on the fishing boat.

They are not capable of carrying away barracudas, only herring.

They don't care either. It's not a good product, no one eats it, and it's not suitable for drying fish. Only herring cans are relatively famous. If it's stolen by birds, let it be stolen.

Anyway, for them, this fish is either thrown into the sea or taken back to feed chickens, ducks, and pigs.

"You'll know if you come over later."

The two of them just said it simply, and continued to pull the net and throw the net.

After the herring school was gone, the basking shark also ran away. The ones pulled up were all barracudas. However, after pulling up a net, there were only three left when pulling up again.

This fish disperses quickly. I don't know if it went to chase the basking shark.

Ye Yaodong untied the broken hand-throwing net in his hand, poured out the three fish, and suggested putting the fishing net for dragging.

"It just happened to disperse, it should not have run far, maybe it is still in this surrounding area, let's work nearby, try our luck."

Ye Fu nodded, he thought so too.

Just when they were dragging the large fishing net and preparing to cast the net, the fishing boat behind arrived late.

However, it was different from what they thought. It was not their boat, but I don't know which village it was, but the other party didn't get very close.

But there were still many seabirds around their fishing boat, stealing a few fish and flying into the sky from time to time, which also attracted the other party's attention.

After they approached a little more and saw the herring and barracudas all over Ye Yaodong's boat, they also regretted why they didn't come over earlier.

Their eyes never left the fish on the boat.

"There was a school of fish just now, right?"

They spoke their local dialect, so they were locals.

There are slight differences in the dialects spoken between towns and towns, just like the accent Aqing speaks with them is slightly different.

"Yes, there was a school of herring, but they have all run away now."

"What a pity..."

Barracuda is not cheap, it's worth more than 4 cents, not to mention the quantity of the whole boat.

Plus, it's scattered everywhere on his boat now. At a rough glance, it's estimated that it can sell for two or three hundred yuan. This is much stronger than dragging the net for a few days.

Ye Yaodong didn't talk much to them. The other party's boat was also an old man and a young man like his father and him. It seems that it should also be a father and son.

After he and Ye Fu sorted out the large fishing net, one person drove the boat forward, and one person followed the tail slipway to cast the net.

It's not that conflicts will occur when boats meet at sea. Most of them are normal exchanges.

That boat also followed them and inquired: "Is the barracuda on your boat attracted by the school of herring? How long has the school of fish dispersed?"

"It just dispersed for a while."

"Then throwing the net now, maybe you can drag a little more, or you can encounter a school of fish..."

Ye Yaodong nodded. After putting all the fishing nets into the sea, he also paid attention to their actions. Seeing that they were also hurriedly sorting out the fishing nets, preparing to cast the net, his heart relaxed a little.

I'm afraid that some people will see wealth and have evil intentions. These fish are worth a lot of money. If not, they should also be people who have seen good goods, and their eyes are not so shallow.

Their fishing boat worked forward at a constant speed. After slowly pulling away from the other party's boat, he was relieved to start sorting out the fish cargo on the boat.

So long has passed, the barracudas on the boat are no longer fluttering. However, he casually pried open the mouth of a super big one. The teeth in the mouth are really sharp enough. If you bite it, your fingers are really enough.

He dragged two baskets and separated them by size. Most of them were seven or eight jin, about ten jin, and a few were twenty or thirty jin. With this size, the price can be a little higher.

First, pick up all the barracudas, drag them to the side of the cabin, and line them up neatly next to the goods dragged by the net just now.

Then, he dragged the bucket with ice cubes out of the cabin, sprinkled the fine ice cubes on it, covered it with broken clothes and broken cotton quilts, and stacked the baskets to save space.

There is also a large pile of herring on the boat that needs to be dealt with. It is a pity to pour it back into the sea. It must be packed in baskets and taken back to feed the pigs for his sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, and the chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs in his house also need to be fed.

He drove away the seabirds that kept stealing while packing. Occasionally, he threw a few useless small eels out, which could also cause them to scramble.

After he sorted out the miscellaneous goods on the boat, the fishing boat was still working there. He simply washed his hands with fresh water, and then sat down to rest, fiddling with his camera.

"Packed up?"

"Well, those barracudas should have six or seven hundred jin. The small ones are seven or eight jin, and the big ones are estimated to be thirty jin. It can sell for two or three hundred yuan."

Ye Fu looked at the harvest happily, "I felt a lot when I looked at the quantity just now. I made money today."

"The harvest is okay."

It's a pity that the photos taken by the camera now are all black and white, and the clarity is not high. I guess it will look very blurry when washed out.

Ye Yaodong lowered his head and played with his camera, absent-minded, and said casually.

Ye Fu was a little unhappy with his indifferent attitude, "Go cook some noodles to eat."

He looked up this time, "Why is it me again?"

"Because I'm driving the boat."

"Then wait a while."

He didn't want to cook either!

He cooked it in the morning, why is it still him now.

"Put your camera away, it's all seawater everywhere, why don't you know how to cherish things? Bicycles are the same, cameras are the same. Things will definitely be easily broken in your hands."

Ye Yaodong muttered two words of nagging, but still stood up and put the camera in the cabin.

After all, it hasn't been used for long since it was bought. Don't really corrode it. The film hasn't finished a roll yet, and I haven't been willing to take a few pictures. Maybe it's only half taken.

Ye Fu drove the boat and kept turning around in this sea area. The boat he met just now was also working nearby. The two boats kept a distance not far or near, and nothing happened.

After waiting for the time to be almost up, Ye Fu drove the boat back to the area where they often stayed and worked at sea to pull the net.

Big Cousin and Ah Sheng saw their boat return, and also drove the boat over, just in time to see them pull the net, surprised to see a large bag of goods dragged directly onto the boat by the tail slipway.

"So many goods?"

"Such a big bag? Dongzi, Uncle, you ran so far just now, and you still have goods?"

Ye Fu smiled and said: "Just happened to encounter a school of herring, stayed there for a while, and then encountered a school of barracudas, threw a few nets, and dragged a net there before coming back to pull the net."

"That works too, barracuda is big, today's harvest is very good."

They didn't see that there were more barracudas in the stacked baskets, otherwise they would be surprised.

"No wonder I saw that there seemed to be a lot of seabirds at the end, but I was dragging the net, and it was a bit far, and I couldn't see it clearly."

The two chatted for a while, rested for a while, simply ate something, and went to drag the net first.

During this period, they followed the rules and only worked in this sea area, and didn't run far. After all, they were familiar with it, and it was also the area where Ye Yaodong took them to fish at the beginning.

Just taking a dead wage, no one would think of tossing around everywhere. It's stable to work in a familiar place. Anyway, the amount of goods has nothing to do with them. Every day, they just try their luck.

Ye Yaodong actually didn't care. It's already very good to be stable. How much money you earn depends on the sky and luck. If they really drove the boat and tossed around everywhere, he might not like it.

After all, they were just invited to work, and the boat had not been contracted to them. It was very good to be so mediocre.

Father and son squatted and turned over the fish harvest, counted the number of barracudas, and had a count in their hearts. Today's harvest is not bad.

"Dad, you go cook noodles, leave it to me here."

"Isn't it you?"

"Take turns, it's your turn."

Ye Fu had to cook noodles depressedly first, "Let your wife cook more rice tomorrow, bring the leftover rice to the boat at night, put it on that bucket of ice cubes, and it won't go bad."

If it was just cooking noodles, the father and son wouldn't push it to each other. It was mainly because they had to wash the bowls after cooking and eating. Both of them didn't want to do it, although there were only two sets of bowls and chopsticks and a pot, but they felt it was troublesome.

"That's no different, still have to heat the rice and dishes, still have to cook a pot of seafood, still have to wash the bowls."

"At least you can eat rice."

"Got it."

Ye Yaodong lowered his head and responded casually, but he heard his father exclaim, and then nervously and hurriedly kept calling him.

"Ah ah ah... Dongzi... Dongzi... hurry up, hurry up..."

Hearing his father's abnormal tone, he also became nervous, and his heart was raised.

"What? What happened?"

Just walked over and asked, he also saw the basking shark lying on the sea surface by the boat with its mouth wide open, floating with the fishing boat.

And it's not just one!

I don't know where two more popped out, three connected in a row, looking much longer than their boat, and it was right beside the hull, looking scary at first glance.

Only heard that basking sharks like to bask in the sun lazily. This is the first time I've seen it today.

It is still the era of abundant marine resources. Later, it will be polluted, and it will not be easy to see these marine organisms. ===== CHAPTER 894 =====