Catch the sea: start with a sand shovel and take over the entire beach

As the net bag was lifted out of the water, the net bag bulging into a big ball still gave everyone unlimited room for imagination.

Perhaps it was because the day before yesterday was full of garbage, but there was no cheering this time.

"It looks like a lot." Zhao Ping said with a trembling voice.

"Well, if it's all fish, it's probably two tons." Zhao Qin agreed and watched the crane work.

The old cat was in the center console, looking up from time to time.

When the net bag arrived, Zhao Qin couldn't help but feel a little nervous at the moment. He looked at everyone and saw that everyone was a little nervous. Zhao Ping kept pressing his dry lips.

It seemed that he wanted Zhao Qin to untie the knot quickly, but he didn't dare to speak.

Zhao Qin calmed down and pulled the rope at the mouth of his pocket. As he pulled, the boom was slightly raised again, and all the fish caught fell to the deck.

A mountain of small fish immediately appeared on the deck, and some even slid far away from the tip of the pile.

"Mom, they are all fish." Chen Yuce said excitedly.

"It's a good harvest, we have a good harvest." Xia Shouzhu seemed to be seeing so many fish caught at one time for the first time, and kept muttering in a low voice with his mouth trembling.

Old Mao walked to the deck, first heaving a sigh of relief, then showing a hint of depression, and looked at each other with Zhao Ping, both of them had similar expressions.

"Toad fish, it's not worth anything." The old cat sighed.

With one sentence, the originally cheerful Ah Chen and the other three were once again struck into silence.

"Why are there so many toad fish?" Zhao Ping also said with a hint of disgust.

Zhao Qin smiled with satisfaction and asked his elder brother: "It's good to have fish. Brother, how much does this fish cost per pound?"

"It's probably only four or five yuan a pound."

The so-called toad fish is the local name, and its scientific name is angler fish.

It is a deep-sea fish with a very strange appearance.

The body is short cone-shaped, the head is huge and flat, the mouth is flat and wide, with a row of sharp teeth with inward tips on the edge. The eyes are on the back of the head. The body is soft and has no scales.

It looks very much like a toad without legs. It has a slimy surface and a strange shape. Anyway, it looks a bit disgusting at first glance.

Zhao Qin laughed again, and after attracting everyone's attention, he said: "That's very good. There is at least three or four thousand kilograms here. At four yuan a kilogram, it is worth more than ten thousand.

Even if we save all the cost of this trip, I don’t know how much we can still make.

We can at least pull in seven or eight nets in the future. Even if the harvest is small by then, it will still be a pure profit, so we are off to a good start. "

Hearing his calculations, everyone's mood gradually improved. The old cat lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "Aqin is right, a school of fish is a good situation. Come on, everyone, let's get rid of the fish as soon as possible." Put into storage.”

In fact, Zhao Ping and the others were initially disappointed because they finally saw a school of fish and found it worthless. Perhaps they had too high expectations for their new ship's first trip to sea.

Now that I have a calm mind, I feel that this harvest is quite good.

"Aqin, let them pick. You and Achen are responsible for putting the net down again. If we leave this net in place, I guess there will still be a lot of anglerfish." Old Mao suggested.

"Brother Cat, try heading east. If that doesn't work, let's turn around and come back."

Although Zhao Qin said that just now, he was still a little dissatisfied with dragging a net full of anglerfish, so he decided to drag another net farther away.

"Okay, it's up to you."

The old cat checked the knot at the bottom of the net bag. After all, he was still worried about the novice. If the net knot got loose in the sea, it would be fun. Fish would enter the mouth of the net, but fish would leak out of the bottom of the net, and the net would be in vain.

After checking that there was no problem, I returned to the center console, turned the rudder to the right, and started walking east.

The ship's speed was maintained at about 3-5 knots. When the ship returned to the right direction, it shouted to the loudspeaker on the ship: "Get ready to lower the net."

Everyone on the boat shouted in unison and prepared to lower the net.

Zhao Qin first pushes the net bag into the sea, and then the current will bring the net into the water. When it is time to lower the net board, he will remove the net board, adjust it and lower it into the sea. The rest is purely machine operation.

When the drag line is completely straightened, the trawl net is launched into the sea. The next step is simple. Maintain a certain ship speed to drag the net and wait for the time to lift the net.

"Brother Zhuzi, I have a lot of snakeskin bags with me. Don't throw garbage into the sea again. Pack them all and put them on the bow of the boat, and throw them away when you get home."

After Zhao Qin finished lowering the net, he returned to the deck just in time to see them throwing away garbage and quickly stopped them.

It's not that he is very noble, but after the garbage is fished out and thrown into the sea, he still feels a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, because they are far away from the shore, there is a lot less garbage here than when the boat was tested the day before yesterday.

"Brother Aqin, there are conches, several of them." Achen pointed to a basket and said.

Zhao Qin stepped forward and found that it looked a bit like a rattle snail, but the tongue was shorter than the rattle snail. The whole body was covered with irregular spikes. There were five or six of them, and the colors were different.

Some are khaki and some are white. They are not small in size, with a length of more than 20 centimeters, and the weight should not be less than a kilogram.

He had never seen this kind of snail before, so he looked at his elder brother Zhao Ping.

Zhao Pingping had a reserved smile on his face, these snails were an unexpected surprise.

"This is the first time I have seen such a big banana snail. Not only is the meat delicious, many people also like to collect the snail shells.

I estimate that this kind of live meat with meat is no less than 200 yuan per pound. "

"Isn't that about the same price as a rattle snail?"

"It's rarer than rattle snails. I haven't tried it, so I don't know how it tastes."

Zhao Qin was also quite satisfied and helped sort them together, mainly anglerfish, but not all of them, there were also some crabs and shrimps. Zhao Qin squatted down and picked out a safflower that weighed nearly a pound. crab.

Xia Shouzhu and Chen Yuce were busy warehousing the fish, while the others were responsible for sorting. The division of labor was clear, and the deck was cleaned up in almost an hour.

Pick up the garbage, then use a shovel to shovel all the useless sea rocks, empty shells, and sea corals into the sea. Finally, wash the deck clean with a water pipe. The first operation is completely completed.

Anglefish, commonly known as toad fish, actually tastes pretty good, but it looks ugly.

Rock banana snails, white snail shells are very expensive.