"No, this is not Su Mei!"
"ah?"
"How could this not be a humphead wrasse?"
The other two looked on in surprise.
This fish is quite large in size. Ah Zheng just pulled the rope and the fish is still in the water, but you can clearly see that its skin is turquoise and its head is glowing blue. The colors are bright and beautiful, and it really looks like a humphead wrasse.
The body of the humphead wrasse is also yellow-green, the head is dark green, the whole body is brightly colored, and the young fish are dark blue.
This fish looks very similar to the king fish humphead wrasse, but it is not.
Ye Yaodong rowed the boat a little closer, stretched his head to identify it carefully, and then said with certainty: "This is not a humphead wrasse, it is a green wrasse."
"Qingyi? No way? There's a huge difference between the two! This fish is so big, isn't Qingyi very small?" A Zheng couldn't believe that such a beautiful fish was not a Sumei, but a Qingyi.
Xiao Xiao carefully identified it and said hesitantly, "It seems to be a blue-robed fish. Hurry up and pull it up to take a look at its mouth."
"I pulled very hard just now, I don't know how much weight it is. There must be a lot of fish under these hooks. The rope is not thick enough, so it is difficult to pull. It is very strenuous."
"I'll help you..."
"There are also big Qingyi fish. This one looks like it should weigh 20 to 30 kilograms. Pull it up a little bit and look at its mouth and you will know that this is Qingyi fish, not Sumei."
Ye Yaodong was very sure.
Their appearance is very similar, both have long and oval bodies, round and convex heads, and beautiful patterns.
However, the mouth of the humphead wrasse is one of its major features. Its entire body is yellowish brown with a green tint, and it has a protruding mouth.
Moreover, the ridge between the eyes of the humphead wrasse is very obvious, like a fish wearing a Napoleon hat, while the bluefin wrasse does not have this feature.
Their fishing boat had once caught these two kinds of fish at the same time and put them together for comparison. The bright colors of the two fish were still fresh in his memory.
The two men struggled to pull the fish out of the water little by little, and only then could they clearly see its appearance.
The fish's body is light green, and its head is slightly blue. What is most eye-catching is its long teeth growing outwards, which look very much like buck teeth.
"Is it really Qingyi? When I pulled it up a little just now, I thought it was Su Mei." Ah Zheng looked a little disappointed.
"That's pretty cool, one is Sulphur eyebrow, two is Blue-robed, and three is Grouper."
"Unless it is a juvenile humphead wrasse, an adult humphead wrasse is usually 2.5 meters long, which is not something we can catch."
"Dongzi is right. At first, I couldn't see it clearly when it just appeared a little bit above the water. I thought it was a humphead wrasse." Xiaoxiao patted him on the shoulder. "Okay, take the fish off and put it in the bucket. This fish can be sold at a good price."
"How much are they worth?" Ye Yaodong was a little curious. He really didn't know how much these precious fish were worth at this time.
"About three or four yuan a pound. The humphead wrasse is valuable, four or five times more than the green wrasse."
Ye Yaodong understood clearly that the situation was a hundred times different from that decades later.
"It's a good harvest. This fish must be 20 kilograms, right? I can sell it for a good price."
Ah Zheng instantly recovered his health, as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood. "Keep going, keep going. How about 200 hooks?"
"We are out for too short a time today. Otherwise, you can still put bait on while collecting fish. If there are a lot of hooks, you can collect them from the beginning to the end and then start again from the beginning."
He felt a little envious when he saw it, and felt that the troublesome work in the early stage seemed acceptable. At most, he would spend a few cents to hire someone to sort out the fishing lines and hooks.
This longline fishing is quite simple to do.
Ah Zheng said with a smile: "My father-in-law told me to use this longline fishing and not to use hand-cast nets. I just said that I had never used it before and would try two baskets first. When I go back later, I will definitely increase the number. I will use a few more baskets tomorrow and get 500 hooks. This is easier than casting a net myself. The hand-cast net will be thrown on the boat as a backup unless there is a school of fish."
"We can get 1,000 of these, and that's not too many."
Next, A Zheng kept pulling the fishing line, and Xiao Xiao cooperated with him to remove the hooks. The fish caught were all at least one kilogram in weight, and there were no small fish.
In a true sense, it achieves the goal of keeping the big fish and releasing the small ones, and is a relatively restrained fishing method.
In addition to this green grouper, they also caught two tiger groupers in succession. Tiger grouper is the most common grouper, as well as horse mackerel, skinned fish, black sea bream, eel, croaker, etc.
What surprised everyone was that the last hook turned out to be a small gray dolphin!
Ah Zheng was a little confused when he pulled it up, scratching his head, "Are dolphins so greedy? Should we let it go?"
"Let it go, it's a baby dolphin."
This is not an ordinary dolphin, but a Chinese dolphin. Ye Yaodong recognized it at a glance. It is no more than one meter long and weighs about 20 to 30 kilograms. Its body is gray. The body of an adult white dolphin is pink.
Except for the research institute, fishermen are prohibited from catching dolphins.
Their country is not like Japan, where hunting dolphins has become a custom. In my country, people usually kill chickens, ducks and geese to celebrate a good harvest, but villagers in Japan kill dolphins every year to celebrate a good harvest.
Ah Zheng patted its head and took the hook out of its mouth. "Come on, don't be so greedy next time."
The little dolphin seemed to be intelligent. After being released into the sea, it poked its little head out and looked around for a long time before swimming towards the bottom of the sea.
But after a while it came back and jumped on the water.
The three of them were a little puzzled by its outrageous operation.
"Hey, there's a big one down there!"
Ye Yaodong looked at the sea with bright eyes, and saw a huge Chinese white dolphin emerging from the sea. It then stretched out its dorsal fin and slapped the water surface, making a "Yi~Woo~Yi~Woo" sound.
After the big dolphin called out, the little dolphin also imitated his movements, slapping the water and calling out. The sound sounded particularly cute.
After they finished calling, they somersaulted on the water surface at the same time before diving to the bottom of the sea.
The three grown men stared blankly.
Ye Yaodong was surprised for a while, then he came to his senses and touched his chin, "This white dolphin is kind of cute?"
"really."
"The colors of these two are a little different. They seem to be different from the species we have seen before."
Of course, this is the Chinese white dolphin.
"Did they just come over to say goodbye to us? Or to thank us?"
"Maybe both?"
"Why are the Japanese so cruel? I heard that they hunt many dolphins every year. They even have a dolphin hunting festival. Every year from mid-September to March of the following year, more than 20,000 dolphins and small whales will be slaughtered."
"Fuck..." Xiao Xiao cursed a few times and said to Ye Yaodong, "How did you know?"
"I read it in the newspaper. It's time to go home with a good harvest."
Xiao Xiao was a little confused, "Can you read the words?"
"I guess. Look at your fish."
Damn, why would I trust him? How can he be so fooled
He was about to retort, but Ah Zheng pulled him back, "Why do you care whether he can recognize it or not? I can't handle these messy fishing lines of yours."
"It doesn't matter. Just leave it there and ask someone to sort it out before we go out to sea tomorrow."
He glanced at the two baskets of lines and hooks on the boat and saw that the two barrels on the boat were almost full. Some fish had to be thrown onto the deck. The corners of his mouth were almost split behind his ears with joy.
The most numerous fish here are croakers, each weighing two or three pounds. It is estimated that there are about 20 to 30 of them.
They had already filled a large bucket with just the croakers, and there were also some other fish, all of which were big fish.
Ye Yaodong didn't expect that with just two baskets of hooks, he could catch so many fish. This is no worse than trawl nets. If he put more hooks, wouldn't he be able to catch more
I was very tempted and thought that I might as well give it a try.
It is better to use longline fishing with a fishing rod than to fish one by one. It is faster to catch the fish. Anyway, the ground trap net is very convenient and you can just collect it every other day.
The ocean at that time had not yet been overfished and the marine resources were very abundant. Many species that became rare in later generations were still abundant at this time and it was not illegal.
On the way back, he was rowing while thinking that this kind of hook arrangement was not difficult to make, except that there were too many branch lines. However, it was definitely easier than making a ground trap net.
After bringing the goods to the purchasing point and hearing that the green fish was sold for 86 yuan, he made up his mind to ask someone to make hooks for him when he got home, as it would not conflict with the ground trap net anyway.
After saying goodbye to the two joyous people, he carried the remaining worthless fish back home, but unexpectedly saw his uncle and two cousins in his eldest brother's house at the door. Even his second brother who had just returned from the sea was there.
He didn't know what they were talking about, and his two brothers looked a little hesitant.
At this time, Ye Yaopeng happened to see Ye Yaodong coming back to the door, so he hurried to the door and called him in.
Ye Yaodong didn't understand what was going on and was called into the house with a confused look on his face.
"What's up?"
Cousin Ye Yaohong patted his shoulder with a bright smile, "Dongzi, I heard that you have been working very hard recently? You even got a small boat, and the harvest is pretty good every day. It must be very hard, right?"
"It's okay. We can't let our wife and children starve to death after the family division."
In my memory, this cousin of his always had his eyes on top of his head. Why is he so amiable and condescending today? Has he taken any medicine
Moreover, he was dressed so brightly and handsomely today, wearing a suit, leather shoes, and his hair was combed sleek and shiny. Has he become rich
"Why should we say that? We are all relatives. If we have any difficulties, we can just speak up."
"Brother, you are so generous. I heard that you have been doing business for a few months, right? You must have made a fortune, right? Otherwise, why don't you lend me a thousand or two? It happens that I also want to buy a bigger boat and make more money to supplement the family income." Ye Yaodong pretended that his eyes lit up and he was surprised.
Ye Yaohong's mouth twitched suddenly. He hadn't said anything yet, but he actually asked to borrow money.
Uncle Ye also glared at him at this time, "Dongzi, you are crazy about money, right? You just ask to borrow one or two thousand yuan. Do you treat your cousin like a pig?"
"How could that be? Didn't my cousin say that? We are all relatives. If we have any difficulties, just tell him. Didn't my uncle stay away from our family in the past few months? It's just that my father is a little short of money and wants to build a house for us. Otherwise, as brothers, he would definitely be willing to lend money to you and uncle. We are all relatives, uncle, you won't be unhappy, right?"
"My dad's boat looks pretty shabby. Although it's been repaired, who can predict the risks at sea? Can you lend me some money so that my dad can refurbish the boat and give it a few more coats of paint?"
Uncle Ye's face suddenly turned dark, and he didn't know how to respond for a moment.
It was just a wrong thing said a few months ago, but this kid was so petty that he kept remembering it for so long!
Ye Yaodong snorted in his heart, cursing my whole family.
It doesn't look like anything good happened today. No one knows what this cousin did in his previous life. After he got rich, he moved directly to the county town and didn't associate with these poor relatives. Occasionally when he returned to the countryside, he looked down on these poor relatives with disgust.
He could have stayed away from coming back if he looked down on her, but he loved coming back to show off and seek a sense of superiority. Later, I heard that he became addicted to gambling, lost all the wealth he had accumulated, and beat his wife every few days to vent his anger.
No one comes to your house for no reason. I don't know why you come today
Is there anything in their family that he should be concerned about? His elder and second brothers look embarrassed