When he was pulled to the surface of the water and saw the familiar huge white figure, he felt so sick that he couldn't help cursing.
"Fuck, can you actually fish for jellyfish? I wasted my energy and spent so much time fishing, fuck..."
He directly put the line to his mouth and bit it off with force. He didn't want this branch line anymore, it was a waste of energy, damn...
Seeing how hard he was pulling, Ye's father thought it was some big cargo and excitedly went to the side of the boat to take a look. But he didn't expect it was a jellyfish and was speechless.
"Maybe he was swimming by and got entangled in your hook and couldn't get away."
"What bad luck! Dad, you drive the boat, I'll go put the net down, and after the net is put down, we'll cook some noodles."
"Um."
The two types of fishing nets complement each other, but they just require a little more manpower. At that time, engines were not yet popular, and most operations were manpower-intensive. A boat like his could actually only be called a small boat, and only a few individual boats were equipped with some simple equipment.
After putting down the fishing net, Ye Yaodong started to arrange the cooking of rice noodles. He had eaten the rice noodles in the early morning and was already hungry by now.
He had wanted to cook some mantis shrimps and prawns to fill his stomach after dragging the net, but he encountered the oarfish and was delayed. He forgot about it, and by the time he finished collecting the rock longline, it was already noon and he was starving.
Just like in the morning, I cooked rice noodle soup, but added a few more mantis shrimps, which made it more delicious with the shrimps just caught.
The soup in the pot kept boiling. The father and son each held a bowl and scooped up the rice noodles with a spoon. After finishing one bowl, they filled another.
"Remember to pick two stalks of celery tomorrow. It will be more fragrant with celery."
"Well, I forgot about it this morning. I chopped some cabbage, broke off a few pieces, washed them, and left in a hurry."
Ye Yaodong finished the rice noodles in the bowl, drank all the soup, and then had another bowl of soup. The wind was strong on the sea, and drinking soup could warm the body, so it shouldn't be wasted.
Father Ye did the same. He poured the remaining soup and ingredients in the pot into the bowl, then started to eat slowly.
Before, the weather was not cold, so it was okay to eat cold food. But now that it is cold, cold food is particularly difficult to swallow. A mouthful of hot soup noodles can warm up the whole body immediately.
After filling his stomach, Ye Yaodong added some water to the pot so that he could drink some hot water whenever he was thirsty.
Then they continued to work tirelessly at a constant speed on the sea.
I dragged two nets in one afternoon and caught only toadfish. The next longline caught mostly black mullet and a small amount of miscellaneous fish.
It may be because they have not moved and are still operating in this sea area, and also because this fish has indeed been rampant recently.
Although the fish were cheaper, the quantity was still good, and by the time the last of the longline hooks were retrieved, the entire boat was filled with bamboo baskets.
Ten bamboo baskets were used to hold the lines for the hooks, and the remaining ten were all filled with toadfish and black mullet. One of the baskets contained miscellaneous fish. The father and son stacked the lines and fish on top of each other to prevent the boat from being too crowded.
When we were reeling in the catch just now, there were catches everywhere, with almost no place to step. The only place we had room to stand was next to an oarfish near the edge of the boat.
After putting everything in order, they then drove the boat to the buoy where the sticky net was placed. The sun was already setting, and they needed to retrieve the sticky net as soon as possible.
In order to catch bottom fish in deep water, his sticky net is lowered very deep, and this is also because the rolling wheels can help to collect the net, which saves effort.
He just put away the buoy and then pulled the sticky net and hung it on the rolling wheel. The fishing net was then pulled up along the roller. However, the wind on the sea was a bit strong. The scattered fishing nets were blown everywhere by the wind, and some of them were caught on the machine parts.
In order to take down the fishing net quickly, Ye Yaodong could only tear the net threads and straighten the fishing net before he could continue.
He pulled the sticky net to make the rolling wheel turn, and the sticky net was pulled up little by little as the wheel turned.
Ye's father stood behind him, ready to collect the goods in the sticky net he had pulled up.
The father and son divided the work together, one collecting the net and the other collecting the goods. Just as the sticky net was rotated once by the roller, Ye Yaodong saw a colorful sea red spot on the sticky net below.
"Fuck... red spots..."
Before he could finish his exclamation, he saw clearly that the red snapper was very small. He pulled the fishing net in his hand, and the rolling wheel directly turned the red snapper in front of him.
"Fuck, what are you doing with something as small as your palm?"
This fish is indeed valuable, but isn't it too small? This one is probably only about 300 grams.
He looked at the fish still shaking and looking very alive, and after hesitating for a moment, he asked his father to get a hollow needle, prick its belly, and then throw it back into the sea to release it.
It's too small to be sold at a high price. If it were an ordinary small fish, you could just catch it. It's a bit of a waste to catch such a small sea red grouper, so it's better to release it.
This red snapper is a deep-sea fish. He just pierced a hole in its swim bladder to let the air out. Otherwise, it would not survive even if it was released and would die from its internal organs exploding.
Because deep-sea fish have been living in the deep sea environment, where the water pressure is very high, they have long adapted to the deep sea environment.
And when they are salvaged, the environment they are in will be unbearable for them, and the high pressure in their bodies will be out of balance with the air pressure outside.
If the air is not deflated in time, the fish will have many reactions due to the difference in air pressure inside and outside the body. For example, the eyeballs will bulge out, the fish gall will come out of the body, and some fish will even explode on the spot.
In fact, the method of pricking the fish bladder with a needle is used to preserve fish.
Because ship technology was not well developed at that time, it might take three to five days to return from a long voyage to the sea, so the deep-sea fish would be deflated and kept on the ship, so that the dying fish could survive for a few more days.
If the air is not released, the fish will explode and die soon after being salvaged. Even if it does not explode, it will die because it cannot adapt to the water pressure on the boat.
If you deflate the fish immediately, it won't die so quickly.
The same principle applies to releasing fish. If the fish that have adapted to the air pressure on the boat are thrown directly into the sea, they will die because they cannot adapt to the air pressure in the sea water.
Poke a small hole in the fish's body and throw it into the sea. Although the fish will feel some pain, the hole can ensure that the air pressure inside and outside the body is consistent, allowing it to survive after being put back into the sea.
For example, hairtail is a kind of deep-sea fish. After coming ashore, their bodies will undergo such huge changes, so the hairtail we see in the market often have their bellies bursting.
This is why we can't see live hairtail.
After putting the tiny red snapper back into the sea, Ye Yaodong continued to turn the wheel, but saw a series of frogfish coming up, as well as a bunch of messy water plants...
"Fuck, this one is big!"
Among a series of frogfish, there was a particularly large one. All the fish were stuck in the sticky net and could not move.
When the fishing net was handed over to Ye's father, Ye Yaodong also went to help. It was difficult for the toadfish stuck in the sticky net to escape and it was also difficult to remove it.
Because of the pressure of the sea water, the toadfish that were caught all had their mouths open.
These toadfish have bloody mouths and are extremely ugly. The largest one is estimated to weigh more than 20 kilograms.
After Father Ye caught it, he was amazed for a while. The baskets of fish caught in the trawl today all weighed several kilograms, but he had never seen one this big.
After taking out this series of frog fish, Ye Yaodong continued to pull the fishing net. With the help of the rolling wheel, the fishing net was quickly retracted. This was the most labor-saving time he had ever collected a fishing net.
He caught eight or nine toadfish in a row, the big ones weighing seven or eight kilograms, and the small ones weighing one or two kilograms. There were also two flounders in the middle. He was collecting the fishing net and had no time to tell whether the flounder was sole or flounder.
From the underwater fishing net, one can see the fish being dragged up. Ye Yaodong had just caught a 3-jin flounder and he stretched his head to look at the sea surface.
As a result, I saw a colorful and large parrotfish in the sticky net, which was estimated to be about 30 to 40 centimeters long.
"Fuck... Dad, there's a parrotfish..."
"Oh? Parrot fish? I thought this sticky net could only catch frogfish and flounder today."
Father Ye looked up and was surprised, but he did not stop his work. There was still a toadfish weighing about one pound stuck in the fishing net in front of him, which he had not taken out.
Anyway, this parrot fish will be pulled to him later.
"Maybe it rained a lot today."
Parrotfish is named because of its bright colors and its mouth shape which resembles a parrot's mouth. It is also called the "parrot of the sea".
Ye Yaodong continued to turn the wheel with joy and pulled the parrotfish up. When the parrotfish entangled in the sticky net passed through his hands, he saw a red object in its mouth.
He paused in confusion, then reached out and picked it out, only to find that it was actually a small piece of red coral, probably slightly larger than the nail of his thumb.
Parrotfish are the strongest chewers in the world. Their teeth are made of fluorapatite, one of the strongest biominerals in the world. They eat large amounts of coral almost every day and then excrete white sand.
He was not at all surprised to pick out red coral from its mouth.
Corals are worthless nowadays, even red corals are not valuable. The small piece that was bitten off and stuck in the tiger's mouth can only be used to grind ring faces or embellish bracelets, but it can be considered as a free find, so he put it in his pocket.
Although it is not valuable, the colors are bright and beautiful, and it is very festive. Moreover, it will become valuable in the future. Such a small amount of red coral can cost thousands of dollars.
He can save it and let his wife get a red coral ring. It will look good when she goes out and show off. And I heard that wearing coral is good for the body.
I died early in my previous life, so I must live well in this one. If I have the chance, I can get more while they are still worthless and put them up at home.