Soon the fishing net was untied, and the sea fish wrapped inside were freed and immediately jumped around on the deck.
The crew members did not need Xiang Yang's instructions at all and immediately began to clean up the catch on their own.
"Hey, what kind of fish is this? Why does it look like a slug?" Fang Youqun, who was lying on a pile of fish to clean up his catch, suddenly jumped back and pointed with disgust at a strange fish that looked like a giant blood-sucking worm.
Xiang Yang took a closer look and immediately laughed, "Isn't this a tongue-shaped fish?"
Tonguefish is a type of flatfish, and is also the aristocrat among flatfish. It has a flat body with asymmetrical sides, and both eyes are located on the left side of the head. The maximum length can grow to 80 cm. It is a very important economic fish in my country, and can be eaten fresh or canned.
"What? Tongue-shaped fish? Where is it?" He Mingde, who heard the conversation, rushed over.
"It's there." Xiang Yang pointed and smiled.
"Just one?" He Mingde was disappointed at the first sight, "I thought there were many."
"Is this fish valuable?" Fang Youqun wondered, "No one would eat this fish if it's so ugly. Is it for ornamental fish? Tsk tsk, the aesthetic taste of those people out there is really problematic."
"You are wrong." Xiang Yang walked over, picked up the tongue fish and threw it into the basin. "Tongue fish is not an ornamental fish. It is a top-notch food with a very good taste. Tongue fish is very rare because of its weak reproductive ability. It is also very expensive in the market. It costs at least several hundred yuan per pound in the market, which is not cheaper than ordinary lobsters."
Fang Youqun frowned, thinking that those people outside had really strong tastes. They could actually eat such an ugly fish. Looking at its slippery appearance, if it were him, he would never eat it even if he was beaten to death.
Xiang Yang smiled and did not explain. Fish itself contains a lot of nutrients, and its meat is delicate and easily absorbed by the human body. This is especially true for the slippery tongue fish. This is a kind of fish that many people like to eat, but its price means that only a small number of people can afford it.
There are quite a few yellowhead fish in this net, which is a very economical fish species.
Although there is only one letter difference between yellowhead fish and yellow croaker, the price difference is huge. Generally, yellow croaker is sold by weight in the seafood market, but it is different for yellowhead fish. The price is not much more expensive than grass carp, about ten yuan per catty.
However, Xiang Yang knew that there are many ways to cook yellowhead croaker. It can be braised, steamed, or fried. The yellowhead croaker cooked in this way is a very good seafood delicacy. It is a kind of sea fish that is both cheap and delicious.
Xiang Yang didn't mind its cheap price. While asking the crew to put them in foam boxes to freeze, he also personally picked out more than ten of them and put them in a water tank to keep, waiting to enjoy them when he was craving for them.
"Why are there horsehead fish everywhere?" Xiang Yang had already forgotten how many times he had caught horsehead fish, and each time there were always a lot of them. This time was no exception. These horsehead fish were jumping all over the deck. A conservative estimate was that there were at least a thousand kilograms.
This kind of economic marine fish was actually quite expensive in the early years. Before the economic level was so developed, a pound of horsehead fish could be sold for 15 yuan. At that time, the average monthly salary was only about 400 yuan.
But it’s different now. Although the price of horsehead fish has risen to forty or fifty yuan per catty, our economic conditions are much more developed than before.
"Horsehead fish is better than yellowhead fish." He Mingde was very happy and put the horsehead fish into the live water tank one by one.
Xiang Yang shook his head slightly, cleaned a few yellowhead fish, and then took a few steps back, no longer doing it himself.
Cleaning the catch is a very simple task and the crew can do it very well. Xiang Yang has a more important task now? He has to keep an eye on the catch and if he can find any valuable rare catch among them, he must discover it immediately.
This net has a lot of catch? It should be around 7,000 kilograms in total.
Among them, about 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms were very cheap cuttlefish and squid? There were about 1,000 kilograms of horsehead fish and yellowhead fish each.
The rest are some scattered fish species, including about two to three hundred kilograms of pomfret.
Many people should know about sturgeon. It can be seen in the seafood market all year round.
This kind of fish is very beautiful in color, but unfortunately the sturgeons that Xiang Yang caught were not very big. If the pomfret was larger, it would generally be more expensive, but smaller pomfret would be cheaper.
But it doesn’t matter.
Anyway, there were only two or three hundred kilograms of them, so Xiang Yang didn't plan to take these pomfret back to sell, so he left them on the boat as a snack for the crew.
Sturgeon meat is of very high quality in terms of taste and texture. After eating the staple food, drinking a bowl of pomfret soup will make the taste even more amazing.
"With so many catches, there isn't even a single rare fish. It's so unlucky." A crew member complained after cleaning the catch.
"Of course there are some. This tongue fish and those two big lobsters, aren't these all valuable catches?" Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Although the income from this catch was not much, it could definitely earn tens of thousands of yuan if sold. The horsehead fish alone could be sold for thirty or forty thousand yuan. At least the expenses of this trip to the sea were definitely earned back, and the rest was all pure profit. There was no reason for Xiang Yang to be unhappy.
"Just a tongue fish and two lobsters are called rare catches?" Some crew members felt that Xiang Yang's quality was lower than before.
"Well, it's good enough to have it. It's said to be a rare catch, how can it be so easy to get?" Xiang Yang scolded with a smile.
Next, the fishing boat continued to sail eastward, and along the way Xiang Yang asked Zhou Wang to cast two more nets.
However, since this sea area is close to a large dock and there are many fishing boats, fishery resources are really scarce.
The next two nets Xiang Yang cast did not catch much fish.
The first net came up empty. The loose fishing net only contained less than 100 kilograms of saury. Saury is a commonly seen marine fish. Although this marine fish is indeed delicious and rich in protein, the quantity is so large that the price cannot be raised. It is a very cheap and popular delicacy.
The second net was even worse, it turned out to be leaf fish, and it also weighed only about 100 pounds.
Leaf fish is a kind of marine fish that can often be seen in coastal seafood markets. It is cheap and small in size.
However, He Mingde and several old crew members said that the meat of this fish is particularly delicious, and the leaf fish cooked in soy sauce is the best in the world. After hearing this, Xiang Yang raised these leaf fish in a water tank and prepared to taste them.