In that case, the overall force on the steel chisel will remain uniform even if it lifts more marine fishing boats.
But this time is different. The total fish caught so far is only a few thousand kilograms, and the fresh water resources on the ship are mainly stored at the stern.
"Okay, Master Xu, slow down first." Xiang Yang said.
Although slowing down the fishing boat before pulling up the net will certainly cause many fish that have already entered the net to escape, compared with safety, those fish that escape are not worth mentioning at all.
Soon, the speed of the fishing boat gradually slowed down.
At this time, Zhou Wang consciously operated the winch to pull up the fishing net without Xiang Yang's order.
The fishing net left the water and slowly moved toward the deck.
At this time, the crew members standing in lines on both sides of the deck became excited.
"fish."
“Lots of fish.”
"A net full of fish."
The entire fishing net was stretched into a round shape, looking like a ball, and the ball was filled with sea fish of various colors.
"Is that cod?" Fang Youqun asked, pointing at a sea fish covered with black spots.
"Impossible." Xiang Yang rejected it without even looking at it.
Cod is the most important economic fish species and one of the fish with the largest annual catch in the world. Every fisherman knows that cod is a cold-water bottom fish. They live in cold waters all their lives. The sea area where Xiang Yang is now is almost close to the tropics, and the water is not very deep. How is it possible to catch cod
"Hey, what is this?" Xiang Yang looked carefully at the fish that Fang Youqun was pointing at. The scales of that fish were round and small, and the color of its head and back was darker than that of its abdomen. From the outside, it really looked like a cod.
"How about it, was I right? This is a cod." Fang Youqun said.
"No." Xiang Yang shook his head.
"It's definitely not." Chen Qingsheng also said: "If I'm not mistaken, this fish should be a snake mullet."
"Snake mullet?" Many people heard the name of this fish for the first time.
"Snake mullet and cod do look somewhat similar, especially this snake mullet with patterns on its body, but in fact, snake mullet and cod are easy to distinguish. You can see that the body of this fish is cylindrical, while the body of sturgeon is relatively flat. In addition, cod has three dorsal fins on its back."
“Of course, the main difference is the teeth of the snake mullet, which are fine and sharp.”
"Snake mullet." Fang Youqun muttered, "What a strange name for this fish."
"Have you heard of the Nago fish? The rough-skinned Nago." Xiang Yang smiled and said, "The so-called 'Nago' in Chaoshan actually refers to the snake mullet, because the scales of the snake mullet seem to be rougher than those of other fish."
"Really?" Fang Youqun quickly ran over and touched the fish, then turned around and said in surprise: "It's real."
Speaking of snake mullet, there is a widely sung nursery rhyme in Chaoshan, which goes like this when translated into Mandarin:
"The rough-skinned brother has money to buy
If you don’t have money, don’t pinch it. It will stink if you pinch it for too long...”
Of course, the subject of this ballad is not the snake mullet itself but the person suffering from the skin disease.
Generally, if a classmate of children has a skin disease, everyone will cheer and shout this folk song to him.
"I finally know why the fish in this net are so heavy." Xiang Yang walked around the fishing net and said in amazement, "No wonder Master Xu said to slow down the boat before pulling up the net. It turns out that most of the fish in this net are snakehead mullets."
"Why? Is this fish any different?"
"There are some differences. Snakehead mullet can be considered a very economical fish, which means that the production volume is large and the price is low. In the vegetable market where snakehead mullet is sold, very fresh snakehead mullet is only about ten yuan per catty. After being dried and transported inland, its price is even lower than that of cuttlefish. But a snakehead fish that is half the length of a palm weighs more than one catty, which is as heavy as a weight." Xiang Yang said.
"Only ten yuan a pound?" Fang Youqun blinked, "Isn't that the same as the croaker?"
The scientific name of the croaker is blue round scad. It is also known as thorny scad, stick fish, pond fish, yellow scad, pond fish, and cooked fish. It belongs to the genus Scad of the family Scomberidae in the order Perciformes. It has always been known as garbage fish and is one of the least valuable marine fish in the eyes of many people.
"About the same." Xiang Yang said, "Snake mullet is a very ferocious carnivorous fish. Its meat is white and delicious. The most common way to eat it is to cook it into fish rice. Its taste and price should be slightly higher than that of balang fish rice, but not much higher."
“It’s okay to cut the Nago fish into large pieces and cook it with pork ribs and radish into soup. The taste is comparable to scallop and radish soup. If I came across Nago fish on the boat, I would usually take a few home and cut the fish meat into small pieces, salt it, dry it into semi-dried salted fish, and then fry it, and then keep it for eating slowly.” Chen Qingsheng said.
Xiang Yang nodded. Snakehead mullet usually doesn't sell for much money, so it's not surprising that the captain gives it to the crew to win their hearts.
However, Xiang Yang does not need to use such means to win people's hearts. The benefits he gives to the crew are real.
Snake mullet has a lot of bones, which makes many people afraid of it.
Even in Chaoshan, where snake mullet is the most famous, few people buy it for fresh consumption.
However, the reason why snakehead mullet is famous in Chaoshan is not for eating, but for making fish balls.
Chaoshan fish balls are a world-famous delicacy. Almost anyone who has eaten street snacks has eaten this cheap and delicious delicacy. The production process of Chaoshan fish balls is said to have reached the pinnacle, and the taste is famous for its freshness and crispness.
If you ask why Chaoshan fish balls are so delicious, snakehead mullet is definitely the most important contributor.
"Arrange all these fish and refrigerate them." Xiang Yang ordered: "When we return, I will keep several hundred kilograms and pay for them to be sent to Huhai Town to be processed into fish balls. Then each person can take 20 kilograms back."
Chaoshan fish balls are very famous, and the bulk fish balls in many supermarkets in the mainland are also labeled as Chaoshan fish balls.
In fact, it is not. Many of them are made from ordinary freshwater fish meat. The Chaoshan fish balls made from snake mullet are rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, lecithin, etc. Students can enhance their memory, thinking and analytical abilities by eating them. The elderly can delay brain decline by eating them, and it will not have any side effects on the body.
In the past, some high-end hotels used eels, turtles and other fish as raw materials for fish balls, but now they don’t, because those fish are generally more expensive, and the fish balls made from them are not as delicious as snakehead fish balls.
Snake mullet balls are cheap, but the texture is very soft and crisp, and very tender when bitten. Nowadays, the fish balls in some sea view hotels are also made of snake mullet.