Zhang Qicheng took another sip of the fish soup. He had been in business for more than 20 years, so he could naturally see the market for high-end fish meal.
"Brother Xiang." Zhang Qicheng's face suddenly became serious. "But I have to tell you something ugly in advance. When it comes to affordable seafood, we focus on quantity, and when it comes to high-end seafood, we focus on reputation. If you use ordinary fish meal to pretend to be high-end fish meal, don't blame me for turning my back on you."
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head. "Mr. Zhang, you underestimate me too much. I, Xiang Yang, want to make money, so I won't play tricks on product quality."
Zhang Qicheng immediately smiled, "That's right, I trust Brother Xiang's character, otherwise I wouldn't have sought cooperation with you, right?"
Xiang Yang smiled and changed the subject, "I plan to drag another net and then go underwater to take a look. Boss Zhang, are you interested in underwater?"
Zhang Qicheng nodded quickly, "Of course I'm interested, but is this suitable? It seems that you can't provide everyone with a diving suit on your ship."
"You are a guest. As long as you want to go down, even if I only have one diving suit on the boat, you will be given priority." Xiang Yang said.
Zhang Qicheng's eyes lit up and he said quickly, "What are you waiting for? Cast your net quickly."
Xiang Yang raised his arm and showed the bowl in his hand to Zhang Qicheng, "I haven't even finished my fish meal yet, at least you should make sure that my crew and I are full first."
Zhang Qicheng immediately laughed, "I was too impatient."
soon.
Xiang Yang had lunch with the crew.
Chen Qingsheng began to organize people to cast a new net.
The catch of this time was even less than the first time, and it was estimated to be less than 1,000 kilograms.
After Chen Qingsheng untied the net, he cursed his bad luck. It turned out that not only the quantity of fish was not good, but the quality was also not good. Most of the fish in the net were bull tongue fish.
Ox tongue fish is also known as longli fish, which is one of the most common economic marine fish in my country. Its price is lower than that of squid. In many fishing villages, this fish can only be fed to cats or chickens.
Zhang Qicheng was even more disappointed than Xiang Yang after seeing the catch. "It's actually longtail fish, and it weighs less than a thousand pounds. Process them into canned fish. I'll buy them at four yuan per pound."
Chen Qingsheng looked at Xiang Yang, "Captain, do you want to take it for processing?"
"Too little." Xiang Yang shook his head. "Except for the fish head and tail, there may only be 500 to 600 kilograms left after canning. Don't process this fish. Just keep it for yourself. This fish tastes good when used to make soup. There is a lot of meat and it tastes fresh. The most important thing is that this fish has no fishy smell. If it is smoked dry, it can be grilled. After it is cooked, drip some lemon juice on it. The taste is delicious."
"Yes, Captain." Chen Qingsheng hurriedly did as he was told.
Zhang Qicheng smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Xiang, you are too generous, aren't you? You just ate the catch worth more than 2,000 yuan."
Xiang Yang smiled. He usually kept these sea fish for himself, as they tasted good but could not be sold at a high price.
Longli fish is obviously one of those marine fish that is not very expensive but tastes delicious.
soon.
Chen Qingsheng and his men packed nearly a thousand kilograms of longli fish into foam boxes and stored them in a freezer.
"Captain, it's still early, do we need to drag another net?" Chen Qingsheng asked.
Xiang Yang shook his head. "We have already cast three nets today, and none of them have caught the right amount. Apparently today is not a good day for casting nets. Next we should get ready and go down to the bottom of the water to take a look."
Chen Qingsheng nodded, "That's fine, maybe all the seafood in this area is concentrated on the bottom of the sea."
Xiang Yang smiled. He knew that Chen Qingsheng was speaking words to comfort him.
But Xiang Yang doesn't need it.
This is how it is when you go fishing at sea. It is common for some fishermen to go out to sea for more than a month and not catch a single fish.
Besides, Xiang Yang’s greatest advantage is not above the water, but under the water.
soon.
Xiang Yang and a group of crew members who volunteered to go into the water put on diving suits and jumped into the water like dumplings.
For many crew members, the first thing they did after entering the water was not to dive underwater to look for fish, but to swim towards the killer whale. Even Zhang Qicheng was no exception.
Xiang Yang was speechless as he watched, wondering whether these guys came down to play with the killer whales or to look for fish.
However, Xiang Yang did not spoil everyone's fun. Now that everyone has little contact with killer whales, they are naturally curious about them. After a while, this curiosity will pass and they will return to their previous state.
Of course, the main reason why Xiang Yang did not spoil everyone's fun was that no fish had been found in this area of water so far.
If any valuable fish were found in this area, Xiang Yang would definitely drive those guys down like ducks.
Ignoring the crew members who were circling the killer whale, Xiang Yang dived deep into the sea alone.
This is an underwater mountain range.
The shapes of these mountains are very strange, one vertical after another, and the mountains are very steep and straight.
Each underwater mountain is covered with countless vegetation.
Of course, those vegetation are not trees, but seaweed.
Pieces of seaweed, connected together into an endless expanse among the undulating mountains, are even more spectacular than those giant seaweeds that are dozens of stories high.
Hidden among the countless seaweeds are countless marine creatures.
Among them, one kind of marine creature caught Xiang Yang's attention.
That kind of marine creature is hidden in the seaweed and becomes one with it.
Xiang Yang's eyes fell on one of those marine creatures. That marine creature didn't know that it had been discovered by Xiang Yang. It was leisurely imitating the way seaweed "floating" in the water, swaying with the seaweed around it, as if it was dancing.
Xiang Yang grinned, "It turned out to be Ye Hailong, who is known as the hidden champion."
Leafy sea dragons have leaf-like appendages, and when they hide in the seaweed, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to find them from the seaweed.
Xiang Yang swam towards the leaf sea dragon, his eyes full of curiosity, "I heard before that the leaf sea dragon is a member of the sea dragon family, mainly distributed in the waters of southern Australia, I didn't expect to find it here too."
But that's because leafy sea dragons are so good at hiding. So far, humans have only found leafy sea dragons in the waters south of Australia. This doesn't mean that leafy sea dragons only live in the waters south of Australia. It's not a rare thing to find leafy sea dragons here.
Xiang Yang looked at the leafy sea dragon carefully and found that its body was made up of many bony plates, and extending from the outer circle of the bony plates were several appendages that looked like seaweed leaves.
This leafy sea dragon, with its appendages as cover, really looks exactly like the seaweed around it.