Fang Youqun covered his heart with his hands, looking heartbroken.
"Don't feel sad. This fish has a very high protection level. You have to go through the procedures to raise it as an ornamental fish. If you eat it, you will go to jail directly." Xiang Yang said.
Fang Youqun sighed, "It was so hard to catch a rare marine fish, but I didn't expect it to be a protected species."
Xiang Yang smiled, he knew Fang Youqun was telling the truth.
Many fishermen work really hard and finally catch a valuable sea fish, but it turns out that the fish is a protected species.
But Xiang Yang did not object to this policy.
In fact, generally speaking, banning the fishing of certain fish is actually beneficial to fishermen.
Take the Nautilus for example. In the past, because there was not much protection for the Nautilus, countless fishermen dived to catch it. This kind of pluck feathers from a passing goose fishing method has resulted in a very small number of Nautilus now. If it is not protected, future generations of fishermen may not even see living Nautilus in the future.
Xiang Yang is not Louis XV, and he never believes in the idea of "I don't care what happens after I die."
Especially since he got the mysterious jade shell, if Xiang Yang really wanted to make money, it would be very easy. He could easily salvage all kinds of priceless treasures from the bottom of the sea. He had the capital to feed himself without worrying about his descendants.
After sending Fang Youqun into the water, Xiang Yang himself swam underwater.
After going down this time, Xiang Yang saw at a glance a huge lobster with its claws and fangs bared. It was about half a meter long and its body was as thick as a human calf.
Such a big lobster, even the inferior gray shrimp among rock lobsters is very valuable, so Xiang Yang naturally picked it up without hesitation.
Xiang Yang ordered the crew to take good care of the lobster. The meat of such a large lobster is very rich. One is enough to feed a whole table of people. It has a very high nutritional value and can be served as sashimi, stir-fried, or halal. Xiang Yang certainly couldn't bear to eat it himself.
This time Zhang Qicheng was on the boat. He caught Xiang Yang and said in surprise, "Brother Xiang, your luck is too good, isn't it? I just heard from your people that you caught a net full of sea cucumbers in just a short while. Now you brought up such a big lobster?"
Xiang Yang grinned. Strength is one part, but luck is also important. Today his luck was indeed too good. He alone caught hundreds of thousands of fish from the bottom of the sea.
“Woo—”
Suddenly a whistle sounded in the distance.
Xiang Yang quickly turned his head to look over there. This time it was not the cry of a humpback whale, but a real fishing boat, about twelve meters long. There was a simple cabin on the boat, with no winch equipment, only a traction crane. It looked like a purse seine fishing boat.
Xiang Yang quickly asked people to signal with flags, telling the other side that there were crew members under the water on his side, and asked them not to look over here, so as to avoid someone colliding with the other fishing boat when floating up.
Soon, the person who was signaling came and told Xiang Yang, "Captain, I have already told the other party the news, but they can't understand such complicated flag signals. They kept using flag signals to repeatedly ask if our ship was broken and if we needed them to come over to help."
Xiang Yang: “…”
Twelve-meter fishing boats are not considered ocean-going fishing vessels, but large near-shore vessels.
On such fishing boats, it is often the captain who brings a few people from his family out to fish. Sometimes there are even only couples on the boat. It is normal that they cannot understand the more complicated flag signals.
"Tell them that we are not in trouble and do not need their help." After thinking for a while, Xiang Yang said, "Let's launch a rubber boat and go over to say hello to them. It is fate that we met in this vast ocean. Besides, they took the initiative to signal us with flags to ask if we need help."
"Yes, Captain."
The crew members quickly did as they were told, untied a rubber boat and threw it into the water. Xiang Yang jumped into the sea, then climbed onto the rubber boat and rowed towards the ship.
There were three people on the other boat.
One is a bald man who is somewhat old. Although he is old, his muscles are bulging like iron lumps and he is very agile.
The other two were young men, one was fat and had a bowl-cut haircut.
The other one was quite tall and had a buzz cut.
"Hello fellow, my name is Xiang Yang, and I'm from Longcheng. Where are you from?" Xiang Yang asked loudly.
"Hello, Mr. Xiang. My name is Zhou Gensheng, from Tamsui." The bald man stretched out a big hand towards Xiang Yang, helped Xiang Yang from the rubber boat to their boat, and then handed Xiang Yang a cigarette. "I saw your boat parked from a distance. Are you in any trouble? Do you need help?"
Xiang Yang waved his hand to indicate that he did not smoke, then smiled and said, "Thank you, you are too polite. It must have cost several hundred yuan for gas to come here from such a long distance. We did not encounter any trouble, except that my people went underwater to dive and fish."
Zhou Gensheng lit a cigarette, took a long puff, and then smiled and said, "No trouble, this is what I should do. I think if we were in trouble, you would definitely come to rescue us if you saw us. Besides, we have been fencing the net, so it's on the way."
On land, helping others is a matter of kindness, but not helping is also a right thing to do.
Can be different at sea.
At sea, according to the World Maritime Convention and the Captain's Regulations, sometimes, if you happen to encounter a ship in need of help, it is your obligation to help, and if you do not help, you will be held accountable.
"That's good." Xiang Yang smiled and looked at the other party's boat, "Your catch is pretty good, right?"
The fat young man smiled and nodded, and said proudly: "We are lucky this time. We caught more than a thousand kilograms of nago fish. We can make more than a thousand kilograms of nago fish balls when we go back."
Xiang Yang nodded, "You are indeed lucky. The fish is heavy and doesn't take up any space in the live water tank on the boat. You can catch another one when you go back. You will earn at least tens of thousands of dollars this time."
"There aren't that many. The fish is not valuable. The purchase price is only three or four yuan per catty, and the wholesale price is only five or six yuan per catty. You can make some profit by making it into fish balls, but you have to deduct some labor costs in the middle. And you have to sell it yourself, which is very troublesome." Zhou Gensheng said.
As he spoke, Zhou Gensheng suddenly pointed to the distant ocean-going fishing boat and said, "Are you the captain of that boat? With such a big fishing boat like yours, it must be very profitable to go out there, right?"
Xiang Yang smiled and nodded, "When you are lucky, you can make money, but when you are unlucky, there are more than a hundred mouths waiting to be fed on my boat, and the fishing boat itself is also a big oil consumer."
"Yes." Zhou Gensheng sighed: "It's not easy to make a living on the sea. Sometimes, not only do we not catch any fish, but we also encounter storms."