The fishing nets were untied and the crew sorted the huge amount of sea fish bit by bit.
First of all, what made Xiang Yang most excited was that there were quite a few stonehead fish in this net.
Among them is a kind of fish with a blunt head, four small holes on its mouth, and small and sharp teeth.
The dorsal and ventral margins are broadly arcuate.
The caudal peduncle is slender, and its length is about 3 times more than its height.
The head and front of the body are covered with round scales, and the back of the body is covered with ctenoid scales.
Its swim bladder is very large, round at the front end, not protruding on the sides, and thin and pointed at the back end.
The back and upper sides are yellowish brown, the lower sides and belly are golden yellow, the dorsal and caudal fins are grayish yellow, the pectoral and pelvic fins are yellow, and the lips are orange-red.
This is clearly a yellow croaker.
In recent years, although artificial breeding of yellow croaker has been achieved, the price of wild yellow croaker has not dropped at all. This is an extremely rare marine fish.
With this net, they caught about 100 kilograms of yellow croaker.
Xiang Yang quickly asked people to deal with these yellow croakers first, and at the same time he picked up a deflation needle and deflated the air in these yellow croakers.
Yellow croaker is a deep-water fish. Once it leaves the water, the change in pressure will cause its fish bubbles to expand rapidly within a few minutes, and its internal organs will be squeezed and die. At this time, the only way to keep the yellow croaker alive is to deflate it with a deflation needle.
Most of these yellow croakers were dead, but a small number of them had a huge bubble in their mouths and were half dead.
Xiang Yang would naturally save as many people as possible.
After all, yellow croaker is really valuable.
In addition to the yellow croaker, there is another kind of marine fish that looks very similar to the yellow croaker and is also very valuable.
This fish has a large, round head.
It has a slightly raised forehead, very prominent spines on its back, very small eyes, and its body and head are covered with thin, small scales.
Xiang Yang picked up one of them and found that the scales on its body were very easy to fall off. A few scales would fall off if he applied a little force. It did not provide any protection to the fish at all.
The reason why it looks very similar to yellow croaker is that its ventral side is also golden yellow.
The number of this kind of fish is much larger than that of yellow croaker. They are densely packed all over the deck. Nearly one-fifth of the entire net is this kind of fish, and the total weight is no less than 10,000 kilograms.
"This is a spiny-headed mullet, also known as yellow-skinned fish." Xiang Yang picked up a spiny-headed mullet that was the size of two fingers. "After cleaning the big yellow croaker, give priority to cleaning this type of spiny-headed mullet. Throw all the ones that are as big as one finger back into the sea and release them. Put the ones that are as big as two fingers in a foam box and freeze them with ice. Throw the ones that are larger than three fingers into the live water tank, and put the larger ones in a water tank."
Fang Youqun was very surprised. "Brother Yang, this fish is so small, why do you want to prioritize it? Is it valuable?"
Xiang Yang nodded. The spiny-headed mackerel is a very valuable economic marine fish.
In Longcheng, this fish is called Huangpitou in the local dialect. The real name is Huangpi fish, spiny-headed plum fish, also known as lionhead fish. A small one the size of a little finger costs 20 to 30 yuan per catty, and a three-finger-wide one costs more than 100 yuan per catty.
The best way to cook yellow skin fish is to steam it with scallion oil, light soy sauce and salt. This will preserve the original freshness and nutrition of the fish, making it a popular delicacy.
When the crew heard Xiang Yang say that this kind of fish was worth hundreds of yuan per catty, they immediately gasped. The boat was densely packed with these fish, and a rough estimate showed that there were probably more than ten thousand catties. In this case, doesn't it mean that with this net, they could earn more than a million yuan just from these small fish
In addition to yellow croaker and yellow skin fish, there is another fish that is also very valuable, called silver pomfret.
The silver pomfret is a marine fish with an oval body, arc-shaped dorsal and ventral edges. The highest point of the body is in front of the starting point of the dorsal fin. It has a short caudal peduncle, a small head, a short and blunt beak, and a body covered with small round scales. The dorsal fin is sickle-shaped, and the anal fin is the same shape as the dorsal fin. It has no ventral fins, and the caudal fin is deeply forked. The dorsal side of the body is blue-gray, the abdomen is silvery-white, and the fins are light gray.
This is also one of the main economic fish in our country.
Silver pomfret cannot currently be farmed and can only be caught from the sea.
In fact, what we usually call pomfret is mainly referring to silver pomfret, which is a very precious seafood ingredient. If you buy fresh silver pomfret directly, the price will be more than 300 yuan per catty, and it is difficult for ordinary people to buy it alive.
The silver pomfret is very lazy and prefers to stay in the water and is unwilling to move. It can also be said to be a very delicate fish because it is easily frightened.
If you shine a strong flashlight at silver pomfret, some of them will die of fright the next day.
It takes at least two years for silver pomfret to grow to one kilogram.
Of course, there are many marine fish that cannot be farmed or are not farmed, and the price can be as high as more than 300 yuan per catty. This is not a simple decision that can be made by the fact that they cannot be farmed.
There is a key factor that makes silver pomfret sell so expensively per pound, and that is the taste of the fish meat.
Pomfret is usually cooked by steaming, and silver pomfret is no exception. Compared with ordinary pomfret, the meat of silver pomfret is more tender and has fewer bones. It is tender and fresh. It is a delicacy that can be eaten by both the elderly and children, and it has extremely high nutritional value.
Although silver pomfret does not meet the standards of a rare marine fish, it is considered one of the most famous seafood ingredients.
This net can catch about one or two thousand kilograms of silver pomfret, which is also a considerable income.
"Captain, we must have encountered a large school of fish. Such an opportunity is rare. Let's clean the catch while casting another net." Chen Qingsheng shouted excitedly while cleaning the catch.
Xiang Yang glanced at the catch on the boat.
In addition to these three valuable sea fish, he also caught a lot of dock fish, eels, and some swimming crabs that were stuck in the net.
Apart from that, most of the rest are squid and cuttlefish.
The two brothers, the squid and the cuttlefish, are really going to occupy the entire sea.
Whether it is on the coastal beaches or on the other side of the ocean, their presence can be found everywhere in the entire ocean, even in the terrifying deep sea thousands of meters deep.
"Okay." Xiang Yang nodded. "Master Zhou, you take a few people to cast the nets, and the rest of you continue to clean up the catch, giving priority to the valuable catches, and try to keep these more valuable catches and rare seafood alive. We will drag one more net and return home soon. Everyone work harder, I will ask Master Chen to put a 2,000 yuan bonus on each of your payrolls."
As soon as Xiang Yang finished speaking, the crew members worked harder. Many of them were shirtless and full of energy. The 2,000 yuan bonus was definitely a considerable extra income for them.
Xiang Yang himself was also very happy. With this one net, he earned at least two million. No matter how much fish he caught when he cast the next net, he would have made a fortune.