In fact, Li Chao really said it on purpose for the crew members to hear.
After hearing what Li Chao said, many crew members immediately became eager to take action.
Among them, Fang Youqun asked directly: "Boss Li, is rainbow trout really that valuable?"
Li Chao said with an exaggerated expression: "my country first started breeding rainbow trout in 1978. In 1959, Zhou Enlai went to North Korea and North Korea gave him rainbow trout as a gift. Do you think it is worth the money for a fish that can be used as a state gift?"
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head. He didn't know whether what Li Chao said was true or not, but it was indeed an exaggeration to say that rainbow trout could be given as a state gift.
As far as Xiang Yang knows, after rainbow trout was introduced into my country, it was first farmed in Heilongjiang.
Later, artificial incubation was forced to be stopped because it was not very effective.
In 1971, my country brought back seven rainbow trouts for trial breeding in Jin Temple.
It took seven years to finally succeed. In 1978, the breeding was expanded and successful trials were conducted in Huquan, Guangling, Shentouquan, Shuo County and Longziciquan, Linfen.
By 1981, the total production of rainbow trout reached a staggering 75,000 kilograms.
But the other crew members didn't know this. They were fascinated by Li Chao's words and wanted to jump into the water and catch a rainbow trout right now.
Seeing that Xiang Yang's crew had taken the bait, Li Chao narrowed his eyes and continued, "Let alone wild rainbow trout, even farmed rainbow trout, as long as it is well raised, is equally precious. Do you know how much a pound of rainbow trout raised in Guangling Huquan can be sold for after being exported abroad?"
After hearing this, Xiang Yang finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Xiang Yang was speechless and said, "Brother Chao, Guangling Huquan is a famous spring. The water is said to be warm in winter and cool in summer. It never freezes for a thousand years and never dries up for ten thousand years. In winter, hot steam rises and duckweed floats in all seasons. If you use the rainbow trout from Guangling Huquan as farmed fish, isn't that like using golden abalone as farmed abalone?"
The rainbow trout farmed in Guangling Huquan can grow to more than 30 cm in length. Its back and fins are generally dark green or brown, with small snowflake-like spots on its body and a red vertical band in the center. The meat is tender, without any thorns or fishy smell, and tastes extremely delicious. The entire fish body except the bones and gills can be eaten. It tastes sweeter than dove meat and is more nutritious than wild rainbow trout. It is a rare treasure among rare rainbow trout.
Li Chao was not embarrassed by Xiang Yang's rebuke. He smiled and said, "In short, wild rainbow trout are very valuable in markets all over the world. In our country, we can only rely on imports. If you can catch rainbow trout, I will pay one thousand yuan per catty for any size under 25 centimeters. I will pay two thousand for those over 25 centimeters long, and five thousand for those over 30 centimeters long."
Xiang Yang raised his eyebrows. A rainbow trout that is over 30 centimeters long must weigh about 6 or 7 kilograms, right
At present, the size of rainbow trout exported from my country is about one kilogram, mainly sold fresh, and a small amount of frozen products. Li Chao's bid is very high, but in fact it is nonsense. Because this size of rainbow trout is probably only available in Guangling Huquan in China.
Xiang Yang looked at the crew members who were ready to make a move and said, "If you want to go fishing, you can go down, but the diving equipment on the ship is limited. In addition, rainbow trout swim very fast and have great strength. I don't recommend you to go down. If you really want to catch them, you can try fishing with a fishing rod. Rainbow trout are omnivorous animals. They eat zooplankton, benthic animals, aquatic insects, various fish, crustaceans, shellfish, and terrestrial and aquatic insects. They even like to eat leaves and seeds of aquatic plants. They have a big appetite and are easy to catch."
Li Chao also quickly followed up and said, "That's right. The diving equipment on the yacht is not enough. If you want to catch fish, you can try fishing rods. There are definitely enough fishing rods on the cruise ship."
Then, Li Chao looked at Xiang Yang and asked, "Brother Xiang, do you want a set of diving equipment?"
Xiang Yang nodded, "Okay, give me one set."
Li Chao was immediately overjoyed when he heard this.
Li Chao had seen Xiang Yang's ability to swim. With Xiang Yang's help, no matter how many people there were, he would definitely not return empty-handed.
Xiang Yang put on his diving suit, did some warm-up exercises, and then jumped toward the bottom of the sea.
When he reached the bottom of the sea, Xiang Yangzhao swam straight towards the group of rainbow trout.
Xiang Yang discovered that many of these wild rainbow trout were very large.
Xiang Yang even found many giant ones that were almost one meter long.
However, Xiang Yang's attention was not on those huge rainbow trout. He stared fixedly at the right front of him, which was the edge of the rainbow trout school.
In that direction, there was a fish that looked very much like a carp, but its entire body was golden, and in the middle of its body, there was a golden trout with light red vertical stripes.
Xiang Yang's heart was pounding.
Golden rainbow trout. He had once seen an oil painting of a golden trout in a textbook.
Golden trout was originally a variant of rainbow trout. It was called golden trout because its whole body was golden. Like rainbow trout, it is a cold water fish.
Xiang Yang had always thought that golden trout was just like angelfish, an artificially improved version.
In our neighboring country to the east, a rainbow trout was once improved. It was completely golden in color, with golden light all over its body, and even the vertical stripe in the middle of its body was golden. The final auction price of that rainbow trout was as high as more than 70 million yen.
This group of rainbow trout appeared in the vast ocean, they must be wild rainbow trout.
To Xiang Yang, it was incredible that among a group of wild rainbow trout, there appeared a golden trout, a species that only exists in artificial breeding.
But the vast ocean is such a magical place. It is larger than the entire continent inhabited by human beings, and all kinds of strange things can happen.
Humans can use technology to improve the golden rainbow trout, so this incredible creature may naturally appear in the ocean.
So although Xiang Yang was surprised, he was not shocked.
Nowadays, golden trout farming technology is very advanced and has spread across five continents, making it one of the most widely farmed fish in the world today.
Although rainbow trout was originally a cold-water fish native to the Northern Hemisphere, they can now be found in the Southern Hemisphere and even in the southernmost tip of Africa, at waters over 4,500 meters above sea level.
In addition to Canada and the United States, golden trout is also farmed in New Zealand, Australia, South America, Africa, East and South Asia, and almost all of Europe.
Golden trout was originally bred as an ornamental fish, but its meat is tender and delicious, and it is rich in amino acids and trace elements needed by the human body. It also contains carbonyl acid which can dissolve blood clots and remove blood scale. Therefore, in addition to its ornamental value and breeding research value, golden trout is one of the excellent freshwater aquaculture varieties promoted to the world by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and it is also a very popular aquatic product.