Although the catch in the previous net was not much, it was extremely precious silver-bellied grouper. It was a great harvest for both Xiang Yang and the fleet.
After processing the fish maw, Xiang Yang stood happily at the bow with his arms open, wanting to take a deep breath of the clean air in the Antarctic Waters.
In the past hundred years, human development seems to have pressed the fast-forward button, but the burden on the environment has also increased exponentially. Many sea areas look clean on the surface, but in fact they are polluted to varying degrees. In Antarctica, there is really no pollution in either the air or the sea water.
After the fleet set sail again, the speed dropped significantly. They had already reached the coast close to the Antarctic continent. There might be reefs or icebergs everywhere under the water, so they had to be very careful every time they moved forward.
Through the water surface, Xiang Yang saw a large number of moving dots under the sea. Those dots were actually Antarctic krill. The krill resources in this area are very rich.
At this time, Chen Qingsheng came over and handed Xiang Yang some candies. "Captain, have a piece of candy. It's not so easy to catch a cold."
Xiang Yang nodded, took a candy and put it in his mouth.
Sugar can replenish calories to the human body and is even considered a strategic material during wartime. Eating a piece of candy when the weather is cold can indeed make your body feel a little more comfortable.
"I remember that silverbelly grouper meat is the best raw material for making sweet and sour fish. Can you make it?" Xiang Yang suddenly asked Chen Qingsheng.
"Of course it is possible, but it's too troublesome. Using ordinary sugar will waste the silverbelly grouper meat." Chen Qingsheng shook his head.
Xiang Yang had just asked casually, but he didn't expect that Chen Qingsheng seemed to be very knowledgeable.
Xiang Yang immediately became interested and said quickly, "Tell me in detail."
Chen Qingsheng smiled and shook his head, "Captain, if you want to eat sweet and sour silver belly grouper, I will make it for you when we get back, but I really can't make it on this ship. I don't even have the necessary tools."
It turns out that the sugar used to make silver-belly sweet and sour fish is not ordinary sugar, but rock sugar.
To boil rock sugar, you need a copper pot and boil it slowly over low heat. Otherwise, the boiled sugar will turn black and have no luster. It would be a waste of resources to sprinkle it on the silver belly spots.
"Xiang Yang."
At this time, Gao Chuang's voice came from the walkie-talkie that Xiang Yang had on his waist.
Xiang Yang quickly picked up the intercom and said politely, "Mr. Gao."
"Come to my boat." Gao Chuang said.
Although Xiang Yang was confused, he quickly passed the exploration board and reached the ocean-going processing mother ship in the middle of the fleet.
"How was your online shopping?" Gao Chuang asked Xiang Yang with a smile.
Xiang Yang did not hide anything and said with a smile: "It's all thanks to Mr. Gao that although we only caught seven silver-bellied spotted fish, each one was quite large."
"Then you are lucky. Look, I kept the silver-bellied grouper and didn't even take out the belly. You can be on my boat at noon and we'll have a fish dinner." Gao Chuang pointed to a water tank not far from the deck.
"Mr. Gao, this isn't a good idea. A pair of silver belly spots will cost at least hundreds of thousands." Xiang Yang said rather embarrassedly.
"No matter how much it's worth, other people can eat it after buying it, so why can't I even eat it?" Gao Chuang laughed heartily.
Upon hearing this, Xiang Yang gave a bitter smile. This old man owned an ocean fishing company. It would be too expensive to negotiate with him about the price. Wouldn't that be a slap in his face
"Okay, then Mr. Gao and I will enjoy the feast." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"Mr. Gao, the silver-bellied grouper you caught is really big. It must weigh over a hundred kilograms, right?" Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"I haven't weighed it, so who knows how much it weighs? If you want to know how much it weighs, why don't you weigh it?" Gao Chuang said nonchalantly.
Like other seafood, the bigger the silverbelly grouper is, the more valuable it is.
After hearing what Gao Chuang said, Xiang Yang agreed. Anyway, he was free at the moment, so he might as well go weigh some fish to relieve his boredom and kill some time.
Of course, Xiang Yang did not do it himself. He directed two crew members to fish the silver-bellied grouper out of the water tank and put it on the scale.
Wow!
Good job.
You wouldn't know until you weigh it. Xiang Yang was shocked when he heard it.
That silver-bellied spotted fish actually weighed over 100 kilograms.
"Boss Xiang, please move aside. We are going to kill the fish." At this time, a crew member in his thirties or forties came out of the cabin holding a large butcher knife and suggested to Xiang Yang.
Once this fish weighs over 100 kilograms, it becomes incredibly strong and can even drag a person away in the water.
Although it was on the deck, the silver-bellied spotted fish was still struggling violently. Several crew members held it by the head and the tail, and finally they managed to carry it from the scale to the end of the deck.
"You guys hold on tight, don't let this silver-bellied grouper run back into the water by accident, it could easily sell something worth hundreds of thousands of dollars." The crew member who was holding the butcher knife was carefully sharpening the knife with sandpaper while ordering the crew members to work.
"Don't worry, boatswain, I guarantee that this silver-bellied spotted fish won't escape." Another captain said with a smile.
The silverbelly grouper is a deep-water fish.
Deep-water fish usually die when out of water.
Although this silver-bellied spot seems to be still alive and well, in fact, its fate was sealed from the moment it was caught in the fishing net.
If you pry open its mouth, you will find a white sphere inside.
In fact, that is the fish bubble of the silver-bellied spot.
After this silver-bellied spot left the sea surface, its fish bubbles immediately expanded to its maximum due to the sudden change in the surrounding pressure. Its internal organs had already been damaged due to the squeezing. The only reason it is still alive is entirely due to its tenacious vitality.
Seeing that everyone said they were ready, the boatswain immediately took action.
The boatswain first turned the knife over, then hit the silver-bellied spotted fish on the head with the back of the knife.
"Bang!"
After a not-so-loud sound, the silver-bellied spotted fish was knocked unconscious.
"There is a technique to hitting a fish. You have to aim at the back of its head and tap it gently, and it will be knocked unconscious." The boatswain explained to the people around him with a smile.
As a result, before he could finish his words, when he was cutting, the silver-bellied spotted fish that had fainted suddenly woke up, bounced its body hard, and almost jumped directly from the deck into the sea, scaring the crew members into a panic.
He was also very smart. He grabbed the silver-bellied grouper and threw both him and the fish to the ground, thus preventing the cooked duck from flying away.
"That was a close call." After the sailor got up, he still looked terrified. This fish was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. If it ran away, wouldn't it be a direct loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars