"Monodon shrimp costs US$40, tiger spot US$30, king crab US$100, geoduck US$100, dragonfly US$30, red US$12, sumei two hundred and forty. US dollars, this is useless even after looking at it, we are not allowed to keep it, Atlantic salmon is US$40, bluefin tuna is US$60 to US$200, yellow fin is US$45, bigeye tuna is US$65, horse One hundred dollars for Su Tuna..." Sitting in the car heading to Boston, Jiang Hai looked at the form in his hand and muttered quietly.
Edward Anderson, who was driving, glanced at Jiang Hai with a smile, and then shook his head gently.
Ever since Jiang Hai wanted to raise valuable seafood that day, he had been studying these things like a man possessed.
He first checked some information on the Internet, and then went to the local fish market to ask about it. Of course, there were also Chinese restaurants.
What he is muttering now is the data he has researched these days. Of course, the units are KG. There is no such thing as kilograms in the United States, and when it comes to converting it into pounds, Jiang Hai is too lazy to do it.
Aquatic products, especially seafood, vary in location, size, and price.
What he said was the normal average price, not the price of special products.
No matter what it is, as long as it is a premium product, the price is not generally high. Take the cod that Jiang Hai thinks is worthless as an example. As long as the cod exceeds one meter, it will cost thousands of dollars every day. If it exceeds It's 1.5 meters tall and costs tens of thousands of dollars.
In normal times, the cod that can be shipped is only 30 centimeters long, which is a little more than one kilogram. If two of them are added together, they are not even 1.5 kilograms. This is the difference. And these tiny, ultra-low-temperature one-pound fish are only It can be sold for 80 cents, and a pound of chilled food can be sold for 1 US dollar and 75 cents. Here, Jiang Hai also learned the term "chilled" for the first time.
There are two ways to preserve fish. One is ultra-low temperature, which means completely freezing the fish at a temperature of minus 60 degrees.
Although this will not break down and is suitable for long-distance transportation, it also destroys the original taste of the fish. Generally speaking, except for large-scale offshore fishing boats, there are few fishing boats that do this. Of course, some cheaper ones Fish do the same thing.
As for chilled, the fish is slightly frozen at low temperature. The freezing time is limited and can only be kept for twelve days. However, if it is sold to a fishmonger on the eleventh day, the fishmonger will not accept it. of.
Basically, this kind of fish is caught in the morning and sold in the afternoon. Only people will want this kind of fish, and this kind of fish is basically expensive. If the price per family does not exceed thirty US dollars, Fishermen are reluctant to throw fish into a cold warehouse. You must know that a freezer is just like the freezing layer of a refrigerator. It is an icehouse, and a chilled warehouse is like an air-conditioned room. It requires The electricity consumed, which is also diesel on the sea, is not generally high.
So Jiang Hai has been looking for those precious sea fish in the market these days. As far as the current situation is concerned, the situation is not bad.
In fact, if you want to make money by raising fish, the best choice is cod, because Jiang Hai’s fishing ground is next to Winthrop. Driving a boat may be faster than driving. Fishing here in the morning After finishing the fish, they will be sold later. They are definitely chilled and can be sold for 1 US dollar and 75 cents per pound. Even if one fish is one pound, according to Edward Anderson's idea, an initial investment of 10 million fry will be made. , the survival rate is at least about 60%, that’s six million tails, one dollar and seventy-five cents per tail, that adds up to 10.5 million dollars, plus With the income from some supporting 'fish food', it should not be a problem to earn US$12 million a year, but the money invested in the fry, the money for the second year's fry, and the money for building the ecosystem should be taken out. There are also workers' money, diesel money for the boat, etc. The total investment in the fishery is about 30 million U.S. dollars. If you are lucky, you can get your money back in three years. In the fourth year, it will be at least stable. Half of the money can be earned, but of course, this half of the money still has to be taxed.
But at least you don’t have to worry about taxes until you get your money back. This is also one of the benefits of American imperialism. For these farmers and fishermen, they only collect the money they earn, not the money they earn back. Tax.
Originally, according to Edward Anderson's calculation, Jiang Hai still had the money invested in this way. After all, the money did not need to be invested all at once. Secondly, Edward also recently surveyed the underwater areas of Jiang Hai's fishery. Condition.
It was discovered that there are definitely a lot of fishing groups underwater. After these ten years of recuperation, Jianghai's underwater ecosystem is extremely complete.
The number of fishing schools is quite impressive. Even if it is winter, there are a lot of fish underwater. According to Edward's preliminary estimate, there must be nearly 10 million U.S. dollars of fish in the water. Of course, , which refers to the situation where everything is to be fished out.
With these ten million, Jiang Hai would have enough to build all the buildings, not to mention just supporting the income from the fishery in the first year.
But according to Edward Anderson, there is indeed nothing wrong with doing this, but Jiang Hai was a little reluctant to accept it like this. He had always been thinking that it was also fish farming, and he had a golden finger. , why can't we raise some shiny fish? That's when he went to the market and the Huaxia Hotel to inquire.
Of course, in addition to these things, there are also some very valuable things, but Jiang Hai has never thought about raising them, at least not now. The most famous ones are sea cucumbers and abalones. It is entirely because of these two things that they are popular in the United States. There is no sales. Although the domestic sales are just beginning, it is like the fishermen in the Atlantic region. They know that the price of the same thing will double if sent to China, but how to send it there is a problem. Some top-quality goods , can be transported by air, but what about the Da Zong transaction
All by air? That's bullshit... If you freeze it at ultra-low temperature and then defrost it, the taste will be different, and you won't be able to sell it at a high price. However, the chilled version only has a shelf life of twelve days. If you catch it on the first day, it will not be sold on the second day. The sky is beginning to send. If we take the sea route, we can cross the Atlantic Ocean, then cross the Indian Ocean, reach the Pacific Ocean, and then turn a corner to reach China. Twelve days is enough... So although Jiang Hai He has the ambition to raise a large number of top quality animals, but everything must be done slowly.
He must at least prove that he can raise such a good thing, and then decide whether to raise it after confirming the market.
But no matter what he decided to raise, he was determined to raise fry, but the quantity was an issue. At the same time, since he decided to raise fish, no matter what fish he raised, the ecosystem was ready to be built, so today, Edward Anderson I took Jiang Hai to Boston, where they were going to fish.
But not long after getting off the highway, they saw the Celtics' North Shore Garden Arena in the distance.
Looking at the arena over there, Jiang Hai couldn't help but think of the trial training that day. It was really funny. The ten-day short contract...
Of course, after that day, actually the third day after that day, when they lost to the Nets at home and the Wizards on the road, Alfred Bradley and Brad Stevens Taking a guaranteed contract with an annual salary of 1.98 million, I came to Jiang Hai's home, hoping that Jiang Hai would agree to join, but let alone an annual salary of 1.98 million, even if it was an annual salary of 19.8 million! Uh... maybe Jiang Hai is tempted, but unfortunately without that zero, the gap is still huge.
What can he do that doesn't earn him $2 million? What's more, you have to pay half of the taxes to the American government, which adds up to one million US dollars. Do you lack this little money? joke! At that time, he would go into the sea more than once.
So in the end, Jiang Hai still didn't agree. The two people who came here expressed their helplessness, but they said that they would not give up. Whether they would give up or not, Jiang Hai couldn't control it, because the New Year would come next.
There is really nothing good to do in the New Year in the United States. It is not as interesting as Christmas. There are no major competitions or anything like a focus battle. That is, some TV stations will do some New Year's Eve concerts. If Jiang Hai is If you're in New York, you can go to Times Square to watch a concert, then pick up a girl, count down the days, and maybe even have a New Year's kiss or something.
But obviously, he didn't have the intention to do it, so this year, he stayed at home to celebrate the New Year's Eve.
With the arrival of January, the Boston area has also entered the coldest time of the year. After Bell also came back, Robbins and others had to end their vacation early and started to get busy. As for John and Louis, they also After celebrating the New Year, they returned to where they should go. Although Jiang Hai's manor was fun, after all, they still had things to evaluate.
Edward and Jiang Hai also have something to do, that is, they are going to buy aquatic plants.
The basic composition of the ecological food chain is that big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, and shrimps eat aquatic plants.
When raising fish in Boston, unless you raise those very strange fish, otherwise, basically, as soon as spring begins, that is, in March, the fry will be released. When the fry reach the sea, they need to eat. Of course, they can be fixed. Feeding, but they also need to hide to avoid being eaten by big fish, so when the fry are released, the ecological environment must have been established.
Aquatic plants are the basis of all food chains and need to be put in first. When the aquatic plants grow for about a month, shrimp larvae, crab larvae, clam larvae, etc. will start to be put in. After these larvae grow for another month, fish fry will start to be put in.
However, because the sea water is still very cold in March, when the fry are released, larger individuals need to be released, and larvae that are too small will not work. These are all particularities. Jiang Hai really didn't know it very well before, and he has to admit that if he survives to Learn as you go.
While Jiang Hai was thinking about what he wanted to raise, the car slowly drove into the port in the center of Boston where Jiang Hai had been before, but this time he was going in another direction.
Jiang Hai saw a large number of grid boxes from a distance, which was the wholesale place for fish fry in Boston.
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