Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1315 It’s not worth it!
"It's incredible that we were able to catch so many fish today!"

"If we catch so many every day, we will really make a fortune."

Zhong Cuihua smiled.

We have caught several thousand kilograms of fish so far today. If it is really like what Ding Ailian said, and we can catch the same amount tomorrow, then we must have caught ten thousand kilograms of fish in two days, right?

Zhong Cuihua said this, but in her heart she didn't believe that such a good thing really existed.

Five p.m.

As the sun sets, the entire pier is shrouded in golden sunlight.

Ding Xiaoxiang drove the speedboat to the fish farm.

As soon as Ding Ailian saw Ding Xiaoxiang, she shouted loudly.

"What are you doing? What's the matter?"

Ding Xiaoxiang was very confused. She didn't know why Ding Ailian called her like that, and seemed very excited.

"Come over here and take a look!"

As Ding Ailian spoke, she pointed to the net cage right at her feet.

Ding Xiaoxiang walked over quickly and looked down. There were nearly 100 kilograms of fish in the net cage, and from time to time she could see fish being washed into the bowl cage by the water flow.

"Yo!"

"Is it a high tide today? Why is the current so strong? And there are so many fish!"

Ding Xiaoxiang was a little surprised. In just a short while, she had seen seven or eight fish rushing into the net dragon. The speed was not slow at all.

"Correct!"

"Today is a high tide, and there are really a lot of fish today. Up to this moment, we have caught almost 7,000 kilograms of fish, maybe 8,000 kilograms of fish!"

"The fish in this sea water are chopped like rice!"

Ding Ailian recounted the whole story very excitedly.

"This is impossible, right? How can there be so many fish? And they have been catching them since early morning and haven't stopped yet?"

Ding Xiaoxiang was really surprised. She had never thought of this. You know, it took almost a whole day to catch the fish. If the speed continues, the seven or eight thousand kilograms of fish will not escape.

"Could this be false? Look at the speed of the fish in the net cage right now. Look at the fish in the net box next to it. They were caught from the sea today. And they just need to be guarded in this place. They need to catch fish every half an hour, or at most one hour."

"They are basically 300 to 400 kilograms!"

"Sometimes we have to get up every ten or twenty minutes!"

Ding Ailian pointed to the fish cage next to her.

Ding Xiaoxiang took a look inside and was shocked. The whole place was now full of black sea breams weighing about one kilogram, in groups. It was really hard to tell how many there were.

"See? There are so many fish. All of them are caught today. I have nothing to do now. I just stay here and wait until there are enough fish in the net cage. Then I have to pull it up and put it in the net box next to it."

Ding Ailian became more and more excited as she spoke. She had been guarding this place all day today, and the key was that she could really catch a lot of fish.

"What's going on? What happened? Why are there so many fish?"

For a moment, Ding Xiaoxiang was a little confused about what was going on. If she caught a fish weighing one or two hundred kilograms, two or three hundred kilograms, or even three or five hundred kilograms, it would be a very normal thing. But now she caught seven or eight thousand kilograms of fish, which was really too much and really abnormal.

"Second Grandpa and Grandpa Shi thought about it for a long time and they both thought it might be because it is the fishing moratorium. There are not many fishing nets in the sea outside, so all the fish are gathered at the pier."

"Isn't there a stream in our fish farm? After the fish arrived here, they rushed towards the current and ended up running into our net cages!"

Ma Baozhu was originally watching the fish at the other end of the fish row when she saw Ding Xiaoxiang coming over.

Ding Xiaoxiang thought about it and nodded. It was really possible that this was the case, or this was the only possibility and there was no other reason.

"I never thought that the fishing moratorium would have such a benefit for our fish farms."

Ding Xiaoxiang laughed. She really didn't expect that after the fishing moratorium began, not only did the prices of fish, shrimp and crabs start to rise, but most importantly, so many fish could be caught in this fish farm.

"Don't even think about catching this much every day. Even if we can catch 500 kilograms a day, we don't know how many fish we have caught here during the entire fishing moratorium!"

Ding Xiaoxiang quickly did a quick calculation and immediately felt that this fish steak place was truly amazing.

"I feel like this is just the beginning! We will definitely be able to catch this many fish next time, or even more."

"You know, the fishing moratorium has just begun. If time goes on, there will be more fish in the sea, right?"

Ding Ailian shook her head.

The fishing moratorium has just begun, and all the fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea have already come to the vicinity of the pier. As time goes by, more fish will come to the fish farm.

If you want to catch five or six thousand kilograms every day, it is not an easy task, but catching two or three thousand kilograms a day is still a very simple thing.

Ding Xiaoxiang thought about it and it was true. It seemed that the fishing moratorium had just begun, so there must be fish in the sea, but most of these fish were still relatively far away or relatively scattered. But as time went by and the fishing moratorium became longer, there would be more and more fish in the sea, and all these fish would come to the dock.

"Xiaoxiang."

"When did you come?"

Ding Xiaoxiang looked back and saw Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming walking towards her.

"I just got here a little while ago, and was talking to Sister Baozhu and Ailian about how they caught these fish during the fishing moratorium!"

Ding Xiaoxiang pointed to the net cage in the sea right next to her. There were now nearly two hundred kilograms of fish in it. She would have to pull it up in a while, otherwise there would be too many fish.

"Correct!"

"I really didn't expect to be able to catch so many fish in this fish farm!" "From the current situation, we can really catch a lot of fish during the entire fishing moratorium. If we add the fish we caught here, the fish farm is really amazing."

"If we can catch this many fish every day during the entire fishing moratorium, there will definitely not be enough cages in the entire fish farm!"

"Old man Zhao and I thought about it and found that there are only two ways to deal with these fish. One is to find a new place to raise these fish and wait until they are bigger so that we can sell them to make money."

"Another option is to simply stop raising fish and just catch them and sell them when there are enough of them."

Shi Guangming had discussed this matter with Zhao Shi early in the morning. When he saw Ding Xiaoxiang, he immediately brought up the matter. Whether it was raising these fish or selling these fish, they had to make plans early.

"Second Grandpa, Grandpa Shi, what do you two have in mind? Are you thinking of raising these fish?"

Ding Xiaoxiang looked at Zhao Shi and then at Shi Guangming. From the expressions on their faces and what they said, they were all thinking about raising these fish.

"Correct!"

"We think that if we sell these fish at a weight of just over one kilogram now, it's a bit too cheap. We thought that if we raise them for a while, they will become bigger, maybe two or three kilograms, and then we can sell them. Wouldn't that make more money?"

Shi Guangming nodded. Both he and Zhao Shi had the same idea.

"Correct!"

"Now these fish are already big enough, there will be no problem if they are placed in the fish farm. Moreover, these fish are caught from the sea using our net cages, not caught with fishing nets or hooks, so there is almost no harm to the fish. It is relatively easy to feed them and raise them big. The key is that the price is not too high at this size now."

Zhao Shi took a deep puff of the water pipe in his hand. It's not that he won't make money from selling these fish now, but the profit is not much. It is definitely better to sell the ones that are two or three kilograms, or even four or five kilograms.

"Second Grandpa."

"Grandpa Shi."

"We have already caught five to six thousand kilograms of fish today. If we continue to catch like this, it won't take long before all the net cages in our fish farm are filled with black sea bream or other fish."

"But raising these fish is not an easy task. First, we need a larger place. Just like what you said, we need to find another place to build a fish farm, and a big one. Also, we need to hire people. It won't work without people. More importantly, if there are so many fish, it is absolutely impossible to raise them to big sizes by raising them naturally. We must feed them."

"As long as we feed them, we will become fish farmers!"

When Ding Xiaoxiang looked at Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming, she realized that both of them had a very simple idea, which was to raise these fish. There would definitely not be enough space, so they had to build a fish farm.

"It is very easy for us to build a fish farm. As long as we feel it is necessary, we can build it. We can also find a place and build it quickly."

“The biggest question is not whether we should find a place to build a fish farm, but whether we should actually raise fish?”

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that the most important issue was not finding a place to build a fish farm but whether to raise fish.

Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming were both a little dumbfounded. They had not expected this. When looking at so many fish, they thought that it would be a loss to sell them at their current size. If they raised them to three or five kilograms and then sold them, they could make a lot more money.

But this matter is really not that simple.

The most important thing is that if you want to raise so many fish, it is really like what Ding Xiaoxiang said, it is impossible to raise them naturally, but they must be fed.

As long as it's for something, it's the fish you raise.

Raising fish is another matter altogether, it requires skills and it is not something that can be done casually!

Another very important point is that the price of farmed fish is not as high as that of natural fish.

Looking at these fish now, they are only a little over one kilogram in size, and some are as heavy as two kilograms, but these are purely natural fish.

After raising it for a period of time, although it weighs three, four or even five kilograms, the price of this farmed fish may not be as high as that of this fish that starts at one or two thousand yuan.

"Old man Shi!"

"It seems that we really thought this matter was a little too simple. It's not that these fish will definitely grow up if they are put into the sea. Even if there are no other problems, if they are not fed, how can so many fish grow big if they are crowded in the cages?"

Zhao Shi smiled bitterly.

Shi Guangming and I really thought this matter was extremely simple, but it was almost impossible.

Why are the fish in the cages at the fish farm getting bigger and bigger?

This is because the net cages placed here catch big fish as well as small fish and put them all in the net cages. In this way, the big fish will eat the small fish and they will definitely grow bigger.

But if you catch tens of thousands of kilograms of fish and put them in other fish farms, and there are no small fish caught every day to feed these fish, then they will definitely not be able to grow up. The longer they are raised, the smaller they may grow, or they may become very thin. You have to know that the amount of food that so many fish eat every day is really not less at all.

"Ugh!"

"When we saw so many fish caught, we only had one thought in our minds: once these fish grow from one jin to two jin, and from two jin to three, four, or five jin, we can sell them for a lot more money. But we didn't expect that these fish would need to eat a lot to grow to such a large size."

Shi Guangming slapped his forehead hard. He and Zhao Shi had never thought of this matter.

Not to mention tens of thousands of kilograms of fish, even if there were eight thousand kilograms of fish kept in the fish cages, no one knows how much they would eat every day.

Are they just placed in the sea and left to grow naturally?

If you really do this, it would be good enough to be able to survive, don't worry about how big these fish can grow.

Definitely need to feed.

If you want to feed the fish, it is not something that can be done by one or two people, it definitely requires a lot of people.

Another very important thing is that as long as you feed the fish, it is farmed fish. As long as it is farmed fish, no matter how big it is, the price will not be too high.

If you calculate it this way, it really is not that cost-effective, at least it is not cost-effective for people like us.

"Why do I feel that there is no need to do such a thing?"

Shi Guangming thought about it carefully for a while and found that there was really no need to do this matter. Other people could make money by raising fish, or it might be worth doing for them, but there was really no need for him and Zhao Dahai to do such a thing.

(End of this chapter)