1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 236: Several kinds of precious sea bream, all caught
"A group of black bream? Black bream is good!" Liang Tiancheng immediately became excited.

If it is a silver-gray flat snapper, which is considered the lowest among all snappers, the price is very average.

But where Liang Ziqiang looked, the sea breams swimming vigorously in the water were gray and black in color, obviously black sea breams.

Black sea bream is much more expensive than flat sea bream.

The only dilemma Liang Ziqiang felt was that if he cast a net to catch black sea bream, he would inevitably have to delay his search for prawns.

However, the next moment, this multiple-choice question no longer exists.

When we got a little closer, we could immediately see clearly that the reason these black sea breams were swimming so vigorously and forming a swarm was because they were chasing a group of shrimps.

At first I couldn't tell what kind of shrimp it was, thinking it was most likely a hair shrimp or a white shrimp. But when I got closer, I was surprised and delighted to find that -

These are the prawns they have been looking for all the way!

It looked like a small group of prawns were passing by and were ambushed by the black sea bream.

When you see injustice, it is natural to help.

In this situation, they didn't care about how gentle their movements were and they rushed to rescue the prawns from the black sea bream's mouth.

If it were slower, it wouldn't be a question of whether some of the broodstock would be damaged, but all the broodstock would fall into the black sea bream's stomach.

The group of snappers were enjoying the delicious prawns, and before they knew it, they were in the net, and before they knew it, they were on the boat.

After pouring all the shrimps onto the deck, they had to work together. Liang Ziqiang asked Zhu Tianpeng not to join the fishing, but to quickly pick up the shrimps on the deck and put them into a large basin filled with seawater. If they waited too long, they were worried that the survival rate of the shrimps would be a problem.

Zhu Tianpeng dropped the net and went to pick out the shrimps, while Liang Ziqiang continued to cast the net towards the school of sea bream.

The shrimps and black sea bream did not disperse, and the ambush and encirclement continued.

Thus, the story of the mantis stalking the cicada was repeated again and again, and Liang Ziqiang cast two nets.

There should be more than a dozen black sea bream caught in each net, and several kilograms of prawns.

After casting many nets, the small group of shrimps that passed by had almost all run away, and the black porgy, seeing that they had failed to rob and were in danger, turned around and fled in the direction they came from. They rushed into the jagged reefs and were considered safe.

Liang Ziqiang finally stopped, and Zhu Tianpeng, who had been bending over to look for prawns among the black sea bream, spoke up:

"Come and see for yourself, it seems there are more than just black sea bream. The rest are much more expensive than black sea bream!"

Before this, Liang Ziqiang had been busy casting the net and did not distinguish it carefully. At this time, he squatted on the deck and took a look, and immediately exclaimed inwardly: Wow!
He caught dozens of sea breams, all of which were black, but some of them were darker in color and had thicker lips than black sea bream.

It's clearly a cow dung snapper!

The bull dung sea bream is very similar to the black sea bream. It is difficult to distinguish them because they are wrapped together, so you have to pay attention to see them.

But the difference in their prices is a bit big. Black sea bream is not cheap at 60 cents, and bull dung sea bream is twice as much!
Normally, you have to use bait to fish for bull dung snappers one by one among the rocks. You will be very happy if you catch one or two.

It is very rare for someone to just cast the net and catch so much at once, like he did now!
"Aqiang, there are quite a few bull dung snappers in my net. Is it the same over there?"

When the eldest brother Liang Tiancheng's surprised voice came, Liang Ziqiang quickly responded twice.

Father Liang chuckled, "They are all from the same batch of fish, how could they be any different? No need to think about it!"

There was a sense of great joy in his tone, and it seemed that he was very happy about this unexpected gain.

Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng first picked up all the remaining prawns on the deck and put them into a large basin of water.

Then he separated the black porgy from the bull dung porgy and put them in different baskets, which would make it easier to sell them later.

"It's a pity that they all burrowed into the reefs. There are so many cow dung snappers on this small island. If we can get those in the reefs, we will really make money!" Liang Tiancheng also sorted out the two different types of snappers. He stood at the bow of the boat, staring at the reefs, and was somewhat reluctant to leave the island.

Seeing him like this, Liang Ziqiang was highly suspicious that he might have forgotten about the search for broodstock.

"Brother, maybe next time! Let's finish the shrimp farming business. If you really can't bear to part with the bull dung snappers here, bring a fishing rod next time!"

Fishing for snappers with a fishing rod is certainly not as efficient as catching them with a net, but it is the only effective way to deal with snappers hiding in the reefs.

The key is that there are quite a lot of bull dung sea bream here. If you spend some time fishing well, the harvest can be considerable!
"Yes, come and fish next time. I just wanted to fish today, but I didn't bring a fishing rod!" Liang Tiancheng turned around and asked his father, "Dad, do you know the name of this island?"

Father Liang shook his head: "I know the Yangchang Island ahead, but I have no idea about this island. There are many islands in this area, and many of them don't even have names!"

Liang Ziqiang didn't think much after hearing this, but suddenly thought of the island's shape that looked like cow dung, and there were so many valuable cow dung bream, so he blurted out:
"It will be inconvenient for us to mention it next time without a name. How about we call it... Cow Shit Island?"

Father Liang was still rolling his eyes. But he was not as fast as his eldest son in responding. Liang Tiancheng immediately agreed:

"Cow Shit Island is great! It matches the Sheep Intestine Island in front quite well!"

Liang Ziqiang hadn't expected this. He just came up with a random name and made it into a sister island with the previous island.

Before Liang's father had finished rolling his eyes, he quickly rolled one at his eldest son.

Just so casually, this island has a name...

Of course, these were just nicknames among the few of them. As for whether the island originally had a name, or whether it really had no name at all, they didn't know and didn't care.

As we were about to leave the island, two large fish suddenly emerged from the rocks.

This time, not only Liang Tiancheng was excited, but Liang Ziqiang also felt a little lacking in self-control.

The two fish are not bull dung snappers, but they are better than bull dung snappers.

It's a spotted sea bream! Although they are all sea bream, the appearance of this fish is very different from that of the black sea bream, red sea bream, and bull dung sea bream.

The fish's body is covered with tiny spots, and it looks a bit wild.

The last time, it was this kind of spotted sea bream that bit Liang Ziqiang's fishing line in half!
Although the spots on its body easily remind people of grouper, it is not a grouper, but a more expensive type among sea bream.

Compared with the blue grouper, the price is twice as much, and compared with the bull dung snapper, it is three times more expensive.

I found a remote island by chance, and I didn't expect it to be home to so many sea breams.

There are even spotted sea bream. Liang Ziqiang is really planning to come here to fish for sea bream when he has time in the future.

In a flash, he was quick enough to grab a hand net on the boat.

It is difficult to deal with fish that have just emerged from the reefs by casting nets, but hand nets can be of some use.

While asking Zhu Tianpeng to cooperate and move the boat closer, he also seized the opportunity and fished for the two spotted sea breams.

The hand-held net was thrown into the water at an angle. When the two spotted snappers saw that something was wrong, they quickly retreated and planned to hide back on the reef.

One fish reacted faster and failed to catch it, so it dived in.

Another larger grouper was caught by Liang Ziqiang. It jumped in the hand net for a long time but couldn't escape.

Put it back on the boat, adding to today's unexpected harvest. This fish is not small, and the price is high, so I made a profit...

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