1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 237 Power Players
Seeing the sea bream piled up on this small island, Liang Ziqiang thought of the nameless island in the eastern waters. It was April now, and he wondered if the grouper on that island had begun to emerge again.
After finishing the search for broodstock, it’s time to go to the nameless island.

We continued to search for new islands. After sailing for a while, an isolated island that was smaller than the previous two appeared in front of us.

To be honest, these islands are scattered and each one is more remote than the other. If they didn't have a compass on the ship, after they found these islands, they would probably have to go around for a long time before returning home.

Apart from a few common fish, there were no other major discoveries on this island.

There are many brown stones on the island beach. There are quite a few snails on the stones, which are neither big nor small. However, they look like spicy snails, Dongfeng snails and the like, and do not seem to be very valuable.

The old method is to go around the island again. In case there are brood shrimps, they don’t want to miss any chance now.

While circling the island, one person was driving the boat while the other was more focused on observing the movements in the water nearby.

At this time, Zhu Tianpeng was heard shouting outside the cabin:

"A Qiang, come and have a look. Isn't this what you are looking for? There are plenty of them in the water!"

When Liang Ziqiang heard his shout, he thought he had finally seen the shrimps gathered on the water, so he quickly ran out of the cabin.

But when I looked at it, it turned out not to be prawns at all.

There were things suspended in the sea water that looked very much like centipedes, stretching and shrinking, swimming freely and happily in the water.

"Sea centipede!"

The sea centipede is also called sandworm, but it looks like this, with legs all over its body, and it doesn't look like a silkworm, it looks exactly like a centipede.

The sight of so many sea centipedes swimming together is quite spectacular. More than spectacular, it can give people goose bumps.

Although they were not the prawns he thought they were, Liang Ziqiang was still quite happy to find so many sandworms.

This thing, like the thin shells he found earlier, is a natural feed for prawns.

Of course, some fishermen in the South China Sea also eat sea centipedes, but Liang Ziqiang doesn’t usually eat them.

"Hurry up, catch more!"

Both of them took action, and at the same time, the father also began to cast his net.

After catching it, he definitely can't just dump it on the deck. He wants to put it in the shrimp pond to take root and stay with the shrimp for a long time, so he must bring it back alive.

In addition to a large basin filled with prawns, there is another basin on the boat that is still empty.

I had originally planned to find more prawns and use them to store them, but now that I couldn't find any more prawns, I decided to let the sea centipede take over.

Pour the sea centipedes into the basin, immediately throw the net into the water and continue fishing.

After catching several sea centipedes in the nets, they gradually dispersed. Liang Ziqiang and his father had the same idea and planned to go to the mudflats on the island to see if they could find more.

Since there are quite a few sea centipedes in the waters near this island, it means that the environment here is very attractive to sea centipedes, and there are probably still some on the mudflats.

Liang Ziqiang and others put on gloves, moored the boat securely, and went to the mudflat.

In fact, sandworms are not poisonous, but since they look like this, fishermen would rather wear gloves before handling them if they have them.

Walking on the beach, they focused on the rocks scattered on the beach. There were some snails and other small snails crawling on the big rocks, but they didn't pay much attention to them and looked at the cracks between the rocks.

Liang Ziqiang took a look and saw two or three cracks in the stone. He did not grab them, but after getting a positive answer, he directly flipped a stone open.

Sure enough, there were dozens of sandworms in the covered part of the bottom of the stone! When the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves, all of them went into his bucket.

At the same time, my father, eldest brother and Zhu Tianpeng each carried a small bucket and turned over the stones and found a lot.

After turning over several rocks, they came to a particularly large rock. Liang Ziqiang couldn't turn it over by himself, so he called Zhu Tianpeng over.

Both of them were strong athletes, and after working together, they finally pushed the big rock to the side.

This felt like opening the lid of a treasure trove. There were even more sandworms hiding under the big rock, probably several times more than under the rock in front.

The two men were afraid that they would run away, so they frantically tried to catch them.

Fortunately, the speed of this thing on land is far slower than that in water. No matter how hard it runs, not many of them can actually escape. Most of them are caught by the two of them.

I had just finished cleaning when I heard my father calling, "Aqiang, come over here and help!"

Liang Ziqiang looked over and was surprised. In the distance, there was a huge rock that was much bigger than the one in front of him. His father and eldest brother were trying to overturn it, but it was obvious that they were unable to do so.

Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng ran forward upon hearing the noise. With these two "powerful" figures, the deadlock was instantly broken.

The four people worked together, and the seemingly unmovable rock was pushed aside.

Needless to say, it was another bumper harvest of lugworms. There were even more lugworms hiding under this stone!

Apparently, the environment of this island is quite attractive to sandworms.

"This island doesn't have a name, right? Why not just call it Sandworm Island!"

Liang Tiancheng finally got his fill of naming.

After collecting all the sandworms on the island, they returned to the boat.

Their current location is quite remote and far away, and it will take quite some time to get back, so after discussing it, they decided not to continue searching today and started to head back.

We found several kinds of natural baits, and also caught a lot of valuable sea bream. Today's trip to the sea was actually quite fruitful.

The only drawback is that although I found a pot of prawns, the number was too small. I have to look for more another day, and I have to find enough broodstock.

When returning to the village, the first thing to do is not to rush to sell various types of sea bream, but to quickly put the prawns into the brooding pond for breeding.

Liang Ziqiang's broodstock pond already had some broodstock from last time in it. After putting in some more this time, the number was finally gradually increasing, but it was still not enough.

After putting it in, he put some of the newly caught sandworms in to feed the broodstock. Then he went to the salt pan to catch some Artemia and fed the broodstock the same way as last time.

My father and his eldest brother also poured the broodstock they harvested into a separate pond. They planned to share the broodstock pond and share the fry when they were produced.

Liang Ziqiang walked over and gave them an estimate of the amount of Artemia that would be needed, and asked them to take some Artemia directly from the dozens of acres of wasteland they had contracted for feeding.

After arranging the broodstock, the next step is to feed the entire shrimp pond with long-term bait.

Liang Ziqiang poured the two natural baits, sandworms and thin shells, that he had found today into the seven-acre pond, allowing them to grow and reproduce in the pond.

After finishing all these, I went to the purchasing point at the dock and took all the extra catch of the day - black sea bream, small abalone, cow dung sea bream, and spotted sea bream to sell.

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