1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 240: First Visit to Nameless Island in the New Year
I drove the boat straight to the nameless island. I don't know why, but now that I'm going alone, without Lin Baixian chattering in my ears, it's a little too quiet, and I feel a little disappointed.

On the way, he was still thinking, wondering how Lin Baixian was doing working for his cousin, and whether some of his worries had faded and he had completely gotten over it.

This nameless island was discovered by the two of them after they went through a life-and-death ordeal. He still hopes that Lin Baixian can come back one day, and go to the island together to fish for grouper and search for various valuable seafood.

Reaching the nameless island is still a double insurance. After docking the boat securely, we carry our belongings to the reef area.

While the tide was still there, I climbed up the reef alone and started fishing.

It didn't take long before the fishing rod responded.

Now he no longer expects any Oriental grouper or rat grouper. He would be very surprised if he could get the most common bluestone grouper.

After waiting for a few seconds, I quickly pulled up the fishing rod. The fish hanging on the hook was still quite lively, swinging in the air.

It was quite big, probably more than two kilograms. Unfortunately, it was just a common spotted sea bass.

After failing in the first battle, we decided to try again.

This time it was not a sea bass, but a light-colored snapper, a flat snapper worth a few cents.

Next, the fish were caught very quickly, and all kinds of fish took the bait one after another like a revolving lantern.

I caught some sea bass, some fish, and also a few silver pomfret and small yellow croaker.

I even caught two of the red snapper fish, which are not often caught.

However, the grouper he was expecting did not appear yet.

He really didn't expect that this island reef, which was originally the most abundant place for grouper, had not seen any grouper fish again after being raided by cat sharks.

Isn't it said that fish only have a seven-second memory? Why does it seem that after suffering a bloodbath at the hands of a cat shark, the grouper plans to remember it forever and never return to the place of sorrow?
Or is it that the remaining groupers have found a new habitat after escaping and are unwilling to move?
Anyway, there is no grouper this time. There is no need to waste time fishing for common fish such as sea bass and silver carp in such places.

As soon as the tide receded, he put down his fishing rod and went looking for abalone and chicken-claw conch.

It would take time for the chicken claw snails to reappear. The reefs that they had dug up were either bare or occupied by other snails. He could only keep moving forward to find reefs that he had not dug up yet.

Fortunately, throughout the winter, no birds such as oystercatchers that specialized in eating chicken snails flew over, so when he walked far forward and found new reefs, he finally found some chicken snails to collect, and they were still quite large.

There was no more talking. On the entire island, he was the only one holding a chisel and a hammer, hitting the rocks again and again, the sounds were continuous.

The only response to his knocking was the sea breeze and waves, sometimes near and sometimes far away.

It is not so easy to find chicken claw snails nowadays. After prying out one, it takes a lot of time to find a new one.

After prying out half a bag, he saw that it was getting late, so he went back to the boat, ate some steamed buns his wife had given him, drank half a pot of water, and started looking for abalone again.

There are abalone of all sizes at the bottom of the reef, so he can only pick the big ones, the kind that weigh up to one pound when three of them make up one kilogram.

Even though the size of an abalone is only slightly different, the price difference is huge. Abalone with three heads is the same price, while abalone with four heads is a little bit lower. Abalone with five heads and six heads has a different price.

Of course, if you go up a level, and find one that is fatter than the three-headed abalone and as big as the two-headed abalone, the price will not just be a small increase over the three-headed abalone, but a qualitative leap.

As for an abalone, it is a treasure all over the world and a rare commodity.

Liang Ziqiang really hopes that one day he will be lucky enough to catch two abalones, or even a single abalone for the first time!

Of course, the bigger the abalone, the more it is found in the deep sea. Unless he upgrades his equipment and can swim in the deep sea, it is difficult to encounter rare creatures such as two-headed abalone and one-headed abalone. After prying a lot of abalone, he did not dare to stay too long. Today, he came here after selling glass knife fish, so he did not have as much time as usual.

Before leaving, I saw some scallops starting to pop up, so I scooped some up, mainly to eat at home.

Plump white shrimps and prawns also appeared one after another. Unfortunately, the prawns here were mainly of another type, not the prawns he intended to cultivate.

I also caught some, planning to eat some myself and sell some.

There were a few prawns mixed in. He planned to take some time to carefully select them after returning, picking out the prawns one by one and putting them in the broodstock pond.

Although the number is pitifully small, this kind of prawns are larger than those elsewhere. If they really lay eggs, the size of the fry may exceed that of ordinary prawns when they grow up!

Come to think of it, it's quite worth looking forward to.

Chicken-claw snails can survive for a few days without water. He put them in a snakeskin bag and a bucket used for abalone.

As for these shrimps, they are treated very differently. They are all kept in large basins filled with sea water to keep them alive.

Especially for the few prawns mixed in, we have to hope that they can produce more high-quality shrimp eggs.

After getting on the boat, we drove back home. Back at the shore, we divided the fish into two batches for sale.

Common fish such as sea bass and yellow croaker were brought to Zheng Liu for sale on the same day. These fish were only about 40 cents per pound, and the dozens of fish caught only earned a little over 13 yuan.

The rest of the fish could not be sold today, so they were pushed back home on a cart.

After arriving home, he quickly picked out the mixed prawns in the large basin one by one, and Chen Xiangbei also helped.

Before it got completely dark, Liang Ziqiang carried a few dozen large prawns to the shrimp pond and put them into the brooding pond.

At the same time, they caught a lot of Artemia and threw them into the small pond for the shrimps to enjoy.

After a closer look, I found that there were quite a few broodstock that were put in before and after, but they have not started to lay eggs yet. Normally, it will take some time.

When I got home after finishing work at the shrimp pond, it was already dark.

Liang Ziqiang had planned to go to the city tomorrow and sell the chicken claw snails and three-headed abalone at Yuehai Restaurant.

Unexpectedly, the next day was a rainy day with a little drizzle. The temperature dropped, but there was no wind or waves.

There is no wind, no waves and the temperature is low. This kind of weather is actually a great time to go to Longjuling. It is so rare.

It has been three days since the super-large floating thorn net was put into the channel. I wonder how it is doing now.

The fish can still survive with its fins caught in the mesh of the net, but if time goes on, the fish caught in the net will not be able to find food freely and will become hungry.

The chicken claw snails and three-headed abalone were temporarily kept at home with seawater. There would be no problem for the short period of two or three days. He decided to go to Longjuling to collect the nets today.

Zhu Tianpeng arrived soon after. Apparently, he also thought that today's drizzling weather was suitable for going to Longjuling.

Liang Ziqiang originally planned to call Li Liang, but halfway through he ran into those two guys who were already walking towards Juzipo. They also wanted to call him.

The four of them went to the beach together, drove the boat, cut through the blue waves and the fine mist in the air, and headed all the way to Longjuling.

Two chapters have been published in the early morning. Happy reading!
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