1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 260: Konoha Flounder Underwater
The rain on the second day gave the family an opportunity to work together on longline fishing.

Of course, even if we work together, it would be impossible to complete it so quickly.

Another day passed, the rain stopped, but the temperature did not rise, and the sky alternated between cloudy and overcast. Liang Ziqiang thought that such days were safe and he could go to Longjuling again.

He called Li Liang and sailed to Longjuling to collect the net.

Liang Ziqiang did not forget to bring the money he had earned from selling the spotted sea bream for Zhu Tianpeng. On the way, he took out the money and gave it to Zhu Tianpeng in the cabin:

"Count it, I sold you those grouper sea bream for twenty-one dollars and seventy cents!"

"How many are there for just those few? How much do you sell them for per pound?"

It seems that this number has exceeded Zhu Tianpeng's expectations.

"Four dollars a pound. It's a restaurant, and they don't make any profit from the resale, so the price is a little higher than outside."

"Four dollars is indeed more expensive than outside!"

The two were talking while sailing, and noticed that some fish started to emerge from the water from time to time. Although they were not in groups, they still made people want to catch some.

Considering that closing the net was the most important thing, neither Li Liang nor he cast the net, but drove straight to Longju Ridge.

As usual, Liang Ziqiang’s floating thorn net was used first.

"This is not right. The spring flood is almost over. Shouldn't there be fewer and fewer fish? Why does it feel so heavy? There are more fish than the last two floods?!"

Deng Zhaocai felt that the floating thorn net was heavier this time when he just started to raise the net, he said.

Liang Ziqiang certainly felt it as well. It was indeed almost late April now, and the spring fish catch should have decreased.

Soon the net on the left was pulled up and the answer came out. At the same time, several people felt a little disappointed for Liang Ziqiang.

Unlike the previous few times when a wide variety of fish were caught, this time the floating gillnet was almost dominated by gillnets.

The thorny fish is not as destructive as the herring, and it is not like the swordfish that will fight to the death, so the net in front of him is relatively intact this time.

With so many thorny fish, hardly any escaped and they were all caught on the net, so of course the catch was heavy!
Liang Ziqiang smiled bitterly: "In fact, I should have guessed it earlier. There are still a lot of spring floods in this season, and they can only be a few cheap fish like thornfish!"

There are a few cheap fish species that are famous for their abundance in the nearby waters. Of course, there is a causal relationship between abundance and cheapness.

All other fish have passed away, and only these large fish are still coming in from the deep sea.

I have been collecting more than 60 meters of floating gillnets. There are either few fish in some sections, or if there are any, they are mainly gillnets.

This time the floating lancet net was rolled up and placed on the boat, which was a bit exaggerated, giving people the illusion that it was stationary but would continue to expand.

There is no suspense. In terms of weight, this time the catch will not only be higher than the last time, but also higher than the last time when the fish was more than 1,200 kilograms.

After collecting the floating gillnets, they went to collect the seabed mullets.

It seems that there have been quite a lot of thorny fish passing by in the past few days. Even those that tried to swim underwater on the seabed were caught in the net, and there were quite a few of them.

The seabed was quite full, but this "huge harvest" obviously did not make Li Liang, Deng Zhaocai and others happy.

Fortunately, in addition to the spiny fish, there are also some slippery shrimps, swimming crabs, red seals and white seals in the seabed.

Among them, the slippery shrimp and swimming crabs are quite profitable. Considering this, they continued to throw the floating seabed to the bottom of the water again.

If the catch is even worse next time, they will not consider coming here to catch spring fish, but will go to other places to dive to the bottom of the sea.

The same goes for the floating thorn net. Liang Ziqiang has bought four floating thorn nets and now has just one left.

After he tied the new net to the mouth of the strait, he decided not to rush to buy a floating thorn net when he returned this time.

Let's observe and see what the floating barb net will yield next.

It was still early today when the two boats left the channel and returned to the shallow sea.

On the way back, they began to see some fish popping up again. At first, they were gobies and white mullets, but they ignored them.

After all, they are cheap and scattered, and you can't catch many even if you cast your net, and you can't sell them for more than a few cents. After a while, Li Liang shouted:

"Brother Qiang, there seem to be a few red snappers. Do you want to stop and fish for a few? It's still early today!"

Because the red snappers were scattered, there was little point in casting a net to catch them, so Li Liang suggested using a fishing rod.

"Sure. I have a fishing rod on my boat. As for bait, the fish I just pulled up from the seabed just happened to have some shrimp mixed in with it!"

Since he had time, Liang Ziqiang thought he might as well sit on the boat and fish a few times. The price of red snapper was quite good.

They picked out some worthless hair shrimps from the fish that had scurried out from the seabed ahead and put them on the fishing rods. The four of them each took a rod and began to slow down the boat and start fishing.

In this case, the density of fish is naturally not as high as when fishing for various sea bream on Niu Shi Island, so it seems that we have to wait a little longer.

However, what Liang Ziqiang didn't expect was that after a short while, the fishing rod reacted.

The reaction was quite big. The whole fishing rod was shaking, as if there was a big fish.

"No, Red Patch can't possibly be that strong, right?"

Li Liang's fishing rod was shaking violently in the same way as him.

The two of them lifted up their fishing rods almost at the same time. The fish was not big, and it was not the rose-gold red snapper that they had expected.

I don't know whether to say this fish looks ugly or fierce. Its overall body is flat, with hard spines on both sides of its pelvic fins. Its body is brown with many white spots.

"Mud fierce?"

Mudshrews always overreact when they encounter danger, struggling desperately and stretching their dorsal fins.

"The mud fish are all staying in the lower layer. We failed to catch the red snapper on the surface of the water, but instead lured the mud fish out from under the water!" Li Liang said as he put on gloves and picked up the fish.

In order to avoid being stung by its slightly poisonous dorsal fin, Liang Ziqiang also put on gloves to pick up the fish and continued to put on bait and fish.

At this time, Zhu Tianpeng and Deng Zhaocai also had fish taking the bait.

To be more specific, it is not the red snapper, but a very flat fish that looks very similar to the toothfish.

"Halfmouth fish? Isn't this more expensive than tooth slices?"

The flatfish is a type of flounder, while the toothfish is a flatfish. The biggest difference between the left flatfish and the right flatfish is that the flatfish has its eyes on the left side of its body, while the flatfish has its eyes on the right side.

Seeing that it was a flathead fish, Deng Zhaocai didn't want to fish anymore.

"Fuck, you should go get some eye drops. This isn't a flathead fish. It's a pufferfish! It's not cheap!"

When the fish came closer, Li Liang came over to take a closer look and cursed Deng Zhaocai.

Liang Ziqiang also quickly looked at the fish that Zhu Tianpeng was pulling closer.

This fish is slightly smaller than the common flatmouth, a little rounder, and has a smooth body with almost no scales. Other than that, it is really no different from the common flatmouth.

"It's a puffer fish, put it in the bucket quickly. This fish is not much worse than the red snapper, but it is much more expensive than the toothfish and flathead fish!" Liang Ziqiang said quickly.

The official name of the walleye fish is Konoha flounder. Like the flatfish, they both belong to the flatfish family and look similar, but their price is two to three times that of the flatfish!
Next, as if they had been blessed, the four of them kept catching walleye from the water one after another.

It's strange. At first, I went fishing for the red snappers on the surface, but now I haven't caught any red snappers, but I caught a lot of Konoha flounder underwater!

Liang Ziqiang probably caught more than thirty fish continuously. This harvest has already far exceeded the few red snappers visible on the water surface!
It seems that at this moment, under the water, although there is no obvious sign of anything, there is a large group of Konoha flounder swimming around.

Unfortunately, today they went out to sea for the floating gillnets and the seabed without bringing any fishing nets. Otherwise, if they cast the nets and kept sinking them into the water and waited longer, they might have caught a few nets of walleye and had a slightly better harvest.

Later, the intervals between catching fish became longer and longer, and gradually there were no more fish to take the bait, so a few people gave up, put away their fishing rods and returned to shore.

Although today's seabed harvest was not ideal, the large amount of Konoha flounder made up for the income...

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