1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 352: One Way Makes More Money Than Another

The two searched forward for a long time, but they didn't see the two-colored strawberry fish anymore. Instead, they saw another kind swimming around the reef in groups of three or two.

This fish has four to five brown horizontal bands of varying widths on its sides. Its body is mainly brown and gold. The colors are not so bright, but paired with its body shape, it is extremely beautiful.

"It looks very beautiful, but I wonder if this fish is valuable?" Zhu Tianpeng asked hesitantly.

"This is the Brown-banded Maidenfish!" Liang Ziqiang walked closer and saw it clearly. "Of course it can be sold for a lot of money. It's not less than the price of the two-colored fish just now!"

The brown-banded damsel fish is relatively wide and flat, and its body is obviously larger than the bicolor strawberry fish, but there are only about a dozen of them at the moment, not many.

These fish are priced by the piece, so a dozen or so would be a lot of money! Liang Ziqiang was very skillful and immediately reached out to scoop up the net.

This network is fast and accurate. About seven or eight out of ten fish came in, which is pretty good.

Walking further, another dozen or so fish appeared. This time, the fish had black and white stripes, like zebras.

The most special thing is that there is a special white filamentous fin on the dorsal fin, which is raised high like a scimitar.

"These look very special. Where do all these strange yet beautiful looking fish come from near this island? I have never seen so many strange fish in the shallow sea for several years!" Zhu Tianpeng began to sigh.

In fact, most ornamental fish live in the deep sea. For this reason, it is not easy to get wild ornamental fish, even more difficult than edible fish. Therefore, even in this era, they can be sold by the piece, and the price is not comparable to that of ordinary edible fish.

"Do you have a black and white Guandao?" Liang Ziqiang said happily, "Don't be fooled by the fact that it only comes in black and white. I think it might be more expensive than the previous two!"

The entire island is a long circle. Since there is no road on the deserted island, the two people sometimes walk on shallows and sometimes climb over big rocks. Their journey is very bumpy and their speed is relatively slow.

In addition, we stopped to catch some fish from time to time. After about an hour or two, we gradually returned to the starting point, which was equivalent to completing a full circle of the entire reef island.

When he was about to get close to the origin, his eyes lit up again. The fish was bright yellow all around, but in the middle was a large area of ​​snow-white, like a square piece of jade inlaid in the golden color.

Liang Ziqiang was refreshed again, Diamond Butterfly!
Compared with the several types of fish mentioned above, diamond flounder is even more expensive.

However, this time he couldn't even say the names of the fish out loud. After all, it was somewhat strange that Zhu Tianpeng knew so many different kinds of ornamental fish.

Although he kept explaining that he heard it from Jiang Wenang, there were so many fish he recognized that it was a bit hard to explain it away!
When Zhu Tianpeng asked again, he just shook his head and pretended not to understand. But this did not stop him from acting quickly. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight diamond butterflies were in the bucket again!

At this moment, the four people on the boat had already sorted and organized all the fish caught in the trawling net and moved them into the refrigerated hold. They all planned to come down and take a look to see what Liang Ziqiang had caught.

"Don't rush to get off the boat. Look around on the boat to see if there is a fishing rod!" Liang Ziqiang shouted onto the boat.

"Are there really a lot of fish on the island?" Deng Zhaocai and his friends knew there must be something to eat. "Should we use some fish and shrimp from the catch as bait?"

"Yes, go look in the basket and pick out the smallest shrimps! The island is full of beautiful small fish. They are not interested in big fish and shrimps and cannot swallow them. Only small shrimps can be caught!" Liang Ziqiang replied loudly.

After hearing what he said, several people went looking for fishing rods, while others returned to the cold storage compartment and picked out some of the smallest shrimps, especially mysid shrimps and krill, from the baskets that had just been put in.

Fortunately, there were a lot of fishing rods on the boat, and they found several of them at once. Not to mention the small shrimps, they quickly got some in basins and buckets. After everything was ready, the four of them got off the boat.

Before going fishing, I once again carried five or six buckets of water. I saw that the cloth on the killer whale was not completely dry, but the humidity was much lower than before. So, I poured bucket after bucket of water on the whale and the cloth.

The killer whale seemed to be saving its energy. It had been lying quietly without moving, but now it seemed to be expressing its happiness and gratitude by tapping its pectoral fins again.

After watering it thoroughly again, the six of them went to the shallow water to fish. "It's time to try your luck. Don't say I didn't remind you. Fishing is fishing. Whoever catches the most valuable fish is their own business. They don't have to hand it over to me. The money from selling the fish goes into their own pockets!" Liang Ziqiang announced.

Being a deep-sea helper is a tough job. Although Liang Ziqiang's wages are obviously higher than those of the helpers on shallow-sea ships, he has always wanted to give these people a chance to earn some extra money if there is a chance.

In this way, they will find it more rewarding to go out to sea with him and will be more motivated.

The abundance of ornamental fish on this small island is clearly a great opportunity.

However, when he spoke, those people were a little confused:
"Aqiang, you are kidding us, are we really going to pocket the fish we catch?"

"Hey, what do you think Brother Qiang is, Huang Shiren?" Deng Zhaocai retorted, "He used to do this in the shallow sea. When he saw fish to catch, he would go his own way!"

"The berth is so good, Boss Liang is obviously a man who can make a fortune. I plan to work on your ship for decades until I grow old!"

In addition to being overjoyed, Aqiang became Boss Liang and everyone was smiling from ear to ear.

Ten minutes later.

"Here comes the fish. This fish of mine, which is half black and half white, should be worth some money, right?"

"This is called the Black and White Guan Dao!" Zhu Tianpeng learned and used it immediately, telling these people what he had just heard from Liang Ziqiang.

“I caught a strawberry fish!”

"I also got a black and white Guandao!"

"Apeng, look at what kind of fish this is. Its body is bright yellow, and its little mouth is pouting, bright blue. It can't be drawn as beautiful as this!" Lu Song shouted excitedly.

Zhu Tianpeng glanced at it and shook his head: "I don't know the name of this one either, let's ask Aqiang if he knows it."

Liang Ziqiang came over to take a look, and saw that this was exactly the same fish that he had caught a dozen or so last year, the blue-mouthed bride fish!
He didn't expect that there were blue-mouthed bride fish on this island.

What he didn't expect was that not long after he finished speaking, twenty or thirty bright yellow blue-mouthed bride fish swam out from the cracks in the rocks.

Those people's fishing rods could not react at all to such a large school of fish, but Liang Ziqiang's hand net was never idle!
As he was talking, the hand-scooped net passed by.

When I pulled it up again, I had caught at least a dozen or twenty blue-mouthed bride fish.

This operation left those people dumbfounded.

The fishing rods in their hands could only catch one fish at a time, and it took more than ten minutes to catch one fish. In comparison, Liang Ziqiang's hand-held net was like a wolf or a tiger!

The efficiency is not even on the same level!
The problem is that the only thing we can find on the big ship is this one hand-scoop net, and there seems to be nothing we can do except envy it.

In this way, they fished slowly, one hook at a time, while Liang Ziqiang walked along the reef, catching a net of fish from time to time.

They were all bored. Not to mention Liang Ziqiang, he made a lot of money...

(End of this chapter)