1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 357: Replacing the Boss
As the trawl net was hung on the gantry, fish and shrimps of all shapes and sizes fell down, and the entire fishing area was swallowed up by the catch in the blink of an eye.

Liang Ziqiang got out of the cab and went to the fish sorting area to check the catch.

There are roughly three colors on the deck, mixed and intertwined in piles.

The silver ones flashed with a silky light, and most of them were hairtail fish. Hairtail fish did become one of the mainstream fish after the winter flood began, and they began to swim into the deep sea in groups at an early stage.

The black ones are mainly bluefin bream, with a back that is dark blue to black.

Between silver and black, there is another color that is extremely eye-catching. Each fish is not big, but is pink all over. It is the horsehead fish!

The horsehead fish is also known as the song fish. The fish body is not big, but the head is a bit square, shaped like a horse's face, giving the visual feeling that it is small in size but very unrestrained in heart.

"I didn't expect there were so many horsehead fish!" Lu Song said happily, "This fish has a festive color, tastes good, and the price is pretty good!"

"Yes, it's better than sea bass and the like, and it looks like there are quite a lot of them!" Liang Ziqiang took a look and found that among the three main catches, horsehead fish should be the most valuable, more expensive than bluefin bream and southern hairtail.

Of course, in addition to these three main catches, there are many other small fish, shrimps and crabs on the deck.

The amount of fish caught is estimated to be two or three times that of a normal trawling net, probably over 3,000 kilograms.

"I never thought there would be such a place in the deep sea. The fish are crowding here, it's so crowded that it's a bit scary!" Lin Liming was stunned by the fish and shrimp piled in front of him. He picked up two horsehead fish from the deck and squeezed them. It seemed that only the real touch could tell him that this was not a dream.

"There is a problem. The amount of fish caught is nearly three times the usual amount. It will be a headache to sort out the fish later. We can't do it with just a few hands! What should we do?" Lu Song looked at the piles of fish and shrimps and suddenly thought of the difficult situation he was about to face.

What he said was of course a very realistic problem. Usually, the amount of fish caught in the deep sea is about one-third of this amount, and Deng Zhaocai and his friends are so busy that they sweat all over. Sometimes they have to sort out the fish until 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening. Now the amount of fish caught has suddenly increased by several times, and they are afraid that they can't handle it even if they have three heads and six arms.

"It's indeed a bit difficult." Liang Ziqiang frowned and thought about it, but in fact, he had been thinking about this problem since the first time he saw so many fish on the deck.

"It's not that there's no other way." He paused for a moment and said, "After you get one net in, don't rush to cast the second one. Drop anchor for an hour in between. Peng and I don't have to drive the boat or look out, so we can have some time to help you sort out the catch."

"This is a little better, but it still won't work, right?" Deng Zhaocai asked doubtfully.

"In addition, due to the special circumstances, we can do the work more roughly and not be so meticulous in the classification. We don't have to pick them one by one like usual, this time we can do them in small piles. For example, this whole piece is basically all bluefin bream, with only two or three horsehead fish mixed in. No matter what, we can just shovel them into the basket and count them all as bluefin bream. I will only lose the difference in price of two or three horsehead fish, which is no big deal.

But if, on the other hand, there are two or three bluefin breams among a pile of horsehead fish, we should try to pick out the bluefin breams, otherwise when we get to the purchasing station, the people there will definitely complain non-stop and may even reduce the price!"

"Is that so? That would make it a lot faster!" Lu Song said immediately.

Liang Ziqiang's suggestion actually has a premise, that the fish are not completely mixed together, but are generally separated. It can be seen that the school of hairtails was first dragged, then the large school of bluefin bream, and finally the school of horsehead fish.

If several types of fish are mixed together from the very beginning, it would be really a headache. There is no other easy way except to pick and classify them one by one.

The other crew members also felt that as long as they lowered their standards, they could still speed up the process and save a lot of time. "One last thing. Even with the first two methods, I estimate that with today's volume, it will still take more time than usual. In a few hours, the new catch from the afternoon will be on deck. If we can't finish it by 7 or 8 pm, we can only stay up later and finish it by 10 or 11 pm and put it all in the cold storage! These few days, we brothers will definitely have to work hard!"

"But," Liang Ziqiang hadn't finished speaking yet, "our hard work can't be in vain. The more work you do, the more money you get. This is only natural. During these few days of fishing here, the situation is special, so our wages will not be five yuan, but eight yuan!"

After Liang Ziqiang said the last sentence, Lin Liming and the others were stunned for a moment.

After reacting, Deng Zhaocai took the lead in cheering:

"Brother Qiang is awesome! Eight dollars is almost three times what those skilled workers out there make. What else can I say? I'm the first to agree. Not to mention 10 pm, I wouldn't say no even if it's until midnight!"

The others obviously didn't think much about the temporary processing money, and Lu Song then said loudly:
"What can I say? Last time on that reef island, Aqiang took us to catch those colorful little fish. After we were done fishing, we each kept our own fish. Didn't we sell them for more than a hundred yuan in a blink of an eye? Let's try a different boss. Can we make the money? Aqiang is a real guy. We should be real guys too. We have to work hard to catch a lot of fish. Don't even mention the processing fee. Even if he didn't charge me a penny more, I still worked until midnight and had nothing to say!"

Lin Liming and Liang Chun also spoke up, expressing almost the same idea as Deng Zhaocai and Lu Song.

After they finished speaking, Liang Ziqiang said:
"Then I'll leave it to you guys! One more thing, I'm lucky today. I actually found the place where winter fish gather that my friend told me about! With this place, we won't have to worry about having no work throughout the winter.

Unless we let this place's location slip away, and then some larger steel ships weighing hundreds of tons will rush over to work and empty this place out, then we'll have no choice but to wander around and make a living elsewhere throughout the winter!"

Although given the scale of this wintering fishing ground, even with the arrival of several hundred-ton ships, it might not be possible to empty it immediately, but Liang Ziqiang had to say it to this extent.

Because, from the moment I discovered Longjuling last year, a plan had already sprouted in my mind.

After this wintering fishing ground was discovered in later generations, the performance of a fishing company soared, and the boss became so rich that he woke up smiling in his dreams.

Since I am the first one to master the resources in this life, why can't I take over and make the most of these resources?

There was an important consideration why he would rather everyone work harder and the fish preparation be a little rough, rather than hiring more people to help here.

These people have been working together for a long time, know each other well, and are people he believes they can rely on.

But if he finds some other people to fill in temporarily, he believes that it won't be long before the secret of this wintering fishing ground will spread quickly, and it will not be able to be restrained by a few reminders from him.

Of course, truth cannot be hidden. Even if there are only six of them, I believe the truth cannot be kept secret forever and will be revealed sooner or later.

But he decided to speed up.

Before the secret of this wintering fishing ground is leaked on a large scale, he will release the follow-up plans step by step.

By then, even if other bosses flocked to him, they would not be able to snatch this wintering fishing ground from him...

(End of this chapter)