1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 444: Fish with a Shoe Sole on Its Head

When they went out to sea again, Li Liang and Lin Baixian both joined the fleet.

In order to help them familiarize themselves with the trawling operations as quickly as possible, Liang Ziqiang made some adjustments to the personnel.

Li Liang and Lin Baixian both came directly to the "Ziqiang", freeing up two crew members to go to other ships.

Yuan Lijun and Lin Baiyi went to the Boqiang and Zhongqiang respectively and helped everyone to sort the fish.

The fleet sailed all the way to the deep sea and began to cast nets.

Liang's father has now basically mastered the driving skills. Sometimes Liang Ziqiang drives the Ziqiang, and sometimes Liang's father drives it.

After sailing at a steady speed for three hours, a sound of "raise the net" was heard, and the large trawl was slowly pulled onto the deck.

Li Liang and A Xian learned very proactively. They hurried forward and tried to hook the big iron hook onto the big metal ring of the net bag. They watched the gantry gradually suspend the huge net bag in the air.

"Fuck, it's this big? Fishing in the deep sea is so cool, it's completely different!"

As the waterfall of nets, fish and shrimp poured out from the boat, the deck made a thudding sound, and Lin Baixian couldn't help but get excited and shouted.

In fact, it was not only Ah Xian who was making a fuss. Liang Ziqiang, who was standing next to the fish sorting area and watching, also widened his eyes.

He also couldn't have imagined that there were so many big fish in this net. Almost most of them were large fish, with small fish and shrimps mixed in, serving as embellishments.

"It's not like this normally. Usually, most of the fish are small, and it's enough to have a few big fish in each net!" Liang Ziqiang said.

"Mackerel, bomb fish, horse-faced pufferfish, wait, there are quite a lot of tuna?!" Li Liang looked over and named them all the way. When he saw that there were quite a lot of tuna, his expression was instantly assimilated by Lin Baixian.

While the first few species can be encountered every now and then in shallow waters, tuna is exclusive to the deep sea and it is almost impossible to catch it by casting a net in shallow waters!
Several people squatted down to sort the fish. Small fish were sorted and put into different baskets. If the big fish could not fit into the baskets, they were directly carried to the cold storage.

"Wait, why are there other fish stuck to this bomb fish?"

Just as he stretched out his hand to sort out the big fish, Lin Ping spoke in surprise.

Liang Ziqiang also walked closer to take a look, and it was true.

I saw a fish stuck to the side and belly of the bonito, which weighed about 40 to 50 kilograms.

The fish stuck on it are slender, with smooth lines. It seems that each one weighs about two or three pounds.

Lin Ping originally thought that there were just some big and small fish mixed together, but when he tried to catch them, he was unable to take down the long and narrow small fish.

"I come!"

Seeing this, Li Liang rolled up his sleeves and went up. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the slender little fish.

Break it hard...

You just have to do whatever you want! But sometimes it works.

There was a popping sound in the air, like a wine bottle being pried open, and then the small fish was forcibly separated from the bomb fish.

"This is... a shoe fish?!" Li Liang said in shock.

The fish was still in his hand. After the fish was forced to release itself, its head was exposed. The top of the fish's head was extremely abnormal and very flat, as if a steel stamp had been stamped on it.

Of course, Li Liang's description is more vivid. It is like someone stepped on the top of the fish's head, flattening the top of its skull and leaving a "shoe print" with extremely clear patterns!
"This really is a shoe-sole fish!" Liang Ziqiang took the fish from his hand and threw it into an empty basket next to him.

"Look, there are still quite a few shoe-soled fish. We will tear them all off the big fish later. Liangzi, you have strong hands, so it will all depend on you!" Liang Ziqiang immediately divided the work.

The official name of the shoe sole fish is fish, also known as the sucker fish. This fish has a large shoe sole on its head, and the shoe sole is actually a kind of suction cup, and the suction power is super strong.

Of course, this fish is also known as the laziest, most shameless fish in the ocean. Its own swimming ability is terrible, but it wants to travel around the world, so it uses the big suction cup on its head that looks like a shoe sole to stick to the big fish, so it can get a ride and travel hundreds of miles.

It's no big deal for bomb fish to get hitched by other trains. They are usually quite brave and like to get hitched by large trains. It's common for sharks and whales to get hitched by them.

Of course, it is not that bad. It does not cause much pain to big fish like barnacles and lampreys. The suction cup is only attached to the surface and does not pierce the fish flesh.

The fish itself is edible and has unique nutritional value, so Liang Ziqiang asked Li Liang to break all the fish into pieces and put them in a separate basket.

So, after a while, the sound of Li Liang's "Hey Yo" exerting force rang in my ears continuously, and he broke off a piece of silk after a while.

Not only was the bomb fish sucked in, but two or three were also sucked in from the nearby giant mackerel and albacore tuna.

The smaller fish weigh one or two kilograms, while the larger ones weigh about seven or eight kilograms.

The suction cups squeeze out the air and then suck the fish up. When encountering a fish weighing seven or eight kilograms, it is impossible to pull a small fish like Lin Baixian down.

Li Liang was also surprised that on the first day of going out to sea, all his strength would come in handy as he spent the whole day catching shoe-bottom fish!
Fish also like to be in groups. After two rounds in the morning and afternoon, we caught a full load of fish!
On the second day, there were no more fish and the big fish became fewer and fewer, so Liang Ziqiang moved to another sea area.

Starting from the third day, a very special kind of shrimp appeared in the trawl, with segmented patterns all over its body.

"Could it be a nine-segmented shrimp? Nine-segmented shrimp don't seem to be this big?"

The nine-segment shrimp, also known as the island prawn, has a very aggressive temper after being caught and likes to die in disgrace at any time.

When Lin Ping first took a look, he thought that there were so many nine-segment shrimps in the net.

"Nine-segment shrimps are generally not this big. This is a black tiger shrimp!" Liang Ziqiang picked up one and looked at it.

At first glance, this shrimp does look somewhat similar to the nine-segment shrimp, both have segmented patterns.

But in terms of base color, this shrimp is black, and the texture is rusty. Especially in terms of size, black tiger shrimp is much larger than nine-segment shrimp.

Some large ones can weigh nearly a pound each.

Nine-segment shrimps are usually more expensive, and black tiger shrimps are not much cheaper than nine-segment shrimps.

The two have different tastes and nutritional values. Black tiger shrimp is a type of shrimp that has a particularly high content of astaxanthin, which has many benefits for the human body.

Over the next two or three days, they continued to work in the sea area and harvested a lot of black tiger shrimps.

In general, we didn't get any particularly valuable goods like yellowtail amberjack and bluefin tuna on this trip, but we got a lot of ordinary tuna and bomb fish, and the price of black tiger shrimp was not too low, so the balance was still good.

After several consecutive trips to sea, it is already the end of April and May is about to begin.

Just as they were returning to the village from the sea that day, they suddenly heard Xu Ping running over and saying that someone had called Aqiang and Axian, asking them to call back at dinner time.

The two went to Xu Ping's house together around seven o'clock in the evening. They called the number she left and it was Lu Feng.

Lu Feng and Liang Ziqiang did not meet very often, but to Liang Ziqiang, Lu Feng was undoubtedly a very important friend.

From Du Ziteng to Pang Jiahui and Jiang Wenang, if it weren't for Lu Feng's introduction, Liang Ziqiang would never have gotten to know them, and he wouldn't have been able to sell high-end seafood, conchs, pearls, ornamental fish and the like.

It can be said that Liang Ziqiang’s ability to buy a new ship in the beginning was inseparable from the opportunity brought by Lu Feng.

After a few pleasantries on the phone, we learned that Lu Feng had contacted them this time because he hadn't been out to sea for a long time, and he wanted to take advantage of the warm but not too hot weather in early May to go out to sea again...

(End of this chapter)