Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 381: The technologically advanced fish flower factory (asking for monthly tickets)
The next morning at 8:30, Qin Dahe drove to pick up Wu Ye and headed to Sancha River.

I am familiar with this place. I have been here more than once to dig for gold and fish.

According to Wu Ye's instructions, they drove forward from the place where they fought the flood last time and found a small fork in the road.

After a short stretch of gravel road, we started walking on a dirt road. After turning several corners, we stopped at the gate of a farmhouse.

This place is really remote.

There are two big trees at the entrance of the yard, and many copper honor signs on the wall.

"**Agricultural University Cooperation Unit."

“Member of Anhui Fisheries Research Association”

The Agricultural University signboard is quite valuable. Qin Dahe nodded slightly when he saw it.

Behind them are small cubes of greenhouses that have been divided, probably for temperature control.

The scale of this kind of seedling and flower factory is really not small, and the investment in seedlings and flowers is much greater than that in breeding.

As soon as the car stopped, someone came to greet us.

"Old Five, haha, your pond won't be pumping water again next year."

"A Ming." Fifth Master pointed at Qin Dahe and said, "My eldest brother's child has contracted the Dahu Lake. You can handle it as you wish when he comes to visit for the first time."

"Grandpa." Qin Dahe politely took out a black pine cigarette and started handing out cigarettes.

"No problem, I'll definitely get you some good seedlings."

The three of them walked in chatting and laughing. They didn't rush to take the transfer box away and waited until they had selected the seedlings.

The Miaohua Factory's business is quite special. There may be only about ten customers coming in a month, but it is enough to make a living.

In spring, all the seedlings may be sold out in two months.

The surroundings were very deserted at this time. Apart from the two aunts feeding the animals and the three of them, there was no one else in sight.

"Dahe, how big is your fish pond?" After chatting for a few sentences, they became familiar with each other, and the boss directly called him Dahe.

"My pond is 94 acres, but the average water level is four meters." It was originally 100 acres, but he separated it into two large and one small fish ponds.

"It's not easy to raise fish at such a depth, and pumping out water is very expensive." The average water depth of a normal fish pond is only one and a half meters.

"I want to raise big fish, so it must be deeper." Qin Dahe smiled and explained his needs.

There are 2000 yellow and white carp fry, grass carp fry, and high-back crucian carp fry.

"Come and see the seedlings first."

The boss didn't say much and took the two of them to the ponds in each greenhouse to collect samples. They walked directly along the plank road to the center of the pond and caught them randomly.

Wu Ye checked carefully. Qin Dahe himself had read a lot of books and could see that even though it was cold now, the activity of the fry was very good.

"The factory has become bigger this year. What has your son done?" The owner of this fish flower factory relies on his son.

The boss, who is a doctoral student at the Agricultural University and has two undergraduate students working part-time, combined with his own decades of breeding experience, built this fish farm.

The fact that he is a doctoral student alone makes Wu Ye and others respect him. Many breeders in the county come here to buy seedlings.

"The breeding sheds for black carp and mandarin fish have been built, and they will start breeding this spring. Mandarin fish, in particular, are very delicate, and it cost me more than 50,000 yuan." Although he said this, the boss still had a smile on his face.

Mandarin fish fry are delicate, but also valuable, costing a few dollars each.

Even if you can't sell them, you can raise some more and sell them to restaurants as mandarin fish. It won't be a big loss. As long as you raise them for a few more years and accumulate experience, you can make money continuously.

"It's better to study. Your son is really capable."

"Haha, I spent so much money on his studies, and now all the money I earn is used to help him with his research." The boss said proudly.

He invested all the profits from his fish flower factory in his son's private laboratory. Every year, buying sample fish and special medicines alone was a huge expense.

Of course, once the research results are out, they will belong to his fish flower factory.

"We won't run away today. We want both black carp and mandarin fish," Wu Ye said seriously. "We'll give you face, but if anything goes wrong, you have to cover it. The farmers in the village are counting on you."

The breeding farm is really unreliable. It is difficult to transport the fry over long distances, and we cannot buy fry from other places.

Farmers within a radius of dozens of kilometers, and even those on the opposite bank of the canal, are all supporting this farm.

I just hope that private fish and flower factories can grow bigger. It’s okay if they make money, but at least they can take responsibility.

Once farmers suffer losses, it is no small matter.

There is a doctoral student here, so at least I have some idea about it. Even if we encounter some difficult problems, he can come to us and help us find a solution.

"Don't worry, my kid said this batch of seedlings are standard finished products. My second mandarin fish shed is about to start up."

"Okay, let's go and see the seedlings." Seeing is believing. We are all experienced breeders and we can't fool people.

If something really goes wrong when we get back, we might have to send someone to investigate the cause, and we will definitely compensate for the loss in the end.

Last year, a family in Xiaohekou had their fish pond infected with disease after releasing their own seedlings. They immediately came to investigate and discovered that a large number of wild fish had died in Xiaohekou, a natural disaster. However, the family still had to pay compensation.

"The mandarin fish fry are about ten centimeters long now. A lot of them came out in the fall, and there are still about 4,000 left."

Because there are relatively few mandarin fish seedlings, they are raised in cages. The water quality in the mandarin fish pond is obviously very clear, and the filter machine next to it is running non-stop.

I just fished out a big box, at least over thirty fish, and showed them.

"The fur is intact, the color is bright, and the neatness is also high." Qin Dahe exclaimed.

Uniformity means that the size of the fry is stable, all around ten centimeters.

If the uniformity is poor, put it into the river, because the small fish cannot compete with the big fish, its growth will be significantly slower.

Of course, even if they are exactly the same, there will be differences in the end, but these problems can be avoided in the early stages.

"Haha, Lao Wu, your nephew is quite knowledgeable."

"Grandpa, you're joking. I just read some books." Qin Dahe didn't dare to show off.

Breeding is something that you can’t understand just by reading books. Without practice, you will always be a novice.

"Boss, do you have any mandarin fish seedlings?" He passed around another cigarette and lit one for himself and took a deep breath.

"That's a headache for my kid, too. There are some successful cases of breeding in the south, but they often die here. We don't see many mandarin fish in the market every year."

"It's hard to collect more samples. Shipping them from the south costs two or three hundred yuan for a single mother."

"Haha, next time I catch something, I'll send it to you. I've caught several nests this year." Qin Dahe said with a smile. This major is just right for him.

There are indeed few spotted mandarin fish in the Yuxi River, but he still caught some this year, including the harvest from the shipwreck.

"Ce, send it to me next time. I'll buy it for 40 yuan per catty. My son is always asking me to buy the mandarin fish."

Fish farming technology needs to be universal. If the fish that can be raised in the south can be gradually moved to the north, it will be a major breakthrough in technology and the economic value will also be reflected.

"Just follow the market price. We will definitely deliver the goods to you when they are available." Qin Dahe said with a smile.

He also understood that this fish flower factory was very important to local fish farmers, so he would help them if he could.

"Haha, these are all trivial matters. As long as there is stock, that's all."

The spotted mandarin fish is a favorite of many people and has much higher economic value than the flower mandarin fish.

Finally we went to the black carp pond. The black carp seedlings looked similar to grass carp and were of good quality.

After looking at so many fish ponds, Qin Dahe found that the water quality in all the ponds was very clean, which showed that the boss was really attentive.

Next is the price. The fish flower factory does not bargain and at most gives away some seedlings.

They make huge profits, but with such responsibilities, the risks are also huge.

Silver carp (bighead carp) fry are 1.4 cents each, bighead carp fry are 1 cent each, and 6,000 of them cost 720 yuan.

Grass carp fry costs 2000 cents. Although the price is a little lower than silver carp, it is more difficult to breed. fish cost yuan.

The price of black carp seedlings is 55 cents. Qin Dahe wanted 1,000 of them, which cost 550 yuan.

The price of mandarin fish is the highest, three dollars and a half per fish, and 700 dried mandarin fish cost more than two thousand dollars.

This number was calculated based on Wu Ye's advice and his own reading. For mixed breeding in a 100-acre lake, this many seedlings would be enough.

Wu Ye would also put in some extra bream fry, but Qin Dahe didn't want to raise bream so he didn't want them.

Bream and crucian carp are edible and can be used for defecation, but raising too many of them will not improve the water quality.

As for crucian carp fry, they were six cents each, and people gave away four thousand for two hundred yuan, and the rest were given away for free.

Crucian carp fry are the least valuable, but they reproduce quickly and have an amazing survival rate. You can breed a lot of them in any pond.

I spent more than 4,000 yuan on buying seedlings today, which is not as high as I imagined.

Of course, because he practices natural low-density farming.

If it were those ponds with oxygen pumps, the orders for ponds of thirty acres would be more than his.

Take the transfer box down, load the goods, pay on the spot, and then load the truck.

The oxygen pumps are ready, all hooked up and ready to go immediately. We can't afford to waste a moment on this.

When they got home, the fish basket in the lake was already prepared. Uncle Wu helped put the fish fry into the basket one scoop at a time.

The fry should be allowed to adapt to the water environment of the lake before being released. If a few die, they should be fished out and their number can be counted at the end.

It would be fine if a few animals died, but if a lot died, we still have to ask the farm for compensation.

After the Chinese New Year, that’s when I really start spending big money, but I haven’t bought the crab seedlings yet.

According to Wu Ye and the others, at least four to five thousand crabs need to be released into the big lake, and the crab seedlings in the Yangtze River cost several yuan each.

(End of this chapter)