I have a sea in ancient times

Chapter 273 Soft Gold at Sea

Looking at the densely packed transparent small fish beside the fishing boat, Lu Hai's eyes lit up.

Lu Hai took out a pair of nets with dense meshes, fished out the small transparent fish, and put them in the water basin for observation.

These transparent fish have very slender bodies, about ten centimeters long, with a black line in the middle.

Lu Hai remembered what it was. When he was a child, he caught it a lot, and he could sell it for money.

Eel fry.

It turned out to be this kind of thing. Their native freshwater eels have been extinct for too long, and they almost forgot about this kind of thing.

This is no ordinary eel fry.

It was the seedling of freshwater eel, and only the seedling of freshwater eel would rush to the shore in such a desperate manner.

However, the white eels, stone eels, and money eels that I often catch, these seedlings will not do this.

The reason is related to the freshwater eel, which is a migratory marine creature that grows in freshwater rivers and lakes, but when it becomes an adult, it returns to the sea to lay eggs.

Its behavior is just the opposite of salmon, which grows in the sea, but will go to freshwater areas to spawn.

Freshwater eel is in great demand and is the best raw material for making Kabayaki eel.

At the same time, it is also the most troublesome breeding species in the breeding industry, because so far, freshwater eels can only be cultured artificially and cannot be artificially reproduced.

This is always related to its unique way of life. The growth of freshwater eels is divided into six stages.

Fish egg stage, willow eel stage, glass eel stage, eel line stage, yellow eel stage.Silver eel period.

The eel fry caught by Lu Hai are in the fourth stage of the eel line stage, which is also a stage that can be cultured artificially.

The reason why freshwater eels are difficult to breed is that during the artificial breeding period, from willow leaf eels to glass eels, if they are not placed in the natural environment of the sea, they will not eat anything and would rather starve themselves to death.

Of course, after so many years of research, some people have indeed developed a material that allows them to eat, which is to grind shark eggs into powder for them to eat.

It is indeed possible to grow up slowly, but at present this technology is limited to research laboratories, and there is still no farmer who has successfully bred freshwater eels.

This is why eels are so expensive.

The seedlings of freshwater eels are known as "soft gold at sea", and they are really expensive, even more expensive than the eggs of gentian grouper.

The most exaggerated time.

Such a thin strip can be sold for 10-20 yuan. If it is a local species, it will be even more expensive. It is said that the price of a freshwater eel seedling of a local species exceeds 30 yuan.

Although Lu Hai had worked with Lao Ma, he only slaughtered eels, so he couldn't tell where the eels he caught were from.

Just like this, there are at least 30 items on the Internet. According to the current market price, the cheapest is 500 yuan.

This is simply making money!

Lu Hai took out a bucket alone, and put these freshwater eel seedlings into the bucket.

Speaking of which, almost all freshwater seedlings in China have become extinct, and those in the fishery administration are very strict about this.

Anyone caught fishing will be fined and the fishing boat will be confiscated.

But the native freshwater fry are all gone.

There are not many farmers at all. It is no exaggeration to say that 80.00% of the eels in Neon Country are imported from China.

But there are very few wild freshwater eels along the coast, and eel fry must not be available, and where do those eels come from.

And this is an unspoken secret.

Most of the domestic market uses European eels, because Europe prohibits the trade of eel fry, and European eel fry are also cheaper, and everyone tacitly knows this kind of thing.

Often there will be some international news.

The police in a certain place discovered a large number of smuggled eel fry, and almost all of these smuggled destinations were in a certain country.

Because eel fry are too hard to find, this also makes the current eel very expensive. The market price of a well-made Kabayaki eel is at least 150 yuan per catty. Anything lower than this price is somewhat problematic.

Lao Ma had raised eels before, but he gave up because the fry were too expensive and the cost of breeding was too high.

Lu Hai remembered.

It was these eels that really made Lao Ma rich. In the early years, the ecology around Xiaqi Island was not bad, and the sales of freshwater eels in China were average.

But Neon Nation needs a lot.

At that time, a man from the Neon country came to Xiaqi Island for inspection, and he was received by Lao Ma. Later, the two parties signed an agreement.

A complete set of breeding technology support is provided by Neon Country, and freshwater eel seedlings can be caught from the Lijiang River estuary.

The agreement stipulates that the farmed eels must be exported to their country first. There is a specified amount for a year, and if the standard is not met, compensation will be made.

In the years when there was no shortage of eel fry, Lao Ma was at his happiest, and he threatened all day long that he would pull Lu Paotou off his horse and make him the richest man in Xiaqi Island.

As a result, I laughed for a few years.

This breeding mode, which cannot be reproduced artificially, has been hit by destruction.

Lao Ma's eel farm is facing the embarrassing situation of having no seedlings to catch and raising. Of course, this is also related to the coastal fishermen who catch a large number of fry.

Except for his eel farm.

There are at least seven or eight stores along the coast of Licheng.

Everyone is scrambling to get seedlings. Under the competitive environment, the price of fry is naturally getting higher and higher, and the profit margin is getting smaller and smaller.

What really led to the extinction of the freshwater eel should be the water conservancy project in the upper reaches of the Lijiang River, which completely blocked the freshwater eel's way of life with such a slight stop.

After the water conservancy project was launched, more than half of the eel farms along the coast were closed down.

Lao Ma often complains sometimes. The Nihong countryman who supported him in the past would call him every now and then to encourage him to continue farming eels.

Regrettably.

There are a lot of orders in hand, but he can't afford to raise eels.

Watching the sea full of young eel.

Lu Hai is really happy.

It seems that my father has a long-term perspective. It is really right to buy Lao Ma's factory.

They have real eel breeding technology. After catching these eel fry and putting them in their factory for breeding, it will be a lot of money.

Happy to be happy.

Lu Hai continued to closely monitor every move of the divers on the bottom of the sea. As for the fishing of freshwater eel seedlings, it was left to Zhou Yi and King Kong Barbie.

Anyway, there are so many fry.

It would be a waste if they didn't catch it. The nearby marine life that was eyeing this group of eel fry was not good. A group of Spanish mackerel was fighting for food from him, and they ate a lot of eel fry in one bite.

There is also a ferocious cartilaginous sea fish like dragon head fish, which is also eating eel seedlings. Lu Hai is heartbroken to see it, and he has to hurry up, and he can't take advantage of these bastards.

After all, there is a period for fishing eel seedlings. Once this time has passed, there will be no more.

(End of this chapter)