space fisherman

Chapter 29 Turbot

Passed the net bag on his body to Ding Yi, took the empty net bag and continued to return to the water.

Ye Yuan came to the bottom of the sea again. Not far away, a lobster was crawling in the sea sand. When he was about to pass, he saw a very ugly stone moving. He was so scared that he quickly took a few steps back, staring at it vigilantly. that rock.

After looking at it carefully for a while, I realized that it was not a stone at all, but a kind of seabed fish. Its skin was like a rusty toad, and people subconsciously didn't want to get close to it.

This is the stonefish, also known as the tiger fish. Many fishermen call it the toadfish. It is a kind of fish with strong toxicity on the seabed.

If someone accidentally steps on it, it will unceremoniously fight back, launching a deadly poison outward.

It has 12-14 needle-like backstabs on its back, which can easily penetrate the soles of the shoes and pierce the soles of the feet, causing people to be poisoned quickly and in severe pain until death.

Although stonefish is ugly, its meat is fresh and tender, without spines, and has high nutritional value.There is also the medicinal effect of nourishing the lungs. In recent years, some people say that stonefish can play a role in beauty.

After the fish fat of the stone fish is dried, it is processed into fish maw and used to make soup.

The spines of stonefish are poisonous, so you must be careful when slaughtering them. It is difficult for ordinary people to deal with the poison. The chefs in the hotel also need to learn professionally to cook this dish well.

If the poisonous stinger is not cleaned up and the poisonous stonefish is eaten, it may cause swelling and pain.Severe cases may cause convulsions and fainting.

A light flashed in Ye Yuan's eyes, he thought "I found a treasure this time." He took the net bag, opened the mouth of the net bag, walked over quietly, slowly drove the stonefish into the net, and finally picked it up carefully.This stonefish weighs 7-8 catties, which is relatively rare, and usually 2-3 catties is more common.

The price of this fish is far from clear, and usually the price of this rare seafood fluctuates a lot.

Ye Yuan climbed onto the fishing boat and carefully placed the stone fish on the deck.

"Be careful, don't touch it, it's poisonous." Seeing that the second child was about to touch the fish with his hand, Ye Yuan reminded him directly.

Ye Yuan took a sip of the mineral water that Ding Yi handed over, and this time took a fish cage made of bamboo to go down. From his perception, he had already found a few more stonefish, although not as big as the one just now, nor It's small.

To Ye Yuan, the colorful underwater world is his own cornucopia.

After fishing in this sea area for an hour, there are already a lot of lobsters and swimming crabs on the boat, and even more than 30 precious stonefish.

Ye Yuan and several crew members took turns to rest.

Ye Yuan went into the sea again, he wanted to go to a farther place to see, perhaps because few people came to this sea area, the fish is very rich.

The sea water here is very clean and clear, the sea sand stretches for a large area, and there are no seaweed plants, and the fine sea sand can't see the end.

Ye Yuan casually grabbed a small fish. The color of the small fish was bright. Ye Yuan had no interest in these worthless small fish. After letting him go, the small fish broke free from the shackles and immediately swam away in fear. Knowing kung fu has disappeared from Ye Yuan's sight.

Ye Yuan didn't pay much attention to the small fish around him. In the sea, as long as he didn't encounter large carnivorous fish, there were very few that could threaten him.

Ye Yuan swims aimlessly on the bottom of the sea.

"Huh? There seems to be something moving under the sea sand." Ye Yuan observed carefully on the spot.

After a while, Ye Yuan could see clearly that it was a turbot fish.

Turbot is a bottom-dwelling fish, usually less floating, and has a gentle personality. The body of turbot is flat and diamond-shaped, and the eyes are located on the left side of the head with a flat and wide distance between them.

The body is naked without scales, and the back is blue-brown, with black and brown patterns faintly visible. Its biggest feature is that it can change the depth of body color with the change of living environment and substrate.The ventral surface is smooth and white, without scales.

Turbot teeth are short and not sharp.There is an arc-shaped curved part above the pectoral fin, the head and tail fin are small, and there are no small spines in the whole body except the axial bone.The middle part of the body is thick, the internal organs are small, and the meat yield is high.It is the most common economical fish.

Many seafood merchants gave him another name, Turbot Fish, in order to sell it easily.

Many turbot fish in the market are artificially farmed, and the price has dropped to 15-20 yuan per catty. Wild turbot is still very marketable, and many high-end hotels still like to use turbot for cooking.

The number of turbot here is astonishingly large.Ye Yuan observed briefly, this sea sand is full of this kind of turbot, at least a few hundred tons.

Back on the boat, Ye Yuan ordered the crew to prepare the trawling net, and Ding Yi quickly drove the boat to the designated position, and slowly slid down the seabed with the trawling net.

The hull of the boat obviously felt the resistance to advance increased, and after half an hour of dragging, it was ready to start lifting the net, with the sound of the winch.

The crane directly lifts a large bag of fish, all of which are turbot, each weighing more than 3 catties, and the larger ones can weigh about 5 catties.

The turbot was unloaded on the deck, followed by the nets.

All the crew members were busy, this time there were 6 crew members, 3 people more than last time, plus Ye Yuan and the second child, 8 people quickly transported these turbots to the cold storage.

As soon as the deck was tidied up, the second net had already come up. After dragging the net here three times in a row, Ye Yuan ordered to rest.I am really tired.

After a rough estimate, the three nets can produce 20 tons of turbot.Even if the lowest 20 yuan per catty.The income of these 3 nets is also 80 yuan.

The second child was so tired that he didn't want to move anymore, so he just lay down on the deck,

"Fourth, I can see that you are using me as a coolie. I will never go to sea with you next time. I am too tired."

As he spoke, he found a cigarette and lit it on his own.

Ye Yuan was also very tired, he went through a difficult time to pull up his second child.
"Don't rest here, go back to the rest room, take a good bath, and sleep well."

After speaking, he walked back to the cabin.

Ye Yuan and the others returned to the cabin to rest, and the crew tidied up the deck tirelessly.

There is a lot of marine debris on the deck. Don’t think that the ocean is clean. In fact, many people don’t know it.

Some fishing boats go out to sea once, but they don’t catch much fish, and it often happens that they bring back more garbage than fish.

Ordinary fishermen will not throw garbage into the sea again, they will bring it back to land for disposal.This also increases the workload of some fishermen at sea.

According to some data, the marine garbage in the Pacific Ocean alone has reached more than 300 million square kilometers, even exceeding the land area of ​​some countries.

A plastic-dominated "marine garbage patch" the size of Texas has formed in the Pacific Ocean.

If this continues, the ocean will not be able to handle it.At that time, fishermen will really have no fish to catch.

PS: Thank you brother 08a for your reward, and thank you all friends for your support.

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