162: Blue trevally

Yang Qi noticed a school of fish at the end of his ability's vision. He quickly narrowed the range of his ability and zoomed out to observe, seeing a dense school of large fish swimming south.

Yang Qi pointed his searchlight at the fish school, and in the light, countless fleeing fish could be seen leaping out of the water.

The scene was like water being splashed into hot oil; the sea surface instantly boiled.

Yang Qi picked up the radio's walkie-talkie and excitedly shouted to harvest:

"Calling, calling! setting sail calling harvest, please respond if you hear me."

"Hearing you, hearing you, harvest hears you, please speak!"

Bai Dahai responded from the other end.

"A relatively large school of fish has been found ahead. harvest, accelerate and catch up, prepare to go around to the front of the school and deploy the net."

Yang Qi immediately gave the order.

"Received, harvest received." Bai Dahai replied loudly, while signaling everyone to come out and prepare for work.

"Old Yang, Old Chen, we've found a school of fish. Call everyone over, prepare to deploy the net."

When the two boats arrived at full speed in front of the fish school, Yang Qi began to direct harvest to deploy and then retrieve the trawl net.

With Bai Dahai's command, Chen Zhongwei and Chen Dong began to deploy the net.

At this time, setting sail, after giving instructions to harvest, moved to the side to make space for harvest.

Then, harvest, dragging its massive trawl net, slowly approached the fish school under Bai Dahai's operation.

Everyone on the boat, illuminated by the searchlights, watched the fish school, which was boiling like water, and all showed excited expressions. A big harvest on the first net certainly brought joy.

"Yang Qi, you really have a knack for finding fish! This is incredible!"

Uncle, seeing this scene for the first time, couldn't help but exclaim.

The other two new crewmen had not worked with Yang Qi before. They had only heard that he was good at finding fish, but never expected the results to be so impressive!

harvest passed through the middle of the fish school like a plow tilling the land.

At Yang Qi's request, they continued for another ten minutes. Finally, it was time to haul in the net.

The trawl net slowly closed, and it was visibly shaking a lot.

When the enormous net bag was slowly hoisted by the crane to the side of the boat, it got stuck.

The net bag was simply too heavy to lift out of the water. harvest tried several times, but each time it was just a little short, unable to clear the boat's side.

Yang Qi came up with a solution: he tied a rope to the crane hook on setting sail's side, threw it to harvest, and tied it to the net bag.

He then started his crane, and with the added force from setting sail, they finally managed to pull the net bag onto the deck.

Through his ability, Yang Qi already knew this was a school of Torpedo scad.

Torpedo scad, of the Carangidae family, commonly known as 'Balang fish,' 'Baci fish,' 'Chizi,' 'Huangzhan,' etc.

Its body is fusiform, slightly compressed, generally 15-30 cm long and weighing 50-200 grams. It has a large mouth, a conical snout, and a row of fine teeth on both upper and lower jaws.

It has relatively large eyes, a blue-gray back, a silvery-white belly, and a black spot on the upper posterior corner of its gill cover.

Its yield is relatively high, and in recent years, it has become one of China's important economic fish species. Its meat is delicious; it can be pan-fried, deep-fried, or steamed fresh, and processed into salted dried products.

The peak production season for this fish coincides with the high-temperature season in the south. Its yield is concentrated, so fresh sales are relatively low, and most are processed into salted dried products, hence it is commonly called 'pond fish' in the south.

Torpedo scad also has a unique characteristic different from other fish species: its farmed variety has superior flesh quality, so the market price for farmed Torpedo scad is actually higher than for wild varieties.

The price of farmed varieties is 5-10 times that of wild varieties.

The market price for wild Torpedo scad is very affordable, generally 10-30 yuan per jin.

As Yang Dad, Yang Limin, untied the rope of the net bag, countless Torpedo scad instantly flowed out. "Whoosh!" A pile of Torpedo scad accumulated on the deck.

Because the net bag was too heavy earlier, the crane didn't lift it very high. As the fish at the bottom of the net bag flowed out, the weight decreased, allowing the crane to lift it higher.

When about 1/3 of the catch had poured out of the net bag, it seemed something big was stuck.

Chen Zhongwei operated the crane, and the boom shook up and down a few times, finally dislodging the large object stuck in the net bag.

Everyone finally saw clearly that it was two Yellowfin Tuna, each weighing over 150 jin.

As these two large Yellowfin Tuna fell, the Torpedo scad inside began to flow out again with a "whoosh," accompanied by some Sea Bass, Skipjack Tuna, and barracuda. Finally, four more Yellowfin Tuna, weighing eighty to ninety jin each, also dropped out.

Now, the entire deck was filled with jumping fish, a mountain of fish, it was a veritable fish mountain.

"Holy cow, so many fish! Such big fish!" Uncle was completely stunned.

"There are Tuna! I see at least six Tuna, hahaha!"

Bai Dahai shouted excitedly.

The total catch, all combined, definitely exceeded five tons. Of course, the vast majority were Torpedo scad.

"A great start! A huge harvest! Definitely over five tons of fish!"

Yang Limin was also very happy.

"Ah! It's a pity the fish school is Torpedo scad. If it were other, more expensive fish, it would be even more perfect."

Yang Qi said into the walkie-talkie.

"It's already very good. Although Balang fish are a bit cheaper, with such large individuals, they can still sell for over 20 yuan per jin. This net alone, just the Balang fish, can sell for 100,000 yuan, not even counting the Tuna."

Bai Dahai was clearly very satisfied with this net's harvest.

He had already stopped the boat and dropped anchor, preparing to help sort the fish. At the very least, he needed to help sort out the Tuna.

Having witnessed Yang Qi's ability for the first time, the crewmen who were new to working with him were very impressed, constantly muttering about how good Yang Qi was at finding fish.

Only Bai Dahai knew that Yang Qi had asked him to trawl for an extra ten minutes. Of course, he wouldn't say much, but he became even more convinced of his son-in-law's abilities.

He knew that it was those extra ten minutes that allowed harvest to catch several more Yellowfin Tuna in this net.

Yang Qi and Bai Xue did not go over to harvest, as he didn't want to join the work of picking up fish.

The two stood on setting sail's deck, watching Bai Dahai explain to Uncle how to bleed and degas the Tuna.

Uncle was also very diligently learning, because everyone on both boats, except for him, the newcomer, knew how to perform this operation.

It's fine if he doesn't know, he'll just learn. Only by learning more can he keep up with everyone's pace.

Yang Qi and Bai Xue also marveled at the trawl's yield, honestly, they were a bit envious. Five tons in one net, just thinking about it was exciting. How long would it take for two people to catch five tons of fish by angling alone!

It was also fortunate that setting sail pursued an elite strategy, letting the quality of its catch speak for itself... PS: Everyone, please help with the data! Recent data has declined.

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