The grouper is not a particularly precious grouper, even in the wild state, the price of one kilogram is only three or four hundred yuan. Of course, it is large, and when it grows to two meters long, it generally weighs more than 150 kilograms, so a fish can be sold for 50,000 or 60,000 yuan.

Most of the hotels that have the strength to eat the dragon grouper are large hotels, and after purchasing, they have to be sold separately for fish fillet, fish sheng and high-quality fish balls, but few hotels use wild dragon grouper as a gimmick because they are relatively rare.

In addition to the accident, the catch of dragon barge depends on experienced fishermen at other times, these fish grow big, live for a long time, and are very clever.

It is difficult to meet one or two dragon groupers at sea, Ao Muyang was lucky, and the tiger found him a group of dragon group.

Just look at the size of the grouper to know how much they need to hunt to maintain their life, so the grouper is even rarer, this kind of fish is different from other groupers, the possibility of existence in groups is very low.

But nature is so magical, there are many seaweeds, corals, fish, shrimp and crabs in this sea, so many dragons are fed and gathered into a small group here.

But how to catch them has become a problem again.

To deal with a single grouper, he often uses longline fishing, hand fishing or bottom trawling to catch it, but this time he encountered a small group of groupers, and he was too busy to do it.

If no one else is there, Ao Muyang can set a net in the water or arrange for the tiger to be knocked out one by one and brought back to the boat, but the big dragon head is in the distance, if he somehow harvests too many dragons, I'm afraid it's hard to explain.

After thinking about it, he pointed to a dragon and told the tiger to deal with it.

The tiger pounced violently, and the dragon was also very ferocious when it preyed on the blacktip shark before, but in the face of the natural enemy of the killer whale, it urinated, and quickly shook the small fin to escape.

Where did it come from!

Crashing into the barrier of the sea, the tiger approached like thunder, and hit the dragon with its head, like a tank hitting a car, and the dragon was hit by it and flew directly in the water.

All of a sudden, the dragon was abolished.

The porpoises not far away looked frightened, looking at the big dragon that was floating up with their bellies, they looked at each other: Did we underestimate this big man before?

As fate would have it, they were fast and nimble, and the tiger couldn't hit them or bite them, otherwise with the size of these porpoises, the tiger would have crashed into them with all his might and would have smashed them into pieces!

With this dragon duck, Ao Muyang released a signal, and the big dragon head slowly drove over.

He dragged the dragon barge onto the boat, and immediately someone exclaimed: "Ah, giant grouper, it's really big." ”

Ao Muyang said: "The tiger came across, there seems to be underwater here, do you want to try it?"

The crew members who were staring at the big dragon grouper immediately responded: "Try it, you have to try, dragon groupers don't like to swim around like tuna, if you see them here, then it is estimated that they will stay here for a long time." ”

Ao Daodao waved his hand and said: "Don't talk nonsense, get off the rope and longline fishing." ”

Longline fishing is one of the most important operations in the process of marine fishing, it is the most widely distributed, the strongest fishing ability, as long as it hits the target, it will often be harvested.

Laying out the longline was a small project, a thick trunk line was lifted out of the cabin, and there were also branch lines, float sinkers, and so on, and there were many accessories.

Two small boats dragged the main line down the water, and someone put a float on it and floated up to the sea with the main line.

Others tied knots on the main line, and hung branch lines at equal distances, and there were hooks and bait on the branch lines.

After the equipment is set up, the official work begins.

The trunk line of longline fishing does not necessarily have to float on the sea, but it is convenient for fishermen to hang accessories on the sea, and when the accessories are hanged, it is necessary to set its settlement position.

This time, the target is the dragon grouper, which generally lives at a depth of about 20 to 50 meters underwater, and the water depth here is 60 meters, so at least let the main line sink 20 meters.

Part of the float was removed, and instead a sunken stone was installed, and at first the gravity of the sunken stone was stronger than the buoyancy, so the main line kept descending until it was lowered twenty meters, at which time a few sunken stones were removed and replaced with floats.

Here, gravity and buoyancy are balanced, and the trunk line is just floating in the water, fluttering, and spreading a wide range.

After setting up the lines, the crew returned to the boat and continued their journey, returning to collect the lines overnight.

Normally, longline fishing is preceded by a small amount of line, collected the next day to see the catch, and then the central fishery is judged based on the catch.

With Ao Muyang's command, this can be dispensed with, the fishing rope directly shrouded the seaweed waters, hanging fresh trash fish and small shrimp, and some hanging sliced mackerel, which is the favorite food of the dragon grouper.

The big dragon head withdrew, and there was nothing to do for a while, and everyone began to study the dragon that was killed by the tiger.

Ao Dao hoisted the fish up and weighed it, the length of the fish was 1.95 meters, and the weight was 160 kilograms, which was quite fat.

Of course, this is not an uncommon occurrence among adult groupers, and fishermen in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Guangdong catch a group weighing more than 200 kilograms every year, of which the record is 320 kilograms, which is a full length of 2.8 meters.

Looking at this big fish, Ao Wenchang felt a relative: "Alas, how long does such a big fish have to live in the sea......?

As he spoke, a look of regret appeared on his face.

Ao Mudong is most annoyed by this kind of woman's kindness: "What can we do? If we don't catch it, can it live forever? Besides, you see that it grows so big, how many live fish and shrimp do you have to eat? Who will pity the fish and shrimp that it eats?"

Ao Wenchang knew that he couldn't communicate directly with these rough people, so he said: "Who pities this dragon?" I'm just curious, how old does this dragon have to be when it's so big?"

Ao Qianwen, who was smoking, said leisurely: "Just take a look? Anyway, their ages are written on their bodies." ”

Ao Wenchang was surprised and asked, "Is it written?"

Ao Qianpan smiled: "Xiucai, you have read so many books and studied so much, you can't do this?"

Ao Wenchang smiled bitterly: "I don't want to learn this when I go to school, Uncle Qianpan, if you can teach me." ”

Ao Qianpan said: "Ha, this is simple, uncle will teach you, but not in vain, go back and you will do extracurricular tutoring for my family Nizi, her English and mathematics are too poor." ”

Ao Wenchang nodded: "Okay, that's no problem." ”

There are scales on the body of the dragon grouper, mostly small scales, but they are big, and it is inevitable that there are relatively large scales, and Ao Qianpan took a piece from it.

Ao Muyang would not judge the age of the fish by the scales, so he curiously went up to observe.

Seeing that he also came to see, Ao Qianpan became serious and said: "The dragon head is very simple, similar to the annual rings of a tree, in fact, this fish also has annual rings." Hey, Chirai, go get me a magnifying glass. ”

Ao Qianlai left in a hurry, and then returned with a telescope......