Chapter 36: Swordfish
Swordfish are somewhat similar to sailfish, both have a pointed and long palate, and they are also strong swimmers in the ocean!
The main difference is that the swordfish has a large, retractable dorsal fin that looks like a flag when it is stretched out, while the swordfish has a much smaller dorsal fin.
Another is the size of the swordfish, which is generally slightly larger than the sailfish.
The flesh of swordfish is fresh and tender, which is not only nutritious, but also has the effect of improving immunity, and is very popular with some people.
Therefore, the price of swordfish has always been not low.
Although its price is nowhere near as bluefin tuna, it is one of the high-end seafood.
On the Jiangzhou side, it can generally be sold for 150~200 yuan a catty.
Just the big guy in front of him who is more than 3 meters and nearly 4 meters is estimated to weigh more than 300 pounds, which can sell at least more than 40,000 yuan!
Looking at the swordfish in front of him, Li Xiaofeng seemed to see a pile of money in front of him!
Although he was excited, he was a little hesitant.
Not to mention the danger of the swordfish, the main thing is whether he can kill with one shot.
At most, he only has one chance to shoot!
If you don't have a fatal shot, you basically don't have a chance to fire a second shot, and if the fish doesn't hit it, you may lose all the spearguns.
In the end, after thinking about it again, he was still reluctant to give up this opportunity to make money, and decided to give it a go!
Now that the decision had been made, Li Xiaofeng did not hesitate, and he began to swim slowly around the swordfish, looking for a suitable angle to shoot.
After turning around, because the swordfish kept slapping the saury with its long palate, causing its head to shake around, Li Xiaofeng never found a good shooting angle.
In the end, Li Xiaofeng decided to dive under the swordfish to find an angle to shoot.
When Li Xiaofeng dived under the swordfish, the swordfish seemed to have spotted the guy swimming around it, and with bad intentions, he stopped slapping the food and prepared to escape.
The opportunity was fleeting, and at the moment when the swordfish's head stopped shaking and was about to escape, Li Xiaofeng also seized the opportunity and immediately pulled the trigger of the speargun.
The arrow slashed through the water like a bolt of lightning, instantly from the bottom up, piercing the swordfish's head.
The swordfish took the arrows and began to run forward frantically.
The reels on the spear gun also start to spin at high speed!
Just when Li Xiaofeng thought that he had made a mistake in shooting and considered whether to cut the fishing line and give up the fishing arrow, the swordfish took the fishing arrow and rushed out for more than 20 meters, stopped swimming, and slowly floated in the sea.
Blood also ran down the wound, gradually staining the nearby sea water red.
Seeing this situation, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but be overjoyed, and sure enough, he introduced a speargun that can shoot sharks, and decided to give the merchant a good review when he went back.
Additional praise, what are you thinking about at this time, Li Xiaofeng shook his head.
Now get the swordfish on board, if the blood attracts a shark at this time, he'll cry!
He slowly collected the fishing line, but when he received that there were still seven or eight meters left, he didn't dare to collect it anymore.
Looking at these big fish that are more than three meters long and nearly four meters long, it is still very oppressive.
He simply pulled the fishing line like this, dragged a swordfish of more than three meters behind him, and slowly swam towards the fishing boat!
It took a man and a fish to swim for about ten minutes before swimming to the side of the fishing boat.
Liu Xuexia looked at her son who came empty-handed and was a little strange, could it be that the big fish under her head was beaten out?
Li Xiaofeng handed the speargun to Liu Xuexia, and said anxiously: "Mom, hurry up and pull the fishing line, there is a big guy behind!" ”
Hearing her son's words, Liu Xuexia hurriedly began to pull the fishing line, and Li Yonglin next to her heard the words and hurried over to help.
When the two people pulled up the big fish that was more than three meters tall, they were all stunned!
Li Yonglin thought it was a great white shark at first sight, and his hands shook in fright, this is a national second-class protected animal! Later, when I looked at the pointed and long palate, I recognized it as a swordfish, and I was relieved.
In this way, the two people pulled the fishing line to the side of the boat, Liu Xuexia reported the tail of the fish, Li Yonglin pulled the fin, Li Xiaofeng supported the body of the swordfish under the boat, and the three of them were tired and panting, so they pulled the fish to the boat.
The main reason is that Li Xiaofeng is not good at exerting his strength in the water, otherwise with his current strength, one person can easily carry this fish!
Now he couldn't rest, Li Yonglin hurriedly picked up the knife and bleed the swordfish, otherwise the fish would not be fresh after a while, and it would not be able to sell at a price.
After the bloodletting, the three of them were completely relieved.
Looking at the big fish in front of him, which took up almost half the length of his family's fishing boat, Li Yonglin, who had been fishing for decades, had to give his son a thumbs up!
Seeing such a big fish, Liu Xuexia couldn't help but be afraid for a while. Such a big fish, and that sharp, long mouth, if you run into someone underwater, you have to go!
The three of them hurriedly put away the shrimp nets that went down into the sea, and they didn't care about untying the prawns.
After collecting the shrimp nets, Li Xiaofeng drove the fishing boat, Liu Xuexia took out the ice cubes in the incubator and covered the swordfish's body, and Li Yonglin called the owners of some high-end restaurants and seafood restaurants that he met in the last cucumber fish auction.
In this way, the boat drove for almost three hours to reach the town, and there were already a few people waiting there on the dock!
When the people working on the dock saw such a big swordfish, they couldn't help but make a sensation.
Such a big swordfish is really not common on their side!
The heads of several restaurants looked around the swordfish carefully.
Then I put the fish on the scale and weighed it, and the final weight was a little more than 325 pounds!
This is the heaviest fish that Li Xiaofeng has hit so far, and it is estimated that this record will be maintained for a while.
After some bargaining, he was finally pocketed by a five-star hotel in the city at a high price of 195 yuan a catty!
The price of the whole fish also reached 63,375 yuan!
The three people who received the money were smiling, and the person in charge of the restaurant who received the fish was also very happy!
Although I didn't grab the cucumber fish king last time, this time such a big swordfish is also a good publicity point for the hotel!
The person in charge of the restaurant was about to command a few people to help carry the fish to the refrigerated truck, when Li Xiaofeng waved his hand and told them all to get out of the way.
One man picked up the fish!
The onlookers nearby couldn't help but be startled when they saw that Li Xiaofeng easily carried more than 300 catties of fish into the car with his bare hands, which instantly caused a bigger sensation.
Quite a few people gave him a thumbs up!
In fact, it's not that Li Xiaofeng wants to be in the limelight, but that his family has recently harvested valuable seafood in a row, and it is hard to guarantee that no one will have some ideas that should not be there, which can also have a deterrent effect on some people!