Time passed quickly, and it didn't take long for the sky outside to start getting brighter and brighter, and some of the early crew members had already begun to get up one after another.

After breakfast, Li Xiaofeng and Han Minghua both acted as if nothing had happened last night, what should they do.

Han Minghua commanded the crew to start anchoring, and after lifting the anchor, the fishing boat also began to speed up and continued to sail in a southeasterly direction.

"Xiaoliang, you and someone will replace our fishing nets with the most densely meshed nets on the boat!" After the fishing boat sailed for half an hour, Li Xiaofeng issued his first command.

"Okay, Brother Feng!" Although Li Xiaoliang also had doubts in his heart, he hurriedly agreed as soon as possible.

You must know that in the process of their fishing journey, Li Xiaofeng most often told them that fishing should also pay attention to sustainable development!

Usually some fish they catch are too small, and Li Xiaofeng often lets them put them back into the sea, but now the fishing net with the densest mesh he asked Li Xiaoliang to replace is smaller than the mesh of many desperate nets!

Li Xiaoliang went out to direct the crew to change the nets, and the replacement of fishing nets on distant-water fishing boats is almost entirely manual, so it is not easy to replace such a large fishing net.

Meng Guangming, who was driving the boat, waited for Li Xiaoliang to go out, hesitated for a moment and couldn't help asking: "Captain, when we usually go to the net, don't many small fish be released directly, why did you let everyone change to such a dense net this time?" ”

Han Minghua and Hu Dequan next to him also looked at him with some puzzlement.

"You'll know the reason when you get the net up." Li Xiaofeng said with a smile, he did not answer his question directly.

At this time, the crew working on the deck was also talking, and many of the crew members did not understand why the captain would do this, but although there were talks, no one dared to slack off in their work.

It's just that what everyone doesn't know is that twenty or thirty nautical miles in front of them, in the middle and upper layers of the sea, there are countless dense white shrimp with a length of only three or four centimeters, and a transparent color distributed there.

If we describe fish as schools of fish, and sardines with smaller bodies as sardine storms, then now we can describe these small white shrimp as an ocean of small white shrimp!

As far as the eye can see, these little white shrimp seem to be boundless in the sea, filling the entire ocean!

These small white shrimps, which seem to make up an ocean, are also common in our lives, and they are called hairy shrimp in many places, and water shrimp in others.

Hairy shrimp is a marine shrimp that is widely distributed in temperate and tropical oceans, and is found in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but it is the most concentrated area in the Indo-Malay Archipelago.

Speaking of which, Li Xiaofeng, they are not far from the Malay Archipelago now.

Hairy shrimp is also widely distributed in various seas of China, and we are also the world's largest country in hairy shrimp fishing.

In the eighties and nineties of the last century, our annual catch of hairy shrimp accounted for more than half of the world's catch, as our most important export seafood at that time, creating a large amount of foreign exchange for our country, which was poor and white at that time.

It is a pity that due to overfishing for so many years, the resources of hairy shrimp in all seas in China are declining year by year.

After the shrimp is dried, it is the most common shrimp skin in our lives, and the hairy shrimp can also be processed into shrimp paste and shrimp oil used as a seasoning. After the fishing boat dragged the fishing net in the sea for less than two hours, Li Xiaofeng used the walkie-talkie to inform Li Xiaoliang to arrange for someone to lift the net.

Now the crew is not stunned when they have just gone to sea, looking at the tightness of the reins on the netting machine, everyone knows that the harvest of this net must be not small, so the atmosphere on the deck is also cheerful all of a sudden, and no one discusses why the captain uses the net.

Han Minghua and Li Xiaoliang were also staring at the net on the deck at this time.

Looking at the tighter and tighter reins, Li Xiaoliang said excitedly to Han Minghua next to him: "Brother Hua, it seems that we are about to usher in a bumper harvest again!" ”

"But looking at this output, it is estimated that it cannot be a particularly valuable seafood." Han Minghua replied with a smile.

Li Xiaoliang also nodded when he heard this, this is indeed the truth, the price of seafood with a particularly high output is average.

However, looking at this posture, even if the value of the catch is average, such a high yield must be considered a good harvest.

But when the trawl was pulled up, the two of them looked at the dense bulging and countless small shrimp in the net bag, and they couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

"This net is all small shrimp?" Li Xiaoliang said in disbelief.

"I guess so." Han Minghua also nodded in disbelief.

"What a little shrimp, this is hairy shrimp!" At this time, Li Xiaofeng also came to the deck, looked at his two first mates and the fish fishing chief in front of him, who were still doubting his life, and said.

"Brother Feng, I know this is hairy shrimp, but this is too much, it is estimated that there must be forty or fifty tons under this net, right?" Seeing Li Xiaofeng coming, Li Xiaoliang said with a smile.

The two of them now understand why Li Xiaofeng informed them to replace the trawl net with a net as small as a mesh, if these small hairy shrimp use their previous trawl net, the roots will not be able to catch it.

Listening to Li Xiaoliang's words, Li Xiaofeng smiled, then nodded and said, "It's really a lot, but there are more in the sea!" So Xiaoliang, you have to urge everyone to move faster, let's hurry up and play a few more nets! ”

Then he turned his face to Han Minghua next to him and said, "Huazi, don't we have processing equipment on our fishing boat, you will organize the crew to process these hairy shrimp into shrimp skin in a while!" ”

The two of them hurriedly agreed, and they all knew that these hairy shrimp could not be stored for a long time in this high-temperature sea area, and they had to be processed into shrimp skin to be preserved.

There are generally two types of shrimp skin in the market, one is made from live shrimp raw, and the other is cooked and dried like on their fishing boats.

This kind of shrimp skin made by boiling and drying has a shinier color and a richer umami flavor.

Li Xiaofeng: The reason for this is that there is such a hairy shrimp processing equipment on the fishing boat, of course, this equipment can also be used in many places, and the equipment they used to dry sea cucumbers last time was also this equipment.

Speaking of which, the price of hairy shrimp is basically the lowest among all kinds of seafood.

The freshly caught shrimp generally costs 5-8 yuan per catty, and even if it is made into shrimp skin after drying, it is only 20-30 yuan per catty on their side.

Generally, it takes 4-5 catties of fresh hairy shrimp to make a catty of dried shrimp skin.

(End of chapter)