Chapter 61: Encounter with a giant manta ray
Pretty.
Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Sheng with a smile and gave a thumbs up.
Zhou Sheng smiled and withdrew the speargun, and also gave Chen Yuan a thumbs up......
The two unraveled the fish and continued their search side by side.
Submarine coral reefs where a variety of fish gather.
In just two or three minutes, Chen Yuan saw several groupers.
Diving hunting, selective fishing, like the kind of giant grouper that can grow to dozens of catties or hundreds of catties, just one or two catties in size, Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng saw it and chose to ignore it.
As for some small groupers, such as six-belt groupers and oil spots, they are not big in size, and they can be fished in twos and threes. Chen Yuan, they grabbed it with their hands. If you can catch it, you can catch it, and if you can't catch it, forget it.
For those groupers that don't grow big, three or four heads are already very large. The small grouper tastes good though......
There are many groupers in the Shichishu archipelago.
Chen Yuan stabbed a grouper again, estimated at about five catties.
Soon, ten minutes.
In order not to worry Chen Xin and the others, Chen Yuan picked up the rock and knocked it a few times, and Zhou Sheng turned his head when he heard the voice...... Then the two of them floated together.
When they came to the sea, the fishing boat was fifty or sixty meters away from them.
The two waited, Chen Xin drove the fishing boat over, and stopped at a distance of about ten meters next to it.
Chen Yuan and the others swam over, holding the boat with one hand, and unbuttoning the net pocket around their waist with the other, and handed it over.
In just ten minutes, Chen Yuan harvested more than a dozen catties of fish. There are seven or eight catties of grouper, and the rest are squid, squid, and other fish.
Chen Yuan's harvest is good, and Zhou Sheng's place is not bad, he caught a cat-tooth shark, and it is still alive, with six or seven catties: "Live fish are kept in the live water tank and oxygenated." Put the dead fish in the refrigerator at minus 5 degrees Celsius, don't freeze it. ”
Chen Xin nodded: "Okay." ”
After taking the net pocket, Chen Yuan and the others continued to dive, this time speeding up the search.
A coral reef was quickly found, and there were three little green dragons, so there was nothing beautiful.
Seeing big fish depends on luck.
This time, it was also ten minutes before Chen Yuan's net pocket was full, floated up, and quickly swam towards the fishing boat: "Come and continue." ”
Zhou Lan came over and lifted Chen Yuan's net pocket: "It's so heavy." ”
"You drive the boat around and go about three hundred meters ahead. We will continue to look for ......," Chen said.
"Okay." Zhou Lan responded.
Chen Xin walked over: "Did you catch the beautiful goods this time?" ”
"I didn't ...... The largest grouper is about five pounds. Chen Yuan said. It's not a precious grouper, it's directly stabbed.
Ordinary grouper, as long as it is properly preserved, the price of live fish and dead fish is not much different.
They came out today with three fish boxes.
When the fishing boat returns, the live water tank will drain the water, so the live fish can only be stored in the fish box when returning.
There are a lot of small groupers today.
These small groupers are not big, and the price is still good. Especially live fish......
Chen Yuan dived down again and came to Zhou Sheng's side.
Zhou Sheng was holding a knife and was cleaning the barnacles on the back of a large sea turtle.
Chen Yuan left the coral reef, the bottom of the sea is rocky, and these places are also easy to hide fish. And it's very good at hiding big fish......
Today's luck wasn't good.
Chen Yuan had seen a video of hunting fish here on the Internet before, and he could often catch larger groupers.
Chen Yuan: They are swimming very fast underwater, it has been half an hour, and the search range should be equivalent to two or three hours of operation of a professional diver wearing a diving tank.
Chen Yuan caught a few more lobsters, all of which were not bad, and after identifying the lobster species, he put them in his pocket.
Zhou Sheng's lights shone over.
Chen Yuan looked over and saw the movements of his hands......
Chen Yuan hurriedly swam over.
Zhou Sheng's headlamp turned......
Guangzhou found a flat sandy area with a huge manta ray lying underneath.
Manta rays, manta rays of the family Rays.
This is a large fish, the small manta ray is born with a weight of 20 kilograms, about a meter long, people who do not know this fish, at first sight thought it was a big fish, in fact, it is a newborn baby.
The manta ray below has a body width of about 6 meters and is a rare large manta ray.
"Do you want to do it?" Zhou Sheng spit bubbles and said.
Chen Yuan waved his hand and pulled Zhou Sheng.
Zhou Sheng didn't linger and left.
Manta rays with a body width of about 6 meters, they have only seen them online. Even if I have worked on an ocean-going fishing vessel for so many years, I have seen the largest manta ray, and the body width is about 5 meters.
The width of the manta ray's body is greater than its length......
Manta rays seem to be protected fish, but they are often sold in the market.
The manta rays below are too big to be funny. And a little bit of compassion......
Manta rays of this size are so rare that it is not easy to see them once.
In fact, with such a big manta ray, Zhou Sheng was also a little unable to do it.
Animism. If it was smaller, Chen Yuan and they would definitely not let it go.
Manta rays, which are more than six meters wide, seep into people when they look at it.
Some fish can be caught, some fish ...... Forget it. Manta rays look harmless to humans and animals, but once they are ruthless, they have a lot of strength.
The manta rays below are very large, but for Chen Yuan, they are not easy to handle, not that they can't handle it.
And even on a distant-water fishing boat, Chen Yuan and his family used to catch some particularly large fish, and they would choose to release them.
There was a large manta ray entrenched here, and Chen Yuan and they stayed away from this area.
Beishi Island in the Qizhou Islands is thirty or forty meters offshore, and the water depth has reached a depth of about 25 meters.
There are many rocks on the bottom of the sea, Chen Yuan caught several lobsters again, and when he caught the lobster, Chen Yuan also saw a big grouper......
Slowly swam over, and when there was still about two meters away, the speargun in his hand stabbed out, and then quickly swam over and grabbed the speargun.
This is the largest grouper harvested tonight, weighing thirty or forty catties.
Chen Yuan dragged the speargun and swam up excitedly.
Chen Xin saw a light turn on a few hundred meters away and drove the boat over.
After a while, Zhou Sheng also surfaced, and he caught a big guy......
"I've got a big deal." Zhou Sheng shouted.
"Me too." Chen Yuan said.
"Let go of that giant manta ray, and our luck will improve." Zhou Sheng said with a smile.
"You may not be able to handle that manta ray."
Waiting for Chen Xin and them to come over, Chen Yuan sent the fish to the boat.
It's past five o'clock.
The sky began to turn white, a red glow appeared at the end of the sea, and the visibility on the sea surface was much higher.
"You're coming up, aren't you?" Chen Xin asked.
"Dive a little longer." Chen Yuandao.
"It's still early, let's play a little longer." Zhou Shengdao.
I can dive for more than half an hour.
After dawn, the vigilance of the fish is restored, and when the time comes, the difficulty increases exponentially.
Chen Yuan and the others searched around the island, the water near the island was relatively deep, and the fish below were not only large, but also numerous.
In about ten minutes, Chen Yuan floated up again.
This time, I caught two groupers, but I caught a few good real sea bream, a few ugly-looking stonefish with poisonous spines, and a cat-tooth shark.
Stonefish are alive, as are cattooth sharks......
Chen Yuan swam to the side of the fishing boat and handed over the net: "Be careful, there are stonefish in it, which is highly poisonous." ”
"The kind that gets stabbed and is going to be hospitalized?" Zhou Lan said.
"Yes. Pour out the fish first......"
"Got it." Chen Xin said.