Chapter 245: Schools of Fish in the Deep Trench
Holding its fangs and claws, the giant king crab slowly swam back to the surface to give it enough to adapt to the water pressure.
After a few minutes, Chu Mingcheng looked sideways at the diving watch and found that he had come to a thirty-meter water layer, so he began to dive flat, carrying the emperor crab to the fishing boat.
This is to let Jiang Luoluo see that she is still moving in the waters next to the boat, so that she does not think too much.
As for why there are king crabs in this diving area, it is not surprising.
Unlike king crabs, they mostly move in the water column below 100 meters, but they occasionally run to shallow water in search of food or spawning.
If you're lucky, you might even spot them on the beach.
Otherwise, Chu Mingcheng wouldn't have rushed to move the emperor crab back, wouldn't that tell Jiang Luoluo that he had dived to a water area below a hundred meters?
Sure that the king crab was still alive, he began to swim further towards the surface, and after two minutes, he was out of the water.
"Lolo, come and see, what I've caught!" A shout rang out on the surface of the sea, where there was only the sound of spray.
Jiang Luoluo, who heard the movement, hurriedly walked out of the cab, and then saw Chu Mingcheng carrying a giant emperor crab that completely covered himself.
"That's too big, isn't it?" The small mouth opened slightly, looking very surprised.
Even though she is used to seeing all kinds of big fish, she is still amazed by such huge creatures.
The next moment, she reacted and stepped forward quickly, trying to help lift the crab to the boat, but the king crab with teeth and claws made her unable to do anything at all.
"Don't help, you go and take out the scales, I'll weigh this king crab." Chu Mingcheng said, he easily lifted the emperor crab and put it on the deck, and then climbed up himself.
Seeing this, Jiang Luoluo hurriedly moved the big scale out, and with a little curiosity, watched him lift the king crab onto the scale.
"I'll go, fifty-six pounds and four taels, this one can be sold for more than 2,500 Australian dollars, right?" Chu Mingcheng was still a little surprised when he saw the weight.
He estimated that this emperor crab was about fifty catties, and at most it was just over fifty catties, and it turned out to be heavier than he thought.
"If this is sold domestically, it is estimated that it will be worth at least 60,000." Jiang Luoluo smacked his lips, a little pity.
The wholesale price is given to Noah, and the price is naturally not high.
But the emperor crab of this specification in China is at least 1,000 catties, so it is not difficult to sell it for 60,000 yuan.
Of course, this does not count as import tax.
Chu Mingcheng has been in contact with the seafood business for several months, and now he knows that the bigger it is, the rarer it is, and there is no shortage of buyers for seafood that tastes good.
Not to mention the restaurant owner, at least some big Internet celebrities in the food area are willing to pay this money, and the value generated after a video explodes is far more than these tens of thousands of oceans.
"No way, this is someone else's territory, and we have to be trustworthy. Since it was said that the seafood would be sold to Noah, it can't be regretted because of the price difference of tens of thousands, and it's not worth it. Chu Mingcheng said with a smile.
"That's not what I meant, I'm just a pity." Jiang Luoluo rolled his eyes, then pointed to the emperor crab and said, "How can we raise such a big one?" ”
Chu Mingcheng was also a little entangled, he gestured to the living water tank, and found that the hatch was too small for the crab to fit in.
Then the largest box was taken out, which was not large enough.
In the end, I had to say helplessly: "Let's see how the harvest of the crab pot is tomorrow morning, and if the harvest is good, we will go back first." ”
Jiang Luoluo nodded: "It can only be like this, otherwise it would be a pity that this emperor crab died." ”
In the end, the king crab was allowed to shrink in a corner, but fortunately there was no sun at night, and he was not worried that it would die in the sun.
Chu Mingcheng continued to enter the water, this time he wanted to speed up and fill the crab pot first.
It had taken a long time to catch this giant king crab, and when he returned to the bottom and came to the crab pot, he found that several king crabs had been attracted by the bait inside the crab pot and had gathered together.
This is easy to do, the big one is stuffed directly into the empty crab pot, and the small one is left alone, even if it climbs in, it will still have to be released.
There were some king crabs next to the crab pot, and it had already taken half an hour for Chu Mingcheng to stuff all the emperor crabs into it.
He didn't know how many king crabs there were, but judging from the annual production, it shouldn't be possible to catch ten crab pots full of king crabs under normal circumstances.
Fortunately, he is plugged in, and he can not only adapt to the water pressure under the water, but also move for two hours.
You can expand the search area and catch the king crab and put it in the crab pot.
However, he couldn't stay underwater all the time, lest Jiang Luoluo suspect it.
So he quickly swam to the side of the boat and looked for lobsters on the reef near the boat.
He hadn't paid attention to this water area before, but now he realized that there were quite a lot of aquatic plants here.
Through the lights, you can see many fish shuttling and hiding in it, including two eye-catching groupers.
It's quite large and fits perfectly into the specifications of the capture.
It's just that he didn't not bring a speargun, but he also didn't bring a spear, so he had to let go of these two groupers.
If there was a spear with a fish, he wouldn't need to use the big pincers of another king crab to attract it when he caught it under the crack in the rock.
Continuing to swim forward, a fault suddenly appeared at the bottom of the water, and Chu Mingcheng saw a coral reef.
Because of the lights, he didn't see a few fish, but in the crevices under the coral reef, there were many tentacles that made him sigh very much.
There are too many lobsters here, right?
Chu Mingcheng didn't immediately go down to catch lobsters, but continued to swim forward to see what the resources here were.
If there are a lot of lobsters, then he doesn't need to catch them himself, wouldn't it be faster to buy two shrimp pots that specialize in catching big lobsters?
He now has a commercial fishing license, and catching lobsters won't be as troublesome as before, as long as each lobster is up to the right size.
Victoria's products are all authentic red dragons, and the price is good, and it can reach 30 Australian dollars a pound if sold to Noah.
Chu Mingcheng was swimming to find other lobster nests, and in just thirty meters away, he found two more lobster gathering places, obviously there were a lot of lobsters here.
After a while, he found that there was a deep ditch in the reef, and there were a lot of real sea bream swimming in the deep ditch.
This was a huge group of true sea bream, and the number did not surprise Chu Mingcheng, but the size of the vast majority of true sea bream surprised him.
Before he caught a dozen catties of real sea bream, which made Wei Jiaguo envious.
And it seems that more than ten catties here are very common, and there seem to be many more than twenty catties.
You can even occasionally see some real sea bream that are nearly meter-level, which is simply outrageous.
If it weren't for the authentic red lobster and king crab produced in the Bass Strait, Chu Mingcheng would definitely choose to fish here.
There are many species of grouper here, and the green silverfish can be found everywhere along the coast of Melbourne.
Even many fishermen like to come and challenge the big marlin and tuna, including bluefin tuna.
When he was still in China, Chu Mingcheng's plan was to catch the emperor crab first, and then go to the Great Barrier Reef to catch big fish when the number was almost caught.
Now that he has come to Australia and learned about the local marine resources, he knows that he doesn't need to go to the Great Barrier Reef at all, just go fishing in the Bass Strait.
Now that such a large school of fish has been discovered, Chu Mingcheng will definitely not let it go.
Noah has fishing tools at home and has moved to the boat.
So he immediately swam back and told Jiang Luoluo to start the fishing boat and follow him, and then he led the way in the water and brought the boat to the top of this deep ditch.
"Luo Luo, let's fish first tonight, and we'll go back tomorrow morning after collecting the crab pots."
After the boat stopped, Chu Mingcheng returned to the boat, and went to take a bath and change clothes with a word, obviously the emperor crab didn't care, and he had to fish first at night.
When he came to the deck after taking a bath, Jiang Luoluo had already changed into a set of fishing clothes, with a face towel on his face to block the wind.
The rods and bait have been placed on the side of the boat, and now the preparations have been completed.
It would be good to have a virtuous helper, Chu Mingcheng came to her vicinity, and there were two empty fishing spots in the middle, so as not to be too close and cause the ocean current to entangle the fishing line.
At this time, the wind and waves were a little strong, and even though the anchor had been thrown down, the whole fishing boat was still shaking in the waves.
The climate in the Bass Strait itself is changeable, and the wind and waves are not small, so tonight it was quite calm.
Jiang Luoluo had long been accustomed to life on the boat, and the missing rope was tied to the handrail on the side of the boat, and the fishing rod was in his hand.
She hung a bell on the tip of the fishing rod, and when a fish was hooked, the bell would ring to alert her.
This trick made Chu Mingcheng a little surprised: "Luo Luo, when did you buy a bell?" ”
Jiang Luoluo hung up the bait and threw the hook into the water before explaining.
"I didn't buy it, Noah told me that if I wasn't skilled in fishing, I could hang a bell and remind the fish when it was hooked. I'm not good at fishing, so I'll try this bell! ”
"That's just as well!" Chu Mingcheng nodded, feeling that this method was still good for fishing for fierce sea fish.
Even when fishing for tuna in the future, the person who hangs the bell does not need to wait next to him, the bell will ring when the fish is hooked, and he feels that he will have to buy a few bells when he returns home.
The Australian sky is starry, and even if the lights are not turned on on the ship at night, you will not lose your fingers.
Chu Mingcheng waited quietly for the fish to take the bait, there was a fish finder, he didn't need to remind Jiang Luoluo what water layer to fish.
"Jingle Bell~~"
The crisp and rapid sound of the bell suddenly sounded, and he knew that it was Jiang Luoluo who had caught the fish.
"Huh~"
Jiang Luoluo raised his fishing rod with both hands and stabbed it fiercely the moment the bell rang, normally the real sea bream is very careful and vigilant when eating the hook.
But when the bell rings, it means that it has gone through several rounds of temptation and swallowed the bait into its stomach.
Jiang Luoluo stabbed the fish, just stuck the hook deep into the fish's mouth, so that this real sea bream could not escape.
"Hey, the fish are so big!"
She whined the fishing line, and the sound of the fishing line cutting into the water sounded from time to time, and even the sound of the waves could not be blocked.
Chu Mingcheng just wanted to take the net and go over, but the fishing rod on his side also bent down fiercely.
He hurriedly locked the line cup, and also raised the rod to stab the fish.
He is also familiar with red sea bream, and there is basically no decoupling.
(End of chapter)