Chapter 247: The Savior of the Barramundi Shark
How much can long-bodied sawfish sell for in Melbourne Chu Mingcheng really doesn't know how much, New Zealand's blue cod market sells for fifteen Australian dollars per catty, but the unit of measurement here is the kilogram.
The eastern star spotted is only 25 Australian dollars a catty, and it is more than 100 points per catty when converted into the ocean, and the price is indeed cheaper than that in China.
During this time in Melbourne, he visited the seafood market.
The long-bodied sawfish is a fish of high economic value, and Chu Mingcheng guesses that it should be more expensive than New Zealand's blue cod, but at most it is not more than the price of the eastern star grouper.
Then the price of selling to Noah will be lower, probably around fifteen Australian dollars per catty.
He weighed the long-bodied multi-sawfish with a crane, weighing 167 pounds and worth 2,500 Australian dollars.
Although the unit price is not as high as that of the king crab, because of its weight, the value of this fish may be about the same as that of the king crab in the corner of the deck.
Chu Mingcheng was quite satisfied with this, he re-hung the squid, and by the way, he also made a bell for the fishing rod, and threw the hook bait into the water to wait for the fish to take the bait.
Then he didn't stare at the rod, but bleed the long-bodied multi-saw.
The gills of the fish are cut in, the vertebrae of the tail are cut off, and the open water pipe is directly stuffed into the fish's mouth to block the incision, and the blood suddenly flows out of the fish's tail as if it were not money.
It's just that the blood hasn't been washed away yet, and a "clanging" sound sounds.
Chu Mingcheng hurriedly put down the water pipe and came to the side of the boat, grabbed the fishing rod placed in the fishing hole with both hands and lifted it up fiercely.
The weight of this fish seems to be a bit light, so it shouldn't be too big.
After a short period of effort, a long-bodied multi-sawfish that had just reached the meter level was caught.
Chu Mingcheng lifted the fishing line slightly, and found that it was still a little heavy, so for the sake of safety, he picked up the hook and hooked the fish, and lifted it up directly.
After weighing the weight, I didn't expect that the rice-level long-bodied multi-sawfish would reach more than 50 catties, and this fish was indeed quite fat.
Now there are two fish that have not been put in the blood, so this time he did not immediately dismount the rod, but put the blood of the fish in the refrigerator compartment.
The meter-level long-bodied multi-sawfish is okay, and as soon as this one-meter-five fish is put into the cold storage, it immediately takes up most of the space.
According to the current situation, even if the fish caught are stacked on top of each other, there are only six or seven fish at most for one meter five, and the space of this refrigerated cabin is really small enough.
But who let this not be his own big ship, Chu Mingcheng can only settle for a while.
After continuing to fish for two long-bodied multi-sawfish about 1.2 meters, the blood washed down from the boat was carried farther and farther away by the waves, attracting several sharks that are particularly sensitive to blood.
Sharks, which are rarely seen in the coastal waters of China, are very common in Australia.
The anglers here often encounter sharks, resulting in sharks robbing the fish they chose.
It doesn't matter if it's a worthless fish like the cow harbor trevally, but if it's some rare valuable fish, then everyone has to curse a few words.
Chu Mingcheng caught a one-meter-three long-bodied multi-sawed perch again before the shark came, and he didn't have so much luck after waiting for the next rod.
The rod shook strangely when fishing, and in the end he only lifted a big fish head, which made him immediately understand what was going on, and his mouth began to curse incessantly.
Through the light, he saw several ferocious mako sharks.
He was thinking about whether he might just take a spear into the water and stab all these mako sharks to death.
Aren't they all endangered, why did three or four appear all at once?
Looking at it like this, it seems that the protection has been quite good in recent years, and it feels better to poke them to death, so that their endangerment is worthy of the name.
The barramundi shark can grow up to four meters at most, but these few are just over two meters, and Chu Mingcheng feels that he can now spear a child.
Otherwise, with these sharks here, he wouldn't want to continue fishing tonight.
At present, five have been fished, and I feel that a few more can fill the refrigerated cabin, and Chu Mingcheng, who is a little obsessive-compulsive, is afraid that there is still space in the refrigerated cabin.
Looking at the mako sharks that appeared on the surface from time to time, he picked up the spear and was a little eager to try.
At this moment, Jiang Luoluo seemed to have just finished taking a shower, wearing a nightdress, standing at the door of the cab and shouting, "Ah Cheng, are you still fishing?" Why don't you go to bed first when it's so late, it's not good to stay up late! ”
Chu Mingcheng was immediately diverted.
Jiang Luoluo, who had just finished taking a shower, had his jet-black hair casually draped over his shoulders, a nightdress that covered all the spring light, but he couldn't suppress his round and exposed dedication.
The slender white legs were completely exposed to his sight because of the sea breeze blowing the hem of his skirt.
Does a woman only affect the speed of fishing?
That's because they don't have such a beautiful daughter-in-law!
Chu Mingcheng immediately agreed, and threw the fish spear in his hand.
After looking at the time, he realized that it was already half past twelve, and he really had to go back to sleep so late, whether the barramundi shark was endangered or not, it didn't matter to him!
At present, there are twenty life transformations on his body, which he deliberately kept to guard against accidents.
It's not cost-effective to stay up late, and you still have to nourish your spirit at night.
After packing up the fishing tackle, he ran back to the room almost at a sprint speed, and Jiang Luoluo's heart suddenly tightened when he saw this.
She felt that Chu Mingcheng seemed to have misunderstood something, she really just asked him to come back early to rest.
However, it didn't take long for a beautiful symphony to sound inside the ship.
A few mako sharks were still hovering around the boat because of their blood, unaware that they had almost contributed to the endangered status of the race.
Therefore, it can be said that Jiang Luoluo saved them and paid a lot for them
The next day, Chu Mingcheng walked out of the bedroom refreshed.
It would only be six and a little after that, and the man who was about to be thirty years old had better energy and faster recovery than he had been twenty, which made him very happy.
Even if this plug-in does not have the enhancement of fishing, it is very satisfactory to him only in terms of physical fitness.
Simply made himself some breakfast, Jiang Luoluo estimated that he would have to sleep for a few hours, so he left her alone.
After breakfast, Chu Mingcheng came to the cab and looked at the fish finder first.
As he expected, there were still fish in the deep ditch, but the thick red line was gone, indicating that the long-bodied sawfish had left.
After all, it is a deep-sea fish, and it is normal to hunt in shallow water at night.
During the day, these fish hide in waters up to 500 meters deep to avoid predators, and it is not easy to catch them.
Chu Mingcheng started the fishing boat, drove the boat to the floating position of the first crab pot, changed into a diving suit and prepared to go down to see the situation.
If there are still some king crabs outside the crab pot, you can stuff them all in.
Although Jiang Luoluo was expected to wake up after nine o'clock, Chu Mingcheng still moved very quickly.
He dived into the water and came to the bottom of the water at a very fast speed, and the crab pots numbered 5~10 behind him didn't catch a few king crabs last night.
Therefore, after coming to the bottom of the water, he stuffed all the king crabs he found into these crab pots.
With human intervention, the king crab harvest this time was not bad.
If he hadn't dived to catch it, it was estimated that this morning's harvest would be less than half, and it would be impossible for the emperor crab of more than fifty catties to be caught.
After making sure that the emperor crabs within the scope of the crab pot were all stuffed into the crab pot, Chu Mingcheng immediately swam back to the water, got on the boat and went to another bathroom to simply rinse the seawater.
I changed into overalls and went to the deck, took back the float of the crab pot, tied the rope to the crane, and started the crane.
The speed at which the crane pulls is not fast, but it is very stable.
In addition, the crab pot does not exceed 150 catties, even if there is water pressure and ocean currents in the water, resulting in the actual pulling force far exceeding 150 catties, this crane can still be lifted.
The maximum load of the crane reaches one ton, which is no problem at all.
Chu Mingcheng didn't need to pull it himself, but the crab pot was pulled outboard the boat, and he needed to help it so as not to scratch the surface of the boat.
Then operate the direction of the crane and slowly carry the crab pot on the deck.
Chu Mingcheng opened the living water tank and took a look, and found that many of the real sea bream caught last night had lost their vitality, and it was estimated that they would hang up in a short time.
He simply removed the red bream from the living water tank and put them in the cold storage.
The place that wasn't stuffed last night was just filled up by these real sea bream.
Then the water in the living water tank was replaced, and the king crabs in the crab pot were caught out and put in one by one.
When other crabs are put together, they have to cut the tendons inside their pincers to prevent them from biting each other and causing death.
But the king crabs don't, their carapaces are so hard that they can't hurt each other with the strength of their pincers.
There are a total of four emperor crabs in this crab pot, two large ones are more than ten catties, and two small ones are only five or six catties.
The king crab was put away, and the crab pot was set aside, and Chu Mingcheng took the opportunity to take a look at the giant king crab that had been hiding in the corner.
After observing it, he was relieved to find that the crab was still alive and still in good health.
Then get some seawater to wet its dry body surface and leave it alone, and continue to collect the crab pots.
After about two hours, all ten crab pots were collected and stacked neatly on the deck.
Fold them in two rows, five in a row, so that they don't take up much space.
In order to make sure that it was stable, Chu Mingcheng also deliberately packed the crab pot horizontally and vertically with six packing belts.
As for the number and weight of the king crabs, he had already weighed them all and recorded them in his notebook.
Back in the cockpit, Chu Mingcheng made a phone call to Noah, told him the approximate amount of cargo he caught, made an appointment, and then sailed back.
After returning to the dock for more than four hours, it was about one o'clock in the afternoon after returning to the dock, and with the inventory of the catch, it seemed that there was no way to go back to the shore to eat at noon.
Considering that Jiang Luoluo was about to wake up, Chu Mingcheng was going to go to the kitchen to make some breakfast for her after setting up the automatic voyage.
As soon as he got up, the radar suddenly issued a "didi" prompt.
He looked closer, and it turned out to be within a nautical mile, and a ship appeared on the navigation route, and if he didn't dodge, the two ships would collide.
After a while, Chu Mingcheng saw a medium-sized fishing boat in the wheelhouse.
The wireless channels on his side were all off, so he didn't know if the boat boss on the other side had said anything.
But he took the initiative to steer the fishing boat and avoided it to the left.
Seeing this, the boat on the opposite side also took the initiative to deviate a little to his right, and the two sides crossed without incident.
It's just that this incident made Chu Mingcheng have no luck mentality, so he had to continue to sit in the wheelhouse, so as not to appear on the opposite side.
(End of chapter)