After going off the net, Zhang Yaohua asked his second brother to drive faster.

As long as it was the eldest brother's order, Zhang Yaowei never asked the reason, strictly implemented it, and by the way, Shui Wang, who was in parallel with him, made a gesture to let him speed up.

The two are small and have a tacit understanding.

The two fishing boats picked up speed and moved forward almost simultaneously.

"That's it, don't you care?" Ah Jiu asked.

He didn't know anything, he hadn't really gone to sea with a boat, and naturally he didn't know some of the operations of fishing. Now, I can only look more and ask more.

"Hmmm! The rest, to providence. Zhang Yaohua nodded.

What else can be done? Going into the water to help catch fish?

Zhang Yaowei's eyes stared at the bottom of the sea for a while, and he seemed to see something.

"There are fish."

Ah Jiu: "What fish?" ”

"It could be the boss fish."

Boss fish?

Ah Jiu was stunned when he heard this name for the first time, although he didn't know what kind of fish it was, he didn't ask to the end.

After about half an hour, everyone began to close the net. The speed of this net is indeed fast, and if the old fishermen were present, they would definitely say that the young man could not hold his breath.

After all, many fishing boats take two or three hours to collect their nets after a tow, and they can't tow a few nets at the end of the day.

"It's really a boss fish." Zhang Yaowei said with a smile.

Ah Jiu finally knew what the boss fish looked like.

In fact, the boss fish is a type of ray, called hole ray. The boss fish is tender and delicious, with few bones, and can be stewed with tofu or braised and stewed in soup. Because there are few fish bones, the boss fish is very suitable for the elderly and children.

This fish is also currently farmed in large quantities and the market price is not high. However, recently, the price of wild boss fish has almost doubled, more than 20 yuan a catty.

"Is the boss fish delicious?" Ah Jiu asked.

Zhang Yaohua told him: "Then it depends on how you get it." If you can't do it, this fish is ugly and smells of ammonia. ”

The reason why there is a smell of ammonia, Zhang Yaohua knows, is because the blood of the boss fish contains urea.

To get rid of this unpleasant smell of ammonia, it is very simple, after killing and washing the boss fish, put it in boiling water and blanch it before cooking. If you add an appropriate amount of cooking wine during the cooking process, you can remove the smell of ammonia more thoroughly. There are also people who put vinegar, or hawthorn.

"Ammonia?"

Zhang Yaowei thought that Ah Jiu didn't know what the smell of ammonia was, and he added: "It's the smell of the toilet." ”

"Huh?"

"Don't. Help, be careful, don't get stung by their tails, it's poisonous. ”

The boss fish river manta ray looks very similar, and some people even think it is the same kind of fish. In fact, there is a difference between the two, and they can be said to be related.

There are also north-south differences between this fish, with the southern sea generally having a pointed head and the northern one having a round head.

"It's a good smell, but it's okay." Ah Jiu said.

"Freshly fished, the taste is naturally not heavy. The flavor is strong and generally not fresh. Zhang Yaowei told him.

In addition to the boss fish, there were also some small fish and shrimp, Zhang Yaohua simply threw them back into the sea.

"Big brother, the shrimp you just threw is a bit expensive, almost forty yuan." Ah Jiu reminded.

There are also in their town, which is also not big, with big fingers, but it costs thirty or forty yuan a catty, and I don't know if it is farmed.

Zhang Yaowei: "That's a prawn, it's too small just now." What you buy in thirty or forty is basically farmed. When prawns are expensive, they cost more than 100 yuan, especially large prawns, and when they are cheap, they are rarely less than 50 yuan per catty. ”

On the market, the most common one should be Jiwei shrimp.

Jiwei shrimp belongs to shallow sea shrimp, which is a shrimp produced in the Jiwei area, because it likes to swim with the tide of the sea to the gentle area under the base area to spawn, so it is called Jiwei shrimp.

However, nowadays the shrimp are usually freshwater and seawater.

The shape of the shrimp is like a prawn, but its shell is not as soft as the prawn, the shape is not as large as the prawn, and the body fat shell is thin.

As he spoke, he also picked up a shrimp, and then said: "This is a nine-section shrimp, the price is more expensive, usually about a hundred, and it may double during the New Year." Still, it's too small. ”

Then, Zhang Yaowei threw the shrimp in his hand out.

There are many people who confuse nine-section shrimp with black tiger shrimp.

The body of the nine-node shrimp is in the shape of a long strip with nine rings, hence the name.

The black tiger shrimp has a rounded body and a shape that is more like a curved arc, which is very different from the nine-section shrimp. In addition, the body color of the black tiger shrimp is black or dark gray, while the nine-node shrimp is transparent or pale yellow.

Of course, black tiger prawns are not cheap, they usually cost about 100 yuan, and they may rise to more than 150 yuan during the New Year.

Seeing that the second brother gave Ah Jiu the knowledge of seafood and taught him to recognize seafood, Zhang Yaohua did not interject.

Soon, they loaded the first net into the hold, and the net was launched again.

"The net just now is probably more than 10,000 yuan." Zhang Yaowei revealed a little to Ah Jiu.

Ah Jiu's eyes lit up, and he sighed in his heart, this is really faster than farming to make money!

His net profit from sugarcane this year is less than 20,000 yuan, and he feels congested when he thinks about it. To tell the truth, with such a little profit, it is better to go out to work.

The risk of going out to sea to fish may be greater, but people's profits are directly proportional.

He ignores the fact that dry fishing is expensive, you have to have a boat first, and then you have to burn oil when you go to sea. If there is no harvest, the fuel cost is enough for you to drink a pot.

"I earn more in a day than I do in a year."

Ah Jiu knew that he had made the right bet this time.

Uncle brother pulls it, it feels so good.

No matter what industry you are in, it is not the same for someone to lead into the industry.

In the second net, in addition to the boss fish, a turtle was also dragged up. Regardless of what the turtle is, fishermen generally release it. Zhang Yaowei and Ah Jiu lifted it up and threw it into the sea.

"Can't you sell it for money?" Ah Jiu couldn't help but ask.

"That's a ridley turtle, and now it's a protected animal."

Even if it's not a protected animal, fishermen rarely do anything to turtles. Sea turtles have the homonym of "returnee", and those who go out to sea hope to return home safely.

Get! Hearing that it was a protected animal, Ah Jiu didn't say anything.

There is also a kind of monkey in his hometown that is a protected animal, and it can't be moved at all.

Most of the third net is still boss fish, in addition to a monkfish.

"What an ugly fish!"

"What about ugliness? This fish is delicious. Zhang Yaowei rolled his eyes.

Monkfish have a super-large, tooth-covered mouth and a rare flat body. Moreover, the skin on its body is still sticky.

At first glance, it is indeed ugly.

However, the meat quality of this fish is good, and the dorsal skin, belly skin and scalp are processed to make the finished product, which has the reputation of "sea cucumber".

Monkfish is produced in large quantities and is relatively affordable, and is often referred to as the "poor man's oyster".

Interestingly, monkfish caught at sea are usually females, and males are generally not seen. This is because males parasitize on the female's body at a very young age shortly after birth, and most of them have become one with the female, but the male's body shape can still be identified if you look closely.