Chapter 60 Swarms of Red Snappers
Having harvested a nest of black-haired fish, Xia Yu continued to look at the cracks in the rocks under the reefs. For such things, he, the guy who had cheated, dared to do this. At such a reef, the power of the ocean currents and tides is quite strong, which can be seen from the impact of the waves on the reefs.
Ordinary divers dare not commit suicide like this. They are used to being in the wind and waves, and they are having fun.
There are quite a lot of crabs in this type of place, including shuttle crabs, orchid crabs, and red crabs. They basically catch one. But they don’t just grab one with bare hands like catching lobsters. They just need to just collect it directly. Lobsters are stupid and easy to catch, and the combat power of crabs will be higher. The main reason is that they can hide deeper, and they will be caught if they accidentally reach out to grab them. They will waste precious time.
Whether it is Pipi, Prawn or Kilwai shrimp, he can't run away when he sees it.
Shrimp and crabs are also the most demanding restaurants and are not cheap.
Until Xia Mingguang reminded him to go back to the boat to rest, he returned to the boat to rest.
He had already thought about the seafood to eat for lunch, so he took it out when he returned to the boat. A yellow-finned bream of nearly one pound, also called yellow-footed, was used for steaming; a small but particularly tender and smooth prawn was about three pounds, used for whitening and vegetable topped, which was the simple lunch on the boat.
Let’s look at Xia Mingguang’s harvest during this period. Shi Jiugong was late today, but he caught a real snapper of seven or eight taels.
"There should be a real snapper here!" Xia Mingguang said to him happily.
Xia Yu was also very happy, "I'll wait until I dive and check it out. If there is one, I'll collect it and then clear out all the previous snapper stocks!"
"Okay, you can take this real snapper first." Xia Mingguang's mouth is a little tricky now. He can still afford to eat more delicious seafood.
"Yes." Xia Yu drank some water and chatted with his father for a few words, then went straight into the water to find the real snapper.
Real snappers also gather in groups. When they are foraging, they usually move in the sea area about ten meters deep underwater, feeding on the bottom sea plants, crabs and small fish, and in rocks and gravel areas.
He had been afraid of affecting his father's fishing, so he didn't make trouble nearby. This time, Xia Mingguang caught real snapper, which means that there must be real snapper nearby.
"You are, A Diao!"
Not long after he dived, he found this group of real snappers, foraging at the bottom of the sea near the boat!
The water quality here is relatively good, and the ocean currents are not so turbulent due to the existence of reefs.
He still swam around the real snappers slowly. He can only say that it is different if he starts a cheat. The real snappers that are foraging ignore him at all.
Then he took a big advantage in Xia Yu, and he simply observed the group of beautiful real snappers for a while.
This group of real snappers are all bright red and bright in color. There are beautiful blue spots above the side line of the back. The body is flat and oblong, with wide eye spacing and bulging.
The largest one is more than one meter long, and it is estimated to be more than twenty kilograms. But this is not the largest, with real snappers of more than thirty kilograms and forty kilograms, especially in foreign waters.
The difference between such pure wild real snapper and the real snapper raised on the market is really not too big. The color is the biggest difference. The wild real snapper is brighter in color, and the feeling of eating it in the mouth is even more heaven and earth. The meat of breeding real snapper is rough and loose. The wild real snapper is fresh and fishy, and the meat is tender, and it is the best among all kinds of snappers.
In China, the lowest price of farmed real snapper can reach 30 to 40 yuan per pound. Wild real snapper is not so rare, and the price is generally not high, more than 200 yuan per pound.
Real snapper is also called Jiaji fish, Jiala, and Hongjiaji. In some places in China, it is called "sea carp".
The Fusam people's love for the sea bream is endless and has always been regarded as a symbol of festiveness. During the Edo period, people regarded sea bream as the number one edible fish, and are now replaced by tuna. Moreover, they have given different names to the sea bream caught in different months. Then, they eat sea bream in various ways, or make sashimi, sushi, or make snapper rice, sea bream noodles, tuna soup, etc.
When Xia Yu admired it, he did not forget to collect the real snappers into the space, so he still planned to raise it for a while before dealing with it.
Real snapper is the most delicious and economical species among all snappers, so he will naturally not miss such fish.
This school of real snapper is not particularly large, and it is related to their habits and physique. The larger the real snapper, the larger the food it eats, and the more food the entire fish needs.
Xia Yu used to eat a lot of real snapper. In addition to fishing, he could also catch it when he was fishing outside the sea.
He naturally knew that it was a typical white-body fish. Although it was red on the outside, the fish meat was white. Because they did not require long-distance high-intensity cruises in the ocean, and predation was mostly short-term explosive movements. Therefore, the fish meat of snapper is mainly composed of fast muscle fibers. The myoglobin content of red muscle cells is low, so the color is white and transparent, the taste is light and elegant, and the taste is very tough.
There are about 300 real snappers in this group, and Xia Yu only collected half of them. The largest one with a weight of more than 20 kilograms was also collected. This one alone, if it is calculated at 200 yuan per kilogram, it will be 4,000 yuan. In addition, other big and small real snappers, if they are raised to at least two kilograms and then they will be able to earn a total of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.
This real snapper is not as expensive as a big yellow croaker. A big yellow croaker weighing two pounds can be sold for about 4,000 yuan.
But Xia Yu was already very satisfied. He didn't take all the big yellow croakers last time, and he couldn't keep them in the space for a while.
Today I harvested a nest of black-haired fish and real snappers, as well as a neat and neatly decorated lobster, and other seafood. Ordinary people who drive the sea may not have so much harvest in a month, so what else can I not be satisfied with?
But he did not give up catching other seafood because of this. After wandering around the real snapper that he had not caught in the space, he continued to wander around the reef.
It was only when Xia Mingguang called him to eat that he surfaced.
"Have you found the fish?" Xia Mingguang asked him.
"Catch more than 100 pieces to store in the space, so you won't have to worry about eating anymore!" Xia Yu replied with a smile.
"That's good!" Xia Mingguang was very happy. "It's great to have such a space to raise fish. It saves too much trouble. The key is that it's delicious."
That's not! The lunch he had just prepared on the boat was specially steamed yellow-finned bream, which was very delicious just by smelling it.
Gourmet Cai Lan said that yellowfin snapper is the best fish in the world. Although there are some exaggerated ingredients, yellowfin snapper is delicious.
Foodie Xia Yu is particularly fond of the fish in yellow-finned snapper, and the fresh aroma in the mouth is even more special. The rich amino acids will make this feeling stronger.
The fat part of the fish belly is very rich and it tastes very smooth. The cod liver Xia Mingguang was not thrown away, and they steamed it together, and they are all delicious.
It is worth mentioning that there are many yellow-fin breams raised, but the taste is incomparable to wild ones, and the price is affordable.
There is nothing special about white shrimp. They won’t feel the sweetness that they will not feel greasy no matter how they eat it.
After having lunch and taking a nap, Xia Yu continued to dive into the sea. Unfortunately, there was no mermaid inside.
It seemed that good luck had been exhausted in the morning. He did not gain anything particularly in the afternoon. There were more than a dozen more beautiful lobsters in the space, and more than twenty cat sharks. He didn't count the shrimps and crabs at all. He collected them into the space when he saw them. They were all important links in the marine biological chain.
Before returning, he filled the sea water of the artificial ocean in the space. Now the deepest part inside is almost twenty meters deep, but he still doesn't think it's deep enough.
With the overall space area limited, he could only adopt the strategy of digging deep holes and accumulating grain slowly and becoming king. He digging holes down desperately, so that he could raise more seafood and give the fish more room to move, so that it would not be the same as those raised outside.
When he returned, Xia Yu took photos with his mobile phone to take videos. He took photos of seafood that he had to pack to Zhouji Seafood Restaurant at night, including the super large Chinese Jinxiu lobster that had been raised for a while, weighing nearly five pounds. The restaurant customers all have a special liking for Chinese Jinxiu lobster, which is particularly delicious. On the one hand, there is a big lobster that looks particularly face-saving when treating guests to dinner.
As for the source of such a beautiful lobster, customers are unwilling to investigate carefully, just need to eat it.
Of course, it is reasonable to pursue it.
Zhou Chen can make up a reason for them now, for example, these beautiful lobsters were purchased while the price of lobsters was not high some time ago and then raised. When the price of lobsters during the Chinese New Year is high, they will be sold at a high price. Not to mention, there are indeed fishermen doing this.
Of course, such "breeding" is risky. First of all, the cost is particularly high. If you raise the Jinxiu lobster to death or even lose weight and the taste is not so good, it will be a rhythm of blood loss.
Xia Mingguang understood his eagerness to pay off his debts, and he took the initiative to cover up, mainly from Xia's mother.
At night, Xia Yu drove to the town to deliver express delivery, but it was not a lie to tell Xia's mother that she was going to buy things. He really wanted to buy a lot of things. In addition to the stuff like packaging foam boxes and plastic bags, he also planned to buy some pure grain wine. Seeing that Zhou Chen's feedback was so good, he was going to soak in more seahorse wine.
Now that the seahorses in the space sea are used to the environment, they have good growth. When he is in the sea during the day, he also catches some of the seahors and raises them.
I bought the good stuff and sent Zhou Chen a seafood worth about 20,000 yuan. After I got home, he sent Zhou Chen the photos and videos, asking him to remember to check and sign for the receipt tomorrow morning.
Zhou Chen was overjoyed when he received the photos and videos. He was so excited when he replied to the voice. "Ayu Cowhide, you have harvested so much seafood so quickly. It seems that it is quite economically under a bit of pressure, haha!"
Then he said, "I'll be busy first, and then talk later!"
Chapter completed!