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Chapter 100: Fish Prices Are High This Year

Chapter 102: Fish Prices Are High This Year

Having experienced the thrill of fishing before, Zhou Miao still found the slow pace of catching fish one by one too slow.

I almost forgot, these small fish can be caught with a multi-hook rig!

"Xingyu, let's use a multi-hook rig. A multi-hook rig can catch two or three, or even more, at once, which is much faster than catching them one by one."

"What's a 'string of hooks'?" Lu Xingyu turned around, looking at him with clear, naive eyes.

...Learn from me.

Zhou Miao didn't explain much. He reeled in the line, put the jig aside, and then took out his own boat rod for catching big fish.

Ribbonfish are ferocious and will even eat their own kind, so it's okay if the fishing rod is a bit stiff.

The key is to use more hooks, and it's better to use a stiffer fishing rod.

"This is the only fishing rod I have, there's no one to exchange it for," Lu Xingyu said, looking around helplessly.

"You can use this rod; just tie three or four hooks to it."

Zhou Miao quickly finished the main line and then taught him how to tie the hooks.

He tied six hooks in total, and used a small ribbonfish as bait.

Lu Xingyu had no doubt about this, probably because he thought of the fact that many animals in the animal kingdom can eat their own kind!

He used too few hooks; he tied four.

The leader is still made of steel wire, which is indeed very useful when fishing for ribbonfish.

The two then went fishing separately, using a multi-hook rig to cast into the school of fish, which was indeed very enjoyable.

As soon as Zhou Miao cast his line for the first time, the line began to twitch, signaling that a fish had taken the bait.

He didn't reel in the line immediately, but waited about ten seconds before lifting the rod to reel it in.

This time, the fishing rod felt significantly heavier, but since the rod itself was quite heavy, he wasn't sure how many fish he had caught with that single cast.

As the fishing line was reeled in, he brought four large fish that had bitten the hook fiercely onto the boat.

One of them weighed about four ounces, while the remaining three all weighed more than eight ounces.

Just as Zhou Miao was preparing the fish, Lu Xingyu successfully caught two with one cast: "Haha, this is what fishing is all about!"

He saw that Zhou Miao's gains were twice his own, but he didn't care at all.

He treats fishing as a game; it's best if he catches something, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't.

However, while cutting open the second large and fat ribbonfish, he suddenly thought of another famous type of ribbonfish and asked, "Ah Miao, do you know what oil ribbonfish is?"

"Yes, I know. What's wrong?"

"I remember oil fishing is really expensive. When are we going to go fishing for that?"

"There are no ribbonfish right now. We have to wait until it gets cold and all the ribbonfish that live in the open sea return to the deep sea and fatten up before we can fish for them."

"Uh, I don't quite understand what you're saying. What does scallops have to do with these ribbonfish? Are these the same thing as scallops?"

Zhou Miao smiled and explained, "This is of course not 'oiled ribbonfish.' 'Oiled ribbonfish' refers to ribbonfish with a thick layer of fat deposits."

The most abundant species of ribbonfish is the white ribbonfish we're catching now.

"Oil ribbonfish is not a single species, but rather a deep-sea ribbonfish that becomes particularly fat during the cold winter months."

"The colder the water, the fatter and tastier the ribbonfish. That's why a single ribbonfish from the Bohai Sea can sell for over a thousand yuan."

"While scarcity and hype are important factors, if the taste is bad, it won't be able to generate hype."

"A single ribbonfish costs over a thousand yuan?" Lu Xingyu gasped, shocked by the figure.

He could understand why grouper and similar fish were expensive, but he never expected that ribbonfish could be so pricey.

As the night deepened, the sputtering sound of fishing boat engines could be heard in the distance.

Zhou Miao continued fishing until the fishing boat appeared, at which point he put down his fishing rod, found his newly bought binoculars, and looked in that direction.

The fishing boats over there also had their lights on, so it was easy to see them.

"Ah Hao is finally here."

"I guessed it was him too."

"What are you two doing fishing here? What did you catch?" Luo Hao asked after steering the boat closer and slowing down the engine.

Lu Xingyu: "There's a school of ribbonfish underwater. Go and set the trap, then come and fish together."

Luo Hao: "Another school of fish? Damn, I've lost a lot of money. I didn't bring a fishing net."

Zhou Miao: "It's okay if I didn't bring it. I use a multi-hook rig for fishing quite often."

"Okay, I'll go set the traps right away." Just as Luo Hao was about to set the traps near the floats, he suddenly remembered the seven floats he had seen earlier, so he turned around and asked, "By the way, were those seven traps on the other side of the island also set by you?"

"Yes, you can put two over there, and the rest here." Zhou Miao didn't explain, but just told him what to do.

Luo Hao nodded, and without asking any questions, he quickly steered the boat to release the cages.

Tonight, I was delayed by customers for almost three hours, and I have no idea how much ribbonfish I lost.

Because he was thinking about this, he made a point of having the two fishing boats joined together and tied tightly with ropes when he returned.

This way the boat wouldn't rock too much, and he could also see the two men's spoils.

"Wow, so many ribbonfish?"

"Just kidding, my hands are already sore, how could I not do more!" Lu Xingyu had just helped tie the cables, and now he decided to take a break.

However, he was also curious about Zhou Miao's harvest, and when he turned around, he found that Zhou Miao's side had already filled four water tanks.

"Damn, A-Miao, how come you have so many? We caught fish at the same time, but I have half as many as you."

"I have six hooks, plus I'm physically stronger and have more fishing experience than you. What do you have to compare with me?" Zhou Miao shook his head with a laugh. "Don't think it's a lot. In reality, it only weighs about eighty pounds."

To keep the fish fresh, he layered the fish with ice.

Therefore, the average weight of ribbonfish in a tank is only about 20 kilograms.

It's just that ribbonfish are lightweight, so it looks like there are more of them.

"Eighty pounds is quite a lot; these fishing lines aren't cheap." Luo Hao squatted down next to the water tank and picked out a few ribbonfish to look at.

"These three-finger-wide ones have a wholesale price of about forty or fifty yuan."

"The price of seafood that's four fingers wide can double. There's less seafood available today, so the overall price is more than ten yuan higher per kilogram than last year."

"So high?" Zhou Miao was surprised. He thought the ribbonfish he caught would be only about ten yuan more expensive than the wholesale price at the seafood market.

After all, he sells his fish to...

Huh, wait!

There aren't that many ribbonfish; I could easily take them to the market and sell them myself!

There are always knowledgeable and well-off people who enjoy this fresh flavor; you can give it a try.

"That's how high it is. The price of small yellow croaker has increased by about five yuan compared to the first few days after the fishing season opened."

Hearing Luo Hao say this, Lu Xingyu sighed, "If I didn't know how to fish, I wouldn't be able to afford seafood this year."

"Do you think it might be because we've been frying fish too much these past two years?"

"I watched a video before that said it was caused by low dissolved oxygen concentration."

Zhou Miao and Luo Hao exchanged a glance and shook their heads simultaneously.

"I don't know, but I think there are still quite a lot of fish."

"Yes, we have A-Miao, who is more reliable than a fish finder, so we're not afraid."

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"So I've become a human fish finder, huh?!" Zhou Miao said, laughing and crying at the same time. Then he picked up his fishing rod and said, "Let's keep fishing! Since there are fewer fish this year, we should cherish this school of fish even more."