In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 236 Glass Eel, Soft Gold in the Sea

Before starting to catch eels, Li Duoyu went to the eel breeding factory to check. Among the seven large ponds, there was one Li Duoyu specially used to raise water.

Farming water actually means cultivating beneficial algae, such as Microcystis and the like. However, Li Duoyu's education level is limited. He really doesn't understand what kind of algae is in the pond, so he cultivates it entirely based on experience.

Now the overall water color of this pond is light green, which does not look turbid. On the contrary, it is very refreshing, which is the kind of green water that farmers like to see.

As long as the water color is maintained like this, eels will not die easily.

The pond is built.

The water has also been raised.

Everything is ready, just catch the eel fry.

Over there.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao modify the nets used to catch eel fry on a sampan boat.

The net he modified is very simple, with two bamboos of about the same length cross-fixed to the bow of the boat.

Then just hang a fine-mesh fishing net with a net bag on the front end of the moso bamboo, so that when the sampan boat moves forward, it can catch the eel fry in front.

Seeing Li Duoyu's modified fishing boat, he licked his face and asked after eating the rocks from the small tube fishing bonus last time:
"Brother Yu, you modified the boat like this, what kind of fish do you plan to catch? If you have a way to make money, can you take me to make money with you?"

"Okay, then let's pay some tuition first." Li Duoyu joked.

Shitou chuckled and said, "How much does it cost?"

"No money, just work in my eel factory for free for two years, and I will help you make money together."

"Ah, the tuition is too expensive."

Shitou had a wry smile on his face. Although he had decided to engage in breeding with Li Duoyu without thinking, he really didn't dare to follow him this time.

Everyone felt that the investment in his eel breeding plant was too great, and the eels were not delicious. The village's tugboats could catch a lot of eels every time they went out.

There are a lot of white eels, oil eels, red eels, and oil cones, and there is no need to breed them at all.

"Let's forget about raising eels for now. If you have other projects to make money, remember to ask me to do it."

Li Duoyu smiled. After all, many fishermen nowadays have limited knowledge.

He didn't even know that this transparent fish was an eel larvae, so they thought he was cultivating eels from the sea.

Li Duoyu didn't want to explain too clearly. After all, there were only so many eel breeding sites on Dandan Island, and most of them were occupied by him.

If they knew that raising eels could make a lot of money, the group of people who originally contracted the land to him might not be able to help but complain.

After refitting the sampan, Li Duoyu glanced at the shrimp tugboat whose bottom was covered with barnacles and mussels.

Speaking of which, this boat has been impounded by him for two months, and it has also helped Li Duoyu a lot. It came in handy when harvesting oysters and collecting kelp seedlings.

But Liu Yun's family still didn't come to redeem the boat.

I don’t know if their family can’t raise so much money at the moment, or they feel too embarrassed to come to Dandan Island.

I remember that the man named Liu Yun was only sentenced to three months in the end because he reported Xiao Weidong, showed meritorious service, and was willing to compensate the victim for his losses.

And Xiao Weidong was regarded as the main culprit in the oyster theft for planning the oyster theft. Due to the huge amount of money involved and his poor confession attitude, he was finally sentenced to ten years.

Li Duoyu really hoped that Liu Yun's family would come and redeem the fishing boat.

Because he is too short of money recently.

Just digging the seven large ponds, upgrading the moso bamboo factory, and hiring people to plant kelp seedlings cost him nearly [-] yuan.

In order to finally perfect the eel factory, we need to purchase seven or eight impeller aerators, a machine for grinding fish meal and a feed mixer.However, these breeding equipment, which were very common in the previous life, were not produced by the machinery factory in Rongcheng.

I still asked Zhao Jialu, and then I found out that they were only sold in Guangcheng, the next province.

Finally, through Zhao Jialu's relationship, Li Duoyu purchased these equipment, and this item cost Li Duoyu several thousand yuan.

these days.

Li Duoyu did a simple calculation and found that the money he earned from raising kelp and oysters, including some miscellaneous things, was not enough to build the eel factory.

Zhang Jinsha from the same village originally wanted to learn from Li Duoyu how to raise eels, but after learning the overall investment cost, he gave up on the spot.

He went back to raise his clams, razor clams and kelp obediently.

Li Duoyu drove the boat and came to the waters of the Wujiang estuary with Chen Wenchao.

As the "rumble" of the engine sounds, the eel fry fishing operation officially begins, and the sampan boat drives in the opposite direction to the ocean current.

The fishing net is almost close to the water, because the eel fry that have just arrived on the coast are very light and most of them float on the sea. Each one is estimated to be only about 0.1 to 0.2 grams.

The swimming ability of eel seedlings is not very strong. Whether they can reach the estuary depends entirely on ocean currents and God's will. It is said that out of [-] eel seedlings, only one will successfully "land" in the end.

Therefore, to catch them, you only need to drag the net against the sea surface, which does not prevent you from catching other fish.

However, there are still skills to fishing for them. You should choose a time when the tide is strong and fish at high tide, so that the waves will push the eel fry into the sea.

The trawler drove like this for half an hour.

Li Duoyu stopped the fishing boat and placed three layers of screens on the board. The density of the screens on each layer was different.

This is specially used to screen eel fry, because not only eel fry are caught, but also other marine life.

After the first net was put away, Li Duoyu poured the net bag the size of his face onto the screen.

As the sound of splashing sounded, at a glance, there were dragon fish, sea shrimps and pink eels.

Li Duoyu first collected the faucet fish. This fish is also called tofu fish. It looks very soft, but it is actually a very ferocious predator.

This fish is used to make sour bamboo shoots and tofu soup, which is very delicious. It also tastes great when made into salt and pepper tapioca fish.

After cleaning up these miscellaneous fish, Li Duoyu has seen many small transparent fish that are as transparent as fans and about seven or eight centimeters long twisting around on the net.

Chen Wenchao on the side asked:
"Brother Yu, is this the eel fry?"

Li Duoyu gently picked up a small eel fry with his hands and put it into a small bucket on the side: "Well, this is the eel fry we want to catch. Be gentle when you catch it, don't crush it to death."

Chen Wenchao nodded.

After catching for 5 minutes, the two finally caught only about half a bowl of fry.

"Very few." Chen Wenchao couldn't help but say.

"That's quite a lot." Li Duoyu smiled. There were probably hundreds of eel fry in this bowl, which was already a lot.

In a dozen years, so many will be caught in one net that it will make you laugh out of your dreams.

In later generations, eel fry accounted for half of the overall eel breeding cost, and catching eel fry would become an important income for local fishermen.

At its most expensive, local eel fry sold for 40 to [-] yuan each, which was more expensive than gold at the time.

But in this era, no one is trying to rob you, and you can get as much as you want.

(End of this chapter)