Golden Fishing Village

The grouper is not particularly precious. Even in the wild, one kilogram only costs three to four hundred yuan. Of course, it is big. When it grows to two meters long, it usually weighs more than 150 kilograms, so a fish can be sold for 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.

Most of the hotels that have the ability to eat dragon worms are large hotels. After purchasing, they must be classified and sold for use in making fish fillets, sashimi and high-quality fish balls. However, few hotels use wild dragon worms as a gimmick because they are relatively rare.

Except for catching dragon worms by chance, other times it depends on experienced fishermen. These fish grow big, live for a long time, and all of them are very clever.

It is difficult to encounter one or two dragons on the sea. Ao Muyang was lucky. The tiger found a group of dragons for him.

Just by looking at the size of the grouper, you can tell how many things they need to hunt to maintain life, so groups of the grouper are even rarer. Unlike other groupers, this fish is less likely to exist in groups.

But nature is so magical. There are many seaweeds, corals, fish, shrimps and crabs in this sea area, so many dragons and crabs are supported, and they gather here to form a small group.

But how to capture them has become a problem again.

To deal with single dragon worms, long lines, hand fishing or bottom trawling are often used to catch them, but this time he encountered a small group of dragon worms and he was too busy to catch them.

If no one else was around, Ao Muyang could set up a net in the water or arrange for the tigers to knock them out one by one and bring them back to the boat. However, the big dragon leader was far away. If he had harvested too many dragons inexplicably, it would be hard to explain.

After thinking for a while, he pointed to a dragon and asked the tiger to deal with it.

The tiger pounced on it aggressively. The dragon turtle was also very ferocious when it preyed on the blacktip shark, but when faced with a natural enemy like a killer whale, it peed and quickly swung its small fins in an attempt to escape.

Where did it come from?

After breaking through the obstruction of the sea water, the tiger approached like thunder and hit the dragon with its head. Just like a tank hitting a car, the dragon was hit by it and flew directly into the water.

Just like that, Long Zhen was abolished.

The porpoises not far away looked frightened. Looking at the big dragon floating on its belly, they looked at each other: Did we underestimate this big man before?

Fortunately for them, they are fast and flexible. The tiger could not collide with them or bite them. Otherwise, given the size of these porpoises, the tiger would hit them with all its strength and smash them into pieces!

Taking this dragon with him, Ao Muyang sent out a signal, and the big dragon leader slowly drove over.

He dragged the giant grouper onto the boat, and someone immediately exclaimed: "Ah, giant grouper, it's really big."

Ao Muyang said: "The tiger encountered it. There seems to be some underwater here. Do you want to try it?"

The crew members who were staring at the big dragon fish immediately responded: "Try it, you must try it. Dragon fish don't like to swim around like tuna. If you have seen them here, they will probably stay here for a long time." here."

Ao Daguo waved his hand and said: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, get off the rope and go fishing."

Longline fishing is the most important method of fishing in the ocean. It has the widest distribution and the strongest fishing ability. As long as it hits the target, it will often yield a bumper harvest.

Arranging longline fishing is a small project. A thick and long trunk line was lifted out of the cabin. There are also branch lines, floats and sinkers, etc., and there are many accessories.

Two small boats dragged the main lines into the water, and someone put floats on them, and floated them on the sea with the main lines.

Others tied knots on the main line and hung branch lines at equal distances. There were fishing hooks and bait on the branch lines.

The equipment setup is completed and the official work begins.

The main line of longline fishing does not necessarily have to float on the sea, but it can be convenient for fishermen to hang accessories on the sea. When the accessories are hung up, they must set their sinking position.

This time the target is the dragon worm. Fish like the dragon worm usually live at a depth of about 20 to 50 meters underwater. The water depth here is 60 meters, so the main line must be sunk at least 20 meters.

Part of the floats were removed and replaced by sinking rocks. At first, the gravity of the sinking rocks was stronger than the buoyancy, so the main line kept descending. When it dropped twenty meters, several sinking rocks were removed and replaced with floats.

Here, gravity and buoyancy are balanced, and the main line just floats in the water, drifting and spreading over a wide range.

After laying out the fishing lines, the crew returned to the boat and continued their trip, returning overnight to put away the fishing lines.

Normally, before using longline fishing, you need to explore and fish. First, drop a small amount of fishing line, collect it the next day to see the catch, and then judge the central fishing ground based on the catch.

With Ao Muyang's command, this can be avoided. The fishing rope directly covers the seaweed waters, with fresh fish and shrimps hanging on it, and some of them have sliced ​​mackerel, which is what dragons like. food.

The leader of the big dragon evacuated, and there was nothing to do for a while, so everyone began to study the dragon who was killed by the tiger.

Ao Daguo hoisted the fish up and weighed it. The length of the fish was 1.95 meters and the weight was 160 kilograms. It was quite a fat dragon.

Of course, this is not a rare thing among adult dragon worms. Fishermen in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Guangdong will catch dragon worms weighing more than 200 kilograms every year. The record is 320 kilograms, and there are two The length of eight meters.

Looking at this big fish, Ao Wenchang felt sad: "Hey, such a big fish, how long did it live in the sea? We just caught it..."

As he spoke, a look of regret appeared on his face.

Ao Mudong hates this kind of soft-heartedness the most: "What can we do? If we don't fish it out, can it live forever? Besides, look at how big it is, how many live fish and shrimps must it eat? Who will pity the fish and shrimps it eats?"

Ao Wenchang knew that he couldn't communicate directly with these rough people, so he said: "Who will pity this giant grouper? I'm just curious, how old is this giant grouper when it's so big?"

Ao Qianwen, who was smoking, said leisurely: "Why not just take a look? Anyway, their age is written on their bodies."

Ao Wenchang asked in surprise: "Really? Where is it written?"

Ao Qianpan He said with a smile: "Scholar, you have read so many books and attended so many schools, but you don't know this?"

Ao Wenchang smiled bitterly and said: "I don't learn this in school, Uncle Qianpan, if you know it, please teach me."

Ao Qianpan said: "Ha, this is simple, uncle will teach you, but it won't be in vain, you can go back and tutor my daughter after school, her English and mathematics are too poor."

Ao Wenchang nodded: "Okay, that's no problem."

The dragon grouper has scales on its body, mostly small ctenoid scales, but they are big, so they inevitably have larger scales, Ao Qianpan took one of them.

Ao Muyang also didn't know how to judge the age of the fish by the scales, so he curiously came over to observe.

Seeing that he was also watching, Ao Qianpan became serious and said: "The dragon head is very simple, like the annual rings of a tree, in fact, there are annual rings on this fish. Hey, Qianlai, go get me a magnifying glass."

Ao Qianlai left happily, and then came back with a telescope...