Golden Fishing Village

The reason why Ao Muyang wanted to go to the sea was because someone in the village said that oysters were appearing on the beach again.

Oysters are a kind of small sea fish. They don't grow very big. They are only four or five centimeters tall at most. They have a small head and a slender body, just like the small fish in the river. However, the meat is extremely tender, making them an outstanding small seafood in the offshore.

When Ao Muyang was young, it was a common thing to go to the sea to catch oysters. Oysters live in the swamps of the seabed. They are a bit like loaches. Adults set nets and children dig holes. Every household can get one. A few kilograms or a dozen kilograms will go back.

Later, the problem of marine pollution intensified and the water quality of seawater deteriorated, so there were very few oysters. This small fish has very high requirements for water quality. Now it reappears in the beach swamp, which proves that the water quality of the Red Ocean has improved. The water quality of the sea outside the village has improved. Water quality is better.

The fishing boat docked at the pier, and Ao Muyang jumped directly onto the beach and asked: "Fourth Aunt, how was the harvest? Did you get the oysters?"

A dark-faced woman raised her head and said with a smile: "Ah, village chief, hehe, I'm pretty lucky today. Here, I worked hard with my melon seeds and caught some."

She showed the small bucket to Ao Muyang. There were several layers of small fish inside, which were oysters.

The boy who was digging in the mud next to him raised his head and asked, "Uncle Xiaoyang, do you want to eat it? If you eat it, I won't let my mother catch it. I'll catch it for you."

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "Hurry up and help your mother. Oysters are rare these days. They can sell for one or two hundred yuan per pound. By the way, don't call me Uncle Xiaoyang. It's too senior to call me. Just my brother.”

The boy who looked very much like his mother also smiled innocently and bent down to work in the mud again.

The children in the village worship Ao Muyang more than the adults.

Their world is very simple. They will worship whoever gives them face and dignity.

The Longtou Village led by Ao Muyang is famous throughout the city. When teenagers play at school or at their classmates' homes, when people learn that he and Ao Muyang are related, they will immediately look up to them.

In the evening, after school, Lu Zhizi took off her shoes and came to catch the sea, and Ao Muyang took her to catch oysters.

Oysters begin to appear in spring, but there are few at that time. As the temperature rises into summer, their number increases.

However, their spawning period is within a week before and after May Day. During this period, the oysters have fish roe, which is not only delicious in texture, but also soft in bones, giving them the best taste.

At that time, if you forcibly hunted oysters, you could still get something. But the fishermen are now more aware, especially when the village starts to engage in tourism, and Ao Muyang works hard to instill in them the concept of sustainable development.

The villagers know that they cannot exhaust the lake for fishing. They rarely fish in the sea outside the village during the flood season. Even if there are fish in the offshore, they go to the open sea to let the offshore resources breathe.

For example, when swordfish came to the sea outside the village, the villagers did not go crazy fishing for them, but let tourists go fishing. If someone set the net, the villagers would take the initiative to persuade them to put away the net.

These swordfish will not stay in the sea outside the village for too long. Everyone knows this, but the villagers still have not killed them all. They hope to maintain the size of the swordfish group and come back next year.

Ao Muyang took Lu Zhizi into the quagmire. In the evening, the tide just went out, revealing a large area of ​​​​the seabed.

Last year, the village built a number of low tide embankments. These small embankments have now become a good recreational project. As the sea water falls, the small embankments intercept some small crabs, shrimps and small aquatic fish.

From time to time, people with their children discover something on the low tide bank. No matter what they find, the tourists will shout in surprise.

As the sun sets, the village dogs run around on the beach wagging their tails, and the atmosphere of the fisherman's house becomes strong.

Ao Muyang stepped on the mudflat, and there were many small holes where he landed. Some were razor clam holes, some were crab holes, and some were oyster caves.

The largest number of them are the caves of hermit crabs and fiddler crabs. Several tourists picked up small conches and found sneaky little crabs emerging from them.

Fiddler crabs cannot be eaten and cannot be kept alive. Nowadays, tourists have a high level of education and quality. After catching fiddler crabs, they can only take pictures and most of them will not take them away.

It's okay to take them away. What the happy tourists don't know is that the fish, shrimps and crabs in their hands are not purely wild, but are ones that Ao Muyang finds people to buy and release from time to time...

Ao Muyang took Lu Zhizi to look for Oyster Gen, and he said: "We have to dig holes. Oyster caves are easy to find. Their direction is diagonally upward, while razor clam caves go straight up and down. You can see the difference if you compare them carefully. "

Lu Zhizi shook his head: "It's so difficult. These caves are much more similar than Latin and English."

Ao Muyang often caught oysters when he was a child and teenager. It was very simple for him, but instead of catching oysters directly, he found a small piece of Pipi shrimp nest.

The nest of Pipi Shrimp is the Cunning Rabbit Three Cave. He found a cave and stepped on it with his feet. The air pressure in the cave changed, and water came out of a small hole next to it. Then Pipi Shrimp probed.

Lu Zhizi reached out to take it in surprise, but the Pipi shrimp was very aggressive and flicked his head. Lu Zhizi took a breath and quickly put his finger into his mouth.

Ao Muyang held the shrimp head with two fingers and put it into the small bucket. He smiled and said: "You have to be careful. How about you help me carry the bucket and I will catch it. Let's work together as husband and wife to kill it." gold!"

He enjoys activities like this, which remind him of his childhood.

In the 1990s, children of fishermen had no toys, and the best toys were the small fish and shrimps on the beach. Whenever they went to the sea, they would search for catches with their dogs on the beach with bare feet.

Turning over a stone to pick up a crab, spreading salt in a hole to catch a clam, stepping on water to find a mantis shrimp, their childhood was hidden in these little things.

After catching more than 20 mantis shrimps in a row, someone noticed his harvest and rushed over to join in the fun.

Ao Muyang taught tourists how to catch mantis shrimps with a good temper, and then he left to find oyster gens.

The oyster gen caves are tilted upwards, and look very similar to the mantis shrimp caves, but much smaller, because their bodies are very slender.

Similarly, if you stretch your feet into the small hole and step on it, the oyster gens will run out when they are frightened. When they fall on the mudflat, just reach out and pick them up.

Oyster gens are very interesting. After leaving the cave, they can jump like grasshoppers. This is related to their body structure. Their tails are very powerful and can be spread flat on the mud and bounce up.

Because the oyster gens in June have finished producing eggs, there is no need to worry about killing them all. They have completed their mission of passing on the family line, and the fish school will have more offspring to expand.

From dusk to sunset, it took about an hour for Ao Muyang's small bucket to be full.

Oysters have a very poor vitality and will die soon after leaving the cave, so they have to be processed. After returning, they must be quickly steamed or boiled in salt water, and then dried in the sun for use in cold dishes, or braised or deep-fried.