237. Chapter 236 Glass Eel, Soft Gold in the Sea

Chapter 236 Glass Eel, Soft Gold in the Sea

Before starting to catch eels, Li Duoyu went to the eel farm to check. Among the seven large ponds, there was one that Li Duoyu used to cultivate water.

Cultivating water actually means cultivating beneficial algae, such as Microcystis or something like that, but Li Duoyu's education level is limited. He really doesn't know what kind of algae there is in the pond. He cultivates it completely based on experience.

Now the overall water color of this pond is light green. It doesn't look turbid, but on the contrary, it is very refreshing, which is the green water that farmers like to see.

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

The pond is built.

The water is also cultivated.

Everything is ready, except for catching the eel fry.

At the dock.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao modified the nets for catching eel fry on the sampan.

The nets he modified are very simple, with two bamboos of similar length cross-fixed on the bow.

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

Seeing Li Duoyu modifying the fishing boat, Shitou, who had enjoyed the small tube fishing bonus last time, licked his face and asked:

"Brother Yu, you modified the boat like this, what kind of fish are you going to catch? If there is a way to make money, can you take me to make money together?"

"Sure, then pay some tuition first." Li Duoyu joked.

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

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

"Ah, this tuition is too expensive."

Shitou smiled bitterly. 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 factory was too large, and eels were not delicious. The tugboats in the village 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.

"Forget about raising eels. If you have other ways to make money, remember to call me."

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

They didn't even know that this transparent fish was the fry of eels. They thought he was raising eels from the sea.

Li Duoyu didn't want to explain too clearly. After all, there was only so much land for raising eels on Dandan Island, and most of it was occupied by him.

If they knew that raising eels could make a lot of money, maybe the group who contracted the land to him would complain.

After modifying the sampan, Li Duoyu glanced at the shrimp trawler with barnacles and mussels growing on the bottom of the boat.

Speaking of which, this boat had been detained by him for two months, and it also helped Li Duoyu a lot. It was very useful when collecting oysters and clamping kelp seedlings.

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

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

I remember the guy named Liu Yun, who was sentenced to only three months in prison for reporting Xiao Weidong and making meritorious contributions, plus he was willing to compensate the victim for his losses.

Xiao Weidong was considered the main culprit in the theft case because he planned the theft of oysters. Due to the huge amount of money involved and his poor attitude of confessing his guilt, he was sentenced to ten years in prison.

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

Because he was so short of money recently.

Just digging the seven large ponds and upgrading the bamboo factory, and hiring people to pick up kelp seedlings, he spent nearly ten thousand yuan.

In order to finally improve the eel factory, he had to buy seven or eight impeller aerators, a machine for grinding fish meal, and a feed mixer. However, these aquaculture equipment that were very common in the previous life were not produced by the machinery factory in Rongcheng.

I still asked Zhao Jialu, and then I knew that Guangcheng in the neighboring province sold them.

Finally, through Zhao Jialu's relationship, Li Duoyu was able to purchase 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 money, was not enough to build this eel factory.

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

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

Li Duoyu drove the boat and came to the sea area at the mouth of Wujiang River with Chen Wenchao.

With the rumbling sound of the engine, the eel fry fishing operation officially began, and the sampan drove in the opposite direction of the ocean current.

The fishing net was almost close to the water surface, because the eel fry that had just arrived at the coast were very light, most of them floated on the sea surface, and each one was estimated to be only about 0.1~0.2 grams.

The swimming ability of young eels is not strong. Whether they can reach the estuary depends entirely on ocean currents and fate. It is said that out of 10,000 young eels, only one will eventually "go ashore".

So to catch them, you just need to drag the net along the sea surface, which does not avoid catching other fish.

However, there are still skills to catch them. You have to choose a time when the tide is high and catch them at high tide, so that the waves will push the young eels to the estuary.

The trawler drove for half an hour.

Li Duoyu stopped the fishing boat and placed three layers of screens on the deck, with different densities of each layer.

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

After the first net was collected, Li Duoyu poured the face-sized net bag onto the screen.

As the sound of rustling sounded, at a glance, there were dragonhead fish, shrimps and pink eels.

Li Duoyu collected the dragonhead fish first. This fish is also called tofu fish. It looks 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, and it is also very delicious to make pepper and salt dragonhead fish.

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

Chen Wenchao on the side asked:

"Brother Yu, is this the eel fry?"

Li Duoyu gently pinched a small eel fry with his hand and put it in a small bucket beside him: "Well, this is the eel fry we want to catch. Be gentle when catching it, don't pinch it to death."

Chen Wenchao nodded.

After the two of them caught for five minutes, they finally caught only about half a bowl of fry.

"Not many." Chen Wenchao couldn't help but say.

"Not a few." Li Duoyu smiled. There were probably hundreds of eel fry in this bowl, which was already a lot.

In another ten years, if I could catch so many in one net, I would wake up laughing in my dreams.

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

At the most expensive time, local eel fry sold for thirty or forty yuan each, which was more expensive than gold at that time.

But in this era, no one competes with you, you can catch as much as you want.