"Wow!" Under Philemon's control, the big net of fish was then put into the pool for sorting, but just as it was put in, the huge sailfish moved vigorously, hoping to go back into the sea, but fortunately Edward was prepared, he rushed over, picked up a huge blanket, wrapped it around his body, and then Jiang Hai and Feili Meng also ran over, picked up the big fish almost three meters long, and walked into the nearby reservoir.
This fish can grow up to five meters and weighs 1800 kilograms. This particular fish they caught is not that big. If this fish was at its maximum size, not even Dasha can overpower it let alone Jiang Hai, assuming Dasha and Jiang Hai could overpower a full grown sailfish, what then? How were they supposed to transfer a 1800 kilogram struggling fish to containment? Even this small one is 600kilograms and required three adults to lift, fortunately Jiang Hai came along to help them. Although he was not qualified as a sailor, he was strong enough to directly hold the fish and transfer it to the reservoir.
After transfering the fish all of them watched the fish swim in the water, happiness was evident in their eyes.
If this fish dies, it’s worthless. A sailfish of this size is worth only 30,000 if it dies and 100,000 only if it’s alive, though these types of fish aren’t usually sold alive.
Even in the aquarium, there are very few marlin or swordfish on display, because these fish are too difficult to catch.
The swimming speeds of these fish are extremely fast, and the fishing boat can't catch up, so a normal fishing boat will definitely not be able to catch up to it.
As for the seine fishing boats, the speed of picking up the net is too slow. Even if they are caught, these fish can get out of the other end of the net using their speed, even if it did not, they could easily break the net on their own.
If Philemon didn't pull the net up as fast as he did, it would very likely allow the fish to slip away, or even destroy the net.
If that happened, Jiang Hai and the others would feel miserable. Who wouldn’t be miserable if you needed to buy a new net after only using it for a day.
So, if you want to catch these kinds of fish, basically 90% of the methods are by using a fishing rod.
But after fishing, there is still a big problem. The fish is too big and its strength to struggle is greater. It takes 3-5 guys just to hold this sailfish.
In addition, these fish need to swim constantly to breathe, and they will die soon after leaving the sea.
So basically, any fish like this will be killed and stored inside a cold storage unit.
But Jiang Hai’s fishing boat is different, His has a built in reservoir that draws water from the outside to keep expensive fish alive. In other words, when the boat is running, the water in the reservoir is constantly changing, so it is difficult for the fish to die, at least it will remain alive until they find a buyer.
"Looks like we scored big this time! Boss, remember me when giving bonuses!" Looking at the blue marlin in the water, Philemon couldn’t hide his excitement.
"This is natural, one person is ten thousand, and that is only the start." Not to mention other fish products, this sailfish alone is worth one hundred thousand. Jiang Hai has never been stingy with money so he told both Philemon and Edwards that both of them will be receiving a bonus and with that Philemon and Edward laughed even more. After awhile, everyone returned to the deck. There was still a lot of fish to sort.
As for Jiang Hai, he deliberately picked up a sea bass about half a meter long from the fish pile and approached Dasha. Though they caught the sailfish, the biggest hero is still Dasha who was swimming outside, so how could Jiang Hai reward his crew and not his wonderful pet?
Dasha excitedly swam to Jiang Hai. It was pure luck that he encountered the sailfish. While he was swimming near the boat looking for fish to lure to he bumped into it by mistake, otherwise, with the speed of a sailfish, it is estimated that in less than ten minutes, Dasha will not even see the waves drawn from behind the opponent's ass.
"Good boy! This is your reward, good job!" When he arrived next to Dasha, Jiang Hai took off his glove, slightly cut his finger, and squeezed a drop of blood from it. In the past month or so, he didn’t need to use his blood, so the scales of his tatoo were a lot longer. After dropping the blood into the sea bass’ mouth, he stuffed the fish into Dasha’s mouth, as soon as the fish entered Dasha’s mouth, Dasha knew that this fish was a good thing so he swallowed it without even biting, he turned around and after a splash of water, he disappeared to the bottom of the sea.
The energy in Jiang Hai's blood is too strong, and it needs to be digested well.
After Dasha left, Jiang Hai returned to the deck. When he arrived, he found out that there are more fish in the pool, which means that there were more precious things. Jiang Hai's eyes brightened when he went over to look.
Among other things, the dozens of large and small lobsters were enough to excite Jiang Hai.
"Damn, this has to be more than ten kilograms!" Walking next to the pool, Jiang Hai grabbed a huge lobster.
"No, it's about eight or nine kilograms, such a big lobster is good, and it can sell at least two or three thousand dollars." Hearing Jiang Hai, Philemon said when he heard Jiang Hai.
"Is it only two or three thousand dollars? Damn, the lobster here is too cheap. Forget it, today’s catch is good enough. Let’s eat this guy tonight!" Jiang Hai said with a smile as the lobster was waving its claws at Jiang Hai.
"Eat it? Haha, are you willing to be the boss?" Hearing Jiang Hai, Edward and Philemon looked at each other, and then Edward asked helplessly. They were a little hesitant to eat such an expensive meal.
In fact, as far as Jiang Hai is concerned, his priority is to enjoy his life and making money is a close second.
After that brief interlude, they continued to classify the fish. The last catch was filled with fish mostly, while this time other things accounted for almost 70%. It was mostly lobsters, crabs, stones, broken corals etc. some of which are too small to fetch a good price in the market.
In addition to lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, there are many other shellfishes, but basically, these shellfish were thrown back into the sea by Edward and Philemon. These shellfish can be used as fish food for the fish that they will raise here, and it will not be wasted. In addition to the shellfish that were thrown back, are small octopuses and small squids that were also thrown back to be used as free fish food.
There are also all kinds of flounders, this kind of flat fish lives on the bottom of the sea. When the net passed by, all kinds of flounders were caught. They kept the valuable ones which include one that is a meter long.
This fish can grow up to two and a half meters and more than 300 kilograms, and can live for 50 years.
This one is about one meter long, which means it has lived for more than ten years, but if sold, it is also worth a lot of money. (fact check; according to google flounders can only grow up to a meter max. Not sure if this is true though.)
After sorting this mess of fish, the four large storages of Jiang Hai were almost full after only casting the net twice.
With Edward already at the helm, the fishing boat drove towards the Boston area in the distance. They caught a lot of good things, but if they sold it at Winthrop, they may not get a good price so they have no choice but to sell it at a bigger city. After about an hour, a faint fishing port appeared in front of Jiang Hai and others. In the fishing port, many boats came in and out, many of these boats are owned by fishermen.
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