As soon as the harvested shrimps were packed up, Grandpa Chen turned happily and walked into the cab.

After a while, the fishing boat arrived at the place where the sticky net was set not far away.

Before the fishing boat came to a complete stop, Chen Zhiyao noticed small ripples on the surrounding sea surface.

It looks like the sticky nets below have yielded a good harvest.

The four nets were put down in order from small to large according to the size of the mesh. The first one to be pulled up was the sticky net with the smallest mesh.

As the fishing net slowly rose from the deep sea water under the powerful traction of the mechanical arm, the smile on Chen Zhiyao's face became brighter and brighter.

Looking closely, I saw that the sticky net was densely packed with lively barramundi and angelfish.

Grandma Chen, who was closest to the net, smiled happily as she pulled over the fishing net and started working.

The old lady said cheerfully as she started working:

"These balang fish are quite big, each one weighs about half a pound."

Chen Weiqiang, who was holding a flower fairy fish, also said with a smile:

"You know what, these fairy fish are quite big. This net is worth a lot of money."

There were so many fish that the whole family was busy for more than ten minutes before they finally untied the fish from the net one by one.

These small fish may not look big, but there are a lot of them, weighing at least 300 kilograms in total.

However, the real surprise is yet to come!

When Chen Zhiyao pulled up the second net with great anticipation, what she saw was simply beyond her expectation.

I saw large patches of yellow mullet covering the entire fishing net, with a few white pomfret weighing more than a pound scattered among them.

From afar, the fishing net was glowing white, sparkling in the sunlight.

The fish were already frightened because they were stuck in the net.

Now they were suddenly pulled out of the water, and these timid fish fell into panic.

At this time, the fish in the net sensed the impending danger and began to struggle and twist frantically.

The energetic fish swung its tail and body vigorously, making crackling sounds.

These sounds interweave together wonderfully, blending into a joyful harvest ode.

Chen Zhiyao skillfully operated the mechanical arm, slowly pulling the net up bit by bit.

Standing nearby were Yan Shuting and her husband, as well as Grandma Chen. The three of them deftly unhooked the fish from the net one by one.

Before long, they harvested several baskets of yellow-legged fish and a bucket full of white pomfret.

The third sticky net didn't catch much fish, but the variety was quite rich.

Pearl grouper, sea bass, turbot, silver carp, white pomfret, yellowtail and sea wolf, there were two or three of almost everything.

These fish are of average size, weighing only about 100 pounds in total.

Even though we caught so many fish these two days, this net is actually at a normal level.

If Chen Zhiyao hadn't added bait to the net, the harvest would probably be worse than this.

The net with the coarsest mesh caught a total of three sea bass, two tiger groupers, two sesame groupers, one blue grouper and one ripple grouper.

This net was basically full of giant groupers weighing more than 5 kilograms. The people on the boat were very excited, and the corners of their mouths were curled up uncontrollably.

The ground trap was placed closer to the second net, and it was filled with almost all yellow-legged fish and white pomfret.

Chen Zhiyao put a lot of bait in the ground traps. These greedy little fish gathered around and filled the traps.

However, there was an exception. In the last trap, there was no fish at all, only a lonely large conger eel.

In addition, there were two leftover green crab legs in the cage.

Looking at the remaining two crab legs, Chen Zhiyao felt a little regretful, as this blue crab was quite big.

Conger eels are ferocious and cannot be kept together with other fish.

Chen Weiqiang deliberately put it and the conger eel he had just caught in the shrimp cage into the same bucket.

The crab season has passed and the harvest from the crab cages is quite average.

The 10 crab cages together only held about 8 pounds of crabs, and they looked skinny.

After a few people picked and chose and released some smaller and pregnant crabs, only about 5 kilograms were left in total.

Although the crab harvest was less, the overall harvest only increased with the addition of shrimp cages.

Another harvest day!

After working together several times, Chen Zhiyao and Manager Yang from the seafood hotel became quite familiar with each other.

Today's harvest was good, not only red grouper and bluefin mullet, but also two large conger eels.

On the way back, she specifically contacted Manager Yang.

However, today's red grouper and bluefin mullet were not big, and the two conger eels were of good size. However, other suppliers also delivered conger eels today.

After a round of chatting, Manager Yang only took a fancy to the larger small green dragon shrimp, nine-segment shrimp and zebra mantis shrimp.

"Small blue shrimp weighing more than one pound are 230 yuan per pound. Nine-segment shrimp weighing more than half a pound are 210 yuan per pound. I want all zebra mantis shrimps, all at 365 yuan per pound."

The price offered by Manager Yang was slightly higher than that offered by the purchasing station, but only by a little bit.

In addition, the quantity needed is not large, so the total price is estimated to be only about a hundred or so yuan more than that at the purchasing station.

The money was not much, and after a busy day, Chen Zhiyao was too lazy to make a special trip.

After politely rejecting Manager Yang's request, she contacted Yang Jiajun again, intending to send all the catch to the purchasing station.

Every profession has its specialties, there is no need to make money from everything.

As soon as the fishing boat docked, Boss Xiao Yang came over with two strong middle-aged men to help.

Baskets of fresh seafood were loaded onto the truck, and soon the group arrived at Yang's purchasing station.

Yang Jiajun held a calculator and hurriedly directed two men to weigh the fish:

"There are so many small blue dragons. It seems you have disturbed their nest. The big ones are 220 yuan per catty, and the small ones are 180 yuan per catty. The total is 2840 yuan."

"The big ones are 200 yuan per pound, and the small ones are 160 yuan per pound, so the total is 2230 yuan."

"The other prawns and shrimps are all priced at 30 yuan per catty, so there are 86 catties in total, which is 2580 yuan in total."

Seeing so many prawns, many of which were covered with roe, Yang Jiajun was in a very good mood. He thought he could make some money at home if he sold them.

Then he turned his attention to the sea fish next to him.

"The barramundi and angelfish we got this time are quite large, so let's charge them all at 7 yuan per catty. That adds up to 568 catties, so the total is 3976 yuan."

"These yellow-foot waxfish look quite lively. Let's charge 40 yuan per catty. 388 catties, a total of one piece."

"These white pomfret are also good in size, 30 yuan per catty, 220 catties, a total of 6600 yuan."

……

The three of them worked for a while before they counted the catch from the sticky nets and various cages, and the total was 4 pieces.

Spread out evenly, each person earned nearly 1 yuan.

According to the old rules, the catch from the fishing boat is shared equally by everyone, while the catch from sea catching, fishing and diving is the responsibility of each person.

Chen Zhiyao found large sea cucumbers and zebra shrimps at the bottom of the sea, plus a lot of conchs and seashells, earning a total of 9966 yuan.

The others also had good gains, basically earning several thousand yuan.

At the end of the day, the Chen family's income was as follows:

Grandpa Chen: Block

Grandma Chen: Blocks.

Chen Weiqiang: Blocks.

Yan Shuting: Chunks.

Chen Zhiyao: Chunks.

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