Chapter 246： deep trench fish

Chapter 246 School of Fish in Deep Ditch

Holding the giant king crab with its teeth and claws slowly swimming back to the water surface, giving it enough to adapt to the water pressure.

After a few minutes, Chu Mingcheng looked sideways at his diving watch and found that he had reached the water level of 30 meters, so he started to level dive, carrying the emperor crab to swim to the fishing boat.

This is to let Jiang Luoluo see that she is still active in the waters beside the boat, lest she think too much.

As for why there are king crabs in this diving area, it is not surprising.

Emperor crabs are different from king crabs. Although most of the time they live in water below 100 meters, they occasionally go to shallow waters to find food or lay eggs.

Even when you are lucky, you might find them on the beach.

Otherwise, Chu Mingcheng would not have rashly moved the emperor crab back. Didn’t he tell Jiang Luoluo to dive to a water below 100 meters?

After confirming that the king crab was still alive, he continued to swim towards the surface of the water, and after two minutes, he emerged from the water.

"Lolo, come and see what I caught!" A loud shout sounded on the sea with only the sound of waves.

Jiang Luoluo who heard the movement hurried out of the cab, and then saw Chu Mingcheng carrying a giant king crab that completely covered him.

"Isn't this too big?" The small mouth opened slightly, looking very surprised.

Even though she was used to seeing all kinds of big fish, she was still surprised by this huge creature.

The next moment, she reacted and stepped forward quickly, trying to help lift the crab to the boat, but the emperor crab with its teeth and claws made her unable to do it at all.

"No need to help, you go and take out the scale, I'll weigh this king crab." Chu Mingcheng said, he easily lifted the king crab and put it on the deck, and then climbed up by himself.

Seeing this, Jiang Luoluo hastily moved out the large scale. With a little curiosity, he watched him lift the king crab onto the scale.

"Let me go, fifty-six catties and four taels, this one can sell for more than 2,500 Australian dollars, right?" Chu Mingcheng was still a little surprised when he saw the weight.

He estimated that the emperor crab weighed about 50 catties, at most it was just over 50 catties, but it turned out to be heavier than he had imagined.

"If this is sold domestically, it is estimated to be worth at least 60,000." Jiang Luoluo smacked her lips, feeling a little sorry.

Wholesale price to Noah, the price is naturally not much higher.

But domestic king crabs of this size are at least 1,000 kilograms, so it is not difficult to sell them for 60,000 yuan.

Of course, this is not counting import duties.

Chu Mingcheng has been in the seafood business for several months, and now he knows that the bigger the seafood, the rarer it is, and there is no shortage of buyers for good-tasting seafood.

Not to mention the owner of the restaurant, at least some big internet celebrities in the gourmet area are willing to pay this money. After a video goes viral, the value generated far exceeds the tens of thousands of oceans.

"No way, this is someone else's territory, and we have to be trustworthy as human beings. Since we have agreed to sell the seafood to Noah, we can't go back on our word because of the tens of thousands of price difference, and it's not worth it." Chu Mingcheng laughed.

"That's not what I mean, I'm just a pity." Jiang Luoluo rolled his eyes, then pointed at the emperor crab and said, "How can we keep such a big one?"

Chu Mingcheng was also a little tangled, he gestured to the living water tank, and found that the hatch was too small for crabs to fit in.

Then he took out the biggest box, but it wasn't big enough either.

In the end, he had no choice but to say: "It's better to see how the crab pots are harvested tomorrow morning. If the harvest is good, let's go back first."

Jiang Luoluo nodded: "That's the only way to go, otherwise it would be a pity that the emperor crab died."

Finally, the king crab let it huddle in a corner. Fortunately, there was no sun at night, so I didn’t worry about it being sunburned to death.

Chu Mingcheng continued to enter the water, this time he wanted to speed up and fill up the crab pots first.

It took a lot of time to catch this giant king crab. When he returned to the bottom of the water and came to the side of the crab cage, he found that several king crabs were attracted by the bait in the crab cage and had gathered together.

This is easy to handle. The big ones are stuffed directly into the empty crab pots, and the small ones are left alone. Even if they climb in, they will still have to be released.

There are some emperor crabs next to a crab pot. It took half an hour for Chu Mingcheng to stuff all the emperor crabs in.

He doesn't know how many king crabs there are in this water area, but judging from the annual output, under normal circumstances, the chances of ten crab pots being full of king crabs should not be high.

Fortunately, he has a plug-in. Not only can he adapt to the water pressure at the bottom of the water, but he can also move for two hours.

You can expand the search range, catch the king crab and put it into the crab cage.

But he can't stay underwater all the time, lest Jiang Luoluo suspect.

So he quickly swam to the side of the boat and looked for lobsters on the reef near the boat.

He didn't pay attention to this water area before, but now he realizes that there are quite a lot of aquatic plants here.

Through the light, you can see a lot of fish shuttling and hiding in it, including two groupers that make people greedy.

It is quite large and fully meets the capture specifications.

It’s just that he didn’t bring not only a speargun, but also a spear, so he had to let the two groupers go.

If he had a fish spear, he wouldn't need to use another king crab's big claws to attract it when he grabbed the king crab under the rock crevice just now.

Continuing to swim forward, a fault suddenly appeared at the bottom of the water, and Chu Mingcheng saw a piece of coral reef.

Because of the light, he didn't see a few fish, but he was very impressed by the many tentacles in the crevices under the coral reef.

Is there too much lobster here?

Chu Mingcheng did not immediately go down to catch lobsters, but continued to swim forward to see how the resources here are.

If there are a lot of lobsters, then there is no need for him to catch them himself. Wouldn’t it be faster to buy two shrimp pots specially designed to catch big lobsters?

He now has a commercial fishing license, catching lobsters will not be as troublesome as before, as long as the size of each lobster meets the standard.

The red dragons produced in Victoria are all authentic red dragons, and the price is good. If sold to Noah, a catty can reach 30 Australian dollars.

Chu Mingcheng was swimming in search of other lobster nests, and within a short distance of about 30 meters, he found two more lobster gathering places. Obviously, there are a lot of lobsters here.

After a short while, he found that there was a deep ditch on the coral reef, and there were a lot of red snappers swimming in the deep ditch.

This is a huge group of red snappers, the number did not surprise Chu Mingcheng, but the size of most of the red snappers surprised him.

Before he caught more than ten catties of red snapper, Wei Jiaguo was envious.

Here, it seems that more than ten catties are very common, and it seems that there are not many more than twenty catties.

Occasionally, you can even see some red snappers that are nearly meter-sized. This resource is simply outrageous.

If it weren't for the authentic red lobster and king crab produced in the Bass Strait, Chu Mingcheng would definitely choose to fish here.

There are many kinds of grouper here, and green fish can be seen everywhere along the coast of Melbourne.

Even many fishermen like to come and challenge big marlin and tuna, including bluefin tuna.

When he was still in China, Chu Mingcheng’s plan was to catch emperor crabs first, and then go to the Great Barrier Reef to catch big fish when the number was almost caught.

Now that he has come to Australia and learned about the local marine resources, he knows that there is no need for him to go to the Great Barrier Reef, and he can go fishing directly in the Bass Strait.

Now that such a large school of fish is found, Chu Mingcheng will definitely not let it go.

Fishing tools Noah has at home, and they have been moved to the boat.

So he immediately swam back and told Jiang Luoluo to start the fishing boat to follow him, then he led the way in the water and brought the boat to the top of this deep ditch.

"Lolo, let's go fishing tonight, and we'll go back tomorrow morning after collecting the crab pots."

After the boat stopped, Chu Mingcheng returned to the boat and went to take a shower and change clothes after giving orders. Obviously, the emperor crab didn't care, and he had to fish first at night.

After taking a shower and coming to the deck, Jiang Luoluo had already changed into a fishing suit, with a face towel to keep out the wind.

Fishing rods and baits are already placed on the side of the boat, and now the preparations have been completed.

It is good to have a good wife. Chu Mingcheng came near her, leaving two fishing spots in the middle, so as not to be too close to cause the ocean current to entangle the fishing line.

At this time, the wind and waves were a bit strong. Even though the anchor had been thrown down, the whole fishing boat was still shaking in the waves.

The climate on the sea surface of the Bass Strait itself is changeable, and the wind and waves are not small. It is still very calm tonight.

Jiang Luoluo has long been used to life on the boat, the rope is tied to the handrail on the side of the boat, and the fishing rod is in his hand.

She hung a bell on the tip of the fishing rod, and the bell would ring to remind her when a fish was hooked.

This trick surprised Chu Mingcheng: "Luoluo, when did you buy a bell?"

Jiang Luoluo put the bait on and threw the hook into the water before explaining.

"I didn't buy it. Noah told me that if you are not good at fishing, you can hang a bell to remind you when the fish is hooked. I am not very good at fishing, so I will try this bell!"

"That's true!" Chu Mingcheng nodded, thinking that this method is good for catching ferocious sea fish.

Even when fishing for tuna in the future, the person who hangs the bell does not need to wait by the side. The bell will ring when the fish is hooked. He feels that he has to buy a few bells when he returns home.

The sky in Australia is full of stars, even if the lights on the boat are not turned on at night, you will not be able to see your fingers.

Chu Mingcheng quietly waited for the fish to take the bait. With a fish finder, he didn't need to remind Jiang Luoluo what water layer to catch.

"jingling~~"

The clear and rapid bell sounded suddenly, and he knew that it was Jiang Luoluo who had caught the fish.

"咻~"

At the moment the bell rang, Jiang Luoluo raised the fishing rod with both hands and stabbed it hard. Normally, red snappers are very careful when eating hooks.

But when the bell rings, it means that it has gone through several rounds of trials and has swallowed the bait into its stomach.

Jiang Luoluo stabbed the fish, just stuck the hook deeply into the fish's mouth, making it impossible for the red sea bream to escape.

"Hey, the fish is so big!"

She pulled the fishing line whining, and the sound of the fishing line cutting into the water also sounded from time to time, even the sound of the waves could not block it.

Chu Mingcheng was about to go over with the net, but the fishing rod on his side also bent down severely.

He quickly locked the spool, and also raised the fishing rod to stab the fish.

He is also familiar with red snapper, and basically there will be no decoupling.

(end of this chapter)