Chapter 330： Seafood merchants' profits

Chapter 330 The profit of seafood merchants

Going back to the Poseidon, he threw the dead anglerfish on the ground, and it immediately collapsed like a pool of rotten meat.

But the bulging belly can show that there are a lot of goods inside.

If you want to eat the most delicious fish liver, can you freeze the fish at this meeting, or you have to deal with this anglerfish first.

Chu Mingcheng didn't care about taking a bath, so he went to bring the fish killing knife, foam box and plates.

First of all, the skin is peeled. With a light cut with a knife, the skin of the anglerfish is broken.

Then Chu Mingcheng grabbed the fish skin with both hands and pulled it out forcefully, the fish skin was immediately peeled off, revealing the pink and tender fish inside.

Peeling anglerfish and peeling skinned fish are completely different feelings, but both are quite stress-relieving.

Some people are born too kind and timid, and eating meat is meat, and they will be more or less resistant to killing.

But in fact, many people have a hidden desire for destruction in their hearts. The nine-year compulsory education can suppress or eliminate this desire for destruction, and let people know what to do or not to do.

Chu Mingcheng also has this desire to destroy. For example, when he was a child, he took a branch he picked up and interrupted a piece of weeds to show off his newly learned martial arts from TV.

It’s like catching a frog, and when you get tired of playing with it, you will disassemble or disassemble it, or even roast it alive.

It's just that when I grow up and mature, I understand the truth, so I won't do these boring things anymore, and I won't hurt small animals indiscriminately.

But every time he hunts fish, especially large fish, Chu Mingcheng will still be very excited.

Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with perversion. He just simply enjoys this kind of stimulation and satisfaction, and the so-called destructive desire is not great.

For such a big anglerfish, it would take a lot of effort to completely peel off its skin.

It took him a few minutes to peel off the skin of the fish, leaving only a pink anglerfish with a big belly.

Then, he turned the fish over.

Then the belly of the fish kept shaking, as if it was full of water.

The meat on the belly of the fish is almost transparent, indicating that the belly meat is very thin.

There is a small geoduck at the junction of the tail and the belly below, which looks quite interesting.

Chu Mingcheng picked up the scissors, and cut off the geoduck with one click, but Little Heiye appeared beside him at some point.

Seeing the geoduck that fell on the ground, it picked it up with one bite.

"Fuck~"

Because it was already dark, Chu Mingcheng didn't turn on the lights, so he really didn't notice it coming.

It wasn't until I noticed something dark moving out of the corner of my eye that I didn't realize it.

When he found Xiao Heiye picking up the geoduck, Chu Mingcheng suddenly turned pale with shock: "You really put everything in your mouth, so spit it out quickly."

He quickly grabbed Xiao Heiye's cheek, snatched the anglerfish's geoduck from its mouth, and then threw it away.

The geoduck flew through the air in a parabola, crossed the side of the ship and fell to the surface of the sea with a bang.

However, the geoduck floating on the water surface immediately attracted the attention of a fish hiding under the boat.

It swam out, touched the geoduck with its mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

It seemed that something was wrong, so it spit it out again and took a closer look.

It was a big lump of meat, food was scarce and could not be wasted, it quickly swallowed it again, and swallowed it directly into its stomach.

Chu Mingcheng on the boat, after teaching Xiao Heiye a lesson, locked him in the cabin together with Hardware, lest they come out to make trouble when the fish would be killed.

Next, he picked up the scissors and easily picked up the belly of the anglerfish.

A large amount of viscera of unknown origin flowed out immediately, filling the belly of the anglerfish, followed by a tender white fish liver that was bigger than an ordinary plate.

This cod liver is no worse than foie gras in terms of appearance alone. No wonder it is called the foie gras in the sea.

Chu Mingcheng carefully cut out the foie gras and put it on a plate.

Then cut off the gall and threw it into the water together with the large lump of unknown internal organs, which immediately attracted a group of small fish to come and peck at it.

Finally, there is the stomach bag as big as a football.

It is bulging inside, and I don’t know what good things are there.

Chu Mingcheng cut off the stomach bag and took it aside separately, so as not to contaminate the fish with dirty things in it later.

Then, holding his breath, he opened his stomach bag.

Suddenly, a silver-white pomfret was exposed, and there was a pungent fishy smell.

This pomfret was very complete as a whole, and it seemed that it had just been swallowed. He picked it up and threw it aside.

This pomfret was completely edible, but Chu Mingcheng was not interested in eating the contents of the fish's belly. He threw it aside because it could be used as bait.

Then he found some half-digested small fish and shrimps in it, as well as a swimming crab.

But these are all wreckage, Chu Mingcheng directly took the water hose and washed them all into the sea, and washed the fish maw clean.

Because anglerfish maw is also edible, and it becomes very thick when boiled, so he throws the maw on the plate as well.

Finally, Chu Mingcheng began to process the flesh of the fish.

Anglerfish is full of cartilage, and a pair of scissors cut off its big mouth, gills and other useless things, and throw them away.

Then he picked up the fish killing knife and chopped the fish into pieces, threw them into the foam box, and used them as bait.

When dealing with the meat on the tail of the fish, Chu Mingcheng found that the pattern of the fish meat is quite beautiful, and the big petals are white and tender like jelly.

Originally, he didn't plan to eat fish, so he finally cut off a large piece and threw it on the plate, planning to try it tomorrow.

After processing a fish, Chu Mingcheng first moved the foam box into the refrigerated cabin and placed it above the innermost bait.

Then he came out and took the plate to the kitchen, sorted the cod liver, fish meat and fish maw, wrapped it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator, and will eat it tomorrow.

After finishing his work, Chu Mingcheng didn't plan to continue working at night. After going back to take a shower, he played games, chatted with Jiang Luoluo, and passed the night simply.

Early the next morning, he immediately went to collect the crab cages, shrimp cages and longlines that had been put down yesterday.

The shrimp pot caught nothing, but the crab pot accidentally caught a batch of swimming crabs.

But the quantity is average. After picking the fat ones, they were just over two hundred catties, and were thrown into the fish box by Chu Mingcheng.

Longline harvesting is okay, there are a total of 500 catties of deep-sea fish that can be sold for money.

There were too many things on the boat, so Chu Mingcheng seized the time and spent the whole morning diving and hunting five bluefin tuna weighing more than two hundred catties, and then returned to the voyage.

At noon, he naturally enjoyed the anglerfish liver, which is known as the foie gras in the sea.

Braised fish maw and fish meat, and fried fish liver.

Anglerfish has a lot of parasites on it, so it cannot be eaten until it is fully cooked.

This fish is cheap, but the taste of the fish meat and fish maw braised in yellow is still good.

Although its cod liver is not as exaggerated as the marketing account on the Internet, it tastes very good.

Not as fatty as foie gras, not so greasy.

It is extremely soft and tender, melts in the mouth, and has a sweet and umami taste.

Chu Mingcheng, who felt that the fish liver was really good, purposely passed the location where the anglerfish were caught last night when returning to the voyage, then changed into a diving suit and went into the water to catch three anglerfish of 70 to 80 cm.

Take out the cod livers, wrap them in plastic wrap and kitchen paper, and give them to Jiang Luoluo and Zhang Wei to taste when they go back.

As for the fish meat, in fact, the taste can only be said to be okay, and it must not be attractive to them, so they were all chopped into pieces and put in the refrigerated compartment as bait.

By the time Chu Mingcheng returned to the pier, it was already twelve o'clock at night.

Zhang Wei, who was notified by him during the day, will be in high spirits, because he ate at three o'clock in the afternoon, then went to bed, and didn't wake up until eleven o'clock.

"How many catches did you get?"

Zhang Wei brought supper over, and after eating, he looked at the catch this time.

It's only been three days since he went out to sea, he was very curious about how many catches Chu Mingcheng had caught, and he came back so soon.

"See for yourself!"

"Looking at you like this, it seems that there are many good things!"

When Zhang Wei boarded the boat with supper, he purposely refrained from looking at the live water tank.

This will come out of the cabin, and immediately went to observe the situation of the living water tank.

Two of the living water tanks are filled with tiger prawns and rich shrimps, and the remaining one is full of coral fish and grouper.

And in the next few fish boxes, there are all crawling swimming crabs.

"Sure, so much harvest in just three days."

Among other things, he is very satisfied with what he has gained here

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the living water tank of the spotted prawns: "Ah Cheng, is there a place that specializes in catching lobsters and rich prawns? Since this year, I found that you have these two kinds of seafood every time you go to sea."

"Indeed, I will tell you the coordinates!"

Facing Chu Mingcheng's generosity, Zhang Wei waved his hands again and again: "No need, anyway, I don't go out to sea very much now, it doesn't matter! Also, Chen Yang didn't concentrate on fishing now, but set up that dive shop instead, so you give us We may not go to the coordinates."

Seeing that he really didn't want it, Chu Mingcheng didn't force it.

Then, the two came to the refrigerated cabin again, and Zhang Wei went to open the door of the refrigerated cabin.

A gust of cold air caressed his face, and when he saw the situation inside, his eyes widened in vain, dumbfounded.

After a while, he turned his head with difficulty: "Damn, did you rob the fishing boat?"

"No, I was lucky enough to meet a group of bigeye tuna blasting the water, and then I easily got 26 of them with a javelin. If it weren't for the refrigerated compartment, there might be more."

"Javelin? Is it the one you specially customized? This fish hunting efficiency is so high? Amazing!"

"It's okay, it's really useful. There are more than 20 boxes of fish in it that are all longlined. You hurry up and ask someone to come over and count them together. It's so late, don't waste time."

Zhang Wei heard that he shifted his target to a large row of foam boxes stacked inside, and couldn't be more satisfied with his harvest this time.

With so many catches, it was enough to last until Chuming City came back from the high seas.

So he hurriedly called someone over to count the catch together. There are many kinds of coral fish and deep-sea fish. Although the price is high, it is very troublesome to count.

Chu Mingcheng also came over to help, sorted all kinds of fish, then weighed them to calculate the price, and recorded it in the notebook.

The final frozen coral fish and deep-sea fish totaled 3,767 catties, with a total price of more than 586,000.

The prawns and rich prawns are 663 catties in total. There are live and frozen ones, but the frozen ones are relatively small, and the total price is more than 260,000 points.

The unit price of tiger prawns and rich prawns is high, and the frozen ones are only a few tens of dollars cheaper, so they can be sold so much despite their low weight.

Swimming crabs weighed two hundred and twenty-three catties, and all the dead ones were thrown away. The crabs are dead and cannot be eaten, and the rest are all alive. The total price is 9,000.

There were also some who estimated that they would live less than a day, and Zhang Wei put them in separate bags, which could be given away or eaten by themselves.

The last thing is to calculate the tuna, and each tuna is roughly calculated according to the quality of the fish.

Because he will often buy and sell tuna in the future, Zhang Wei also deliberately learned the identification of this aspect.

Twenty-six bigeye tuna, the total price is more than 513,000, and the average price is about 87.

Zhang Wei sold it himself, and the estimated unit price should be more than 100 points.

The five bluefin tunas are only more than 200 catties, and none of them are particularly outstanding, so the total price is only more than 638,000.

On this trip, the total value of all the catches was 1.95 million. As for the big change of about 3,000 yuan, Zhang Wei directly wiped it off with a laugh.

Chu Mingcheng kicked him in the ass, and said angrily, "Why don't you just give him two million and round it up?"

"That won't work. I'm in a small business. How can a boss like you make as much money?" Zhang Wei said with a chuckle, with no embarrassment in his thick skin.

"Last time you sold me more than two million catches. I sold them all and only made more than three hundred thousand. I paid my wages and rented a refrigerated warehouse. There is not much left. You are the big boss. How many thousands of dollars do you care about with me?"

Chu Mingcheng was taken aback when he heard the words: "You earn so little?"

Zhang Wei didn't waste his time during this time, he has a very clear understanding of the seafood business's profit trading.

"It depends on the season! Now that Mid-Autumn Festival and October 1st have passed, it is not bad to earn 15% to 20% under normal circumstances!"

"If it is a particularly important festival such as the Mid-Autumn Festival or October 1st, the purchase price of seafood on your side will increase by a part, but on my side it will increase even more, and the profit should reach about 40%."

"As for the end of the year, it must be the best. Although it can't double the profit, the profit can reach about 70%."

"Of course, how much you earn is also related to the type of seafood. The profit of tuna grouper is much higher than that of ordinary hairtail, small yellow croaker and squid."

"I see!" Chu Mingcheng nodded knowingly, but he was not moved by the profit.

If you want to become stronger and bigger, it is normal for profits to be shared.

He didn't bother to calculate, otherwise he would be able to figure out the profit by roughly calculating the purchase price to Zhang Wei and the market price of the previous sale.

There were too many catches on the boat, and the driver hired by Zhang Wei took them back and forth three times before finishing the delivery.

At this time, Chu Mingcheng also took out the liver of the anglerfish and handed it to him: "This is the liver of the anglerfish. I have tasted it and it tastes good. Here are three pieces, you and Chen Yang each have one piece, and the rest Give that piece to Luo Luo for me."

"By the way, this cod liver is more suitable for frying. I haven't tried other ways to eat it, but sashimi is not recommended, and there may be parasites."

Zhang Wei took the fish liver and said strangely: "You are back, why don't you send it yourself?"

Chu Mingcheng shook his head: "No, I'll leave right away. I don't know how long it will take to go to the high seas, and I want to come back as soon as possible."

Seeing this, Zhang Wei didn't say much anymore: "That's okay, I will deliver the things. As for the money, I will give it to you after I sell the catch. I don't have that much money on me."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." Chu Mingcheng waved his hand and didn't care.

The last catch of over two million yuan was also transferred by Zhang Wei after selling the fish. He didn't expect to owe the money first, so he wouldn't delay the money for too long.

This is also the reason why Chu Mingcheng was able to buy Zhao Jiahang's fishing boat in one go. If he didn't transfer the more than two million yuan in time, he really wouldn't be able to buy the boat.

It was already five o'clock in the morning after Zhang Wei left, and this time is just right for selling fish.

Chu Mingcheng went to the kitchen to make breakfast, fed the two dogs after eating, and then came out to clean the boat.

After the cleaning was over, it was half past six, so he refueled the boat, turned on the cruise mode and set off directly to the high seas.

In the east of Taiwan, there are two straits leading to the western Pacific Ocean, namely the Yonaguni Strait and the Bashi Strait.

The two straits of Chuming City actually pass through, and I have a general understanding of what's going on.

The Yonaguni Strait in the northern part of Treasure Island is apparently controlled by Xiaori, but in fact it is controlled by the ugly country.

So everyone who understands understands that if they walk through this strait, it will be very troublesome if it is blocked.

Some ocean-going ships in the East China Sea may not be willing to go through this strait, but sometimes they will go through the strait next to Xiaotian and then enter the Western Pacific.

So Chuming City would rather take a detour, take the Bashi Channel from the south of Baodao, and then enter the Western Pacific Ocean.

The ocean-going fishing vessels in the South China Sea basically enter the Western Pacific through this strait.

Starting from Xiamen City, first find the group of killer whales from the northeast of Baodao, and then enter the Western Pacific Ocean from Bashi Channel. The route is more than 600 nautical miles.

Poseidon's cruise mode speed is 18 knots, so it will take him a day and a half to reach his destination.

In addition, the Poseidon's battery life is only 700 nautical miles, and normally there is no way to come back.

The main reason why Chuming City has the confidence to go to the high seas is that on the southeast side of Baodao, there are domestic offshore tankers near the Bashi Channel, which can directly fill up at sea.

Before he made a big circle around Treasure Island, he refueled once here.

And beyond the Bashi Strait, there are also offshore tankers from other countries.

It’s just that the monetary unit of the transaction will become green coins. It is enough for Chuming City to fill up the gas in the country, and there is no need to specially refill the expensive gas on the high seas.

But just in case, he still brought his international bank card.

From this moment, it can also be seen that if Chu Mingcheng wants to roam the high seas, the performance of the Sea God can no longer keep up.

Theoretically speaking, this ship can go to the high seas, but it is also an area close to domestic waters, and it will not work if it goes farther away.

At this moment, he thought of the recreational fishing boat that Hu Xiangdong mentioned, and that boat was very suitable for him who was already preparing to venture into the high seas.

But he can't afford more than 20 million yuan for the time being, and he is too embarrassed to accept gifts from others.

The Poseidon made a limit harvest, and Chu Mingcheng has roughly figured it out after selling it to Zhang Wei twice, with an average of almost two million.

Unless you encounter the best bluefin tuna, it is difficult to have a hot spot.

Then he wants to buy a luxurious recreational fishing boat and needs to go to sea ten times.

The resources that can be found in the offshore area have already been exhausted by him, and if he continues, even if there are bonus resources from cheats, the resources will be exhausted.

So he needs to go further afield, which basically takes a week for a trip.

Even if he goes to sea three times a month, it will take more than three months, which is why he puts the matter of buying a house on after the engagement.

At that time, he would probably have more than 20 million yuan in working capital, and with Jiang Luoluo's, he would definitely be able to buy a very good house.

"Let's just let it go first, and change to a better ship when we have money next year!" Chu Mingcheng thought about it for a while, he had only got this Poseidon for a few months, and there was really no need to change it, so he canceled the purchase for the time being The mind of a luxury recreational fishing boat.

Going to the high seas is nothing more than a troublesome point. You need to find the location of the oil tanker at sea. There are coordinates on the navigation for this point, so it is not difficult to find.

Poseidon rides the wind and waves, driving slowly on the sea.

Chu Mingcheng was not idle in the cab. Whenever he found a gathering place of fish schools on the fish finder, he would dive down to have a look at the environment.

If it is a reef area or coral reef group, then he will write down the coordinates.

If he finds a small island, he will open the map of the mouse spot and the east star spot. If there are many of these two kinds of fish, it means that the ecology is very good, and he will also write down the coordinates.

Departed in the morning, and in the evening, he managed to find the group of killer whales in the old place and let them follow.

Then at around twelve o’clock at night, Chu Mingcheng came to the sea tanker.

This position is safe enough, he just turned off the lights and went to sleep here.

The killer whales were smart enough not to get too close, but floated and rested on the sea surface where they could see the Poseidon nearby.

After a deep sleep, Chu Mingcheng, who hadn't slept for more than 30 hours, finally recovered all his energy.

After breakfast, he drove the boat to hunt a group of tuna in the nearby waters to feed the killer whales, and then he came to the tanker to refuel.

After a long circle, there was very little diesel left in the oil tank, and tens of thousands were gone this time.

Going to the open sea will cost close to 150,000 yuan for fuel alone, which is quite expensive.

Filled up the gas, Chu Mingcheng honked the horn to inform the group of killer whales, and then entered the bus channel.

Here he would encounter other ships from time to time, but they were mainly cargo ships and small seafood transport ships.

The fishing boats going to the high seas in the south all need these small transport ships to deliver the catch.

When the Poseidon crossed the Bashi Channel and came to the Western Pacific Ocean, it was already noon.

Chu Mingcheng arranged a simple lunch for himself, and first began to observe the map of bluefin tuna.

The area bound by the plug-in includes the Huaxia Sea and the adjacent high seas, so it also includes a part of the Western Pacific Ocean.

I hadn’t been to the Western Pacific before, and the situation here was gray on the map, but now it’s finally shown.

Then he discovered that the number of bluefin tuna had increased in vain, far exceeding domestic waters.

Recalling the situation of the lower Pacific bluefin tuna, and then he was not surprised that there were so many.

The Pacific bluefin tuna has the same number as the bigeye tuna, and it is classified as vulnerable.

They are in the East China Sea. Spawns in the Pacific Ocean near Shikoku Island and the Sea of ​​Small Days.

Many juvenile fish will migrate all the way to California in the ugly country, come back after a few years of growth, and stay in the Western Pacific.

It is also displayed on the map of the route. A horizontal line of migration is forced to be interrupted due to the scope of the map. This is outside the binding area of ​​​​the plug-in, so there is no way to display it.

With such a large number of bluefin tuna, it is naturally a good thing for Chu Mingcheng.

He needs to observe the high seas for a few days, find out the rules of the bluefin tuna swimming route, and determine several places where the tuna is concentrated.

Tell Zhao Jun about these locations at that time, then most of the mission of coming to the high seas will be completed.

So, he took out a notebook and roughly drew the locations of bluefin tuna marks on the map.

Wait until tomorrow, you can compare it with today, and then continue to draw tomorrow's position.

(end of this chapter)