Fisherwoman: After my divorce, I became rich by fishing at sea

Chapter 747 Western Star Spot

After working for more than an hour, Fu Wan's hands felt a little sore. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead with her clothes, only to find that the snakeskin bag she brought was already half full.

"Dad, big brother, is it almost done?"

Boss Fu looked up and said, "Well, it's almost done. Let's save the rest and come back before the New Year next year."

Boss Fu still understands the concept of slow and steady progress.

Of course, he didn't forget to remind Fu Ming, "A Ming, you have to remember, only our family of four knows about this place. When we get back, don't tell anyone!"

Fu Ming nodded and agreed, "Don't worry, Dad. I understand this."

He is not stupid. If people knew that there was bird's nest here, not only would the bird's nest be gone, but even the bird's feathers would be picked up clean.

Even if you collect bird's nests, you can't lose your conscience. If greedy people find out, the swiftlets' nests will be cleaned out, and within half a year, the swiftlets here will move away.

In this case, if they want to make bird's nest in the future, it will be difficult.

The bird's nests for the three people were packed in three snakeskin bags, each of which was half filled with bird's nests, which together probably weighed about several dozen kilograms.

Fu Wan picked up her bag of bird's nest and walked ahead.

"Let's go, hurry up and get out, we still have to put away the traps!"

"Oh, I was so busy I almost forgot there were traps in the sea!"

Fu Ming let out a low cry, then followed Fu Wan with a smile on his face, carrying the bird's nests he had harvested.

"Awan, people say this kind of bird's nest is good for women. Is that true?"

"I don't know either, but it should have some effect."

To be honest, Fu Wan didn't like eating this stuff very much. She had saved a few pieces of bird's nest at home from the previous meal, but when she thought about the fact that bird's nest was built by the saliva of swallows, she found it difficult to eat it.

When Fu Ming heard this, he knew it was working. His heart immediately brightened up. His wife had a new task recently and was busy in the laboratory every day. He had to save some of these bird's nests and stew them for her to nourish her body!

The way out is always easier than the way in. Fu Wan and the other two carefully walked out of the cave with flashlights. When they came out, their feet were heavy.

Looking at the bird droppings stuck on the other people's feet, Fu Wan and the other two couldn't help but laugh at each other.

"Oh, hurry up and wash in the water, or you'll dirty the boat!"

Fu Ming was the first to run to the ditch to wash the dirt off his feet. After his feet felt relaxed again, he carried the bird's nest back to the boat.

Bird's nests melt when they come into contact with water, so they have to put the bird's nests into the cabin first, and then they can collect the ground traps and bamboo tubes.

Otherwise, if the bird's nest comes into contact with sea water, all their hard work will be wasted.

After putting the bird's nest in place, the three of them divided the work and collected the traps that had been put down earlier.

Fu Wan was the first to hook a ground trap. She had previously put some dead fish and shrimp in the trap, specifically to see if she could lure fish that liked the taste into the trap.

The answer is of course yes, especially crabs. Fu Wan finally pulled the trap onto the deck, and before she untied the rope, she saw Chijiahong holding up its claws below.

She untied the rope and poured the catch into the fish basket. With a splash, the basket was almost full of crabs.

In addition to crabs, there are also several half-meter-long seven-star moray eels.

Unfortunately, one of the conger eels was killed by a crab and was already smelling a bit.

Fu Wan picked them out roughly. The crabs that were as big as eggs were too small to be kept, and the dead ones could not be eaten. There were still quite a few crabs left, about twenty or thirty.

Basically stone crabs and red crabs, as well as two medium-sized orchid crabs.

After Fu Wan finished selecting, Fu Ming and Fu Lao Da also brought up two traps.

"Hey, there are sea urchins in here!"

Fu Ming poured out the harvest from the trap. He also had a lot of crabs, but surprisingly, there were also a few sea urchins. Fu Wan took another fish basket and put it there, and went back to pick up some to see how fat they were.

The first three traps that the three men fished out turned out to have the best harvest from Boss Fu. He not only had crabs, but even grouper.

Judging from its active appearance, it probably just entered the trap not long ago.

But that grouper was different from previous groupers. Not only were the spots on its body larger, but the color was also different.

Boss Fu was knowledgeable and recognized the species of grouper at once.

"This is the Western Star Banderilla, a relative of the Eastern Star Banderilla!"

"What? There really is a western spotted croaker!"

Fu Ming was a little bit incredulous, but seeing that Boss Fu didn't look like he was joking, he couldn't help but move closer to observe.

"Oh my goodness, there really is a grouper? Hey, is this fish valuable?"

"It's worth the money. The taste of this fish is only slightly worse than that of the red snapper, so the price must be high."

Fu Wan took over the conversation. She didn't expect to find a western grouper in a ground trap.

I thought today was going to be a crab game!

The western grouper, whose scientific name is blue-spotted grouper, is called the western grouper because this fish is abundant in the Xisha Islands.

The biggest feature of this fish is that it has white spots all over its body, and the edges of some fish tails are also white.

At the same time, the tail of this fish also has a distinct layered shape, with a distinct edge band, and most of the edges are beautiful blue.

Western starfish net picture, please delete if it infringes

Grouper is suitable for steaming, and it is usually only possible to catch it with a fishing rod or extended line.

I don’t know what happened today, but I was able to catch grouper with my ground trap.

Boss Fu was very happy and hurried to collect the remaining traps.

He didn't plan to sell this fish, which was only about one pound. It would be perfect to take it home and steam it in the evening when his granddaughter came back.

When Fu Wan saw the fish in the cage, she immediately became interested.

Soon, all ten ground traps and crab traps were collected. In addition to the grouper, they also harvested a half-dead sea bass and a one-meter-long conger eel.

As for crabs, there were so many of them that they filled five large baskets. Not only that, there were dozens of sea cucumbers in the traps, some of which were as thick as fingers. Boss Fu was very happy.

After collecting the ground traps, there are also bamboo tube traps. There are not many octopuses at this time. With two hundred bamboo tubes, only half a bucket of octopuses can be harvested.

Fu Wan estimated that the weight would not exceed ten kilograms.

But it’s better than nothing. Besides eating it at home, I can also sell some of it.

After all, octopus is more expensive at this time, about one yuan and three cents per pound.

After finishing all these, Boss Fu drove the boat to the dock. It was already past eleven o'clock, and when they arrived at the dock, it should be time for lunch.

Because it was this time of year, there were basically no people at the dock.

Boss Fu had left the cart with Old Li early in the morning. Now it was the perfect time to put the crabs and octopuses on it. Plus, there were so many bamboo tubes and traps to cover it, so for a moment no one noticed what was in the snakeskin bag on the side.