Chapter 214 A small step to success
The boat arrived near Zhou Bingqiang’s fishing boat soon. Zhou Chengxin did not stop the boat, but just slowed down a little so that his father could show off.
Zhou's father greeted Zhou Bingqiang loudly: "Bingqiang, what a coincidence? Is your cage okay?"
Zhou Bingqiang's face turned dark when he saw Zhou Yongfu's fishing boat. !
But the son had just dived into the bottom of the sea. Looking at the cage, he could not drive the boat away.
Zhou Bingqiang said angrily: "I don't know, where is yours?"
Zhou's father: "I haven't gone to see mine yet. I planned to go out early in the morning. But when we encounter a school of fish, we need to drag a net first."
Zhou Bingqiang also saw a boatload of yellow feet.
Based on his experience, this boat can definitely be sold for five to six hundred.
They also hauled two nets this morning, both of which were worthless miscellaneous fish. The two nets combined could only be sold for a dozen yuan.
Much worse luck than usual!
This is after the typhoon, when there is more fish.
Zhou Bingqiang has never tried to go fishing after a typhoon, and he caught so few fish.
In the past, when he went to sea after typhoons, he would earn two to three hundred, four to five hundred.
Zhou Bingqiang really began to wonder if he had complained to Jiang Xia's father and done something bad, thus affecting his luck.
There is no way, he is so superstitious, Jiang Xia's words are like a thorn in his heart.
Zhou's father achieved his goal of showing off and said with a smile: "I'm leaving first! I'm also going to take a look at my cage!"
After hearing this, Zhou Chengxin speeded up. The ship is leaving. There are a lot of things to do today.
As soon as the Zhou family's boat sailed away, Zhou Guohua emerged from the water and cried mournfully: "Dad! All our cages were blown away! I can't even find a shadow!"
Zhou Bingqiang couldn't help but close his eyes!
there is none left!
All the money invested was wasted!
Sure enough, one cannot do anything wrong.
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A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Chengxin also drove the boat to the location where they placed the cages.
Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin put on their diving equipment and went into the water.
It is noon now, Jiang Xia also followed into the water. She has not dived for a long time to take a look.
As soon as the three of them dived into the water, they saw the cages lying there quietly, not a single one missing.
When we went to sea today, the wind and waves on the sea were quite strong.
But the waves in this area are much gentler, and you can’t feel the flow of water at the bottom.
The three swam over.
Jiang Xia found that the cages had been placed on the seabed for a while, and there were some things hanging on the fishing nets.
But it doesn’t matter. If something is attached to it, it can also be used as fish food for fish.
The fish in the cage are swimming leisurely inside.
Jiang Xia was relieved when no dead fish were found.
Jiang Xia took a closer look and found that many of the fish inside were much bigger.
Zhou Chengxin threw the small fish and shrimp he brought down into the cage.
The fish swam over quickly to eat.
Although the holes of the cage are relatively large, enough for some small fish, shrimps and some plankton to swim through, the number of fish and shrimps swimming through every day is limited, so in order to make the fish grow up faster, the fish and shrimps can swim every day or every day. Feeding every one or two days is a must.
After looking at the cages, Jiang Xia went to see the nets for raising pearls. These nets were also hung in rows in the sea.
Jiang Xia glanced at the pearl oyster larvae attachment device.
She made this pearl oyster larvae attachment device based on what she had seen in her previous life. The eggs produced by pearl oysters are larvae, which need attachment points to survive.
Generally, pearl oysters lay eggs in the sea. The larvae sprayed out will attach to the gills of fish or other places and grow naturally. When they grow to a certain size, they will fall off.
Jiangxia specially asked Jiangmu to make some larvae attachment nets to collect pearl oyster larvae.
Now she saw that there were one or two small black pearl oysters on these meshes, which were very small, only the size of rice grains.
There are one or two on each mesh, and some have three or four.
Although there are not many, it also proves that collecting pearl oyster larvae in this way still has a small effect.
Jiang Xia waved to Zhou Chengxin and Zhou Chenglei.
The two swam over quickly.
Jiang Xia pointed to the small pearl shell above.
Zhou Chengxin’s eyes widened and he looked again and again!
Then he looked at the attachment devices one by one and found that each attachment device had one or two, two or three meshes, and three or four.
There are big and small ones, but they are all very small, and the biggest one is not as big as a peanut.
Seeing that Zhou Chengxin was taking it seriously, Jiang Xia pointed at the sea to Zhou Chenglei and signaled her to swim up.
Zhou Chenglei swam up with Jiang Xia, and then protected her and climbed onto the boat.
Then he got on the boat himself.
Jiang Xia took off her diving equipment, and Zhou's father couldn't wait to ask: "How is it? The cage is still there, are the fish okay?"
Jiang Xia smiled and said: "Both the cage and the fish are fine. It’s okay, those fish have grown a bit.”
Father Zhou smiled: “I knew it was okay!”
Zhou Chengxin quickly climbed onto the boat. He couldn't wait to take off his diving equipment and asked: "Xiao Xia, are those the babies of pearl oysters just now?"
Jiang Xia smiled and said: "Yes!"
< br>Father Zhou was excited when he heard this: "Have you really collected pearl oyster larvae?"
Zhou Chengxin smiled and said: "We have collected it. They have grown into pearl oysters the size of rice grains. Each mesh has one or two. , I counted a total of twenty-six! If Xiaoxia hadn’t discovered it carefully, I wouldn’t have known it.”
“Haha! Although there are only twenty-six, there will be more in the future. "Yes. Didn't Xiaoxia say that May and June are the peak seasons for pearl oysters to give birth?"
Jiang Xia said with a smile: "Take them off after two days and put them in the grid to prevent them from falling off and disappearing. "
Twenty-six are indeed very few, but pearl oysters lay their eggs directly in the sea, and the seawater may wash their eggs anywhere. Being able to catch twenty-six is already considered too many."
Now they have no experience and don’t understand anything. Jiang Xia doesn’t understand either. They have only seen a little bit and the rest depends on everyone’s imagination. If they think this is feasible, they just try it. Mentality, being able to collect twenty-six can be considered a small success!
Mother Zhou was also very happy, "Then I will make more of these attachment devices, and let's put more of them into the sea."
Zhou Chenglei looked at this sea area, and believed that it would really be possible to raise fish on a large scale in the future. Pearls need to be guarded by someone.
Otherwise, if someone steals it, you will suffer a big loss.
But there is no rush now, it has just begun, and no one knows they are cultivating pearls.
Even if the people in the village knew that they were raising fish, the people with boats would not waste their time coming over to steal the fish. Wouldn’t dragging a net get more than stealing?
Those who don’t have a boat can’t even get out of the sea.
So it is still very safe, especially before they grow their fish and start selling them.
After seeing that the cages here were fine, Father Zhou sailed to the coral island to have a look. Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei went to put the nets in and tow a net along the way.
The boat drove for more than an hour and almost reached the coral island. The father and son started to set up the net.
Although the dragging time of this net was not as long as that of the morning net, it was heavier.
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