Chapter 507: Chapter 328: The Giant Anglerfish

Chu Mingcheng had a foam box on each side, dead Rat Spots were taken off and tossed into the left box, which was for keeping for himself or giving away; the fish meant for sale were all placed in the more accessible right-side foam box.

He then continued to pull in the longline, and the second branch line also had a fish, a Big Black Sea Bream that looked to be about three or four jin in weight, which he threw into the right-side foam box.

The longline was heavy, and indeed, there was a fish on nearly every branch line.

When the last foam box could not fit anymore, he just threw it onto the deck.

Out of one hundred hooks, seventy-seven had caught fish, and several of the hooks were damaged, clearly having had fish on them before they managed to struggle free.

Chu Mingcheng took the fish intended for sale to be weighed, three hundred and seventeen jin.

One single longline nearly matched the catch from five longlines in the afternoon; the external attachment played a much stronger role at night.

For instance, in the afternoon you could catch three hundred jin of fish, which would increase by twenty percent with the external attachment, yielding an additional sixty jin.

At night when the fish were biting well and you could catch one thousand jin, the external attachment would add at least an extra two hundred jin.

Of course, that was the theoretical boost from the external attachment; in practice, the better the fish were biting, the more plentiful they were, the greater the enhancement from the attachment would be.

After collecting all five longlines, Chu Mingcheng calculated tonight’s haul to be a total of over one thousand six hundred and seventy jin, he had struck it rich!

The cheaper fish here, like the Black Sea Bream, had to sell for around forty to Zhang Wei even at the wholesale price.

The expensive ones, such as the sea red spots, could fetch several hundred per jin even at the wholesale price.

Of course, with precious seafood, Zhang Wei would make even more profit; he naturally preferred these expensive fish and wasn’t afraid they wouldn’t sell.

The average price for the fish here was probably around one hundred and twenty, making over two hundred thousand in one night, any fisherman who knew would be green with envy!

Not counting the shrimp, the coral fish and deep sea fish that Chu Mingcheng had caught so far exceeded two thousand jin.

With another longline collection in the morning, the number would only grow, temporarily enough to meet Zhang Wei’s customer demands.

Then Chu Mingcheng collected the five shrimp traps as well, and as expected, there were plenty of Spot shrimp and rich shrimp at night, adding up to over three hundred and sixty jin from the five traps.

With such a bounty, he had a good night’s sleep.

The next day, he had nearly one thousand jin of deep sea fish and two hundred jin of Spot shrimp and rich shrimp.

Nearly two thousand jin of coral fish would definitely have some impact on the fish ecology around Crescent Island’s coral reef.

After all, the coral reef here wasn’t particularly large, and the limited living space for the fish naturally meant their numbers wouldn’t be excessively high.

Therefore, to ensure the ecological balance here, he had moved his longline to a deeper water area a bit further from Crescent Island around midnight last night.

The fish sonar showed a decent amount of deep sea fish, and the catch turned out to be quite good.

With half the mission completed, Chu Mingcheng packed up his catch and set off for the Golden Spearfish fishing spot.

As for Crescent Island, he wouldn’t be fishing on a large scale again this year; he’d wait until after the fishing ban next year.

By then, those that were meant to breed would have mostly done so, and the new ‘chives’ that grew would be harvested by someone else if he didn’t do it himself.

However, the nearshore resources were easily snatched by others, so Chu Mingcheng felt that in addition to finding suitable fishing spots for the boat on the Public Sea, he also needed to find a few good spots for catching coral fish and deep sea fish.

The Sea God was still cruising on the water, and according to the analysis of the target location of the Big-eyed Gold Spearfish in his head, it would take about six more hours to get there.

Chu Mingcheng played with some toys with his dogs for a little while, then sent them to play on the deck, and he himself took out his laptop to play some games.

Being a man who stood in opposition to drugs, gambling, and vice, he didn’t have a wide range of hobbies, and gaming was one of them.

But due to the fear of having to leave at any moment for emergencies, he rarely played online games to avoid going AFK, so he usually played single-player games.

It was just one pesky thing; he got a bit motion sick with 3D.

It wasn’t severe, but games that had very fast-paced screen transitions, like battle royales, would give him a headache after a few switches.

He had thought that the problem would be solved after his body was enhanced, but it actually caught him by surprise.

In the end, Chu Mingcheng opened up a dual cultivation game which became much more replayable after some dedicated people had modified it with various animations, and he had already married eighteen wives in it.

In real life, he treated Jiang Luoluo like a treasure, pampering only her, so why couldn’t he have some fun in the game?

Humph~

Four hours later, as noon approached and it was almost time for lunch, Chu Mingcheng had just taken two more spouses in the game.

Somewhat satisfied, he stretched spaciously, and then he saw the fish sonar was filled with red.

“What the hell? A virus invasion?”

The next moment, he realized what was happening–it was a large school of fish!

Chu Mingcheng quickly tossed the laptop aside–forget about in-game spouses; wasn’t catching fish more important?

He neatly stopped the boat and then rushed out of the cabin to the side of the ship.

The next moment, he saw a scene of Big-eyed Gold Spearfish bursting from the water–there was a whole school of them.

Chu Mingcheng took a look at the map and then realized, evidently, his target fish were swimming his way, so they encountered each other ahead of time.

With this school of Big-eyed Gold Spearfish surfacing, he wouldn’t even need to dive for fishing!

Chu Mingcheng quickly brought out two boxes of Mackerel bait, set them under the sun to thaw, and then took out his recently acquired treasure, a long javelin.