Chapter 511: Chapter 329: The Profit of the Seafood Merchant_2

After processing a fish, Chu Mingcheng first moved the foam box into the refrigerated hold, placing it above the innermost bait.

He then came out, picked up a plate, and went to the kitchen, where he sorted the liver, flesh, and belly of the fish. He wrapped them with cling film and put them in the fridge to eat tomorrow.

After he was done, Chu Mingcheng didn’t plan to continue working that night. He took a bath and played some games, chatting with Jiang Luoluo, having a simple night.

The next morning, he went to collect the crab traps, shrimp traps, and longlines he had set down the day before as soon as possible.

Not much was caught in the shrimp traps, but unexpectedly, a batch of swimming crabs was caught in the crab traps.

However, the quantity was average, and after selecting the fatty ones, there was just over two hundred pounds, which Chu Mingcheng threw into the fish box.

The longline harvest was decent, yielding about five hundred pounds of deep-sea fish that could be sold.

There was too much catch, and the boat was getting cramped, so Chu Mingcheng worked quickly, spending the morning underwater hunting five Bluefin Tunas weighing over two hundred pounds each, then headed back.

At noon, he naturally enjoyed the anglerfish liver, known as the “foie gras of the sea.”

The belly and flesh were stewed with soy sauce, while the liver was pan-fried.

Anglerfish are rife with parasites, so they must be thoroughly cooked before eating.

Although inexpensive, the taste of the fish and its belly stewed with soy sauce was still good.

Its liver, though not as exaggerated as written by internet marketers, was extremely delicious.

It was not as fatty as foie gras and not greasy.

But it was exceptionally tender, melting in the mouth with a sweet and fresh taste.

Feeling that the anglerfish liver was indeed good, Chu Mingcheng made a point of passing by the spot where he had caught the anglerfish last night on his way back, then put on his diving suit and caught three anglerfish measuring seventy to eighty centimeters.

He removed all the livers, wrapped them in cling film and kitchen paper to give to Jiang Luoluo and Zhang Wei when he returned.

As for the flesh, its flavor was just okay, so it had no real appeal to them; thus, it was chopped into chunks and stored in the refrigerated hold as bait.

By the time Chu Mingcheng reached the dock, it was already midnight.

Zhang Wei, having been notified during the day, was full of energy. He had eaten dinner at three in the afternoon, then went to sleep, waking up only at eleven.

“How much catch did you get?”

Zhang Wei brought some late-night snacks and checked the catch after eating.

Merely three days at sea, he was curious about how much Chu Mingcheng had managed to gather to return so soon.

“Have a look for yourself!”

“Seeing you like this, it seems you’ve got quite a lot of good stuff!”

When Zhang Wei boarded the boat with his late-night snacks, he had specifically refrained from checking the live well.

Now, coming out of the cabin, his first move was to check the live well conditions.

Inside two of the live wells were Spot shrimp and rich shrimp, while the remaining one was swarming with coral fish and Groupers.

And beside them, several fish boxes were filled with crawling swimming crabs.

“Not bad, so much harvest in just three days.”

Setting other things aside, just the catch here made him thoroughly satisfied.

He then pointed to the live well containing Spot shrimp and said, “Ah Cheng, do you have a specific spot for catching Spot shrimp and rich shrimp? I’ve noticed you always have these two kinds of seafood every time you go out to sea since this year.”

“I do have a spot; I’ll give you the coordinates!”

In the face of Chu Mingcheng’s generosity, Zhang Wei waved his hand repeatedly, “No need, I hardly go to sea anymore, so it’s fine! Also, Chen Yang isn’t really focused on fishing these days; instead, he’s been running that dive shop, so even if you gave us the coordinates, we might not go.”

Seeing that he really didn’t want them, Chu Mingcheng didn’t insist.

After that, the two of them headed to the refrigerated hold. Zhang Wei opened the door to the hold.

A gust of cold air hit his face, and when he saw what was inside, his eyes widened in disbelief.

After a long moment, he managed to turn his head, “Damn, did you rob a fishing boat or something?”

“No, I just got lucky and came across a school of Big-eyed Gold Spearfish breaching the surface, then I easily got twenty-six with the spear, and if it wasn’t for the lack of space in the refrigerated hold, there might have been more.”

“The spear? Are you talking about the one you had custom made? Is it that efficient for hunting fish? Impressive!”

“Not bad, it’s quite useful. There are also about twenty boxes of fish inside that were caught with the longline. Hurry up and call people over to tally it all up. It’s late, let’s not waste time.”

Zhang Wei then turned his attention to the large stack of foam boxes inside, extremely satisfied with this catch.

This much catch was enough to last until Chu Mingcheng returned from the Public Sea.

He quickly called people over to tally the catch together. There was a wide variety of coral fish and deep-sea fish — their prices were high, but tallying them was troublesome.

Chu Mingcheng also came over to help, sorting the fish by type, then weighing them to calculate prices and recording it all in a notebook.

In the end, the frozen coral fish and deep-sea fish totaled 3,767 pounds, with a combined price of over 586,000 yuan.

Spot shrimp and rich shrimp amounted to 663 pounds, some live and some frozen, with more alive than frozen, bringing a total price of over 206,000 yuan.

Spot shrimp and rich shrimp had high unit prices, and even the frozen ones were only a bit cheaper, allowing for such a price despite the lower weight.

The swimming crabs weighed 223 pounds, with the dead ones thrown away. Dead crabs can’t be eaten, so the remaining crabs were all alive, bringing a total price of 9,000 yuan.

Those that were thought to not survive another day were separately bagged by Zhang Wei. They could be given away or eaten by themselves.

The last calculation was for the tuna, with each one priced roughly according to the quality of its flesh.