Chapter 26. Seafood wholesale

     Lao Li returned to the sea fishing site, and Hai Ge, who was broadcasting live, asked him: “Why are you back?”

     Lao Li raised the bait in his hand: “I went to buy bait.”

     Hai Ge thought, now these fish are like taking drugs, no bait will work, right?

     He looked at the number of his viewers and suddenly felt a little worried.

     Before, the fish situation in Xingzhou Island was good, and every time he came to fish, he could gain a wave of fans. For this reason, he canceled his plan to go out to sea and only broadcast the sea fishing special in Xingzhou Island. The club supported his decision very much and even increased his salary. Who knew that the fish catch in the past two days was not very good!

     Seeing that many viewers left again, he was anxious!

     Lao Li on the side waited for the shrimp bricks to thaw, and then made a nest according to his previous habit, and then put on the bait.

     There was no movement on Hai Ge’s fishing rod, so he simply went to the fishing platform for a circle and came back. These anglers did not get nothing. There were some fish in their fish baskets, but they were all the least valuable green fish.

     When Brother Hai returned to the original fishing position, a fish happened to bite one of Lao Li’s fishing rods. He was calmly reeling in the rod, and Brother Hai pointed his phone at him: “Are you going to catch the fish?”

     Sure enough, the audience suddenly increased, and a group of people were guessing whether the fish was a big fish or a small fish.

     Before the fish completely floated to the surface, Lao Li and Brother Hai saw it: “Is it a black porgy1?”

     In order to mobilize the audience’s emotions, Brother Hai said excitedly: “It looks like it is more than half a catty, 50 yuan per rod, brothers!”

     Only when the lively fish completely left the water did Lao Li show a smile on his face.

     This fish is indeed a black porgy, and it looks like it is less than a catty. The market price is 70 yuan per catty during the fishing ban period. If he catches two more, he will get his money back today! 

     Hai Ge, who knew the fishing conditions at the sea fishing grounds these days, said sincerely: “Brother is not bad!”

     Lao Li smiled, put on the bait and cast the rod: “Maybe the bait is good.”

     Hai Ge was itching to see that his rod had not moved for a long time, so he ran to the convenience store to buy some bait from Li Yaolin.

     When he bought the bait, the camera just flashed by, but the audience saw Li Yaolin with sharp eyes and said: “This boss lady looks fair-skinned, beautiful and pure, anchor, let everyone take another look at her.”

     “Yes, she looks very white, won’t she get tanned on the island?”

      “What do you know, that should be the boss lady, she stays in the store every day, how can she get tanned?”

     Hai Ge saw the barrage, bought the bait and quickly slipped away, and explained after walking away: “It is impolite to secretly take pictures of people without their permission.”

     His words won the praise of many viewers The number of people who gave him gifts suddenly increased. He was so happy that he said a few more words: “But the store manager is really beautiful and young. I heard that she just graduated from college.”

     Some viewers said they knew everything: “Those who can open convenience stores in scenic spots are rich and powerful, not to mention a student who just graduated from college. She must have someone above her, right?”

     Some people were trying to take advantage of the situation: “Can the host ask for a V signal for me? Funny.jpg”

     Brother Hai ignored these comments and thought, not to mention that he had failed to add friends before, even if he succeeded in adding friends, he would not push it to them.

     As Brother Hai returned to the fishing platform to continue sea fishing, the topic gradually turned back to sea fishing.

     Lao Li over there had already caught the third rod. The second rod was a blue grouper weighing about one and a half pounds caught with a heavy rock rod, and this rod was still a black sea bream.

     He caught three fish in a row, and the anglers around him all ran to watch and communicate. Now everyone knew that he used the bait and nesting materials sold by Xingzhou Island.

     Some anglers went to buy bait decisively, while others did not believe in it and did not want to waste the bait they brought, so they continued to fish for their bluefin bream.

     In the afternoon, the number of tourists who went to the manual window to buy tickets decreased, so Li Yaolin asked one of the ticket sellers to guard the convenience store, and she went back to the office to sort out the documents she would bring to the meeting tomorrow.

     She had to go to a meeting tomorrow morning, and it was inconvenient to live on the island, so she returned to the rental house she had not set foot in for a long time. The landlady saw her and asked her where she had been recently, and if she didn’t come back, she would call the police.

     Li Yaolin didn’t expect the landlady to care about her so much, which touched her who had always been alone: “I work on Xingzhou Island, so I often live there.”

     The landlady said “Oh”, and then said: “The rent for this month should be paid.”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     Tsk, give her back her touch.

     Li Yaolin had not originally planned to rent a house outside for a long time. Now that she had a place to stay on the island, she no longer needed to rent a house here, so she discussed the matter of renting out with the landlady.

     The landlady was a little unhappy and even tried to keep her by reducing the rent. However, after learning that there was a staff dormitory on Xingzhou Island, she finally returned the rent to her while grumbling.

     The landlady was hesitant when returning the rent, but she was quite straightforward after returning the rent, allowing Li Yaolin to stay until the day after tomorrow and move out.

     After solving this problem, Li Yaolin prepared to go to the market to buy vegetables and cook dinner. When she walked around the pier, she saw Lao Li and other anglers who had just got off the last boat.

     They were radiant, as if their stagnant careers had suddenly risen, and everyone had a confident smile on their faces that said “I’m doing it again.”

     There were fishmongers waiting on the dock. When they saw them, they went to meet them and asked, “How was the catch today?”

     Lao Li put the bucket in front of the fishmongers and put on a reserved look, “Better than the last two days.”

     The fishmongers came over and laughed, “Isn’t this your normal level? Sure enough, you went fishing the last two days?”

     Lao Li’s smile paused. What a joke. It was obvious that the fish in Xingzhou Island didn’t like to eat the bait from outside! Didn’t you see that the big catch today was all those anglers who bought bait from convenience stores?

     For this reason, he specially reminded the anglers in the group, telling them not to bother bringing bait from outside, because the fish here only eat the bait from Xingzhou Island.

     “I’ll give you 60 yuan per catty for black porgy and yellow grouper (blue grouper).” One of the fishmongers picked out the black porgy and blue grouper, and arranged the other fish in different categories.

     “No, 70.” Lao Li said.

     “Can I still make money if I charge 70?” The fishmonger bargained with him.

     Lao Li snorted coldly: “Don’t think I don’t know that the fish from Xingzhou Island Fishing Grounds are much more delicious than those raised in fish farms. No matter how high the price is, people will buy them.”

     At the beginning, anglers had to find fishmongers to buy the fish they caught. In most cases, the fish they caught were worthless, and anglers could only take them home to eat.

     But now there are fishmongers squatting at the dock just to collect the fish caught from Xingzhou Island Sea Fishing Grounds. The reason is that these fish are easy to sell, and there are many repeat customers. Some people even make reservations with them.

     Other fishmongers envy their peers for their good business. After asking around, they found that their fish were all collected from anglers.

     What good fish can you get from anglers? And there are only a dozen pounds, and the profit is not enough to subsidize the shipping cost.

     However, one or two anglers may not have many fish, but there are many anglers in Xingzhou Island!

     There are at least 40 anglers a day. Newcomers may catch less fish, but for experienced anglers like Lao Li who have been fishing for more than ten years, it is not a problem to catch 40 to 50 kilograms a day. Together, these anglers have caught nearly 1,000 kilograms of fish.

     The fishmonger bargained with Lao Li and his friends, and finally bought black bream and blue grouper at 68 yuan per kilogram. The other cheaper fish generally ranged from 20 to 50 yuan. The cheaper and more common fish were not wanted by the fishmongers, so the anglers took them home to eat.

     Lao Li got more than 500 yuan. He caught five black breams weighing more than half a kilogram, three blue groupers, twelve stone dogs, and one sea eel.

     Excluding the cost of boat tickets, entrance fees and bait, he earned nearly 300 yuan. Before buying bait from Li Yaolin, he brought some bait from outside, which cost 80 yuan. If he could save this part of the money, he could still earn more than 300 yuan.

     Lao Li happily carried his fishing gear and the remaining fish home.

     Li Yaolin watched the whole process and was a little confused. Is there any difference between the fish from Xingzhou Island and the fish from the fish farm?

     She heard that the taste of fish from the fish farm is not much different from that of wild fish. The reason for the price difference is people’s blind pursuit of “wild” and the economic principle of “scarcity makes things expensive”.

     Of course, even if the fish are raised in the same fish farm, the price will be very different, which is mainly linked to the breeding technology: the breeding technology is difficult, the cost is high, and the price is high; some fish that can be farmed in large quantities have mature breeding technology and low cost, so they are naturally cheap.

     Li Yaolin bought a blue grouper2 weighing about half a catty from a fisherman, and then went to the market to buy a cage-bred blue grouper of the same size. From the naked eye, there is still a big difference between farmed and wild fish. For example, the skin of farmed fish is darker and the spots on the body are larger; the spots of wild fish are orange-yellow, small and with obvious stripes.

     She used the steaming cooking method, put the same ingredients on the two fish, and then used the same heat and time to cook the two fish.

     After taking them out of the pot, she ate the farmed blue grouper first and found that the meat was very thick and firm. To put it nicely, it was chewy, but to her, an ordinary person, it tasted like chicken breast, with a general taste and a smell of earth.

     Then she ate the blue grouper caught in the waters of Xingzhou Island. At the first bite, she felt that it was no different from the farmed ones, but after eating it, she found that there were still some differences: although its meat was also firm, it was very tender and smooth when it entered the throat, and the fishy smell was not so strong. I don’t know if it was because of the sauce, but there was a little sweetness.

     The second bite brought a better taste experience than the first bite, making people want to eat the next bite after eating this one, and soon the whole fish was eaten.

     “No wonder these fish have become picky.” Li Yaolin had endless aftertaste.

     Although the taste of the farmed blue grouper did not meet her expectations, she still ate the fish in accordance with the principle of not wasting.

     Fortunately, she did not cook rice, otherwise she would not be able to finish it.

     Li Yaolin’s move was not entirely to clarify the difference between wild fish and farmed fish. As the owner of the island, she wanted to increase the popularity of Xingzhou Island, so she had to tap the advantages of the island. The seafood in the sea fishing field was one of the advantages.

     Before, she did not want to open a restaurant on the island. In addition to the trouble, she was also worried that the food was not delicious and the high price would cause tourists to complain.

     Now, if she can open a seafood restaurant and get a stable supply of seafood from the waters of Xingzhou Island, she does not have to worry about diners complaining that the food is not delicious.

     However, a large amount of seafood ingredients must be provided to open a restaurant. It is not enough to rely on the seafood recovered from anglers. If fishing is carried out, it will violate her original intention of setting up a no-fishing zone and will also damage the ecological environment.

     Thinking of this, she shook the APP: “Next time, go to the ‘Poseidon Market’ to do something practical? For example, seafood wholesale or something.”

 

     Poseidon Holiday APP: “…”

     Are you the system or am I the system?

     I have never seen such an island owner who turned the tables!