Golden Fishery

The shrimp pots were pulled up one by one, and the smiles on the faces of the fishermen grew more and more.

Fifty boxes from the first cage were pulled up, and almost all of them returned with a full load, with a total of sixty or seventy lobsters inside. There is at least one lobster in each box, and there are two more. Absolutely a bumper harvest!

"We are so lucky!" A fisherman couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The bull glared at him and said, "You are as stupid as a lobster, are we lucky? No, the captain's family spell is powerful!"

The smoking gun nodded seriously with a pipe in its mouth and said, "Well, the bull's flattering is pretty good!"

After hearing this, the whole group laughed, and the bull said unconvinced: "Isn't it?"

Qin Shiou smiled and patted him on the shoulder as a sign not to get excited, and said, "I am also lucky. No matter how powerful the spell is, it still depends more on God's will."

In North America, there is this advantage. When you encounter something that is lazy to explain or cannot be explained, just say "God's will".

Lobsters are really stupid to say, or rather, they are too greedy. In fact, according to the regulations of the Canadian government, these shrimp traps have two openings, one on the front and the other on the side.

In this way, the lobster gets into the cage and can escape as long as it turns around. This is done to protect the renewable utilization of lobster resources.

But the lobsters that get into the cages rarely escape. They are not good at swimming, and they are generally lazy and greedy. They just eat the bait with relish in the cage, and they will be full after eating, and the rest is to rest.

Divide the lobster roughly according to size. Five fishermen kept taking out lobsters and throwing them into the cart, and two people were responsible for sending the cart into the ice cabin.

After pulling up a cage string, Qin Shiou directed Shaq to move on to the next one. In this way, a string of cages can be pulled up in about 20 minutes, and the first harvest is over in an hour and a half.

Two hundred cages, because Qin Shiou placed the shrimp traps right on their migration route, they had a bumper harvest, harvesting three hundred small lobsters at once.

The bull asked the smoking gun to estimate the weight, and the smoking gun pondered and said, "It's about 500 kilograms."

Hearing his words, the fishermen cheered again. The bull's face was flushed, and he thumped the ship's side hard and shouted "yeah".

Five hundred kilograms of lobster is thousands of pounds. Now the price of lobster is soaring,

Even if it is wholesaled at the seaport, the pound has risen to more than 20 yuan.

In this way, a thousand-pound lobster is worth 20,000 yuan. Each of them can get more than 500 yuan.

More than five hundred yuan is not much, but this is just a trip to the cage. The cages are collected quickly during the day, and you can collect them once in half a day. In this way, you can collect them three times a day. Optimistically, you can harvest 1,500 yuan a day!

Qin Shiou felt that 20,000 yuan was nothing, even the maintenance of a Porsche 918 would cost more than that.

Seeing that the fishermen were happy, he simply made them happy again, waved his hands to silence them, and said, "This is our first catch. I decided to share all the money with you!"

"Give us all the money for selling 500 kilograms of lobster?!"

"Yes, you allocate among yourself, Smoker and Shaq are in charge."

Qin Shiou nodded firmly and said. As soon as the words fell, the fishermen immediately ran over and grabbed him to carry him on their shoulders.

At this time, the sky was completely bright, and the pale golden sunlight shone on the sea, and on the faces of these fishermen who were particularly rough due to the wind and rain, they looked extraordinarily gentle.

After the harvest, Qin Shiou immediately directed the shrimp pot to be moved forward for more than ten kilometers and continued to be put into the sea. His target this time is this group of migratory lobsters, four or five thousand are enough.

Get Qin Shiou's promise. The fishermen worked harder and respected him more.

Shaq reminded: "We have already discussed the profit distribution standard in advance. You don't need to spend so much money. The price we started to offer is very fair."

Qin Shiou said that I understand, it's nothing but small money, as long as everyone is happy.

Of course, he did this not only for fun, but also to let these fishermen know that they can make a lot of money by hanging out with him, Qin Shiou.

In the spring of this year, his fishing ground will start harvesting. Qin Shiou only has four fishermen under his command, which is far from enough. Normally, fish farm owners will temporarily hire fishermen to work during the harvest period, which saves the most money and ensures efficiency.

Qin Shiou is not going to do this, he wants to build a strong fisherman team with Shaq and Nelson as the core.

The ten smoking guns may not be the best in physique and skills among fishermen, but Qin Shiou has taken a fancy to them. These people are willing to volunteer to help the town repair the church, and they are of good character, which is very precious.

This time going to sea, Qin Shiou will make ten people make a lot of money, and then bind them to the fishing boat. This is the case in capitalist society. You have to let your people follow you to make money, so that you can win people's hearts.

Putting down the shrimp pot, Qin Shiou led the fishermen to continue working, this time catching haddock.

After the sky cleared, Qin Shiou found that there were many more fishing boats on the sea, most of them were shrimp fishing boats, and he counted forty boats as they drove past!

"There are so many lobster catchers?" Qin Shiou took a telescope and looked around. There were many kinds of ball buoys of different sizes and shapes floating on the sea.

The smoking gun said vaguely with a pipe in his mouth: "How much is this? Nine thousand tons of lobster can be produced in the Gulf of St. Lawrence every year! If it weren't for the storm the day before yesterday, all the ships would have stayed here. There are at least 200,000 lobsters in the entire Gulf of St. Lawrence." Shrimp Pot!"

"So many?" Qin Shiou gasped. There were only 200 cages on his boat. According to the ratio, there would be more than a thousand shrimp fishing boats in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

"No way, who made this thing worth money now?"

"Yeah, when did lobster become so expensive? It used to be eaten by slaves. Back then, as long as they could eat bread, no one would eat it."

"At that time, there was a law that in order to reflect the humanistic care for slaves, slaves could eat up to five tons a week. Haha, now our life is worse than that of slaves." A group of people laughed and shook their heads.

Indeed, Americans didn't eat lobster until the middle of the 19th century, but Canadians? At that time, Canadians did not pay attention to such things as lobster.

Until the middle of the 19th century, lobster was the food of the poor and the bottom of society. At that time, the army had regulations that soldiers could not eat lobster more than twice a week.

At that time, prisoners in prisons mostly ate lobsters, and eating lobsters with hideous faces was regarded as a punishment for dishonest prisoners.

In addition, the only use of lobster at that time was to make fertilizer and fish food. It was not until the 20th century that Americans began to treat lobster as food, but the treatment was very low, and the price was cheaper than canned food with low nutrition.

Qin Shiou thinks that it may be the Asians who really revitalize the lobster market—not only the Chinese, but the Japanese and Koreans also have a soft spot for this stuff. Lobster sashimi has always been the top delicacy in Japanese cuisine. (to be continued)