Chapter 98: Pick Up Cheap Wu Fei
When Wu Li brought the bucket up, Wu Fei caught another dozen or so eels, large and small, and several large loaches. Speaking of which, last time the fish pond caught a lot of eels, but there were very few loaches.
I don’t know what happened. It’s very likely that the small loaches were eaten by the big eels.
A plastic bucket was more than half full, weighing almost twenty kilograms. When catching, Wu Fei threw the chopstick-sized eels into the fish pond inside the farm.
At the beginning, Wu Fei originally planned to use the newly dug fish ponds next to the reservoir to raise eels and loaches, but now those fish ponds are full of large and small fry.
There are fish fry that are fished out from the reservoir that cannot be sold. Those are relatively large. Anyway, grass carp that is four pounds and a small, and black carp that is less than seven pounds. Wu Fei picked them out and put them in the fish pond. After the maintenance of the reservoir is completed, they can start again.
Put it in a reservoir and keep it.
As for the fry bought from the county fishery, they have grown a lot now, but if you want to put them in the reservoir to raise, you may have to wait until the second half of next year. The larger ones can be put into the reservoir earlier.
Among them, grass carp fry and black carp fry grow the fastest. In more than a month, the fry that were seven or eight centimeters long at the time have now grown to about fifteen centimeters. They should be able to grow to about 20 centimeters before the temperature drops.
However, the other four to five centimeter long fry I bought at that time, although they did not grow very slowly, were only just over 10 centimeters, especially those yellow sticklebacks, most of which did not exceed ten centimeters.
When such fry are put into the reservoir, if they encounter those large herrings weighing more than ten or twenty kilograms, they will most likely become fish food. Fry like this may not be put into the reservoir until next year after get off work.
However, as the fry continued to grow, the density of the fry in the pond that held the fry purchased from the county fishery became significantly larger, which somewhat affected the growth of the fry.
However, there was nothing Wu Fei could do for a while. The fish pond in the tea garden was still being cleaned, and it would not take a day or two to transfer the fry to a large fish pond.
After the fish pond is cleaned, it needs to be dried for a few days and disinfected. It will take at least a week before the fish pond can be officially filled with water to raise fish.
In order to avoid dead fish in the fish pond, Wu Fei had to reduce the feeding of the fry and fill the fish pond with water every day. In the past, Wu Fei would only fill the fish pond with water every one or two days.
However, this is not a good idea. Add water to the fry every day. Although there will be no dead fish and the feeding of the fry will be reduced, the growth of the fry has not slowed down. The density of the fry in the fish pond has changed significantly day by day.
Big.
Now I hope that the fish pond in front of me can be put into use as soon as possible. At that time, I can put all the fry bought from the county fishery into this fish pond, and a fish pond with an area of more than ten acres can be used to raise fish.
The seedlings can then grow into big fish.
Wu Fei was thinking about things, but he did not delay the movement of his hands. He caught a three- or four-weight eel in a clip. To be honest, the eels appeared more frequently today than in the days when the pond was just cleared, especially the large ones.
Monopterus eels appear much more frequently.
Now, at least half of the eels in the bucket are more than half a catty, which is simply larger than those bred in captivity.
Changing a bucket, Wu Fei continued to look for eels. According to the current situation, even if he could not catch a hundred kilograms of eels today, it should not be much different.
Now Wu Fei wonders whether this fish pond was used to raise eels. After so many years, there are still so many big eels. You know, a few years ago, people fished for frogs in this fish pond every year.
Of eels.
But the fortunate thing is that the water that the whole village drinks is spring water brought down from the mountains. No one dares to use medicine to treat eels and loaches from the water source above the reservoir.
You must know that in the creek below the reservoir, it was difficult to even see crabs in the past few years. I remember when I was in elementary school, within ten minutes after class, I could go to the creek flowing behind the school to catch a few crabs.
At that time, I often did things like hiding crabs in female classmates’ desks.
Later, as the prices of wild fish, shrimp, and crabs in rural areas increased, many people went to the fields to catch loaches and eels during their spare time. At the beginning, they caught them with their hands, and they usually let go of the small ones they caught.
People are willing to spend money and buy electric fishing machines to kill loaches and eels.
When he first started to have people, Wu Fei buried several hundred dollars worth of loaches and eels in one summer vacation, and he had enough pocket money in his pocket for half a semester.
However, more people were caught, and soon, most of them had been working in the fields for a long time without catching much.
Later, someone bought a medicine specifically designed to poison fish. As long as there was water in the rice field, he would sprinkle a small bottle of the medicine on it. Within an hour, all the loaches and eels in the field would come out of the mud.
They were all poisonous and dizzy.
At this time, all you have to do is reach out and pick them up. If you are quick, the loaches and eels you picked up will come to life after being raised in clean water for a while, and they will be indistinguishable from those picked up by hand. If you pick them up late,
, the loaches and eels will die.
Until now, Wu Fei has not figured out what the ingredients of those medicines are, and whether eating those poisonous loaches and eels will have any adverse effects.
Later, the loaches and eels in the fields were almost extinct. Everyone paid attention to the creek again.
Use a fine net to block the downstream of the stream, sprinkle a few bottles of medicine upstream, and the fish and shrimp in a stream will be cleaned up in a few times.
Seeing this situation, the village held several meetings with emotion, and shouted loudspeakers for several days, prohibiting everyone from putting poisonous fish in the fields and streams upstream of the reservoir.
Fortunately, everyone knew that they also drank spring water from the upper reaches of the reservoir, so some loach and eel seedlings were preserved in the village's paddy fields.
However, people often carry fishing machines to work in the creek. Naturally, it is difficult to see loaches and eels even in the upper reaches of the reservoir.
It wasn't until Wu Fei's generation grew up and most of the village's labor force went to work in the city that wild things like loaches and eels in the fields got a chance to recuperate and regain their strength.
Before this, Wu Fei thought that there should be large loaches and eels in the fish pond, but he never thought that there would be so many large eels and loaches.
If we had known that there were so many loaches and eels in the fish ponds, someone would have dug three feet into the ponds and brought them back several times.
Chapter completed!