Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Sheng with a smile and gave a thumbs up.
Zhou Sheng took back the spear gun with a smile and gave Chen Yuan a thumbs up...
The two men untied the fish and continued searching side by side.
Undersea coral reefs, where various fish gather.
In just two or three minutes, Chen Yuan saw several groupers.
Stalking and selective fishing, such as the giant grouper that can grow to dozens or hundreds of pounds, is only one or two pounds in size. Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng saw it and chose to ignore it.
As for some small groupers, such as six-banded groupers and oily groupers, they are not big and can be caught in twos and threes. Chen Yuan and the others catch them with their hands. If they can catch them, they will catch them. If they cannot, forget about it.
For those groupers that don't grow very big, three or four heads are already very big. But the small groupers taste very good...
There are many groupers in the Qizhou Islands.
Chen Yuan stung another grouper, estimated to be about five kilograms.
Soon, ten minutes passed.
In order not to worry Chen Xin and the others, Chen Yuan picked up the rock and knocked it a few times. Zhou Sheng turned his head when he heard the sound... and then the two of them came up together.
When they came to the sea, the fishing boat was fifty or sixty meters away from them.
As the two waited, Chen Xin drove the fishing boat over and stopped about ten meters away.
Chen Yuan and the others swam over, holding the boat with one hand and unbuttoning the net bag on their waists with the other hand, and handed it over.
In just ten minutes, Chen Yuan harvested more than ten kilograms of fish. The grouper weighed seven or eight kilograms, and the rest included cuttlefish, squid, and other fish.
Chen Yuan's harvest was good, and Zhou Sheng's place was not bad either. He caught a cattooth shark, which was still alive and weighed six or seven pounds: "The live fish were kept in the living water tank and oxygenated. The dead fish were placed in the refrigerator at minus five degrees Celsius.
Don’t let it freeze.”
Chen Xin nodded: "Okay."
Taking the net bag, Chen Yuan and the others continued to dive, this time speeding up the search.
A coral reef was quickly found, and there were only three small green dragons, but there were no more goodies.
Seeing big fish depends on luck.
This time, within ten minutes, Chen Yuan's net bag was full, he floated up, and swam quickly towards the fishing boat: "Come on, come on."
Zhou Lan came over and mentioned Chen Yuan's net bag: "It's so heavy."
"You drive the boat in a circle to the location about three hundred meters ahead. We have to continue looking forward..." Chen Yuandao.
"Okay." Zhou Lan responded.
Chen Xin came over: "Did you catch anything good this time?"
"No...the largest one is about five kilograms of grouper." Chen Yuan said. It was not a precious grouper, it was stabbed directly.
For ordinary grouper, as long as it is properly preserved, there is not much difference in price between live fish and dead fish.
They came out today with three fish boxes.
When the fishing boat returns, the live water tank will be drained, so live fish can only be placed in the fish box when returning.
There are quite a lot of small groupers today.
These small groupers are not big and the price is pretty good. Especially the live fish...
Chen Yuan dived down again and came to Zhou Sheng's side.
Zhou Sheng was holding a knife and cleaning the barnacles off the back of a large turtle.
Chen Yuan stayed away from the coral reefs. The bottom of the sea is filled with rocks. It is easy to hide fish in these places. And they are very good at hiding big fish...
Not so good luck today.
Chen Yuan has watched fishing videos here before on the Internet, and he can often catch larger groupers.
Chen Yuan and the others were swimming very fast underwater. It had been half an hour, and the search area should be equivalent to two or three hours of work by a professional diver wearing a diving tank.
Chen Yuan caught a few more lobsters, all of which were pretty good in size. After identifying the species, he put them in his pocket.
Zhou Sheng's light came over.
Chen Yuan looked over and saw the movements of his hands...
Chen Yuan hurriedly swam over.
Zhou Sheng's headlights turned...
I found a flat piece of sand in Guangzhou, with a huge manta ray lying underneath.
Manta ray, animal of the genus Manta in the family Molidae.
This is a large fish. A baby manta ray weighs 20 kilograms and is about one meter long when it is born. People who don’t know this fish may think it is a big fish when they first see it. In fact, it is just a newborn baby.
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The body width of the manta ray below is about 6 meters, and it is a rare large manta ray.
"Do you want to do it or not?" Zhou Sheng said, puffing bubbles.
Chen Yuan waved his hand and pulled Zhou Sheng.
Zhou Sheng didn't show any nostalgia and left with him.
They have only seen manta rays with a body width of about 6 meters on the Internet. Even after working on offshore fishing boats for so many years, the largest manta rays they have ever seen have a body width of about 5 meters.
The width of the manta ray's body is greater than its length...
Manta rays seem to protect fish, but they are often seen for sale in the market.
The manta ray below is too big to handle. There is still a little bit of compassion...
Such a large manta ray is so rare that it is very difficult to see it once.
In fact, Zhou Sheng was a little reluctant to handle such a big manta ray.
All things have animism. If it were smaller, Chen Yuan and the others would definitely not let it go.
The manta ray, which is more than six meters wide, makes people look at it.
Some fish can be caught, and some fish... forget it. The manta ray looks harmless to humans and animals, but once it gets aggressive, it is very powerful.
The manta ray below is very big, but it is difficult for Chen Yuan and others to handle, not impossible.
And even on offshore fishing boats, Chen Yuan and others would choose to release some particularly large fish after they caught them in the past.
There was a big manta ray entrenched here, and Chen Yuan and the others stayed away from this area.
Beishi Island in the Qizhou Islands is 30 to 40 meters offshore, and the water depth reaches about 25 meters.
The seabed was full of rocks, and Chen Yuan caught several more lobsters. While catching lobsters, Chen Yuan also saw a large grouper...
I swam over slowly, and when I was about two meters away, I stabbed the speargun in my hand, and then swam over quickly to grab the speargun.
This is the largest grouper harvested tonight, weighing thirty to forty pounds.
Chen Yuan grabbed the spear gun and swam up excitedly.
Chen Xin saw a light coming on a few hundred meters away and drove the boat over.
After a while, Zhou Sheng also surfaced and he caught a big guy...
"We got a big deal." Zhou Sheng shouted.
"Me too." Chen Yuan said.
"If we let that giant manta ray go, our luck will improve." Zhou Sheng said with a smile.
"You may not be able to handle that stingray."
Waiting for Chen Xin and others to come over, Chen Yuan and others will deliver the fish to the boat.
It's past five o'clock.
The sky began to turn white, a red halo of light appeared at the end of the sea and the sky, and the visibility on the sea surface was much higher.
"Are you guys coming up?" Chen Xin asked.
"Dive a little longer," Chen Yuan said.
"It's still early, let's play for a while." Zhou Sheng said.
We can still dive for more than half an hour.
After daybreak, the fish's vigilance is restored, and then the difficulty of stalking increases exponentially.
Chen Yuan and the others searched around the island. The water near the island was relatively deep, and the fish below were not only big in size, but also numerous in number.
Chen Yuan surfaced again in about ten minutes.
This time I only caught two groupers, but I also caught a few good-sized red snappers, a few ugly-looking stone fish with venomous spines, and a cattooth shark.
The stone fish are all alive, and so are the cattooth sharks...
Chen Yuan swam to the side of the fishing boat and handed over the net bag: "Be careful, there is stone fish in it, which is highly poisonous."
"The kind that requires hospitalization?" Zhou Lan said.