Their bodies were long and slender, looking fifty or sixty centimeters from head to tail, grayish brown with crosswise stripes and pale spots.
The ones in this group all looked about the same size, slowly wriggling their bodies as they scattered in every direction.
Dogfish mainly lived in coastal coral reef areas and were often found in the intertidal zone. They were small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling sharks, nocturnal creatures that preferred to hunt at night and moved slowly.
No wonder he had seen no sign of these dogfish earlier, despite stirring all around until the water turned murky.
Watching them scatter, he no longer cared how much water remained in the pool. Without even taking off his rain boots, he stepped straight in, and the water instantly reached his knees.
These dogfish really were slow. From the moment he spotted them scattering and, delighted, slowly climbed down from the rocks, they were still swishing their tails underwater, not yet having found another rock to shelter beneath, clearly visible in the muddy water.
Ye Yaodong swept his hand net toward two moving together and caught them both at once, grinning with delight.
"Two birds with one stone!"
He shook the hand net and gauged the weight in his hand. The two felt hefty, probably five jin between them.
Dogfish skeletons were entirely cartilage. Though they looked long and slender, all of them could be eaten, and ordinary shark could not compare with their flavor-or, of course, their price.
He reckoned they could fetch thirty or forty cents a jin, or fifty to sixty cents at retail.
Plenty more were still scattering underwater around him. He hurried over to where he had left the bucket, took the two out of the hand net, and put them inside, then eagerly went back to