Taking advantage of the fine, sunny weather and calm seas, they went out fishing for another two days before taking a break, because Ye Xiaoxi was turning one.
Ye Yaodong and the others simply hauled back all the gill nets that were nearly ready to be scrapped. The toadfish catch had plummeted over the past two days to just three or four hundred jin a day, yet collecting them took an entire day, leaving no time to use the Trawl Net. Their earnings barely covered fuel.
So father and son discussed it. Since they would be taking two days off anyway, they might as well bring the nets back and discard them. In a few days, they would concentrate on using the Trawl Net or longline fishing.
Although the discarded nets were useless and would take up space ashore, they were not so unscrupulous as to dump them straight into the sea.
Abandoned fishing nets in the sea were tremendously deadly to certain marine creatures. The whale shark they had encountered before had been a victim.
Marine pollution would hurt their own interests too.
When they hauled in the nets that day, they also found two small green lobsters caught in them. He kept both for an extra dish the next day, along with some other good seafood, leaving it with A-Cai to keep fresh. He also bought some more from him.
As for the city, he asked Uncle Zhou to transport all the dried fish left at home there. The army had happened to call yesterday to order another two thousand jin, so he called his father-in-law and asked him to accompany Uncle Zhou on the delivery to the army base. Afterward, Uncle Zhou could bring the two elders back with him.
After several trips, coupled with the small