Happy Fishing Farm

Because it is extremely difficult to catch pike, pike is very popular in the market.

However, the number of barracudas in the ocean is very large, and they are all over the world, so the price is not very high.

At present, the more common price in the market is about 40 yuan per catty. In some fishing villages in Zhoushan, it only costs more than ten yuan per catty. When transported to the inland, it generally does not exceed 100 yuan per catty, which is very expensive. Cheap seafood too.

"This fish is a bit dangerous. Be careful when cleaning up the catch later, so as not to be bitten by it." Li Xuan said to the crew.

"Don't worry, brother Xuan, we all know." Wang Lei grabbed a huge pike with a long body, which looked like a long bamboo.

The barracuda immediately struggled desperately. It opened its pointed mouth, showing its canine teeth, and was about to bite Wang Lei's arm.

The other barracudas on the deck also became fierce immediately, and some of them jumped up nearly one meter in place, and were about to bite the crew with the momentum of a tiger.

Although Wang Lei had experience in catching barracudas before, he used to only catch one at most at a time. Now there may be hundreds of barracudas on the deck. He had never seen such a posture before, and he panicked. Regressed several times.

Luo Hai, beside him, immediately handed over a foam box covered with a layer of crushed ice, and asked Wang Lei to stuff the barracuda into it.

Only then did Wang Lei pat his chest with lingering fear, and said, "I was really scared to death just now."

Li Xuan smiled and said, "There's no need to transport the fish alive. You don't need to catch it with your hands, just use a rake to get them all into the freezer."

The crew members all nodded, and none of them dared to get close to the pike. They stayed far away, knocked out the pike one by one with a rake, or directly stuffed them into the foam box.

Although the number of these barracudas is not large, there are only about a hundred in total, but the fish are big and fierce. Usually, a foam box can only hold one, and some of them are so big that they can’t even fit in the foam box. Therefore, it is very difficult to clean up the catch, and everyone is exhausted.

Li Xuan was also helping to clean up, carrying several barracudas that were nearly two meters long and weighed at least tens of kilograms before stopping to rest after they arrived in the frozen warehouse.

After the busy crew members transported all the barracudas on the deck back to the freezer, Li Xuan asked, "Have you calculated, how many catties of barracudas were caught this time?"

"A total of more than 90 fish were caught, and the weight was almost exactly [-] catties." Father Li said.

Li Xuan nodded, this number is almost the same as he estimated.

With a smile on his face, Chen Bin looked at Li Xuan and said, "Brother Xuan, let's get a pike out and eat it later."

Li Xuan blinked, and couldn't help but said, "Do you want to eat barracuda too?"

"Of course, the taste of this fish is old and fresh. How can there be a saying? It's too fresh to eat pike." Chen Bin nodded quickly.

Li Xuan shook his head with a smile, "Aside from being fresh, barracuda basically has no other characteristics, and it has too much bile and debris in its body. Eat everything, the body has accumulated a lot of toxins and parasites, without special treatment, it is best not to eat this fish."

Although human beings are omnivores, they eat everything from meat, vegetables, and whole grains.

But since ancient times, human beings have always eaten vegetarian animals or omnivorous animals when eating meat, and rarely ate carnivorous animals.

For example, cattle, sheep, and pigs are often eaten by humans.

But basically no one has eaten wolves and tigers.

In ancient times, it can be understood that carnivorous animals are difficult to catch.

The survival of the ancients was very difficult. Even if they formed a group of hunters, in the process of hunting, there were only some primitive utensils, such as sharpened stones and some sharp branches, because there were not all kinds of weapons in the hunting process. There will be some casualties, especially when hunting predators.

In the process of hunting, our ancestors discovered that carnivores are super aggressive and far surpass humans in size, so preying on carnivores or large animals faces more dangers.

So they attacked herbivores. Herbivores are more docile than carnivores, the threat is relatively smaller, and the capture rate is higher. Over time, they use herbivores as their hunting targets.

In modern times, it can be understood that most carnivores are protected animals and cannot be eaten.

What about modern times?

Why do human beings like to eat vegetarian animals in modern times, but not carnivorous animals?

Modern weapons are already very advanced, and there is no such thing as protecting animals.

There are two reasons for this.

First, the cost of raising carnivorous animals is too high.

Second, there are toxins in carnivorous animals.

In fact, as early as thousands of years ago, humans discovered that carnivores have a higher disease rate than herbivores. When they eat other animals, they will absorb the toxic substances in their bodies. After absorption, it is difficult to get rid of them. When the body accumulates more toxins, it will cause disease.

When archaeologists studied the bodies of ancient humans, they found that some bones had already developed spots, which was a manifestation of a disease, mainly caused by eating the liver of carnivorous animals.

The barracuda can almost be regarded as one of the most toxic carnivores among all carnivores, because the barracuda likes to eat the soft parts of the prey's body the most.

The softest part of the general prey's body is undoubtedly the internal organs.

Chen Bin was slightly disappointed after hearing this.

Li Xuan looked at him, it seemed that he would not be happy if he didn't eat pike, so he smiled and said: "If you really want to eat it, that's fine, I'll pick a smaller one from the freezer later. , lower the toxins in the body, and then clean it up by myself.”

When Chen Bin heard it, he immediately beamed with joy, and he said cheerfully, "I'm not afraid of being poisonous. I know how to deal with it. I scraped off its scales, then cut open its maw, threw away all the internal organs, and then cleaned the fish maw again." , and then put it in an ultra-low temperature environment to freeze for a few hours, and finally cook it in a pressure cooker at high temperature, no matter what parasites and toxins it is, after my treatment, it will definitely be gone. Brother Xuan, you can just open your belly and eat it. "

Li Xuan nodded with a smile, and said: "Okay, then I will wait to eat ready-made ones in a while, let alone, although the taste of this fish is ordinary, the meat is fresh and tender, and the fish soup is as fresh as milk, like tofu. Cook together, the cooked tofu is so fresh that the tongue can swallow it.”

It's a pity, it's a barracuda in the southern temperate ocean.

If it is a barracuda in the cold waters of the north, the taste will be more delicious, and there is a hint of sweetness in the meat, and there will be an attractive aroma unique to cold water fish after cooking.