Happy Fishing Farm

Li Xuan demonstrated to Wang Lei the correct posture for catching abalone again, and then he swam towards another reef alone.

In fact, prying with a knife is not really the most correct way to catch abalone.

Although this method is labor-saving and fast enough, no matter what kind of abalone, it can be done in a maximum of three seconds.

But in the process of prying with a dagger, it is easy to hurt the abalone.

In the wild, when fishing for natural abalone, fishermen will use this method.

In those relatively large abalone breeding bases, the professional abalone fishers all use the method of knocking mountains and shaking tigers to catch abalones.

Although the fleshy feet of abalone have strong adsorption capacity, the adsorption capacity of an abalone with a shell length of [-] cm can reach [-] kg, that is, [-] to [-] kg.

But abalone is very afraid of vibration.

You only need to take a special hammer and tap lightly on the reef where the abalone is attached, and the abalone will immediately feel numb, loosen the reef and fall directly.

Li Xuan was around here again, and searched carefully a few times.

In the end, Li Xuan was somewhat disappointed.

Although this sea area is one of the habitats of abalone, there are certain abalones that breed in this sea area.

But the number is very small. The most important thing is that the abalones that breed in this sea area are not very big.

A lot of three-headed abalones were found, but none of the double-headed or single-headed abalones were found.

The largest one was the first abalone discovered by Li Xuan, and its size was only infinitely close to that of a double-headed abalone.

But soon, Li Xuan adjusted his mentality.

If you can't find double-headed abalone or single-headed abalone, that's normal operation.

If single-headed abalone and double-headed abalone were so easy to find, then single-headed abalone and double-headed abalone would not be so valuable.

Normally, the lifespan of abalone is only about five years.

Calculated by the fact that abalones grow three centimeters per year, abalones can grow into double-headed abalones only when their life span is approaching.

In the wild, survival is very difficult.

Abalone lacks sufficient means of attack and self-protection, so it is too difficult to live to the limit.

An abalone, just when the deadline is approaching, is bumped into by humans. The chance of this is even smaller than the chance of winning the lottery.

As for the single-headed abalone?

It is impossible for normal abalone to grow so big.

Each single-headed abalone grows from a combination of various reasons. It may be mutated, or it may be the old birthday star among abalones.

A single-headed abalone is just like a human being who grows to a height of more than two meters. There may not be one out of 1, and they all belong to gigantism.

After the fishing was over, Li Xuan returned to the boat and prepared to make dried abalones with more than three heads by himself.

In our country, the craft of making dried abalone has been thousands of years.

Legend has it that as early as the end of the Han Dynasty, when Zhuge Liang was on an envoy to Soochow, Zhou Yu, an important minister of Soochow, on behalf of Sun Quan, sent a dried abalone to Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun respectively, hoping to win them over.

It's a pity that neither of these two people can be moved by their appetites. If the abalone is in their hands, it will be meat buns beating dogs.

"Chen Bin, help me bring over all the abalones with more than three heads." Li Xuan ordered.

"What are you going to do? Those big abalones are kept in the live water tank. If there is nothing wrong, don't fish them." Father Li said immediately.

Li Xuan smiled and said: "Dad, you are afraid that those abalones will die if you catch them around, right? Don't worry, I'm going to process these abalones now, process the abalones, and make them into dried abalones. It will be higher, if the thing really dies on the boat, it will be a big loss, three-headed abalone, each one is at least tens of thousands of yuan."

Father Li was surprised: "You know how to cook dried abalone?"

Li Xuan smiled and nodded, "Of course."

In fact, the process of making dried abalone is very simple.

On the boat, only five abalones with more than three heads were caught.

There are four of them, all about the same size.

One of them is obviously a circle larger than the other four, probably reaching the weight of a double-headed abalone.

Li Xuan put the five freshly caught abalones into an empty water tank, and poured drinking water into the tank.

As soon as the abalone came into contact with fresh water, it immediately struggled violently, and soon, all of them lost their vital signs.

Many organisms that live in fresh water can live for a long time although they will not adapt to sea water.

However, most of the organisms in seawater will die when they come into contact with fresh water, and only a small part can migrate.

Li Xuan peeled off the shells of the five dead abalones, and then washed them all clean with a soft brush.

This step is very important, and even directly affects the color and quality of abalone.

If it was a single-headed abalone, Li Xuan wouldn't even cook it himself, he would immediately order the fishing boat to return, and when he landed, he would directly invite top chefs to cook it with the best craftsmanship.

But the three-headed abalone is not so particular.

After washing all the abalones, Li Xuan took out a large basin from the cabin, poured half a basin of drinking water into it, and then added a lot of salt into it.

Looking at Li Xuan, Chen Bin added two bottles of salt to the washbasin in a row, and seemed to have the intention of adding salt, so he couldn't help asking: "Brother Xuan, how much salt do you want to add? Even the salt won't melt."

"Except for net abalone, which only needs to add 5.00% salt, and South African abalone, which only needs to add about 15.00% salt, the more other abalones, the better. At least 20.00% salt should be ensured in the water. That's the only way, etc. After the abalone is processed, the dried abalone can be preserved for a long enough time." Li Xuan replied.

Chen Bin snorted, wrote it down seriously, and thought about it, if he catches abalone himself someday, this trick will be useful.

Li Xuan added a small pot of salt to the basin, then nodded in satisfaction, stirred the salt water evenly, and put five abalones into the salt water together.

This step is almost done.

The next step will have to wait until tomorrow.

Before making dried abalone, abalone needs to be soaked in salt water for at least [-] hours, and then it can be dehydrated.

The entire dehydration time takes about a month.

First put the abalones in the sun to dry about [-] heads, and then put the abalones on the charcoal fire to dry until the middle is soft, and the rest of the abalones are hard. The whole production process is considered complete.

Of course, Li Xuan doesn't need to complete the last step of baking. He doesn't have this skill. He just needs to take out these abalones and put them in the sun every day starting tomorrow. After the boat docks, he will directly look for buyers. That's it.

Dried abalone will shrink by almost half after being made.

Many hotels like to take about a catty of fresh abalone and sell it to customers as a single-headed abalone.

In fact, a catty of fresh abalone is double-headed abalone, or even three-headed abalone.