The mangrove ecology is very rich, and there is no shortage of small fish, shrimps, mud snails and sea melons. However, these are small things and are not profitable. However, there is one thing that can make money and the price is good, which is blue crabs, which are common in the sea.
They grow crabs and eat small fish and shrimps, etc. They usually grow in places such as intertidal muddy beaches and mangroves. During the day, they hide in holes to avoid natural enemies but more importantly to avoid sunlight. Once they lose water, they will
They will die and only come out at night to forage for food. This is the mud crab hole in front of you. This time when you enter the mangrove, the mud snails and sea melon seeds are just for starters. The real goal is to dig for mud crabs.
Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry to dig immediately.
There are many holes in the mangroves, especially the earthen dams on both sides of the small ditch. But not all holes are blue crab holes, and it is impossible for all blue crab holes to contain blue crabs. Blue crab holes generally come from
It is said that it is relatively flat. In addition, the blue crab holes are divided into old and new ones. The old holes are abandoned holes, and the new ones are holes that have just been dug. The blue crab holes are a little shallow, but generally speaking they are deeper. The bigger the holes are, the deeper they are.
The deeper. In order to avoid wasting all your efforts and finding nothing, you must judge whether the hole is a mud crab hole before digging. If so, then judge whether the hole is a new hole or an old hole. If it is a new hole, you must also judge whether there are mud crabs in it.
There may also be no blue crabs in the hole. This is because when the blue crabs come out of the hole to look for food, they find that the sun is rising or the temperature is rising. If they don’t have time to return to the original hole, they will immediately dig one anywhere. They really don’t have time to find a small puddle to lie down in.
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Zhao Dahai observed carefully. The entrance of the cave was damp and rough, and there was a pool of granular black mud. He stretched out his hand and pinched it. There was obviously water. This was new mud that had just been dug out not long ago. There were sharp objects such as knives or branches scratched near the entrance of the cave.
The slender marks are caused by the claws of blue crabs when they crawl. I carefully looked at the area of two square meters around the entrance of the hole. There are only traces less than half a square meter at the entrance of the hole. They all extend from the outside to the inside. This is from the outside to the inside.
Left behind by crawling inside.
Blue Crab Cave! New! There are blue crabs in it.
Zhao Dahai didn't hesitate at this time, and dug directly with a hoe. The mangroves were full of tree roots, which was difficult to dig. At the same time, tree species were protected and could not be dug. However, there were no mangroves growing on both sides of the ditch. There were no roots, and the soil was generally soft.
, use your arms hard, dig three times five times, divide two times, and dig down half a meter deep.
When Zhao Dahai saw water at the bottom of the pit, he stopped immediately. The blue crabs had to soak in the sea water to avoid dehydration and die, but at the same time they could not stay submerged in the sea water and had to breathe. When the blue crabs were digging holes, they found water.
If you dig a little deeper, you will stop. During the day, you will hide in the hole by lying on the water line. When digging blue crabs, you must stop when you see water. You cannot dig violently with a hoe, otherwise it is very likely that the hoe will hit you.
If you go down, split the blue crab in half or break the claws of the pliers, don't even think about selling it for money.
Zhao Dahai pulled a few times to clean up the soil excavated by the hoe, and piled it high around the hole to prevent the water from the ditch from pouring in. He reached out and carefully dug out the hole at the water line, and expanded it while cleaning it.<
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Zhao Dahai held the edge of the dug hole with his left hand and grabbed a ball of mud with his right hand. It was not big or small and could be held by one hand. He leaned down and pushed the mud ball into the hole in front of his hand.
Blue crabs have amazingly strong pliers. If you are a big old blue crab, you can break the chopsticks with the force of the pliers. If your fingers touch it, the skin and flesh will be torn. If you are unlucky, the bones of your fingers will be broken.
There are no blue crabs in the hole. Blindly reaching out to dig out is like seeking death. Rub a ball of mud in your hand and push it in. Once it encounters a blue crab, it will be directly burned in the face. In addition, the hole is narrow - blue crabs dig holes.
It is tailor-made according to its size. It is impossible to create a three-bedroom, two-living room or one-hundred-square-meter hall - no matter how powerful the pliers are, there is no place for it.
Zhao Dahai moved very slowly. He stretched out half of his forearm. When he reached the bottom of the cave, he encountered a hard object. He pushed forward with a little force and the hard object moved.
Blue crab!
Zhao Dahai was so excited that his heart skipped a beat.
The bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish! The bigger the hole, the bigger the blue crabs. The entrance of this hole is more than 20 centimeters wide, if it is not there, it is big.
Zhao Dahai stabilized his mind. The most important thing at this time was not to be afraid of running away, but to catch the blue crab safely and smoothly. He pushed forward hard and pushed the mud ball in front of his hand. Feeling a little uneasy, he caught it again.
Put a small ball of mud in and squeeze the blue crab tightly. If it is small, one hand will do. However, the one in the cave is larger. Put two hands in, spread out ten fingers, and push hard against the cave wall.
The first time I dug in, a ball of mud the size of a football was dug out. The sea mud pressed down on the blue crab's pincers, so it couldn't stretch out and pinch people. The mud ball was put into a mesh bag, soaked in the ditch and shook a few times.
Sea mud is scattered.
"Ha!"
"This head is really good!"
Zhao Dahai picked up the net bag and saw a big blue crab that weighed more than one and a half kilograms and showed its teeth and claws. There is abundant food in the mangroves, and the blue crabs are big and plump. A half kilogram of them costs forty-one kilograms, and one kilogram can weigh five or six pounds.
10. You can only earn one hundred and eighty yuan by doing this. Catch the blue crabs from the net bag and tie them with a thin vine from the edge of the ditch. The blue crabs are very strong and if they are not tied properly, they will easily fall off if they struggle and the pliers will drop.
Big discount, half of it will be gone immediately.
Make money!
Zhao Dahai felt happy, took a drink of water, took a rest, filled back the dug hole, and walked forward along the small ditch with a mesh bag and a small hoe.
The sun hangs in the sky.
The mangroves are airtight.
There is no obstruction on the top of the ditch.
It's as hot as a steam oven with a fire.
Zhao Dahai was sweating profusely, the clothes on his body were wet and dry, covered with a fine layer of white salt frost, and the seawater in the ditch was already hot from the sun.
Zhao Dahai looked at the mesh bag in his hand and didn't feel tired at all. In two or three hours, he dug out five blue crabs, each weighing more than a kilogram. He got another three to four hundred yuan.
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Work hard!
Come on!
Roll up your sleeves and work hard!
Earn enough money to repair your fishing boat as soon as possible so that you can go out to sea to fish.
Zhao Dahai stepped on the water and kept walking forward until the sun set in the west. Halfway through, the sun seemed to disappear, and it became so dark in the mangrove that it was almost impossible to see clearly.
Zhao Dahai stopped wading in the water, climbed up to the earth dam, walked along the edge of the ditch, turned on the flashlight, and kept shining on the mangroves on the side. The tide had not yet come in, and there were mudflats under the mangroves, each with small
From time to time, a few small red crabs about the size of a thumb crawled out of the hole. One had big pincers and the other was too small. These were fiddler crabs. Things like mangroves were densely packed, and sometimes they even climbed directly into the trees.
, when you get into the mangroves, you have to be careful when this thing falls from your head to your neck. It's not particularly painful when you pinch it, it's not as painful as a blue crab, but it's very uncomfortable when you're startled and you pinch it at the same time.
Zhao Dahai's target is not these fiddler crabs. No one really wants these things. Blue crabs are the target. Mangroves are not the only places with small ditches to have blue crab holes. There are more in mangroves, but they cannot be dug.
If you can wait to run out of the hole, night is the best time. As soon as it gets dark, the blue crabs will come out of the hole to look for food. About ten minutes passed, and the first one was harvested. Another ten minutes passed.
Found another blue crab.
"Is this the time to get rich?"
Zhao Dahai's eyes widened even more, not letting go of any inch that the flashlight swept across.