My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 185 Does he have a fishing license to put the cages in?

"The mangrove area should be quite large. If it really doesn't work, we could put it somewhere to the side, right?" Zhou Miao wondered.

He knew that the fishing rafts next door would learn from his practice of charging for setting up fish traps.

Actually, this wasn't a project first developed by their Xuan Gui Fishing Raft. Fishing rafts in other regions have been doing these projects online for a long time, and some even take customers out to sea to haul in their nets.

So Zhou Miao had already considered having everyone set up traps like them.

"They won't let us release them. Several fishing rafts have joined together and contracted that mangrove forest. Now, apart from their own families, they won't let anyone release them. During the day, many people argue with them."

"We're not local residents of Nanzhen after all, and we'd be at a disadvantage if we got into a fight with them," Lu Xiaoxiao said helplessly.

At this moment, Luo Qianqian and Luo Hao, who had finished their work, knew he was back and came over.

"Ah Hao, what do you think about what happened today?"

Seeing them approach, Zhou Miao wanted to hear what this local had to say.

"The person blocking the way to set up the fish traps is a notorious scoundrel in the area. Today, he used a boat and fish traps to block the road, acting like a scoundrel and not letting anyone pass. There's nothing anyone can do about it."

Luo Hao's expression was also not good, and his chest heaving clearly showed that he was quite angry.

"It's only now that things are like this. Twenty years ago, he would have been beaten up by a group of people long ago."

Luo Qianqian was speechless upon hearing this: "Brother, he used to be involved in the underworld, and he was even more difficult to deal with than he is now."

"I was only four or five years old at the time, and I saw him slash people with a knife with my own eyes."

"I never expected there to be such a bully around our fishing raft!" Zhou Miao sighed softly.

In the two months he's been running the fish rafts here, he hasn't had any contact with other fish raft owners in the area.

Everyone keeps to themselves and minds their own business.

I never expected that just making money by setting up fish traps would lead to such a thing.

"Brother Miao, what should we do? If this continues, the business of setting up traps will only get worse. Even if you find a new location to set up traps, as long as the profits are good, judging from that person's attitude, they will definitely come back to compete for them," Lu Xiaoxiao said with some worry.

Running this fish raft has been incredibly difficult for them. First, Lu Xingyu went missing, and then Zhou Miao finally managed to pull through, opening the business thanks to online promotion and the benefits of the popular sea turtles. Now, they've encountered this kind of person.

"Since things have come to this... let's eat first!"

"???"

All three of them were waiting for him to make a decision, but what they got in return was this sentence.

Zhou Miao looked at the three stunned people, then reached out and pinched Lu Xiaoxiao and Luo Qianqian's smooth cheeks: "Prepare dinner first. You'll need to eat to have the energy to deal with this. I still need to go to the docks to sell what I got today."

"thing?"

Luo Hao's eyes lit up, and he quickly walked towards the fishing boat.

"Holy crap, Miao, did you disturb someone's aquaculture farm? How come there are so many horse manure sea urchins?"

"What are you talking about? I just came across a coral reef, and I picked them up from there."

As Zhou Miao spoke, he walked over, boarded the boat, and picked out about twenty good-looking sea urchins, handing them to him.

"We'll eat these ourselves tonight, and I'll take the rest to sell now. Pang Yu should already be waiting at the dock."

"Okay, one steamed sea urchin egg for everyone, and I'll use the rest for sashimi."

Luo Hao accepted the sea urchin without ceremony and headed towards his own little world—the kitchen.

Lu Xiaoxiao and the others quickly went over to help, as sea urchins are quite troublesome to process.

Zhou Miao then sailed to the dock, where Pang Yu was indeed already waiting. He was also taken aback when he saw what was on the boat.

"Wow, so many sea urchins with horse manure?"

"Yes, I didn't have time to choose the size, so I'll have to trouble you guys."

"It's alright, a tap of my finger and I'll instantly transport myself to the exciting world of Chapter 185, 'Does He Have a Fishing License Before Setting Cages?'. There are plenty of us, we can pick them quickly." Pang Yu waved his hand dismissively, then added hesitantly, "I just need to open a few to see if they're profitable."

"As you know, sea urchins that aren't plump are just trash, nobody wants them."

"Okay, do as you please."

Zhou Miao understood Pang Yu's concerns.

After all, these are wild-caught animals, so it's hard to say whether they're fat or not.

If some of them aren't yellow, he'll lose his underwear too.

The sea urchins supplied in the domestic market are actually farmed in the north. As long as the season arrives, they can be guaranteed to be large and have plenty of roe.

Pang Yu and his men opened five sea urchins in succession, including large, medium and small ones, and all of them looked to be of relatively poor quality.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he discovered that there was a lot of yellow inside.

"Ah Miao, are these sea urchins really wild? They're all so plump, I thought they were farmed."

"As long as the product is good, why do you care so much?"

The price of fresh sea urchins is not low, because it is the end of the season and the market supply has decreased, so the price is much higher than it was half a month ago.

The wholesale price now starts at 150 yuan, and the larger ones cost around 200 yuan.

Zhou Miao's sea urchins were also divided into small, medium and large sizes. Although there were many on the ship and the live fish hold was full, the sea urchins themselves were relatively light.

It takes about ten small ones to weigh one pound, seven or eight medium ones, and five or six large ones.

The prices were 150, 180 and 200 respectively, totaling 26,551 yuan.

Zhou Miao had initially thought that he would earn relatively little from the sea urchins, which weighed only about 150 jin (75 kg).

But this allowed him to get a very good price, causing the total value of this batch of sea urchins to soar to over 25,000.

Judging from the sea urchin yield over the coral reef, Luo Hao's 350,000 is a sure thing.

However, he can only postpone the money for the subsequent renovation of the fish raft. Fortunately, the competition is about to start, and winning the prize money will solve this problem.

Back at the fishing raft, as soon as Zhou Miao stepped off the boat, he smelled the aroma of food.

Selling sea urchins took quite a while, and it was time to eat when I got back.

Lu Xingyu had already returned. After dinner, when Lu Xiaoxiao brought out a plate of fruit as dessert, she couldn't help but ask, "A-Miao, what are you planning to do about what happened this afternoon?"

"What else can we do but report it, of course!" Zhou Miao said, throwing the cantaloupe rind onto the table.

"Report?" X2

Luo Hao and Lu Xingyu exchanged glances, while the two women gave each other a knowing look.

After what happened that afternoon, Luo Qianqian had been thinking about how to resolve the situation, but she couldn't figure it out.

When Zhou Miao returned home that evening and saw that he showed no signs of worry, she knew that he had a plan in mind, but just hadn't said anything.

Luo Qianqian had just been processing sea urchins with Lu Xiaoxiao, and seeing that Lu Xiaoxiao still looked somewhat worried, she told her her guess.

So Lu Xiaoxiao, who was initially a little worried, was now quite calm.

"Reporting it won't do any good. The ocean is a public resource. They took the spot there first, so it's probably useless for us to report it. Besides, it takes time to process the report." Luo Hao frowned, disagreeing with the idea.

"Who reported this?! That guy just runs a fish raft, right? Does he even have a fishing license before setting up cages?"

Zhou Miao smiled and took out his phone: "Last time, Brother Zhou asked me to help deal with the great white shark incident, and I happened to get to know a few friends from the fisheries administration. I'll tell them about it now."