My Manor

Prawns are 40 dollars, tiger groupers are 30 dollars, king crabs are 100 dollars, geoducks are 100 dollars, giant groupers are 30 dollars, red snappers are 12 dollars, humphead wrasse are 240 dollars. It's useless to look at this; they are not allowed to be raised. Atlantic salmon are 40 dollars, bluefin tuna are 60 to 200 dollars, yellowfin are 45 dollars, bigeye tuna are 65 dollars, and albacore tuna are 100 dollars...

Sitting in the car heading to Boston, Jiang Hai looked at the table in his hand and muttered quietly.

Edward Anderson, who was driving, smiled and glanced at Jiang Hai, then shook his head gently.

Since that day when Jiang Hai wanted to raise precious seafood, he had been studying these things like a demon.

He first checked some information on the internet, then went to the local seafood market to ask, and of course, he visited Chinese restaurants.

What he is muttering now is the data he has studied these days. Of course, the unit is kg. There is no such thing as jin in the United States, and Jiang Hai was too lazy to convert it into pounds.

Aquatic products, especially seafood, have different prices in different locations and sizes.

He was talking about the normal average price, not the price of top-quality products.

No matter what it is, as long as it is top-quality, the price is extraordinarily high. Take cod, which Jiang Hai thought was worthless, for example. As long as it is over one meter, it has to sell for thousands of US dollars every day. If it is over 1.5 meters, it must sell for tens of thousands of US dollars.

In normal times, the cod that can be shipped is only 30 centimeters long, weighing just over one pound. Two cod together are less than 1.5 kilograms. This is the difference. These small ones can only be sold for 80 cents per pound at ultra-low temperatures, and only 1.75 cents per pound of iced fresh fish. Here, Jiang Hai also learned a term for the first time: iced fresh fish.

There are two ways to preserve fish. One is ultra-low temperature, which involves freezing the fish completely at a temperature of minus 60 degrees.

Although this method does not spoil the fish and is suitable for long-distance transportation, it also destroys the original taste of the fish. Generally speaking, except for large-scale ocean-going fishing boats, few fishing boats use this method. Of course, some cheaper fish may also be frozen this way.

As for chilled fish, it uses low temperatures to slightly freeze the fish. This freezing time is limited and can only be kept for twelve days. However, if it is sold to fishmongers on the eleventh day, they will not accept it.

Basically, this kind of fish is caught in the morning and sold in the afternoon. Only such fish will be wanted by people, and this type of fish is usually valuable. If the price of a fish is not more than thirty US dollars, fishermen are reluctant to throw the fish into the chilled warehouse. You must know that the freezer is just like the freezer layer of the refrigerator; it is an ice storage, while the chilled warehouse is like an air-conditioned room. The electricity consumed is diesel on the sea, which is not ordinary.

So Jiang Hai has been looking for those precious sea fish in the market these days. At present, the situation is not bad.

In fact, if you want to make money by raising fish, the best choice is cod because Jiang Hai's fishery is next to Winthrop, and driving a boat may be faster than driving. Here, after catching fish in the morning, you can sell them later. They are definitely fresh and can be sold for 1.75 US dollars per pound. Even if each fish weighs only one pound, according to Edward Anderson's calculations, the initial investment is 10 million fish fry, and the survival rate is at least around 60%, which means there are 6 million fish. Each fish earns 1.75 US dollars, totaling 10.5 million US dollars. Add in the income from some supporting "fish food," and it should not be a problem to earn 12 million US dollars a year. However, we have to deduct the money for the investment in fish fry, the money for the second-year fish fry, the money for building the ecosystem, the money for the workers, the money for the diesel of the ship, etc. The total investment in the fishery will be about 30 million US dollars. If you are lucky, you can get your investment back in three years, and at least it can be stable in the fourth year. Nearly half of the money can be earned every year. Of course, this half of the money is still subject to tax.

But at least before the investment is recovered, there is no need to worry about paying taxes. This is one of the benefits of the United States. For these farmers and fishermen, only the money they earn is taxed, and no tax is collected on the money they make.

Originally, according to Edward Anderson's calculations, Jiang Hai still has enough money to invest. After all, this money does not need to be invested all at once. Secondly, Edward recently surveyed the underwater situation of Jiang Hai's fishery.

It was found that there are definitely many fish schools underwater. With ten years of recuperation, Jiang Hai's underwater ecosystem is extremely complete.

The number of fish schools is quite considerable. Even though it is winter now, there are still many fish underwater. According to Edward's preliminary estimate, there must be nearly 10 million US dollars worth of fish in these waters. Of course, this is if all the fish are caught.

With this 10 million, not to mention supporting the income of the fishery in the first year, it would be enough to cover all the buildings for Jiang Hai.

But according to Edward Anderson, it is indeed not wrong to do so. However, Jiang Hai was not willing to accept it. He had been thinking that since he was also raising fish, and he had a golden finger, why couldn't he raise some shiny fish? That's why he went to the market and Huaxia Hotel to inquire.

Of course, in addition to these things, there are some very valuable items, but Jiang Hai has not yet thought about raising them, at least not now. The most famous ones are sea cucumbers and abalone, because these two things have no market in the United States. Although they are popular in China, fishermen in the Atlantic region know that if they send the same thing to China, it will double in price. But the issue is how to send it there. Some top-quality goods can be shipped by air, but what about transactions of large quantities?

Shipping everything by air? That's nonsense... After being frozen at ultra-low temperatures, if you thaw it out, the taste will change, and you can't sell it at a high price. The frozen ones can only be kept fresh for twelve days. They are caught on the first day and delivered on the second day. If you go by sea, you can cross the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and then turn a corner to China without encountering any trouble. Twelve days is enough for everything... So although Jiang Hai has the ambition to raise a large number of top-quality fish, everything has to be done slowly.

At least he has to prove that he can raise such good things, and then decide whether to raise them after confirming the sales channels.

But no matter what he decides to raise, he is determined to raise fish fry, but the quantity is a problem. At the same time, since he has decided to raise fish, no matter what kind of fish he raises, the ecosystem must be prepared to start building. So today, Edward Anderson took Jiang Hai to Boston, and they were going to buy fish fry.

But soon after getting off the highway, they saw the Celtics' North Shore Garden in the distance.

Looking at the gym, Jiang Hai couldn't help but think of the tryout that day. It was really funny—a short contract of ten days...

Of course, after that day, it was actually the third day after that day, when they lost to the Nets at home and lost to the Wizards away, Aldridge Bradley and Brad Stevens came to Jiang Hai's house with a guaranteed contract with an annual salary of 1.98 million, hoping that Jiang Hai would agree to join. But let alone an annual salary of 1.98 million, even if it was an annual salary of 19.8 million! Uh... Maybe Jiang Hai would be tempted, but unfortunately there was no zero, the gap was still very large.

What can't he do to earn 2 million US dollars? What's more, he has to pay half of the tax to the US government, which is only 1 million US dollars. Does he need this little money? Kidding! If he has that time, he can make more than this amount by going into the sea.

So in the end, Jiang Hai still didn't agree, and the two people who came here were quite helpless, but they said they would not give up. Whether they would give up or not was not Jiang Hai's business because the New Year was approaching.

There was really nothing special about the New Year in the United States. It was not as interesting as Christmas. There were no major competitions, and some TV stations would have New Year's Eve concerts. If Jiang Hai was in New York, he could go to Times Square to watch the concert, pick up a girl, count down, and maybe get a kiss at the end of the year.

But obviously, he didn't have the heart to go, so this New Year's Eve, he stayed at home alone.

With the arrival of January, the Boston area also reached the coldest time of the year. After Bell came back, Robbins and others had to end their vacation early and get busy. As for John and Louis, they also returned to where they should go after the New Year. Although Jiang Hai's manor was fun, they still had their own things to do.

Edward and Jiang Hai also had things to do, namely buying water plants.

The basic structure of the ecological food chain is that big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and shrimp eat water plants.

In Boston, unless you raise very unusual fish, you basically need to release fish fry in March at the beginning of spring. When the fish fry arrive in the sea, they need to eat. Of course, they can be fed at a fixed point, but they also need to hide to avoid being eaten by big fish. Therefore, when the fish fry are released, the ecological environment must already be in place.

Water plants are the most basic of all food chains and need to be released first. After the water plants grow for about a month, you should start releasing shrimp fry, crab fry, shellfish fry, etc. After these fry grow for another month, you can start releasing fish fry. However, because the sea water in March is still very cold, when releasing fish fry, you need to release larger individuals. Too small larvae will not work. These are all details Jiang Hai was not very clear about before. He had to admit that you can learn as you grow older.

While Jiang Hai was thinking about what to raise, the car slowly drove into the port in downtown Boston, where Jiang Hai had been before, but this time it was heading in a different direction.

From a distance, Jiang Hai saw a large area of mesh boxes, which was the wholesale site for fish fry in Boston.