Fishing for a Living: I Filled the Boat with Tuna and Took My Sister Along

New book now available: Shore Foraging: Starting with a Spotted Spiny Lobster. Please add it to your reading list! (Shore foraging + Fishing + Mainly sea fishing, with freshwater fishing on the side + System + X-ray vision) From the start, Yao Shaojie fell into the sea and was on the verge of drowning as he sank toward the ocean floor. Just as he was about to give up, he activated the Shore Foraging and Fishing System. He then obtained a Sea King Pearl, which let him roam the underwater world at depths of over ten thousand meters... While testing his X-ray vision, Yao Shaojie spotted a large yellow croaker weighing twenty jin. His eyes lit up, and then he was overjoyed: he sold it for hundreds of thousands of yuan. His girlfriend broke up with him while preparing for graduate school. After graduating and working for two years, he returned to his hometown and began life as a fisherman. With the System, the Sea King Pearl, and an innate affinity that attracted sea fish, he started filling his creel, bucket, and hold to bursting every day. His X-ray vision also made shore foraging a sure thing. Razor clams, sea intestines, mud eels, mantis shrimp, and sandworms all ended up in his pockets, laying the foundation for the fishing fleet he would build later. Whether he went offshore or fished from a platform, it took only minutes to fill his bucket, creel, and hold. He caught so many fish there was nothing left to catch, and the anglers hated him for it. Crucian carp, common carp, freshwater fish, black carp, silver carp, and bighead carp: the four major Chinese freshwater species were all regulars in his fish basket. Yao Shaojie paid no mind to the fishless anglers, green with envy and resentment... Out in the open sea and international waters, he never came back empty-handed. All kinds of spotted coral grouper, strawberry grouper, and tuna swam right into his arms... The Sea King Pearl helped him build an affinity with animals and sea fish, and they all came looking for Yao Shaojie. “Don’t come any closer! There are too many of you, and you’re huge!”