People earn millions from catching catfish in floodwaters

(Baonghean.vn)- The flood on the afternoon of July 21st in Ky Son district caused the floodwaters to carry a lot of mud and dirt, forcing the catfish to come up to the surface to breathe. As a result, people were lucky to catch dozens of kilograms of fish.

At 5:30 p.m. on July 21, while collecting firewood on the Nam Mo River, near the village, Mr. La Van May, Canh village, Ta Ca commune, was lucky to catch more than 10kg.

Mr. May said that he caught these fish mainly right at the edge of the water near the shore. According to the living habits of catfish, this is a type of fish that lives on the bottom where the water flows gently, the fish likes to live clean. Therefore, because the flood water carries a lot of mud, making this species of fish lack oxygen, they have to crawl to the shore or rise above the water surface to breathe.

Mr. La Van May with his "trophy" of 2 strings of catfish equivalent to 10kg. Photo: Lu Phu

Not only Mr. La Van May, in the afternoon of the same day after the flood had subsided, Mr. Lo Van Vuong, Ba village, Huu Kiem commune was also quite lucky to catch a lot of fish, including more than 20kg of catfish, a type of fish with a quite high price, with each kg costing from 200 to 220 thousand VND.

Lu Phu