The fishing boat had been running for more than ten minutes, and Zhou Sheng still didn't see any birds, but he looked at Chen Yuan, who looked excited, full of doubts.
"Did you drink too much? Your eyesight is blurry. There are no birds."
"You drive, I'll do the remote sensing in front." Chen Yuandao.
If you follow the flock of birds, you will most likely find fish.
Chen Yuan took off the sensor from the drone, fixed it on the bow of the ship, and then turned on the device.
The sensor works normally and feeds back the received marine life signals to the display screen. The signal collected by the sensor is not strong, indicating that there are not too many fish gathering.
Continuing to chase, after twenty minutes, Zhou Sheng finally saw the black dot in the sky, and became excited: "There are birds."
"I've seen it before."
"Gan." Zhou Sheng said with a smile: "How can your eyes see so far?"
Chen Yuan shrugged: "I am born with good eyesight, otherwise I would not be able to use my observation hand."
Zhou Sheng rolled his eyes and said, "Honestly, what other powers do you have?"
"I don't have any special powers, I just have good eyesight."
"Your eyesight is much better than mine."
"Don't say this, keep an eye on your bird."
Zhou Sheng chuckled: "Ma Dan, after being out for more than half a month, I finally see hope."
The birds are getting closer and closer.
Then he followed the flock of birds not too far away. After more than three hours, the sensor received more and more biological information.
After running for a while, the remote sensing signals began to become denser, but the birds did not stop.
Zhou Sheng turned on the fish finder on the fishing boat: "More than a hundred meters underwater, are there squids?" Zhou Sheng looked at Chen Yuan with some uncertainty.
The fish detector screen shows dots one by one, which are very dense.
"It's a squid school, and it's a very big squid school." Chen Yuan said excitedly.
"What should we do now?" Zhou Sheng pointed at the flock of birds going away and asked.
Chen Yuan pointed to the sea map: "If you chase a hammer, if you continue to chase me, you will leave the country."
Zhou Sheng chuckled: "Why not a school of tuna?"
"Just be satisfied." Chen Yuan looked at the chart and contacted Lin Xinhai: "We found a squid group, come here quickly."
"How big is it?"
"One net can produce several tons, or even more than ten tons." Chen Yuan said.
"We've been firing on all cylinders."
"Hurry up..."
"Hahaha...good."
Lin Xinhai looked at the coordinates sent by Chen Yuan and became even more excited.
It's already dark.
Chen Yuan's fishing boat turned on the fish luring light, and the Lixia came over first. This auxiliary boat has more horsepower and can run twenty knots at full speed.
The Lixia stopped next to Chen Yuan's fishing boat and turned on the fish luring lights.
The red one illuminates the fishing boat in red.
Lin Xinhai's fishing boat ran slowly, and it was already past nine o'clock when he came over. His fishing boat had a radar fish detector, and when he saw a large number of squid gathering, he excitedly held a mobilization meeting.
"Chen Yuan."
"receive……"
"I'll send you some Antarctic shrimps. You know how to use them."
"Know."
Lin Xinhai lowered the kayak, filled it with Antarctic shrimp, and sent it to Chen Yuan's boat.
"The Lixia turns off the lights at eleven o'clock and starts preparations for operations." Lin Xinhai said on the intercom.
"Okay." Chen Yuan replied.
At eleven o'clock tonight, the sea water is at its lowest, which is the dry tide.
Yang Xun and He Fei came over. They threw bags of Antarctic shrimps to Chen Yuan and the others, and then returned to the fishing boat.
On the Xinhai, Lin Xinhai was arranging work.
The lights on the Lixia were the brightest, and squid began to gather in large numbers.
If the net goes down, it will be at least a dozen tons, maybe even more than twenty tons.
It was almost eleven o'clock, and Lixia began to turn off some lights.
Time passed slowly, the tide turned dry, the sea surface became calm, and the water stopped flowing.
The Lixia turned off some lights again, and Chen Yuan began to throw Antarctic shrimp into the sea.
Antarctic shrimp used to gather fish are mostly shrimp heads and shells.
"Have you thrown the bait yet?" Lin Xinhai asked.
"Throw it away again." Zhou Sheng said while holding the walkie-talkie.
After a while, Lin Xinhai said again: "A school of fish is coming. Can you see what kind of fish it is?"
"Wait a minute." Chen Yuan looked at the fish detector screen: "The length of the fish school is about 1 meter, it should be tuna. It feels like there are not many."
"The Lixia will turn off the lights in advance." Lin Xinhai said: "We are preparing to launch the net here."
"OK."
The Lixia turned off all lights, and after more than ten minutes, it started its engine and slowly left the area.
"The yellowfin tuna is out of the water. It looks like a school of fish weighing forty or fifty pounds." Chen Yuan threw the Antarctic shrimp and saw a few tuna coming to grab food. He said: "The number of tuna is not bad, there should be more than a hundred.
"
Lin Xinhai waved his arms excitedly: "Okay, we are ready to release the net."
"Slow down when releasing the net," Chen Yuan said.
"Know."
On the fish finder screen, there are dozens of tuna, so there should be more than a hundred fish in the whole school.
The Xinhai and Lixia are already in position.
It was dark on the side of the fishing boat, and Chen Yuan could not see clearly from the other side, but judging from the distance and position of the two boats, he should be preparing to release the net.
Time passed minute by minute, and it took more than ten minutes before Chen Yuan saw the Lixia running.
Zhou Sheng complained when he saw this: "At this speed, even eating shit can't keep up with the heat."
"If I had money, it would be great to build a modern seine boat."
It's a dry tide now, so we mainly fish for squid. We fish for tuna incidentally, so the speed of setting the net is very slow.
A 1,700-meter net can enclose a circle with a diameter of 540 meters. However, a fence cannot exactly form a standard circle...
"Did the tuna escape?"
"No." Chen Yuan said.
"Did you estimate the number of fish wrong? Is it just over a hundred?"
"A small school of tuna." Chen Yuandao said: "It looks like there are more than a hundred or two hundred."
Lin Xinhai's tuna seine net has a very small mesh and can capture tuna as well as other fish.
The custom-made net was originally planned. If tuna cannot be found, it will be surrounded by other fish. Naturally, slightly larger squid can also be trapped.
It took more than half an hour to set up the 1,700-meter seine net. All the Antarctic shrimp on Chen Yuan's boat were also lost.
Originally, I could just throw in some Antarctic shrimps, but when the tuna comes, I have to keep these tuna.
"The seine is completed and is being closed. Come out of the seine and look around to see if there are any tuna that have escaped, and then observe how many squid there are." Lin Xinhai assigned the task.
"We will go out after the gang is closed."
"Alright."
The outline is almost closed, and the bottom of the fence has been tightened.
The lights of the two fishing boats were bright. Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, started the fishing boat and left the seine circle, and then drove the fish finder to swim around the seine net.
Lin Xinhai started to close the net. After several rounds, no fish was found that slipped through the net, so Chen Yuan and the others went elsewhere.
There are still a lot of squid in this large area.
"There are still more squids," Chen Yuan said through the intercom.
"There's nothing we can do tonight." Lin Xinhai said.
"What's wrong?"
"The hydraulic machine is leaking oil."
"Which hydraulic press."
"The hydraulic boom fell off the bottom cylinder." Lin Xinhai sounded a little annoyed.
Zhou Sheng became depressed, and he also became angry. This was too extreme.
It has been half a month since I went to sea. This is the first net launched, and there is a problem with the first net.
It was not easy to find a big fish school. I don’t know how long it will take to find a big fish school next time.
"Is there any problem with the net pulling machine?"