Chen Yuan woke up Yang Xun and others: "It's time to work."
"Found a fish?"
"Find a school of fish." Chen Yuan said as he went out of the cabin and boarded the Lixia.
The Lixia has a horizontal fish finder.
Lin Xinmin looked at the fish detector screen. The signals were too dense and he couldn't tell whether there were any big fish.
"This school of fish is not small." Lin Xinmin said with a smile.
"My opinion is to catch two-thirds of the fish and leave some," Chen Yuan said.
"Are you sure you can track these fish?" Lin Xinmin's eyes lit up.
"I'm sure," Chen Yuandao said.
The Shengyuan has remote sensing fish detectors.
Installing a remote sensing fish finder on the bow of a boat can detect fish schools three to five kilometers away.
This sea area belongs to the Zhongsha Islands. Sardines usually do not migrate long distances, so they must be within the general range of the Zhongsha Islands.
Leave a portion of the sardines to lure the big fish to appear.
Lin Xinmin nodded: "Can you direct the release of the net?"
"no problem."
Chen Yuan took the walkie-talkie, waited until the Lixia and Shengyuan arrived at the appropriate position, and then began to command the Kuo Gang and Run Gang to be put down.
The running legs and running legs are fixed at both ends of the stern of the fishing boat.
"It's already in place, you can put the fishing nets out." Chen Yuan said through the intercom.
"Received, start the fishing boat." Lin Xinmin said.
The fishing boat started to pull out the fishing net.
This is an old-fashioned seine boat, which requires auxiliary vessels to complete the seine.
"Zhou Sheng." Chen Yuan shouted: "Turn on the fishing boat to its maximum power."
"It's already the biggest."
Chen Yuan hurried over and checked the network port: "The speed of the Lixia is too fast, please slow down."
"Section 13?"
"Slower."
"It's 11th period."
"Okay." Chen Yuan called Zhou Sheng again, and he started the fishing boat to move closer to the inner edge of the seine net.
The Lixia has more than a thousand horsepower and is very heavy.
The Shengyuan can actually be used as an auxiliary ship.
The seine net was closed smoothly, but Chen Yuan went over and found a loose line, fixing it to the bow of the fishing boat.
Other staff members pulled the gauze over, tied it to the gauze machine carried by the Lixia, and began to close the bottom ring of the seine.
The net collection was very smooth this time, and about three-fifths of the sardines were caught. It’s not that we don’t want to catch more, but the sardines are too big and scattered.
This is really the effect Chen Yuan and the others want to achieve.
After the seine work was completed, Chen Yuan put the intercom back into the cab: "I'm going back to the fishing boat."
"Notify me if you find anything." Lin Xinmin said with a smile. As the net circle shrank, fish could already be seen on the sea.
Although they are all small sardines, the number is considerable.
Sardines reproduce quickly and have high yields, so they are very cheap.
But it also depends on the species.
Sardines have naked bodies, flowered bodies, big eyes, small eyes, and red scales. They are expensive, and the wholesale price from fishing boats is more than ten yuan per catty.
It's cheap, and a lot of it is used as fish feed. It costs more than one yuan per kilogram.
The price of sardines here in Zhongsha is not expensive, and the price of sending them back to the dock is less than five yuan at most.
However, with such a large net, there must be other fish hidden inside the sardines. It is easy to hide bonito, tuna, squid, sea wolf, etc. in large sardine schools.
The fence is completed, and the rest is Lin Xinmin's job.
Chen Yuan returned to the fishing boat and drove around to observe, waiting for the scattered sardines to gather together again, and then followed them from a distance.
This school of sardines is huge, weighing dozens of tons.
The net we just surrounded is estimated to be more than twenty tons.
The size of the newly gathered sardines is far smaller than before.
It's already dark, and the Lixia is still collecting fish.
"Is there any tuna?" Chen Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.
"Yes." Lin Xinhai said with a smile: "Three big-eye tuna, and two dogtooth tuna. There are also many other fish."
“How long will it take to harvest the fish?”
"Is there a school of fish coming?"
"I haven't found any yet, so I'm just asking." Chen Yuan said, "The sardines have dispersed. Let's see if they can gather together tomorrow."
"Okay. You guys go to bed early, we'll be busy here until late."
Zhou Sheng stopped the boat and received a satellite phone call from Lin Xinhai: "Hello, Master."
"You are open."
"A school of sardines." Zhou Sheng said, "Has the Xinhai's boom been installed?"
"Not yet, I'm working overtime. I think I can install it tomorrow afternoon and set off in the evening. What's wrong, I'm very unhappy from your tone."
“I finally found a big fish school, but I didn’t expect it to be sardines.”
"It would be good to catch sardines. I heard from my elder brother that your net is estimated to be thirty tons, and there are some valuables in it."
"Do you want to have a word with Chen Yuan?"
"Give him the phone number."
Chen Yuan took the phone: "Hello, Master."
"My eldest brother means that today's fish catch will be sold directly to the freezing ship. If it is frozen at ultra-low temperature and sent back, it will take a long time and it will not be cost-effective."
"Okay, let's just sell it." Chen Yuandao said: "If you sell it at sea, can you get one yuan per catty?"
"almost."
"Sell it."
Yang Xun and the others started cooking.
After dinner was ready, Chen Yuan took out a few bottles of cold beer and ate and drank on the back deck of the fishing boat while watching the stars in the sky.
The night sky over the sea is bright with stars.
the next day.
Early in the morning, Lin Xinmin contacted Chen Yuan: "The price has been negotiated, 2,700 yuan per ton."
"good."
"The price offered by the offshore refrigeration ship is too low. If we go back, we can double the price."
However, for about 30 tons of sardines, the price returned to Hong Kong, Lin Xinhai said, can be as high as 5,500 yuan.
"It's such a hassle to go back and forth."
"Sell it then?"
"Sell it."
After breakfast, Chen Yuan and the others found the sardines gathered together again.
The freezer ship that harvested the fish also came over, and Lin Xinmin was busy selling fish, selling a total of 126,000 yuan. In addition to sardines, there were also some valuable fish caught in it.
I kept watch until evening, but the sardine shoal did not attract any large fish.
"Should we catch all the remaining sardines?" Lin Xinmin asked. There are quite a lot of sardines left, estimated at more than ten tons.
"Forget it. These sardines are not valuable, so they are left for the big fish to use as food." Chen Yuandao said: "Master's fishing boat has set off. Let's rest one night and head out tomorrow morning. Are all the fish sold out?"
"I kept some for myself. I left two yellowfin tuna. They are not big. The price given was too low and I am not willing to sell them. Come and get a piece of fish."
"We'll be there right away." Chen Yuan took back the drone that was flying more than twenty meters close to Haimi.
Zhou Sheng turned his head and said, "I later saw that sardines were no longer being fished. It was a waste of time."
"You're so lost." Chen Yuan looked over.
"It's not enough. Such a big network only costs more than 120,000 yuan."
For most fishing boats, a catch of more than 100,000 yuan per net is pretty good.
The Lixia has just gone out to sea. If we follow the normal procedures, we should return to Hong Kong after this net and wait until the fish are sold.
Not only Zhou Sheng was in trouble, but Lin Xinmin was also in trouble, just thinking about getting a net of valuable fish. They were no longer interested in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Chapter 142 is finally out after many iterations...