To be honest, not only Zhou Sheng, but also Lin Xinmin and others have become arrogant and inflated, and Chen Yuan now doesn't like this small amount of money.
After all, the last time I came out, I caught more than 10 million yuan in fish.
If Chen Yuan hadn't been inflated, he wouldn't have bought a fishing boat worth more than 10 million.
I drove my fishing boat to the Lixia and took a piece of tuna belly, cut it into small pieces, marinated it and used it to mix with rice.
The meat quality of small tuna is average, but the fat in the belly meat is quite plump, and it has a clear oil aroma when used with rice.
The sun has set.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng climbed onto the fishing boat, took out diesel from the reserve oil tank of the Lixia, and filled up the Shengyuan.
Early the next morning.
Chen Yuan came to the Lixia again to plan the route for the next few days.
If you want to find big schools of fish, you need to avoid major ocean current convergence areas.
In areas where ocean currents converge, there are many fish and fishing boats, and there are often teams of trawlers. In those places, competition is too fierce.
Today there are still blue skies and white clouds, and the sea is rippling.
The Shengyuan dragged a long trajectory in the calm sea.
Yang Xun, He Fei and the others went back to the cabin to sleep. Chen Yuan climbed onto the roof of the boat, holding a bottle of ice-cold beer.
The Shengyuan had already left the waters of the archipelago, and Chen Yuan sat on the top of the ship to observe whether there were any floating fish on the sea surface.
"Have you finished your beer?" Zhou Sheng shouted from below.
"Not yet." Chen Yuan looked down.
"Have you found anything?"
"Saw a few birds."
"Do you want to chase?"
"Forget it." Chen Yuan looked at the cloudless sky: "The Xinhai hasn't arrived yet, so it doesn't make much sense to go out and chase birds now."
As he was talking, Chen Yuan saw water splashing in the distance and quickly climbed out of the boat: "There is water splashing in the distance, go and take a look."
"You sail the boat."
Chen Yuan sat in the driver's seat and pushed the accelerator lever to the top.
Zhou Sheng took the remote sensing fish detector and placed it in front of Chen Yuan.
The monitor showed red, and there were probably a dozen of them.
"How many images are there in this scene?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"More than a dozen."
"How big is it?"
"The remote sensing fish detector can't tell how big it is." Chen Yuandao said: "If you need a fish detector from a fishing boat, just go over and take a look and you will know."
The fishing boat turned on its full power and caught up with the fish.
It was far away just now and he couldn't see any fish clearly. Through the fishing boat screen, Chen Yuan determined that it was a school of tuna, a dozen or so.
The body length is about 1 meter, which is 40 to 50 pounds of tuna.
"Anything discovered?" Lin Xinhai used a telescope to see Chen Yuan's fishing boat suddenly speeding up, and contacted them by radio.
"More than a dozen tuna, not big in size," Chen Yuan said.
"Does that mean there's no need to go offline?"
"No need, keep going."
The common tuna here in the South China Sea is about this size. And the size of the fish schools is not large. Small groups of tuna only have single digits, and larger groups have dozens or hundreds of tuna.
There are a dozen small tuna, so there is no need to put them in the net.
Besides, the seine net carried by the Lixia makes it difficult to catch tuna.
Zhou Sheng went into the sleeping cabin to look for a fishing rod and woke up He Fei: "Did you find a fish?"
"There is a small school of tuna. I will come in to get my fishing rod and catch a few."
He Fei got up immediately after hearing this: "I'll try it too."
The two took the electric fishing rod, hung it on a large iron plate and threw it out.
In the open sea, fishing is easy as long as you find fish. After teasing for a few times, the tuna bit the hook.
He Fei pulled the fishing rod hard, and after catching the fish, he pressed the line back.
Chen Yuan took the hook and directly pulled up the tuna. The tuna was estimated to weigh more than forty pounds. Then he bled it and took a piece of belly meat as sashimi.
Generally speaking, tuna needs to be acidified.
But the tuna caught with the electric wheel is pulled up without much struggle. There is not much acid accumulation in the tuna meat, and the tuna is the most delicious at this time.
The pot belly meat melts in your mouth and has a faint aroma. This aroma is like the aroma of some kind of fruit, which is difficult to describe.
After a while, Zhou Sheng and He Fei caught five tuna.
The Lixia came over, and Chen Yuan sent the tuna to the Lixia: "The freshly caught tuna is the most delicious."
Lin Xinmin smiled and put the tuna up: "The situation is going to change. We must dare to go to Nansha as soon as possible."
"Typhoon?" Chen Yuan asked.
Lin Xinmin nodded: "I just received a sea warning, and a low pressure is forming. But it's still early."
The weather changes in the alternating seasons of cold and warm. A few days of good weather is already a good experience.
Chen Yuan and the others also received a sea warning, but they didn't see it outside just now.
"Hello, Master." Chen Yuan contacted Lin Xinhai.
"receive."
"There is a typhoon, have you received any warning?"
"Got it. It's still early for the typhoon."
"Where have you been?"
"It's almost time to reach Sansha. Where are you?"
"Near the Zhongnan Shoal, we are about to reach Nansha." Chen Yuandao said.
"Meet at Meiqi Reef and start fishing after the typhoon passes."
"OK."
Chen Yuan and the others arrived at Meiqi Reef early the next morning.
Because of the typhoon, dozens of ships of various types gathered at Meiqi Reef, and ships continued to come over time.
Luo Laosi's fishing boat, as well as the fishing boats that came from Zhapo, are all here now, forming a row.
The Lixia also stopped, waited until the fishing boat was fixed, then lowered the rope and hoisted the Shengyuan fishing boat onto the boat.
The Shengyuan only weighs seven or eight tons. The Lixia's two booms can easily lift the Shengyuan onto the fishing boat.
The time waiting for the typhoon was a bit boring, so Yang Xun and others took fishing rods and fished on the boat.
For anglers, there is nothing more fun than fishing.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng were in the captain's cabin, studying the nautical chart of Nansha and the seabed topography map.
It was sunny this morning, but now after three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky has become gloomy, and heavy dark clouds are shrouding the southwest.
"Are you guys coming soon?" Lin Xinmin contacted Lin Xinhai.
"Almost there."
"How much longer?"
"An hour and a half."
The dark clouds are getting closer.
Chen Yuan looked at Meiqi Reef, which is an artificial island created by reclamation on an oval coral atoll.
It is really good for the motherland to be strong. With this artificial island, the fishing boats fishing in Nansha have a place to belong.
After six o'clock in the afternoon, more and more fishing boats and cargo ships entered Meiqi Reef. Lin Xinhai's fishing boat also came over and parked next to the Lixia.
Chen Yuan looked at the warships on the shore, feeling full of security.
"How's the harvest?" Luo Laosi's voice appeared behind him.
"We just came here." Lin Xinmin said.
"No catch in the net?"
"I found a school of sardines on the way here, and I caught a net worth more than 100,000 yuan." Lin Xinmin said with a smile, "I earned some gas money back."
"More than a hundred thousand, your boat really wastes gas." Luo Laosi laughed, took out a cigarette and handed one to Chen Yuan and the others.