Luo Laosi took a few bites and inhaled hard when it was too spicy: "How much chili pepper did you put in?"
"Not much, just a handful." Zhou Sheng said with a smile.
"A handful?" Luo Laosi was a little confused: "Your chili pepper measurement unit is 'a handful'."
Zhou Sheng shrugged, picked up a tiger shrimp and broke open the shell: "This is just to take care of your taste, I didn't add Chaotian pepper."
"Eating spicy food at sea is very beneficial." Lin Xinhai said: "After eating spicy food, I sweat all over and feel comfortable all over."
Chen Yuan opened a few more bottles of beer: "Here, let's take one."
"No cold beer?"
"No more. The freezer on the ship is not big and can only hold a few bottles of beer."
Luo Laosi took the beer and took a big sip: "This hot pot is so flavorful, spicy and spicy, especially the numbness. It's really enjoyable."
Cantonese people are delicious, and different people have different tastes.
Luo Laosi also likes to eat spicy food, but today's hot pot is particularly delicious. It is used to cook seafood, which is a bit of a waste of seafood, especially tiger prawns. The sweetness of the tiger prawns itself cannot be tasted when the tiger prawns are cooked in a hot pot.
Tasty.
However, this bean sprouts hot pot is really enjoyable.
Luo Laosi brought a big bag of bean sprouts and finished them in a short time.
…
the next day.
At dawn, Chen Yuan and the others got up and cooked noodles. After having breakfast, they rested for a while and then drove the fishing boat out to look for fish.
Arriving near the reef, Chen Yuan released the drone and saw dense biological signals.
"Is there a school of fish?" Zhou Sheng came over and looked at it.
Chen Yuan controlled the drone to continuously rise. The higher the altitude, the more biological signals it received.
Then lower the height and inspect around.
"It's not a school of fish." Chen Yuan pointed to the remote sensing image: "Look, there are mostly bottom fish here."
There are many bottom fish in this sea area, so there are not many fishing boats nearby.
“If you gather fish together, how many can be caught in one net?”
"Not sure, let's take another look."
There is a large group of islands and reefs here, as well as two shoals, and the three areas form a vertical triangle.
There is a trench between the island group and the sand, and the deepest point reaches more than 900 meters.
The area of the islands and reefs is about 200 square kilometers, and there are several small islands and reefs that are exposed out of the water.
Due to the geographical location, the sea water near Changli Reef is very gentle.
If the sea level is slow and the mobility is not strong, there will not be many nutrients in the upper layer of the sea water and there will be fewer fish in the upper layer.
There is no intersection of ocean currents here, so there are very few fishing boats coming over. The number of bottom fish is considerable. Combined with the vertical fish detection of fishing boats, although there are many bottom fish, they are relatively scattered. There are also schools of fish, but they are all small.
School of fish.
"There are no fish in this sea area." Luo Laosi said through the intercom.
"There are a lot of fish at the bottom. If these fish can be gathered together, it will be very impressive." Chen Yuan said while holding a walkie-talkie.
"Encircle the bottom?" Lin Xinmin said.
"There are too many fishing boats in the central part of Nansha. It's too difficult to try your luck. It's better to set up two bottom nets."
Luo Laosi is now very familiar with Chen Yuan and the others. Luo Laosi also learned from Lin Xinhai about the dangers of encircling the bottom of deep water, and said with some worry: "If you encircle the bottom, you must pay attention to safety. Do a good job of reconnaissance first, if
Forget it if there is no suitable location, let’s slowly look for small fish schools.”
"We know, let's scout the sea area first."
Throughout the morning, Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng scouted nearby areas, looking for areas with dense fish schools and the seabed suitable for sinking seine nets.
After lunch, we determined a location, and then went to sea for reconnaissance.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng carried diving equipment on board. The sea here is calm and there are no undercurrents on the bottom of the sea.
The water was clear, and Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng dived easily. The seabed was a large flat coral rock with a water depth of about 100 meters.
When they dived to the bottom of the sea, Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng saw several red groupers and a group of brown plum bream.
There were not a lot of fish, but a lot of tiger shrimps were found.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng swam for more than twenty minutes, but didn't see many fish. There were quite a lot of tiger shrimps...
As for the biological signals picked up by remote sensing, they are mostly small coral fish.
After surfacing, He Fei saw them and hurried over to help them.
The two climbed onto the boat, and He Fei asked: "How is it?"
Chen Yuan shook his head: "Not very good."
"You can give it a try." Zhou Sheng said, "There is no good choice in this situation."
I kept looking and all I found were small schools of fish.
Sometimes the value of a net is only tens of thousands of yuan. As time goes by, it becomes harder and harder to find fish. There is a fish luring light on the Lixia. I have tried it several times and I can catch fish, but it is not as good as Chen
It’s easy to find schools of fish from afar.
Chen Yuan took off his diving suit and picked up the intercom: "Master, make a fish collector and put out bait."
"Are there many fish down there?"
"Not much. Let's make the fish collector first and then take a look." Chen Yuandao.
"OK."
As Zhou Sheng said, there is no good choice now.
It's not a question of ability, but of resources.
Just like fishing, if you let the regular fishing masters fish in small rivers without fish, it will also require the air force.
The Xinhai came over and began to place fish collectors with pontoons and oyster shells connected in series, and then dropped cages filled with Antarctic shrimps.
In this sea area, except for the large number of small coral fish, all other fish are very valuable.
Lin Xinhai and the others determined the location for lowering the net. Chen Yuan and the others took a shower and continued to look for a location where they could sink the net. They found the second location before dark, and handed it over to Luo Laosi after a round of reconnaissance.
In the same sea area, the fish species are the same and the fish density is similar.
The water at Luo Laosi's location is shallower, only about 60 meters. He also brought fish aggregators and Antarctic shrimps on his boat.
On Lin Xinhai's side, the Lixia turned on its fish luring lights all night, and a lot of fish gathered there.
After dawn, Zhou Sheng left in his fishing boat, and Chen Yuan launched a drone to observe.
The lights lured over were all worthless miscellaneous fish. Lin Xinmin wanted to lower the net, but Chen Yuan stopped him: "Keep waiting and use these small fish to lure the big fish over."
"Is it possible?" Lin Xinmin felt that the next catch would be very profitable now, so if he continued to wait, the gain would outweigh the loss if the fish dispersed.
"Give it a try," Chen Yuandao said.
"Be patient." Lin Xinmin said.
Chen Yuan went to Luo Laosi. His boat also had fish luring lights, but the power of the fish luring lights was very small, so not many fish gathered near the fishing boat.
The fish aggregator has gathered some, but it has not yet reached the density of the net.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng put on their diving suits and went to the seabed to take a look. Then they poured out the Antarctic shrimps from the cage and spread them on the seabed.
More than two tons of Antarctic shrimp, now we just have to wait.
It was already noon when we returned to Lin Xinhai. Chen Yuan and the others dived again and poured out the Antarctic shrimps in the cage here.
Fish are already gathering on the bottom of the sea, including various snappers, groupers, some strange stone fish, moray eels, etc.
There was a group of Spanish Spanish Mackerel gathered around the fish aggregator, numbering several hundred fish. We also saw more than a dozen large red squid and some sea wolves.
When he was about to get out of the water, Zhou Sheng poked Chen Yuan with his finger. Chen Yuan turned his head and looked over, and saw a group of blue bomb fish swimming over.
The blue bombshell fish has a gray-white mouth and a dark blue body. The color can be said to be very bright. There are dozens of bombfish in this group. The taste of these fish is average, but because they are not common, the price is not bad.
The density of the fish was still a bit low. Back on the fishing boat, the two of them took a bath.
Lin Xinhai came to the fishing boat in an assault boat: "Can you launch the net today?"
"Look again." Chen Yuandao said: "There is a group of big Zhanghongs down there, more than a dozen of them."
"If there's Da Zhang Hong, there should also be tuna." Zhou Sheng added.
The sea areas where big red and bluefin tuna are active are similar.
If it can attract big red sharks, it should also be able to attract tuna.
Don't be anxious about the bottom line, you have to guard the fish school and choose the best opportunity. This opportunity needs to be grasped by the fishermen themselves.
It's evening, after seven o'clock.
More and more fish were gathering on the bottom of the sea, but after scouting the surrounding sea areas, Chen Yuan felt that more fish could still gather, so he was not in a hurry to lower the net.
Lin Xinmin was already anxious.
When the boat is parked on the sea, there are seabirds coming over to take a rest on their fishing boats.
"Tuna is coming to me." Luo Laosi shouted on the radio: "Get ready to lower the net."
There is a sampan boat on Luo Laosi's side to assist in lowering the net.
"How many?"
"About a hundred or so."
"Hurry up and get off the net." Lin Xinhai shouted.
"Can you lower the net now and close it tomorrow morning?"
“We’ll talk about it after we get off the net.”
Lin Xinhai didn't wait for the tuna, but Luo Laosi waited for the tuna. Although there were only more than a hundred fish, tuna was expensive.
In particular, the price of top-quality yellowfin tuna can reach more than 200,000 yuan per ton. The price of ordinary yellowfin tuna is also about 100,000 yuan per ton.