Chen Yuan contacted Lin Xinhai alone: "Master, let's go over and help."
"I'll go there with you." Lin Xinhai then explained some things to Lin Xinmin, and continued to turn on the fish luring lights at night. If there are any large schools of fish coming, then release the net.
If there are no large schools of fish, just keep waiting.
Chen Yuan went over to pick up Lin Xinhai, waited until the Lixia captain put down the two assault boats, and headed to Luo Laosi's side together.
Luo Laosi's seine net had already been put down. When he saw Chen Yuan and the others coming over, he said on the intercom: "Will you start the net tomorrow morning?"
"We need to go down and check if there are any gaps." Chen Yuan said: "First straighten the fence and pull it out, and then seal both ends of the fence."
Luo Laosi had seen their bottom-sinking seine operation before and guided the process.
"It's night now, you should pay special attention to safety when you go down." Lin Xinhai warned.
"Don't worry."
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng had already put on their equipment, with diving lights on their heads and cameras: "Try connecting to Bluetooth." Chen Yuan turned on the camera and looked at Lin Xinhai.
Lin Xinhai connected the camera: "There is a picture."
"We're in the water."
"Okay. You all need to act together."
Zhou Sheng made an OK gesture.
Chen Yuan and the others had just entered the water when Luo Laosi came over in an assault boat: "Chen Yuan and the others have gone down?"
Lin Xinhai said "hmm" and showed his phone to Luo Laosi: "Go to your boat." After saying that, Lin Xinhai looked at He Fei and the others: "You guys, please pay attention to your safety."
"good."
"Know."
Lin Xinhai went to Luolao No. 4, a relatively new seine fishing boat with a length of nearly forty meters.
"What to do now?" Luo Laosi looked at Lin Xinhai's mobile phone screen. Chen Yuan and the others had dived to the bottom of the sea and were checking along the edge of the seine.
Lin Xinhai said: "Check the fence first to see..."
In the picture, one of the net's sinkers landed on the big rock, and there were two large gaps at the bottom of the net.
Chen Yuan and the others did not move the seine. The current seine has sunk to the bottom in a large circle and they need to straighten it first.
Waiting for Chen Yuan and others to surface, Lin Xinhai commanded the assault boat and sampan to come over and straighten the seine net.
This is a seine net with a depth of 130 meters. It is relatively light. Use an assault boat to straighten the seine net. If it doesn't work, tie it to Laosi's fishing boat with a hook rope and straighten the seine net.
The first thing to be straightened was the rock gap. After the seine was straightened, Chen Yuan and the others quickly went down and dragged the seine's sinker to the seabed.
The next step is to straighten the two ends of the seine net, and then Chen Yuan and the others use straps to close the two ends of the seine net. After completing this, the most critical step is completed. As long as there are no big mistakes later, the fish will not escape.
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Luo Laosi watched Chen Yuan and the others working under the dark sea. Sometimes the light beam would hit the fish...
The darkness, the light beams on the bottom of the sea, and the big fish often give people a chilling feeling.
After both sides of the seine were closed, they continued to straighten the seine. After everything was straightened, Chen Yuan and the others continued to dive down to check the bottom of the net, and then closed the bottom of the net.
Check the bottom of the net and close the outline.
This process was very slow, and Chen Yuan and the others stayed underwater for thirty or forty minutes.
There are many corals underwater, so manpower is needed to pull the net's sinkers, otherwise it will hang on the bottom.
If you forcibly withdraw the outline, you may be able to recover it, or you may not be able to recover it at all. And even if you recover it, you don't know how many fish will be lost.
Chen Yuan and the others dived seven or eight times over and over again. The seabed in this sea area was too complicated, and the entire net collection process required Chen Yuan's cooperation.
From after nine o'clock until the sky turned white, that is, after four o'clock in the morning, the outline of the fence was closed this time.
Chen Yuan and the others emerged from the water and boarded the fishing boat.
The fishing boat followed and left the seine. Lin Xinhai breathed a sigh of relief: "The next step is up to you."
"Okay." Luo Laosi took a long breath and looked at Chen Yuan and the others: "This job is really not easy."
"Ordinary people can't do it."
Luo Laosi nodded: "I'd better do less work on the bottoms from now on. This is really not something ordinary people can do."
Lin Xinhai shrugged: "The bottom round is out of necessity, there are too few fish here. After this bottom round, we will still look for upper-layer fish... I will go to Chen Yuan and the others to have a look."
"Okay. Leave the rest of the work to me, don't worry."
Lin Xinhai contacted He Fei and asked him to come and pick him up.
After getting on the fishing boat, Lin Xinhai looked at Yang Xun: "Where are Chen Yuan and the others?"
"I went to the cabin to take a shower." Yang Xun said.
On Luo Laosi's side, Luo Laosi and the others could finish the rest of the work themselves, so they called the other two kayaks to return to the Xinhai.
"Master." Chen Yuan came out of the shower and saw Lin Xinhai sitting in the cabin.
"How do you feel? Do you feel any physical discomfort?"
"No." Chen Yuan shrugged: "Ask Zhou Sheng, I don't know about him."
Zhou Sheng also took a shower and came out.
"Are you feeling unwell?"
Barotrauma can easily occur with repeated diving.
Zhou Sheng also shrugged his shoulders: "The water here is shallow, so I don't feel any discomfort."
"The next chapter is out." Luo Laosi's voice came from Lin Xinhai's walkie-talkie: "Are Chen Yuan and the others okay?"
"It's okay. We're going back, and we'll meet up after we catch the fish."
"OK."
Chen Yuan and the others sat and smoked a cigarette. After returning to the Xinhai, they stopped the ship and cooked noodles.
The water depth of more than 70 meters was not a burden for Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng, but they were a little sleepy since they had not rested for too long.
It was a full day yesterday, and now...it's almost dawn.
Lin Xinhai sent a new person on duty to let Chen Yuan and the others rest.
"After the Xinhai launches the net, can we go back?" Yang Xun asked.
"It's probably still early." Zhou Sheng said with a smile, "Why, I'm homesick."
"I feel a little uncomfortable after staying on this fishing boat for a long time."
He Fei also said: "Me too."
"Do you want someone else to come over?" Chen Yuan asked.
"That's not necessary. If you really can't stand it anymore, let's do it."
The cabin of the Shengyuan is small, and the slightest wave will shake violently. However, Yang Xun, He Fei and the others are used to it now, but they feel a little depressed.
This is similar to the feeling of being locked up in a small dark room.
Luo Laosi didn't catch much fish there.
Based on observations from fishing boats, it can be estimated that it is over a dozen tons or just over twenty tons.
This fish catch seems to be relatively average in the eyes of Chen Yuan and others. Luo Laosi is about to prepare the fish catch...
When the first net of fish was caught, Luo Laosi became excited. There were some valuable fish in it.
The first net was more than a thousand kilograms of fish, including a few tuna, then snapper, spiny snapper, a lot of grouper, and some coral fish.
We built a fish aggregator and spread a layer of Antarctic shrimp on the bottom of the sea, which can attract fish schools covering several square kilometers. It would be strange if the harvest of this net was less.
The catch of more than ten or twenty tons of fish is really not much for Chen Yuan and others.
In the past, we used to seine nets off the coast of Chile, and we often caught dozens of tons of fish in one net. Not to mention catching hundreds of tons of fish, we often encountered them...on average, we would catch them once a month.
The fish caught in the bottom seine net will be more.
I'm used to seeing this, so I really don't have much feeling for catching more than ten or twenty tons of fish in one net.
But the difference is that in the past, Chen Yuan and the others were fishing for the company, earning dead wages and receiving very little dividends.
Now when fishing, Chen Yuan and the others share the dividends proportionally. One net is more than ten tons, and as long as there are many valuable fish, the money given to Chen Yuan and the others is still very considerable.