When I woke up, it was past three in the afternoon.
Chen Yuan walked out of the cabin, squinted his eyes, and saw that the Xinhai was putting out fishing nets, so he took the intercom: "Master?"
"receive."
"Is the fish coming?"
"Tuna? Didn't come...but the density of the fish school is very high." Lin Xinhai said: "You and Shengzi woke up."
"There are large schools of fish, and I don't know if they are tuna. There are a lot of fish gathered in the fish aggregator, and there are also a lot of bottom fish. If the net is not released, the bottom fish will run away." Lin Xinhai said.
The Xinhai made a beautiful maneuver and came together with the Lixia.
Next to the Lixia is the Luo Lao No. 4.
Luo Laosi finished the fish catch after ten o'clock in the morning, which he estimated to be more than thirty tons. All the valuable fish were moved to the Lixia and frozen at ultra-low temperatures. The less valuable fish depended on the harvest of Lin Xinhai's net.
many.
If the harvest is good, we will go back. If the harvest is not much, the worthless fish will be sold directly while waiting for the freezing ship to arrive.
Zhou Sheng also got up and saw Chen Yuan inflating the diving cylinder. He looked at the sea again: "The net has been lowered."
"Stretch your body and get ready to dive."
"Okay." Zhou Sheng stretched and began to move.
"Do you feel any discomfort after diving last night?"
Zhou Sheng shook his head and saw Chen Yuan's serious face: "Really not."
Chen Yuan filled up the two cylinders, checked the air pressure, and started to move.
Lin Xinhai came to the fishing boat in an assault boat, helped Chen Yuan and the others check the equipment, then turned on the camera and connected it to his mobile phone: "Pay attention to safety after entering the water. You two cannot be separated in groups."
Zhou Sheng made an 'OK' gesture and started to put on the device.
Chen Yuan also put on the equipment, and Lin Xinhai helped them check it: "Okay."
Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng made a gesture, took the spear gun, and then the two of them entered the water together and dived to the bottom of the sea.
The water here is about a hundred meters deep, and when you reach the bottom of the sea, you can see a huge rock patch held down by a fishing net.
Zhou Sheng took the speargun and stabbed the giant grouper in the head.
This grouper is quite big, weighing seventy or eighty pounds.
Chen Yuan grabbed the harpoon and floated up, quickly emerging from the water.
"Why are you up here?" Lin Xinhai asked when he saw Chen Yuan.
"I speared a grouper below." Chen Yuan swam to the side of the boat and handed the harpoon over.
Lin Xinhai took the harpoon, and He Fei and the others came over to help and quickly got the grouper up.
"Okay, you'll get something if you go into the sea." Yang Xun took off the harpoon and handed it to Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan dived again and found Zhou Sheng. The two swam around the bottom circle of the seine. After resurfacing, they said: "Straighten both ends of the seine."
Lin Xinhai held the walkie-talkie: "Straighten both ends of the fence."
There was a fishing boat at each end of the seine, which quickly straightened the net and then relaxed it a little.
Chen Yuan took the straps and dived into the sea with Zhou Sheng again. From bottom to top, they tied the two ends of the seine with straps.
The two of them have become proficient in cooperating. When a tank of gas is about to be used up, they are all tied up and floated up to inflate the tank...
Then we have to start straightening the fence.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng guided the net underwater for an hour and a half before straightening it, and then began to shrink the bottom of the net.
Time passed slowly, and I don’t know how many times I dived. It was already dark.
In today's net, the coral reefs on the seabed were complex, so it was particularly difficult to close the net.
There were a lot of fish in the seine, a conservative estimate of 40 tons, and a lot of valuable fish were caught.
I inflated the cylinder again, went to the bottom of the sea, and pulled the fishing net.
When the bottom of the net was put away, Chen Yuan got on the boat and pulled Zhou Sheng.
Zhou Sheng took off his equipment and lay down on the ground: "I'm so tired."
Chen Yuan took off his equipment and went to the Lixia to take a shower and eat something.
It's past ten o'clock in the evening.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng haven't had lunch or dinner yet.
Hungry means hunger that you can’t feel. Being underwater can be considered a high-intensity physical activity. If you don’t feel hungry, it means that your body’s strength has been severely drained.
Seafood boiled noodles, including shrimp, crab, and fish.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng were sitting on low stools, eating big meals. Lin Xinhai was directing the netting outside...
Luo Laosi and Lin Xinmin walked in.
"The harvest from these two nets is good. We think we can go back first and sell the fish before taking them out." Lin Xinmin looked at Chen Yuan: "What do you think?"
"Okay." Chen Yuandao said: "We will leave early for Xisha in the evening and see if there are any fish in Xisha."
There are fishing boats everywhere in Nansha, and they have been there for a long time, but they have not found any big fish.
"You don't want to rest all night?" Luo Laosi said.
"He Fei and the others set sail."
"He Fei and the others didn't rest during the day either..."
"Then... rest for the night and set off tomorrow morning." Zhou Sheng looked at Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan nodded.
After dinner, Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng went to the Lixia and looked at the fish in the freezer compartment.
Baskets of valuable fish were piled neatly, and the No. 1 freezer compartment was already full.
No. 1 cabin is 20 cubic meters, and it is estimated that there are about 16 tons of fish caught.
No. 2 cabin is 25 cubic meters, and the fish caught in it is estimated to be four to five tons.
There are more than a hundred tuna on board the Xinhai, and there are more than 20 tons of less valuable fish on Luo Laosi's boat.
After dinner, the Lixia started collecting fishing nets.
Chen Yuan and the others returned to the Shengyuan, moved stools and smoked cigarettes.
When the net circle was closed and there was still an area of three or four acres, a lot of foam appeared on the water surface, and fish jumped out of the water.
"This net feels better than expected." Zhou Sheng looked at the bubbles in the net circle and said.
Chen Yuan is calculating how much money he can get for this trip back. There is still a shortfall of 5.5 million for a new fishing boat.
On the last trip, he and Zhou Sheng shared a total of 8.31 million yuan.
I still have a deposit of 1.09 million, and Zhou Sheng still has a deposit of several hundred thousand.
The fishing boat costs 12.5 million yuan, and 3 million yuan for this trip is enough.
In terms of fuel costs, labor costs, etc., they have already sold a lot of fish at sea and have long since made back the cost. All the fish caught now are profits.
The valuable fish catch can reach 30 tons in a better situation. On average, each ton is worth 100,000 yuan, which is 3 million yuan.
Sixty percent, 1.8 million yuan.
Not even close.
Chen Yuan took another puff of cigarette, feeling a little irritated.
Judging from this trip, it was not that it was not smooth sailing last time, but that it went very smoothly. I did more than 10 million in just ten days. It has been almost a month since I went out this time, and the total of 5 million has not yet arrived.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Sheng looked at Chen Yuan.
"I'm thinking about Yuanxing 55. I have to pay for the follow-up expenses for this trip back. There is still a gap in funds."
"It's really not enough. Just ask Master to borrow some. Judging from the situation during this trip to the sea, the density of fish in the South China Sea is slightly lower. What will happen next?"
"Let me think about it."
It's still as comfortable as when I first opened the sea.
When I first came here, there were schools of small fish everywhere. But now, it has only been more than two months, and there are very few schools of fish in small schools.
I heard Lin Xinhai say before that the fish situation in offshore waters is to make money in the first two months before the sea is opened. After that, many fishing boats simply rest and do not go to sea.