Cross the continental shelf and enter the inner side of the South China Sea Basin.
It's past ten o'clock.
Chen Yuan stopped the engine while Zhou Sheng washed and cooked rice.
Yang Xun brought out the beef, and He Fei peeled the potatoes...
On the first day after coming out, everyone had good energy. If they had nothing to do in the evening, they cooked a delicious meal.
Lin Xinhai's fishing boat was running slowly, and it was estimated that they would not be able to meet up with them until tomorrow morning.
After cooking, Zhou Sheng brought beer, two bottles per person.
Everyone opened a bottle and raised it up: "I wish you a sudden fortune." Chen Yuan shouted.
"One net is a hundred tons." Zhou Sheng shouted.
Yang Xun also smiled and shouted: "Get rich."
"Make a fortune."
"Hahaha... cheers."
"cheers."
"cheers."
Beef stew with potatoes, a large piece of beef stewed in a casserole for nearly an hour, it is rotten in the mouth and the beef is rich in flavor.
"I hope to find a huge tuna school tomorrow." Zhou Sheng drank half a bottle of beer in one gulp and said.
"Tomorrow the sea will be full of tuna."
Had a drink and a meal.
The place Chen Yuan chose was far away from the waterway, and the lights of the fishing boats were on. Yang Xun and the others were on night shift...
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng returned to the cabin and woke up at dawn.
After washing up, I went out to see Yang Xun and others fishing, which was also a good time.
"Did you catch any fish?"
"I caught a few." Yang Xun said, "I caught a few hairtails last night."
"Fresh hairtail is good." Zhou Sheng said.
It was foggy and hazy in the morning.
After making pan-fried hairtail and eating, Lin Xinhai's voice came over the radio: "Where are you? Why didn't I see your location?"
Chen Yuan reported the position again. After parking on the sea for a night without power, the position was deviated, but the distance was not very far.
It's foggy today, otherwise you can see where Chen Yuan and the others are.
After dinner, Chen Yuan saw Lin Xinhai's boat coming out of the mist.
Waiting for them to come over, Zhou Sheng started the fishing boat, and Chen Yuan climbed onto the Xinhai, looked at the ocean current map of the South China Sea Basin, and planned a route to find fish.
Luo Laosi was also on the boat. Looking at the route planned by Chen Yuan, he was a little puzzled: "Why not go to the big ocean current route?"
"Everyone knows that there are many fish along the ocean current lines, and there are also many ships on the main ocean current lines." Chen Yuan said.
Luo Laosi nodded.
"Chen Yuan has a remote sensing fish finder. The range for finding fish can be very large. Don't rush and do it slowly." Lin Xinhai took out a cigarette and handed one to Luo Laosi and Chen Yuan.
After planning the route, waiting for the workers on the boat to have breakfast and the fog to dissipate, we set out to look for fish.
The South China Sea Basin is located south of GD Province and Hainan Island, bounded by Kalimantan Island to the south, the Philippine Islands to the east, and the shallow sea basin of Indochina Peninsula to the west. It is the largest marginal sea in Southeast Asia.
The center of the basin is an abyssal plain, slightly rhombus-shaped, with its long axis extending from northeast to southwest, and is about 1,500 kilometers long. The average water depth is about 4,000 meters, with a shallower water depth of 3,400 meters in the north, 4,200 meters in the south, and a deepest depth of 4,577 meters. The bottom of the ocean basin
There are a few ridges, seamounts and volcanic cones of varying heights standing on the plain.
The water here is deep blue.
A white track rolled behind the fishing boat, giving off a deep blue color.
Far away from the fishing boat, Chen Yuan released the drone and flew in a circle. There was only a very small biological signal. He took back the drone and continued to search.
The job of finding fish is very lonely, especially looking for tuna.
The morning passed quickly.
In the afternoon, continue searching.
Zhou Sheng was sitting in the cab chatting with Luo Laosi, while Chen Yuan was outside, flying the drone about once an hour or so, and then watching the sky to see if there were any birds.
The sea surface in the Nanhai Basin is still very wide. If you see a flock of birds and have nothing to do, you can catch up with them.
For five days in a row, nothing was found.
It's not that we didn't find anything. During this period, we found a particularly small school of fish that was not worth catching in the net.
The water here is deeper and there are fewer fish.
The fish schools occasionally found are also very small.
"My fishing boat is coming out, isn't it a bit redundant?" Luo Laosi said through the radio.
"Look slowly, you can find the fish school." Chen Yuandao: "You should be able to find the fish school tomorrow."
"How do you know?"
"Tomorrow we will go to the place where the small ocean currents gather." Chen Yuan said.
At the intersection of ocean currents, it is easy to gather fish. Especially on the sea surface...
In the past few days, Chen Yuan and the others have only seen one fishing boat here, and it was a fishing boat on its way.
Entering the South China Sea Basin, there are few fish. Except for some fishing boats fishing for deep-sea fish, few fishing boats come to these places. However, fishing for deep-sea fish usually takes place in fixed locations.
The more nutrients there are, the more fish there will be.
The location for catching deep-sea fish is usually above seamounts.
At night, I was looking forward to a good harvest tomorrow. The marine meteorological warning was issued. Level 7 sea conditions will occur in some areas of the South China Sea. The main areas are in Nansha and Zhongsha. By then, there will be 6-9 meter wild waves. In the South China Sea Basin,
There will also be huge waves on the side...
When Luo Laosi received the warning, he spit out two words: Made.
Chen Yuan and the others also received the early warning and quickly contacted Lin Xinhai: "Master, level 7 warning, please predict when we will come."
"The weather is forming. It will be two or three days later. It's very early. We will set off overnight and go to the place where the ocean currents converge. If there are no fish, we will go to Sanya to take shelter from the wind tomorrow." Lin Xinhai said.
"Okay." Luo Laosi replied: "Let's go now."
"Let's go."
Chen Yuan stopped sleeping and started his fishing boat to rush over first.
The distance was not very far, and it took more than four hours, or three o'clock in the morning, to arrive at the location. Chen Yuan released the drone, took one look, and asked Zhou Sheng to call Lin Xinhai.
"Master, where are you?"
"Twenty miles to go."
"Hurry up." Zhou Sheng shouted.
"Are there many fish?"
"There are fish. There should be a lot of them." Zhou Sheng looked at the remote sensing fish detection screen and said.
"The quantity is okay." Chen Yuan went over to take over the driving position and turned on the vertical fish detector of the fishing boat: "There are tuna."
As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Laosi laughed and said, "More or less."
"Not too much. But the tuna depends on its size and meat quality."
Lin Xinhai and the others rushed over at full speed. It was after five o'clock and the sky was already bright.
There are a lot of fish in this area, but they are somewhat scattered.
Lin Xinhai saw a group of relatively large fish, estimated to only have about twenty fish, and hurried over and cooperated with Luo Laosi to quickly lower the net.
They cooperated perfectly and quickly set the net and tightened the outline.
Luo Laosi left in his fishing boat, and Chen Yuan and the others went over and cooperated to set another net.
Now that I have nothing to do at this time, I will catch as many as I can with my next net.
There are still fish in this area. The intersection of ocean currents brings nutrients, and fish naturally gather together.