Veteran sailors who often work offshore will inevitably have their imaginations wandering when they go to the distant sea for the first time.
While chatting with Yang Xun and others, I heard Luo Laosi's howling from the KTV.
"Let's go over and sing."
"Let's go."
The KTV is still very big, but there are now 30 people on the boat. When Chen Yuan and others went over, there were more than 20 people crowded in the KTV.
"Chen Yuan, come and sing." Luo Laosi handed the microphone to Chen Yuan.
"Hurrah."
The song cuts to 'Who Can Understand Me'.
Chen Yuan is not particularly friendly with the people on the boat. Now that I have time, I just want to get acquainted with everyone as soon as possible.
"Go forward boldly, pursue your ideal journey, move forward with confidence, and never give in despite the wind and rain..." Chen Yuan's singing is not great, but he can't go out of tune. He is pretty good in KTV.
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The song was about to reach its climax. Zhou Sheng took another microphone and howled along: "When I have confidence, I will never be afraid of night flights. When I feel sleepy, I will play and sing by myself. When I get applause, I will look for it in my dreams..."
"Hahaha."
After the song ended, Luo Laosi applauded.
"Singing well."
Chen Yuan clasped his hands in his fists and took the topic: "Thank you, thank you for supporting me."
"Uncle Fourth, where is the beer? Take it out and start cooking." Zhou Sheng said while taking the topic.
"We're drinking right after we set off?"
"If you don't drink some wine, how can the atmosphere be lively?"
"Okay, one bottle for each person, only one bottle." Luo Laosi took out the beer: "One bottle for each person, no one is allowed to drink more."
"Just one bottle."
There's nothing wrong with offshore fishing boats. But on offshore fishing boats, you have to take care of the crew's emotions...
Chen Yuan played with the crew at the KTV for a while and then went to the cab.
Lin Xinhai and Guo Tao are on duty in the cab during the day, and Luo Laosi and Zhang Fulai are on duty at night.
"Where is the fleet?" Chen Yuan sat next to Lin Xinhai.
The fleet departed on the morning of the 25th, and today is the 31st.
Lin Xinhai enlarged the chart and pointed at it. The fleet was located in the south of the Philippine Sea: "It's probably in this area. We are more than a thousand nautical miles behind."
The fleet's speed is not very fast. It follows the ocean current route and its speed is only about 13 knots.
"They run slowly. Our boat can catch up with them in a few days after it leaves the Bashi Channel," Luo Laosi said.
Dongjiang Fisheries sent out three purse seine boats this time, plus five longline fishing boats.
As long as there are more fish, the operation efficiency of seine boats is definitely better than that of longline fishing boats. However, the number of fishing licenses for seine fishing boats in Kiribati is limited. It is not easy to get fishing licenses for three seine boats.
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Dongjiang Fishery has eight fishing boats and one nanny boat. Their company previously had a mother ship that was more than 100 meters long and cost more than 400 million. That ship was not saved. Several major shareholders of their company withdrew their shares. That mother ship
It was separated. Now there is only one nanny boat, processing frozen fishing boats, with a length of 86 meters.
It's much worse than a mothership, but it's still huge. It can load thousands of tons of frozen fish at a time...
There are only nine boats in Dongjiang Fishery, one big nanny, and eight fishing boats. The length of the fishing boats is less than fifty meters...
There are also eight fishing boats docked, as well as a nanny. This is the total number after adding Chen Yuan and his fleet...
Sixteen fishing boats, two nannies.
Dabai has always been very powerful, and its speed is between 20 and 23 knots.
It's noon, and the cook has prepared lunch.
After dinner, everyone was free to move around, some slept, some played cards.
Chen Yuan returned to the bedroom. Luo Laosi was already lying on the bed. Seeing Chen Yuan and the others coming in, Luo Laosi turned around and said, "Tomorrow I will explain to you the longline fishing equipment."
Chen Yuan said 'hmm': "It depends on the sea conditions. If the sea conditions are good, I will explain the equipment to everyone, and also tie the fishhook."
"Are there any tuna schools in Kiribati this season?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"It depends on which species it is." Chen Yuan said: "I heard someone said that the tuna there should be the most in August."
"Isn't there a fish break in August?" Luo Laosi asked.
"That's right..." Chen Yuandao said: "In the past few years, the fishing moratorium has been adjusted to July, August, and September. During this period, there are the most tuna. I heard an old crew member say before that it seemed like 15 years ago, and there were only four of them where he was.
The seine boat, which is more than ten meters long, caught more than 2,000 tons of tuna in seven days."
"Seven days?" Luo Laosi said: "You are bragging. Seven days, more than two thousand tuna, is not enough time to catch the fish."
"Modern tuna seine boats have fish troughs, which are a conveyor belt that can be extended into the seine. The fish are caught very quickly. Besides, the tuna there are not particularly big... The most important tuna in Kiribati is bigeye.
Tuna, bonito." Chen Yuan said: "There are a lot of bonito over there."
Luo Laosi scratched his head: "Our company has borrowed more than 20 million yuan. The operating expenses of the several ships now are not low... In terms of salary, it costs one million a month. A nanny and a big fish, with a full tank of oil, it is almost
Three million. And lubricating oil..."
"The fuel consumption is high when the ship is on its way. After fishing, the fuel consumption is not so high." Zhou Sheng interrupted: "With Chen Yuan here, we can't lose money."
Chen Yuan lay down: "To be honest, the pressure is a bit high. But if our boat can collect and release 30,000 fish hooks every day, it will definitely make money. Speaking of fish hooks, the total number of tied fish hooks is only 5.5
Ten thousand are not enough, so we have a day off today, and then we will let everyone work."
"How about 310,000 meters of dry rope a day?" Zhou Sheng asked.
Chen Yuan nodded: "On the first day, we released two groups of 310,000 meters. On the second day, we released two groups of 310,000 meters. Then we took back the 310,000 meters on the first day and released them again...then we collected the second one."
The hook in the sky. Of course, this is the most perfect ideal state, but there are novices on longline fishing on the boat, so it is difficult to complete these estimates.”
"310,000 meters is 310 kilometers? It will take several hours to put down the rope," Luo Laosi said.
"Eight or nine hours, six or seven if it's fast." Chen Yuan said: "If you have difficulty with two dry ropes a day, then three dry ropes every two days."
"With 310,000 meters of dry rope, approximately how many fishhooks are needed?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"About 30,000."
Zhou Sheng exhaled: "If there is a 10% fish catch rate, there will be 3,000 fish."
"How could you think so?" Chen Yuan took out a cigarette and threw one to Luo Laosi, and then another to Zhou Sheng, then turned on the ventilation in the bedroom and lit the cigarette: "Let's not talk about this anymore, let's talk about the work behind it.
Arrangements. At least 80,000 tied fishhooks must be prepared, with 25,000 less, and these fishhooks must be ready when they arrive in Kiribati."
"There are so many fishhooks, how long will it take to tie them up?"
"Twenty people come out to tie the fish hooks. There is a fish hook binding device. It is no problem to tie two fish hooks in one minute. With 20 people, 2,400 fish hooks can be tied in one hour... Working eight hours a day, that's 10,000
There are more than 9,000 fish hooks. It will take a long time, just 10,000 fish hooks every night."
The number looks huge, but there are many of them.
Tying 10,000 fish hooks a day shouldn't be a big problem.
Just as he was talking, Chen Yuan's satellite phone rang: "Hey... Dad, we are setting off... Okay, you should also pay attention to safety on the ship."
Chen Yuan's father called me. After a few words of conversation, Chen Yuan's father hung up the phone.
Their fleet is running slowly and is still in the Philippine Sea.
At the speed of the big fish, it is estimated that we can catch up with them in seven or eight days, which means we will almost reach Kiribati.
Kiribati is quite far away. Considering the course deviation, it is almost 4,000 nautical miles. The average speed of the big fish can maintain over 20 knots, which means it takes almost 8 days to reach Kiribati.
However, this fuel consumption is high, and you have to refuel when you arrive in Kiribati.