Chen Yuan was eating when he heard a voice reply: "Copy that."
"Have you eaten yet?"
"Eating."
"How about I mainly place tuna hooks in this position? The depth is from 100 meters to 15 meters."
"Okay, there are a lot of big-eye tuna here. Big-eye tuna mainly feeds in shallow water areas at night, and the depth can reach 5 meters. You should put more fishhook at this depth of 5 meters to 30 meters." Chen Yuan said.
"Okay. After setting the fishhook, we will go to your place." Lin Xinhai said.
"Don't be like this, I'm rushing to Chen Yuan." Zhao Hai said: "Don't move your boat over there. I'll go to Chen Yuan to put the shallow water hook."
"What the fuck, you son of a bitch..." Gao He shouted: "You are too treacherous, you didn't tell me in the past. Brother Hai, leave a sip of soup for us to drink, I'm going to Chen Yuan's side too.
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Lin Xinhai thought for a while: "Yuanzi, what should I say?"
"That's okay. You put two strings of dry ropes over there, and Lao Zhao and Lao Gao come over and put them in. It will take a long time to put out the two ropes." Chen Yuandao said: "I have a fish school here, and there are quite a lot of them.
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"As long as the quantity is large, what is the approximate price of Pacific bonito?" Zhao Hai asked.
"It's very cheap. The sea purchase price of Dongjiang Fishery is US$900 per ton, regardless of size." Lin Xinhai said: "I look at the size here. If the goods are good, I will give you US$800. If the goods are not good, the maximum is US$600." Lin Xinhai said.
Xinhai said.
"This price...is okay."
The current bonito market, in terms of domestic prices, the imported price of frozen bonito is about US$1,600 per ton. Of course, the price also depends on the product.
The goods are good and the price can be higher.
Frozen bonito is cheap and cannot be sold at high prices.
"Lao Gao, how many fishhooks are you going to put in?" Zhao Hai asked.
"About 20,000." Gao He said: "I don't have a rope hanging machine here, so I have to hang the branch line manually. It would be good to have 20,000 fishhooks. What about you?"
"I'm about the same. If I can lay 20,000 fish hooks, it's good."
"Lao Hai, your fishhook is automatically tied to the dry rope, right?" Gao He asked.
"Only when tuna hooks are automatically tied," Lin Xinhai said.
"What about the bonito hook?"
"In some places, bonito is also called tuna." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.
"That's okay. 150,000 meters of dry rope can hold 50,000 fishhooks, right?"
"Yes. If the payout speed is slower, it won't be a big problem to have 50,000 fishhooks." Lin Xinhai said.
Gao He clicked his tongue: "How much does the automatic bait binding machine cost?"
"It's not just a machine..." Lin Xinhai thought for a while, and then said: "It's also a semi-manual machine. The single piece of equipment is not expensive, more than 400,000 yuan. But it needs to be equipped with a branch line.
The leather cords and buckles all cost almost one million."
"Where did you get the equipment?" Gao He said.
"We asked Jiuxing Shipyard to help us purchase it from abroad." Lin Xinhai said: "Many of the equipment on our ship were purchased from abroad."
As for longline fishing equipment, it is still relatively advanced from abroad. The most advanced foreign longline fishing boats can automatically release the hook and automatically harvest the catch. The catch is then directly entered into the processing room through the conveyor belt...
To put it bluntly, it's money.
In China, if money is available, fully automatic longline fishing boats can be designed. The technology of these things is not particularly high.
"How much did the equipment on your ship cost in total?" Zhao Hai asked.
"Not counting the host, the total cost was 4.67 million yuan," Lin Xinhai said.
"I'll go..."
“With good equipment, efficiency can be high.”
If it were before, Lin Xinhai would definitely be reluctant to invest.
But last year when they were fishing, the Xinhai number made Lin Xinhai very angry. This time, Lin Xinhai was willing to spend a lot of money to upgrade the big fish.
Big Fish's speed of releasing hooks is more than twice as fast as Zhao Hai's fishing boat.
But the speed of catching fish is just a little faster than Zhao Hai and the others.
But when combined, the efficiency can be about two-fifths higher than that of Zhao Hai and his fishing boats.
This is equivalent to Chen Yuan and the others working for five days, while Zhao Hai and the others only worked for three days.
In addition, the speed of big fish is fast, and there is Dabai, a motorized boat that specializes in finding fish. When the fish catch rate is about the same, as time goes by, Dabai's fish catch may be greater than that of Zhao Hai and Gao He's two boats.
It adds up to more.
There is half a bright moon in the sky, and the stars are bright.
After dinner, Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng lay on the sun deck again, looking at the sky.
At night at the equator, on the sea, the sea breeze blows, bringing a cool breath.
I don't know what time it was, but Chen Yuan saw a bright light in the distance. After a long time, Zhao Hai's voice came from the intercom.
"Chen Yuan, Zhou Sheng, received the reply." Zhao Hai shouted on the intercom.
"They're outside."
He Fei took the walkie-talkie and walked over: "Uncle Zhao Hai is contacting you."
Chen Yuan took the walkie-talkie: "Uncle Zhao."
"How big are the fish schools here?"
"It's quite big, and you can hook some tuna," Chen Yuandao said.
This fish school is now a vegetarian fish school, but hundreds of tons of fish gather together, which can easily attract big fish.
Gao He's fishing boat also came over.
These two of them can't outrun Dabai, so it's a good choice to come here to catch this bonito school.
Even closer, the fish detector on Zhao Hai's fishing boat had already seen fish.
Gao He's boat was faster than Zhao Hai and the others, and was now in front: "Old Zhao, I will take a detour to the seven o'clock direction of the fish school, and then put the fishhook counterclockwise."
"Okay, I'll follow you and release the hook clockwise."
"good."
Chen Yuan asked: "The water here is about 350 meters deep. Do you have enough bottom sinkers?"
"There are more than five hundred pendants." Gao He said.
"I only have more than four hundred here, so that should be enough."
More than a hundred kilometers of rope cannot be laid in a straight line. Instead, it must be placed in a roundabout way...
After discovering a school of fish, see clearly the direction of the school of fish, and then release the hook in a roundabout way in front of the school of fish. The distance is tens to hundreds of meters apart.
The sea water is flowing, and if a big fish is caught, the big fish will be very strong... In order to prevent the branch line and the dry rope from getting entangled, and the dry ropes from being entangled with each other, and setting the hook in a roundabout way, the dry rope needs to be fixed.
Of course, if the detour distance is far enough, there is no need to fix it.
Gao He's boat was at full power. He rushed over first and put down the sinker that was sinking to the bottom. The branch line of the sinker was connected to the dry rope. There was also a branch line on the dry rope connected to the float... Then he started to defend the line and hook...
When fish schools are found, longline fishing boats can also use mosquito coils to release hooks. This means placing fish hooks in circles around the fish schools with the fish school as the center. However, this hook releasing method requires a high speed for the fishing boat.
Watching Zhao Hai arrive at the designated location and start placing the fishhook, Chen Yuan returned to the cabin and contacted Dabai via radio: "Uncle Fourth, are you there?"
"exist."
"Have you finished placing the first set of fishhooks?"
"Not yet, but it should be soon. By the way, how do we use the two auxiliary boats on our ship?" Luo Laosi asked.
There are also two auxiliary boats on board Dabai.
The two auxiliary boats also carry dry ropes, but the dry ropes on the auxiliary boats are much smaller.
The auxiliary boat has many uses. It can help put the rope, or it can go out alone to put the rope, help recover the lead weight, organize the dry rope, etc.
Dabai's two auxiliary boats are not big, only 9.3 meters in length, but they have 350 horsepower.
There is a rope stirring machine and a rope releasing machine on the auxiliary boat. However, the rope releasing machine is not big, and the diameter of the dry rope on it is less than 1 cm.
Although Luo Laosi is an experienced fisherman, he is a complete novice in the field of longline fishing.
"Why are Zhao Hai and Lao Gao's fishing boats not equipped with auxiliary boats?" Luo Laosi asked.
"Can't afford it." Lao Gao's voice came out.
Zhao Hai shouted and said: "Why is there no configuration? You are poor. Everyone used to be like you, nouveau riche."
The radio they are using now is a public channel set up separately. When Chen Yuan and others talk, Zhao Hai and Lao Gao can hear them.
Luo Laosi laughed a few times when he heard hehehe: "Are the auxiliary ships very useful?"
"It's not of much use," Lao Gao said.
"Don't listen to Lao Gao's nonsense. The auxiliary boats for longline fishing are very useful. Especially when reeling in the line, there is a completely different situation between having auxiliary boats and not having auxiliary boats. I also wanted to buy two auxiliary boats before, but I didn't have enough time.
By the way, how far can your auxiliary ship travel and what is its maximum speed?"
"The maximum speed is about 30 knots, and the range of high-horsepower cruising is still 300 nautical miles."
"If we set a hook in the same sea area in the future, your boat will help us organize the rope."
"Okay, if you're busy," Luo Laosi agreed.
With the auxiliary boat, it is very easy to retrieve the hook. The auxiliary boat helps pull the dry rope, making it easier to catch the fish. Let's put it this way, with the auxiliary boat, the fishing boat can stop motionless when catching the fish.
If there is no auxiliary boat, especially if there is a bottom sinker, the boat will follow the line (at an angle of 30 degrees) and the speed cannot be too fast. If there is no bottom sinker, then the boat will follow the line and the boat will
The angle between the line and the line is also thirty degrees.
It's very late.
Chen Yuan and the others went back to the bedroom. Dabai's bedroom was spacious and well-equipped, almost like a luxury yacht.
It's very comfortable to work on this boat.
At night, I turned on the stabilizer and almost didn't feel any shaking.
Chen Yuan and the others slept until dawn, and the sun outside had already risen.
The sun's intensity in the morning is very small, and the sun's rays are quite comfortable on my body.
He Fei and the others were cooking at the kitchen counter at the stern of the ship, making beef in a pressure cooker and stewing beef with potatoes.
Chen Yuan stretched his waist and said with a smile: "It's so rich so early in the morning."
"I have nothing to do in the morning. It's boring to be idle. Make a delicious meal." He Fei said.
Yang Xun turned off the rice cooker and said, "It's really comfortable on this fishing boat. The cockpit is spacious, there's a living room and a back deck. Being on this boat is like going on vacation."
Zhou Sheng smiled: "Is the food ready?"
"Right now, stay quiet for a few more minutes."
Chen Yuan stretched outside, returned to the cab, and turned on the radio topic: "Master, Lao Zhao, Lao Gao, have you finished setting the fishhook?"
"I've finished my work here," Lin Xinhai said.
"It's been a night and you haven't slept yet." Chen Yuan asked.
"I just finished fishing and went to bed after breakfast. By the way, I'm going to collect the fish hooks in the afternoon. We couldn't handle the groups you arranged before. Last night, two groups worked together."
Chen Yuan said ‘hmm’ and said, “Then eat and have a good rest.”
"How many meters and how many hooks did you put in?" Gao He asked.
"Two bundles of line, 310,000 meters. The first bundle is 160,000 meters, with about 15,000 fishhooks, all of which are large hooks, mainly used for fishing tuna. The second bundle is 150,000 meters, and the depth is within 20 meters. There are about seven
Eighty thousand fishhooks." Lin Xinhai said.
Zhao Hai took a deep breath: "How can you release so many fishhooks?"
"On the second bundle of ropes, there were more than a dozen people on our boat hanging fishhooks, but we did not use the automatic hooking machine. The speed of the automatic hooking machine was too slow." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.
"Fortunately, I was smart and didn't set the hook with you. Doesn't this mean that you set nearly 100,000 fish hooks last night?"
"Absolutely. Mainly short-term, easy to operate..."
It is also very fast to hang the branch line manually. The branch line has a metal buckle, which is fixed on the dry rope. You just press it and there is no need to tie the rope.
310,000 meters, equivalent to 310 kilometers, 167 nautical miles.
If it is Zhao Hai's fishing boat, the fastest speed of his boat at full power is 14 knots, and it will take 12 hours to cover 167 nautical miles.
"Your automatic bait hanging machine is pretty good." Zhao Hai said.
"It's okay. Three automatic bait hanging machines, plus manual bait hanging."
"Cowhide."
"With nearly 100,000 fish hooks, if we can have a 10% fish catch rate, that would be incredible."
“Most fish come out of the water on an empty stomach, so it’s easy to catch them.”
"Have you found any tuna there?"
Lin Xinhai said: "Yes. I've finished eating and stayed up all night. I'm going back to sleep. We'll talk in the afternoon."
"Okay, I have to go back to bed after dinner."
"By the way, how many hooks did you place?" Lin Xinhai asked.
"More than 20,000." Gao congratulated.
"About 20,000, with deep hooks and shallow hooks combined." Zhao Hai.
"Then you can do it too." Lin Xinhai laughed.
"My dear, after releasing nearly 100,000 of them in one night, we have to work away from you from now on."
"It's just, it's so scary."
"It was just one night. I started setting the hook yesterday afternoon."