Zhou Jianguo's fishing boat worked very quickly. When the sun was about to set, they had finished harvesting the fish, and then they drove at full power to Chen Yuan and his team.
When it got dark, Zhou Jianguo's fishing boat came over. After a brief observation, Zhou Jianguo drove the fishing boat directly to the position where the net was released.
Yang Xun and others went over to catch the rope dropped from above and tied it up.
"I've set up a net here," Zhou Jianguo said.
"Okay." Chen Yuan held the walkie-talkie.
"Lay the net..." Zhou Jianguo shouted, and the fishing boat started to move.
Chen Yuan helped them pull the rope. The length of their seine was only 2,200 meters.
All foreign seine vessels operating in the waters of the Nauru Agreement must register their seines. Seine vessels within 50 meters and seine vessels larger than 50 meters will use different seine lengths. After all, seine vessels larger than 50 meters will use different lengths of seine nets.
The daily operation cost of a purse seine boat with a meter of 100 meters is double.
After making a circle, Zhou Jianguo's fishing boat came closer and stopped steadily about one meter away from Dabai. This skill is good, but without many years of seine boat control experience, it is impossible to do this.
Zhou Sheng got out of the cab and threw the rope up.
"Zhou Sheng." Zhou Jianguo walked out.
Zhou Sheng raised his hand: "Brother Jianguo."
Zhou Jianguo smiled and waited for Zhou Sheng: "I'm not older or younger. I'm three years younger than your master. My name is Uncle Jianguo."
Zhou Sheng chuckled; "Uncle Jianguo."
"Just wait, I'll throw some good things for you."
"What?"
"Just wait."
Zhou Jianguo left the side of the ship. After a while, Zhou Jianguo came back and hung a basket on a rope and handed it down.
Zhou Sheng grabbed the basket and took out the contents, a large red sea bream weighing more than 20 kilograms, and two boxes of foreign beer.
"There are only four of us on the boat and we can't finish the food," Zhou Sheng said.
"If you can't finish it, save it and eat it later."
Chen Yuan walked out: "Old Jianguo, have you eaten?"
"not yet."
"Come down and cook and play for a while."
Zhou Jianguo waved his hand: "Forget it, I'm still busy here. If you want to call me old cousin again, I'll jump down and hit you on the head, and call me Uncle Jianguo."
Chen Yuan chuckled: "You really don't want to come down and play?"
"I'll watch and collect the fish quickly."
"Okay, let's go back first." Chen Yuan waved his hand.
Zhou Jianguo also waved.
This afternoon, most of the time was delayed.
Back in the cabin, Yang Xun and the others were making instant noodles. Chen Yuan opened a bag of biscuits and ate some of them before sending them to the fishing boat.
After waiting for Yang Xun and others to finish eating, Chen Yuan started the high-horsepower cruise, sailing at a speed of 44 knots, making waves: "Master, Fourth Uncle? Are you collecting the fish?"
"It's collected." Luo Laosi said: "Your master is outside."
“Are there many fish?”
"More. In the afternoon, I caught several bigeye tuna weighing about 300 kilograms, and also got several yellowfin tuna weighing over 300 kilograms, as well as several big swordfish and marlin." Luo Laosi
He smiled and said, "How's it going over there in Jianguo?"
"Our place is pretty good, with a lot of bigeye tuna and albacore tuna. Do you have swordfish and marlin over there, but not mine?"
"Yes, there are quite a few." Luo Laosi said with a smile.
"We also have swordfish and marlin here, and there are more bigeyes and longfins. We collected more than 2,000 hooks, and only three bigeye tuna were caught, while more than 20 swordfish and marlin were caught." Zhao
seaway.
"What's the approximate fish catch rate over there?" Chen Yuan asked.
"My side?" Zhao Hai asked.
"right."
"The fish catch rate for the fish hooks we just set is about 35% or more. The fish catch rate is very high, and the fish catch rate for the subsequent fish hooks should be even higher. We collect them from the outside inward," Zhao Hai said:
"The bonito here are quite big, half weigh more than ten kilograms, and there are quite a few that weigh twenty or thirty kilograms."
"It's similar here, the white-scaled bonito is big." Gao's congratulatory voice came out.
"Are there a lot of tuna over there?" Luo Laosi asked.
"Not many. They are all swordfish and marlin. I just came in from the outside, and I also collected two thousand hooks here. I caught a dozen swordfish and about ten marlin, all of them big ones.
Gao He said with a smile.
"It's almost the same here." Zhao Hai said: "Chen Yuan?"
"exist."
"Are there any schools of fish behind?"
"How can there be so many fish schools? But I have recorded a few areas with more fish, where you can go and set the hook." Chen Yuandao.
"I'm very slow in retrieving fish hooks. Fourth child?"
"exist."
"Has your auxiliary boat finished its work? Can you come over and help us pick up a few sinkers? The sinkers are hanging on the dry ropes, and the recovery is too slow."
"The work should be over. We will go there after we finish the work here. How did you collect two thousand hooks?" Luo Laosi asked.
"There is no auxiliary boat, so it is very slow."
"I want to ask if the auxiliary ship is finished." After a while, Lin Xinhai said: "The auxiliary ship is finished, but the ship does not have a lot of fuel. We will go there when we fill it up."
Gao He frowned: "I don't even know where to go to order an auxiliary boat. If you know about it, I will build one too."
"Do you want it? If you want it, I'll call China now. It will be ready in about twenty days. I'll deliver it to you when the nanny comes back." Luo Laosi said.
"How much?"
"Our two pieces cost a total of 2.55 million."
"You can help me with that money, and then it will be deducted from the fish catch." Gao congratulated.
"Let me ask Xinhai."
There is no auxiliary boat, and the recovery speed of the dry rope with the sinker is too slow.
After a while, Lin Xinhai returned to the bridge: "Do you want to order an auxiliary boat?"
"I'll book a boat, and you'll help cover the cost, which will be deducted from the fish catch later," Gao congratulated.
"Okay." Lin Xinhai agreed without much hesitation: "Where is Xiaohai?"
Zhao Hai was discussing with several shareholders when he heard Lin Xinhai's voice and arrived: "We also order one."
"I'll guarantee you a credit here. You have to go through the procedures for the auxiliary ship yourself. You also have people in Dongjiang. If you don't know what procedures to go through, I'll ask Wang Peng to help you." Lin Xinhai said.
"Can."
"Okay. Thank you very much."
"Thank you for nothing, it's a small thing." Lin Xinhai said: "How many fishhooks have you collected?"
"About two thousand." Zhao Hai.
"It's almost done here. How much did you charge?"
"The first rope is almost finished."
“Are there many fish?”
"That's quite a lot. I got hundreds of tuna, as well as swordfish and marlin. I estimate there are more than a hundred." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.
These tuna are large and small. In total, there are forty or fifty tons of tuna, swordfish and marlin. As long as the fish schools are found in longline fishing, the fish catch is no worse than seine netting. After all, it is released in one go.
Thousands of fish hooks, or tens of thousands of fish hooks.
Furthermore, Lin Xinhai is surrounded by a school of rising fish. The fasting rate of the rising fish is very high, so the probability of being hooked is high.
It seems now that the probability of being hooked on the first rope is greater than 15%. Moreover, all the fishhooks on top have been eaten.
There are also cases where only a fish head is caught, and the body of the fish is eaten by other fish. Or the big fish wraps up the small fish, and all of them are hooked.
Most fish come out of the water on an empty stomach, and longline fishing likes fish out of the water the most. Moreover, the fish here are big, and the hooks they use are also big, so the probability of hitting the hook is very high.
The first fishing trip in the Pacific Ocean can be said to be a perfect start. The harvest was much better than expected...