It has been more than an hour since the Big Fish sailed.
Come over here, it will probably be evening.
After chatting with Lin Xinhai for a while, Chen Yuan was almost done with his meal: "I'm looking for fish."
"OK."
"See if there are any schools of tuna." Gao He said.
"Try your best." Chen Yuan said with a smile: "But there should be a lot of tuna here. Does your boat also have a freezing room?"
"Yes." Gao He said: "There are two ultra-low temperature chambers on my ship, with a total of 190 cubic meters."
"We only have ultra-low temperature chambers on board, not freezing rooms. We also have specially equipped generators that can reach a minimum temperature of 65 degrees Celsius," said Zhao Bo.
Zhao Bo, Zhao Hai’s younger brother.
Zhao Hai probably went to bed very late last night.
"Have you finished collecting your fishhooks?" Luo Laosi asked.
"not yet."
"It will be collected soon."
"How's the fish catch rate?" Luo Laosi.
Gao He replied: "It's okay, about three to five percent. It's normal. There aren't many tuna, just about thirty."
"It's pretty much the same here."
"Then yours is okay. The fish catch rate here is a bit low..."
After Chen Yuan had eaten, he went back and took out the drone. After checking the equipment, he released the drone.
The biological signals in this sea area are not as good as expected.
The density of fish is similar to the No. 5 mark where Lin Xinhai and others set the hook yesterday.
He Fei and the others went back to sleep, and Zhou Sheng started the fishing boat.
Chen Yuan held the walkie-talkie: "Look at the vertical fish finder to see if there are many big fish and the water depth where they are distributed."
"The number of big fish is not bad, not much different from the few landmarks found before." Zhou Sheng said: "The depth, let me calculate...it can be as large as tens of meters, more than a hundred meters. Wait, there are
A big fish more than ten meters long..."
Zhou Sheng roared.
"Wonima." Chen Yuan became angry and said, "Really ten meters?"
"Can't go wrong."
"That's a whale."
"In case it's not the case, why don't you do it?" Zhou Sheng laughed.
"roll."
Chen Yuan commanded Zhou Sheng, and their ship scouted a circle along the undersea mountains. The highest point of the high and low mountains was only about fifty meters away from the sea. This is a mountain peak...
There are also several mountain peaks that are quite deep, hundreds or hundreds of meters away from the sea.
Zhou Sheng would tell Chen Yuan from time to time that he had found a big fish. The standard for a big fish is that it must be more than 2 meters long.
It's past two o'clock in the afternoon.
Zhou Sheng stopped the boat and started cooking.
Chen Yuan calculated the density of fish schools and found that the density of fish schools here was lower than the density of ocean currents in near-island waters, much lower.
However, the area of this sea area is large. If we count the total amount, there are a lot of fish here. And the proportion of large fish is quite high.
I watched a piece of twice-cooked pork being fried, and the fish soup next to it was ready. I was serving the fish soup when I saw Chen Yuan coming out and asked: "How is it?"
"Not bad. This sea area is large and can support the operations of three fishing boats." Chen Yuan brought out a stainless steel basin, filled it with rice, and went in to call He Fei, Yang Xun and the others.
If it were lunch, Chen Yuan would not call them. It was already past two in the afternoon, so he would call them to get up and eat, so as to avoid having to cook alone when they got up later.
"Are there many fish here?" He Fei asked.
"There are quite a lot of them, including big tuna." Zhou Sheng said with a smile: "You guys try to catch them at night, one fish costs several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan."
"Okay." Yang Xun said with a smile: "I hope I can catch a few more fish and earn some money for milk powder."
"Is your wife pregnant?" He Fei asked.
Yang Xun smiled and nodded: "Yeah."
"Why didn't you tell me when it happened?"
"I just found out about it when I called home from inside."
"Congratulations." Chen Yuan said.
"Congratulations." Zhou Sheng said with a smile: "There are skills in fishing for tuna in the deep sea, especially at night."
"What technique?"
"At night, there are light-inducing lights, and tuna are in the shallow water. The light-inducing lights will also attract some small fish... Use an iron plate to catch small fish first, and then switch to hooks and hang live bait after catching small fish. Also, be wary of tuna.
It is very stable, so you should be quiet when fishing. If you are fishing for tuna at night, if the wind and waves are not big, then turn off the hull stabilizer and fish quietly." Zhou Sheng said: "But you must be careful when fishing at night.
Be safe, there are great white sharks in this area.”
After dinner, the sun seemed to be getting hotter outside.
Chen Yuan took out a bottle of Coke and drank it, then contacted Luo Laosi and the others: "Uncle Fourth, where are you?"
Luo Laosi reported his location.
After waiting for a while, Gao He and Zhao Hai also reported their positions respectively.
The Big Fish is still more than 40 nautical miles away.
Gao He and Zhao Hai are still far apart.
"Are there many fish?" Gao He asked.
"What's the specific situation?" Zhao Bo said.
Before Zhou Sheng sailed the ship, he had been chatting with them on the ship.
"The density of fish is smaller than the previously marked sea areas, but not much different. However, the ratio of big fish here is higher." Chen Yuan said: "This sea area is large and can support our three fishing boats.
Long-term operation. Here, my suggestion is to enlarge the hook and fish at a depth of 150 to 10 meters. In addition, there are schools of fish, bonito schools, and small individual fish schools... but the number of groups is not the same.
many."
Chen Yuan means to keep the small fish and catch the big fish exclusively.
Furthermore, only when there are small fish in a sea area will big fish come. This time, I caught these small fish and kept them so that they can come again after a while.
There is another reason: the nanny has returned.
The nanny went back just a few days after coming here, which is a bit embarrassing to say. But the nanny’s boatload of fish can be returned. There are a lot of tuna in it, as well as sailfish and marlin.
These high-value fish catches were mainly caught by Lin Xinhai and others. The first fish group Chen Yuan discovered was itself a mixed fish group...
The second school of fish is a school of fish, which can also attract predators. After all, the interval between setting the hook and retracting the hook is still very long.
The nanny has gone back, and it is not worthwhile for Chen Yuan and the others to catch those low-value fish again.
Of course, if you find a large school of fish, it's a different story.
The Big Fish hook set more than 10,000 fish hooks yesterday, including more than fifty tuna, several swordfish, some sea wolf fish, etc.
As for tuna and swordfish, the average weight is 90 kilograms. Luo Laosi said that these fish are not big, but there are more adult tuna in this sea area. If you consider 90 kilograms each, it is not much at all. In total, even
55 pieces, that’s almost 5,000 pounds.
According to the purchase price of Dongjiang Fishery at sea, it would be 150,000. This is just tuna. If other fish are included, it should be 170,000.
The cost of fishing in the base country is high, but fishing boats from many countries still apply to fish here. This is the reason.
A tuna seine boat purchased for a large amount of operating time, that is, operating for more than 200 days a year...the fishing fee will be more than 10 million.
If resources are lacking, who will come over?
"When will the nanny be back?" Zhao Hai's voice came out.
"You woke up." Zhao Bo.
Zhao Haidao: "I just woke up."
Luo Laosi said: "It will take about a month for the nanny to come back. But we are contacting the refrigerated transport ship, which can come in 17 to 18 days."
Gao He said ‘hmm’: “That’s okay.”
"The refrigeration ship should come early." Zhao Hai said.
"In contact."
"How much does it cost to charter an ultra-low temperature freezing ship?" Gao He asked.
"Several millions."
For ultra-low temperatures, the speed must be greater than 15 knots, and then it depends on how big the ultra-low temperature cabin is.
If the speed is 15 knots, the time on the road is about 25 days. For a slightly smaller ship, the fuel consumption will be 600,000 to 700,000. This includes the fuel consumption of the ship's main engine and generator.
Luo Laosi didn’t know the exact market price of refrigerated ships, as he had no contact in this area.
"How much does your freezer ship cost?" Gao He asked.
"Forty million." Luo Laosi said.
The original asking price for Little Nanny's boat was 39 million. Wang Peng negotiated it in the past and it was a bit cheaper. The final price, after all the procedures were completed, was 37.3 million. But including the subsequent investment, it was only 40 million.
Almost there.
"Is it so expensive?" Zhao Hai was shocked.
"That is a fishery processing freezing ship, which is much more expensive than a conventional freezing ship." Chen Yuandao.