Chen Yuan and the others were lying outside, and Yang Xun's excited cry came from behind the fishing boat: "Nais, finally the tuna came."
After Zhou Sheng heard this, he got up and went to help.
Chen Yuan also got up, put away the bath mat, returned to the cab and checked the time. It was half past nine in the evening, and turned on the radio microphone.
"Big Fish, Big Fish, who is on duty in the cab now?"
"Me." Luo Laosi's voice said: "I'm in the cab."
Chen Yuan looked at the time: "It's past nine o'clock, still not sleeping?"
"I'll go to bed later, what are you doing?"
"Have you finished collecting the first string of fishhooks?"
"It's finished."
“How many tuna were caught?”
"We only caught 10,000 to 20,000 meters, and we caught more than a dozen tuna." Gao He said with a smile: "There are two yellowfin tuna close to three meters, and a swordfish."
The Big Fish was collecting the third string of hooks, and Lin Xinhai was watching from the boat.
"Seventy or eighty. The later performance is better..." Luo Laosi said.
"It would be great if we could transport these fish back by ourselves. The middlemen are making too much profit from the price difference."
"Bonito is too cheap. It's more than 20% bonito. If there aren't a lot of tuna, it's hard money." Luo Laosi said.
"By the way, let's work hard these days and stay here for a few more days. Although the tuna here are scattered, they are all good in size. When the density of tuna here is reduced, we will set off to the north." Chen Yuandao:
"Luo Hao's judgment is that in about ten days, the tuna will migrate to the northern part of the archipelago."
The fuel consumption when traveling from China...
"Wait slowly at night. If the wind and waves are not too big, turn off the stabilizer. Tuna are particularly clever."
This income is not difficult for local fishery resources, Chen Yuan thinks. But if most of the fish caught are bonito, then there will be enough to make money, and it will be hard-earned money.
The waves pushed the boat, and the hull swayed gently, as if it was lying in a large cradle. The shaking feeling was not obvious, especially for people who work at sea for a long time.
Fishing for small fish on a jigging plate.
After catching the fish, Chen Yuan shouted: "Come on, Dabai."
"I've been out for many days, and the fuel gauge is almost bottoming out."
"Master, how's the catch?"
Then use small fish as bait to catch big fish.
"Okay. Come closer..."
The fishing fee, that is, the entrance fee, the cost of installing the fishery signal transmitter, the cost of entering the net... This is 2.9 million yuan.
"Dongjiang Fisheries went to the northern part of the archipelago. There are a lot of fish there. I talked with Xu Laosan in the evening and found that their longline fishing catch rate was more than 20%, but there were not many tuna.
It's bonito. He also asked us how the situation is here, but I didn't tell him." Zhao Hai's laughter was a bit wild.
"How was the battle last night?" Chen Yuan asked with a smile.
"The ship is busy. Let's refuel when it's not busy."
The small fish here usually weigh several kilograms.
Zhou Sheng brought up a large bottle of juice and asked, "How many tuna did you catch last night?"
Chen Yuan did a simple calculation and found that they had to ensure at least a daily income of 100,000 yuan before they could make a profit.
Chen Yuan was in control of the boat, while Zhou Sheng went over to help lift the fish. The two small tuna weighed seventy or eighty kilograms, and the big one should weigh about two hundred kilograms.
Dabai's ship uses oil quickly, but they have been here for a long time.
"They are all good in size," said Luo Laosi, "but they still feel like there are too few. We put more than 10,000 fish hooks here, and we caught more than two to three hundred fish in total."
"What's your size?"
"It's only been a few days and there's no fuel?"
"Okay. Let's use more rope here..." Gao He caught another big fish.
Chen Yuan turned off the microphone of the radio and went out to take a look at He Fei and the others.
"good."
The night is already deep.
"It's not bad." Lin Xinhai said with a smile: "Two strings of fishhooks have been raised, and now it is the third string, which is almost half. There should be about two hundred tuna in total."
Having three fish like this in one night is already a pretty good harvest.
"That's okay. After dinner, we'll go to the Big Fish. The tuna needs to be ultra-low temperature as soon as possible, otherwise the meat quality will not be good."
"It doesn't matter whether there are more fish or less. What matters is whether the fish caught is worth the money." Gao congratulated: "We are also collecting fish hooks here. We just went out to take a look, and there are really a lot of big tuna."
"That's not bad. He Fei and the others caught three tuna last night, please help get them up." Chen Yuan said while holding the walkie-talkie.
The fishy smell on the rear deck is a bit strong.
Nowadays, workers on the ship work in two shifts, with people taking breaks and machines not taking breaks. Paying for fishing means grabbing time to get more fish.
"No, there are only three."
"The three tuna were all big-eyed. It took the two of us several hours to catch one big tuna, and it was estimated to be close to two hundred kilograms," Yang Xun said.
He Fei and Yang Xun both put on life jackets and pulled out iron plates on the back deck.
"Alright."
"Okay, let's turn off the stabilizer in a while."
"A black-hearted middleman." Zhao Hai also shouted: "We are also collecting fish hooks and caught two good tuna. The price of these good-quality fish is higher for you, and we bear a heavy burden."
While they were cooking, Chen Yuan turned on the water pump and took out the water pipe to rinse the back deck.
"There is one that weighs almost two hundred pounds..."
"Did you catch any fish?" Zhou Sheng also walked out.
Chen Yuan and the others returned to the cabin, and soon they felt that the stabilizer had been turned off.
The sun has already risen.
The laughter of Zhao Hai and Luo Laosi came from the speakers.
When I woke up, it was after eight o'clock the next morning.
"Three. Two small ones and one big one." He Fei said with a smile.
Gao congratulates them on the 39 people on the fishing boat. If each person is 500 yuan per day, the labor cost per day is 20,000 yuan. The fishing fee, the cost of operating days, plus fuel consumption...
"Sailfish on a cart, not bad."
"Okay. The price of the best tuna is higher for you, okay." Luo Laosi said.
He Fei, Yang Xun and the others were cooking outside and smelled the fish meatballs.
"How many hooks have been collected?"
After dinner, Chen Yuan drove the boat to the Big Fish.
"Caught a few small fish." Yang Xun said.
In addition to tuna and swordfish, we also caught some surffish and bonito.
"Then we have to pay a lot, okay? A refrigerated transport ship, 40 million. And Chen Yuan's Dabai, 15 million... If we don't find a way to make more, we will lose money.
"Luo Laosi said.
Chen Yuan climbed up the ladder to the cockpit and saw sunlight shining through the glass...
Chen Yuan and the others were nearby watching Lin Xinhai and the others catch fish. The speed of retrieving the rope was really unsatisfactory, and they had not seen a fish for a long time. But as long as a fish came up, it would most likely be a big fish.
This is good, as long as there are many valuable fish, the harvest will be good.
For two hundred tuna, if the profit of 1 pound of tuna is 30 yuan when transported back to China, then they can earn 700,000 to 800,000 yuan. Chen Yuan looked here for a long time, and the tuna that came up were all very big. After all, they
The fishhooks used are all palm-sized hooks...
There are also many big fish in this sea area. On average, each fish definitely weighs more than 120 kilograms.