Chen Yuan and the others got up after seven o'clock.
At the equator, the sun rises very early. Generally speaking, the sun rises at six o'clock in the morning local time.
The morning sun was out of heat and warm.
Yang Xun and the others had already put away their fishing rods and were making breakfast.
After Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng stretched on the deck, Chen Yuan went to the bow of the ship and did sit-ups and push-ups.
After not exercising for a long time, my body felt like it was rusty. After a long time, Chen Yuan saw a small dot at the end of the sea. If he looked carefully, it was a white boat...
Chen Yuan simply moved around, and after breakfast, Chen Yuan turned on the wireless phone: "Ruby, Zhang Hang, I got the reply."
"receive."
Chen Yuan then reported the position of his ship to them and asked: "Is the white ship in front of us yours?"
"That's an average size." Zhou Sheng said: "When fishing for tuna, you can try to get some live squid, octopus, and mackerel. Tuna likes to eat these the most... If you use octopus, don't be too big.
Big."
"Zhang Hang, you are here." Lin Xinhai said.
"Received." Zhang Hang said.
The speed of their boat is okay, but the speed of releasing the rope is too slow. With a 15,000-meter rope, tuna hooks and some short-line hooks, there should be more than 20,000 fishhooks in total, and nearly 4
hours.
"good."
"How many workers are on your ship?" Chen Yuan asked.
Chen Yuan started the fishing boat and drove towards them at full power. The speed was getting faster and faster. When it was near Zhang Hang and his fishing boat, the speed reached 53 knots.
Still more than ten nautical miles away from the Big Fish, Zhang Hang and the others stopped the boat and began to set the hook.
It's already past one o'clock in the afternoon.
"One is small, and the other three are pretty good, estimated to be close to one hundred pounds." He Fei said.
Chen Yuan and the others were moving too fast, and they could only hear the roar of machinery, the sound of wind, and the sound of breaking waves.
“How many tuna were caught?”
Zhang Hang is also a novice in the profession of fishing. Lupi often goes out to fish, and he also uses long lines, but he uses a small boat within ten meters, and everything is done manually.
"good."
After smoking a cigarette, Zhang Hang and his fishing boat finally approached.
"Hi." Ruby shouted with a smile: "What was the speed of your ship just now?"
Early the next morning, when Chen Yuan and others woke up, Lu Lu and his friends were still collecting fish hooks on their fishing boat.
Professional longline fishing, Lupi is also a novice. And the degree of automation of their fishing boats is very low...
"Including Zhang Hang and I, there are 16 people on our boat." Ruby said.
But if you want to have a good harvest, you have to determine the water layer where the fish is. The depth of how many meters the fishhook is placed determines the fish catch rate.
Chen Yuan drove the boat, circled around Zhang Hang and the others, then parked the boat next to them, then handed the driving seat to He Fei, and walked out with Zhou Sheng: "Hi."
"Once we become more proficient, our efficiency should improve a lot."
Tuna is said to be a fish that never rests and is always swimming.
Chen Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie: "Ruby, Zhang Hang?"
Find a place where there are many fish, keep putting the fishhook, and then retract the fishhook.
"I saw Brother Chen's yacht." Zhang Hang said.
Chen Yuan and the others approached the Big Fish. They first brought the tuna caught by He Fei and the others onto the fishing boat, then took a box of fishhooks from the boat and sent it to Zhang Hang and the others.
"We caught four tuna last night, all of which were bigeyes," He Fei said.
"Okay. Let's go to the fishing boat first." Chen Yuandao: "Is it big?"
To longline fish for tuna, the branch line of the fishhook must be very long. In this case, after the tuna bites the fishhook, it can continue to swim. Therefore, when fishing for tuna, the branch line of the fishhook must be long, and the branch line and the branch line must be long.
The spacing distance between them should be at least twice the length of the branch line.
"Chen, can we close the fishhook now?" Ruby asked.
"Fifty-three." Chen Yuandao.
"It's easy to catch octopus by fishing the bottom with fluorescent bait. This boat has a fish detector. You can try to find if there are any octopus at night." Zhou Sheng took out a cigarette, handed one to Yang Xun and the others, and threw it to Chen
One far away.
"The depth of the hook was not set properly, and there were few fish caught. In the second string, we only caught one-third, and the fish caught was obviously more." Zhang Hang said with a smile.
"What are you doing? Why are you releasing the hook so slowly?" Chen Yuan asked, holding a walkie-talkie.
"The workers on our ship are all novices and are slow," Zhang Hang said.
"How to catch octopus?" Yang Xun asked.
"Yes. We are very close to your ship."
Zhang Hang made an OK gesture.
"The first string of fish hooks caught 4 tuna and one swordfish." Zhang Hang said: "The fish have been sent to Master Zhang's boat. Now the second string of fish hooks has caught 3 tuna."
“It’s so enjoyable.”
In longline fishing, the more hooks there are, the greater the probability of catching a fish. Their fishing boats can put more than two thousand tuna hooks...
Chen Yuan did nothing during this day.
Chen Yuan and others were not far from Zhang Hang and Lu Lu's fishing boat and watched them set the hook.
"It's ready. Be safe, we have to go to sleep."
They have some tuna hooks on the boat and you can put a rope on them first.
"OK."
Longline fishing is easy.
Zhang Hang and the others were all novices. When controlling the depth of the fishing hook, everyone on the boat was in a hurry.
Chen Yuan said ‘hmm’: “Come here first.”
Lu Lu and Zhang Hang saw Chen Yuan and the others coming from the bridge. They both walked out of the cabin and shouted: "Hi..."
"Okay. Thank you for today."
15,000 meters of dry rope can only hold more than a thousand tuna hooks.
This is because the tuna's gill cover muscles have degenerated and are unable to inhale seawater. Once it stops, it will die of lack of oxygen, so it keeps swimming and never stops.
The longline fishing boat owned by Lu Lu and Zhang Hang is an offshore fishing boat. It is too reluctant to fish for tuna in the far sea.
"You have to work harder. Your efficiency is too low. You can't make any money like this." Chen Yuan said.
Chen Yuan said 'hmm': "I've brought the fishhook for you. Stop the boat and I'll send it over to you first."
Lupi and Zhang Hang's fishing boats started cruising at high speed. The speed did not reach 25 knots, but only made about 22 or 23 knots.
"It's okay. There are skills in how to set the fishhook. Set it deep during the day and shallow at night... We will teach you these things gradually in the future."
The first rope took nearly 5 hours, and it can be said that it was placed randomly.
"Let's go, we went fishing."
Chen Yuan said ‘hmm’ and said, “Come on.”
After dinner, Zhang Hang and the others have not arrived yet.
Chen Yuan guided them to set the hook for the second rope, which was 15,000 meters long and took more than six hours to set.
"So few?"
Like Chen Yuan's fishing boat, they set more than 10,000 hooks at a time. If they are lucky, they will catch more than 100 or 200 tuna. If they are average, they will only catch 70 or 80 tuna.
Chen Yuan's longline fishing boat can release and retract the hook much faster than Zhang Hang and his team.
The fuel consumption of Zhang Hang and his fishing boats is still high.
If the operating efficiency cannot be improved, they can still make money. After all, there is no fishing fee for their fishing boats. But they will definitely not make much.