Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng watched the plane get further and further away until it turned into a small dot and disappeared.
Zhou Sheng sighed and put his hand on Chen Yuan's shoulder: "Let's go, let's go eat."
"I have no money." Chen Yuan said, "You treat me."
"I don't have any money anymore." Zhou Sheng stared: "You don't have a penny on you?"
"Also, pay the berthing fee for Dabai." Chen Yuan took off Zhou Sheng's hand on his shoulder: "There is food on the ship. Come on board and cook."
"Time flies so fast. It feels like it didn't take long before work started again."
After arriving at the port and paying the berthing fee, Chen Yuan still had more than two hundred Australian dollars on him. With the money, the two bought some wheat beer and banana beer in the store.
Banana beer is very common in small equatorial countries, but it is not very tasty.
Return to the boat and reel in the rope.
"Dollars?"
"It really can use 2.5 tons. This ship has two 950-horsepower engines. Although the horsepower is large, the engine is not big, and the torque is a little small, resulting in the fan blades being small... How much fuel does your Dabai consume per hour?
"
"Are there many fish in Tuguo?" Gao He asked.
"After calculation, the daily fuel consumption is about 2.5 tons." Lao Qiu said: "With a full tank of fuel, it will be used up in 8 days."
"I am your master, Lao Hai...do you want to be beaten?"
Lao Qiu said 'hmm': "It's not bad. Where's the bonito?"
"Understood." Lao Qiu said with a smile: "We still have two ropes. After collecting them, we will go to Funafuti. You can stay over there."
"They also want to see quality. Can your freezer meet the requirements?"
Zhou Sheng cooked the rice outside and put the potatoes and beef into the casserole. He brought two bottles of beer from the freezer and said, "Here."
"We are in Funafuti Atoll, and fishing boats from other countries have already arrived." Chen Yuan said.
"How much fuel does our Dabai consume in a day?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"How much?"
"It's only 3 tons at most." Chen Yuan said: "In the last few days of July, Dabai worked at full capacity and the fuel consumption per day was less than 3 tons."
Chen Yuan took the beer, bit it open, and touched one with Zhou Sheng.
Chen Yuan stopped the boat and Zhou Sheng went in to wash the rice and cook it.
"Have you calculated your fuel consumption?" Chen Yuan asked.
"Yes." Lao Qiu was not very confident and said: "The minimum temperature of the freezer is minus 60 degrees Celsius, which has just reached the threshold level of the freezing room. It should be able to meet the requirements..."
After chatting for a while, Chen Yuan connected to the communication of Lu Lu and his fishing boat: "Lu Lu, Zhang Hang, this is Chen Yuan, got the answer."
"What happened just now? You laughed so lewdly." Zhou Sheng said.
Lao Qiu said "hmm" and said, "Okay, let me ask Lao Hai."
Today is the 21st, and we have already started fishing. These boats have just arrived and are being inspected.
"The fish in the sea are so worthless. By the way, what is the purchase price of Hualong and Red Dragon?"
"Roger, this is Lao Qiu. Lu Lu and Zhang Hang are sleeping. They work the night shift. I got the answer."
"12 cubic meters, that's several tons." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.
Chen Yuan chuckled and said: "2.5 tons of diesel per day. If the tuna you caught and frozen does not meet the standard, you will lose money."
"We can arrive tomorrow. You are investigating the fish situation first, and we will start operations after we accept the inspection." Lin Xinhai.
"It's not bad. I estimate there are six or seven tons of tuna, but the ultra-low temperature box is too small. The smaller tuna is cryogenically frozen. How much does one ton of cryogenically frozen tuna cost?"
The freezing chamber of Chen Yuan's Big Fish can reach minus 70 degrees Celsius. The lowest temperature in the ultra-low temperature chamber is minus 60 degrees Celsius. However, generally speaking, tuna that has been completely frozen in the freezing chamber can maintain a temperature of minus 55 degrees Celsius.
That's almost it.
"Bonito, 700 US dollars. The freezer ship should be Xiaoni's, it's very dark." Lao Qiu said: "But if it's ultra-low temperature frozen tuna, the price is not bad, 11,000 US dollars per ton."
"Their fishing boat is equipped with four marine ultra-low temperature freezers, with a total of only 12 cubic meters." Chen Yuan said.
"How come the fuel consumption of their ship is so good?" Zhou Sheng took a sip of wine and said, "Didn't they change the main engine?"
Zhou Sheng was speechless: "I told them before that we should switch to a commercial host. Damn, the yacht's engine is installed on a fishing boat... with a fuel consumption of 2.5 tons a day, can you still make money?"
"Your fuel consumption is a bit scary." Chen Yuan laughed. The fuel consumption of their fishing boat has almost caught up with Dabai's.
"Can we really use 2.5 tons in one day?" Chen Yuan did the math and found it a bit incredible.
Parked not far from the port is an American-style tuna seine boat, several longline fishing boats, and a refrigerated transport ship.
"It should be okay." Chen Yuan shrugged.
But the lagoon of this atoll belongs to the private land of local fishermen.
"I'll go, is it true or not?" Zhou Sheng was also shocked.
"Dollar."
"I took a look at it when I came here, and it was just average."
"Ruby's ship is full. They are also on their way to Funafuti..." Lin Xinhai.
Local lobsters are cheap, mainly because the population here is small.
"Copy that. How did you get it?"
Chen Yuan launched Dabai and left the port.
The yacht engine they used for their boat, and there was also a generator set on the boat.
"The current international price of low-temperature-frozen, small-sized tuna should be in the early 3,000s."
"One seine boat and three longline boats." Chen Yuandao.
The reason why super tuna is so expensive is that it must be frozen. Moreover, tuna needs to reach minus 60 degrees Celsius before all the water in the cells will form crystals.
The country of Tu, one of the least economically developed countries, does not have the ability to develop its own marine fishery resources. The lagoon fishery resources are rich and the water is calm, so fishing in the lagoon is much less difficult.
Chen Yuan chuckled: "Where have you been?"
"The fuel consumption of their ship is already high, and it is equipped with an ultra-low temperature freezer..."
Chen Yuan had turned off the wireless phone and said with a smile: "Zhang Hang's ship requires 2.5 tons of diesel fuel."
Chen Yuan turned on the radio and entered the radio communication channel of Fu'an Fishery: "Chen Yuan called Lao Hai and received the answer."
"There are refrigerated ships available in Funafuti. What is the price they quoted?"
"I don't know. But it's definitely not expensive... I guess it costs more than 20 yuan per catty," Chen Yuan said.
Chen Yuan glanced at the fuel gauge, pushed the throttle lever, entered the depths of the lagoon, and used a fish detector to detect the fish conditions in the lagoon.
"Gilbert Islands."
Due to the conditions of Chen Yuan's fleet, the lobsters they collect can only be frozen at ultra-low temperatures, and they cannot transport fresh products. The price of frozen lobsters depends on the size of the lobsters. The wholesale price of the most expensive frozen lobsters is only tens of yuan.
1 catty. Smaller rock dragons and flower dragons can be bought for thirty or forty yuan per catty.
Not to mention, there are a lot of fish in the lagoon.
"The current price of bonito is about US$2,300 per ton. If you collect it at sea, you can get up to 40%." Chen Yuandao said: "The price of fish is probably at its peak now. It is risky to collect fish at half price. If we send these fish back, they cannot be sold at international prices."
"No." Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Their fishing boats eat the same oil as us."
There are only eight workers on their boat, except Lu Lu, Zhang Hang, and Lao Qiu.
That is to say, there are nine workers, and the dividends received by the workers are directly up to 40%.
If the tuna coming out of the ultra-low temperature freezer on their ship is of good freezing quality, they should be able to make money. In these twelve days, even if it is 7 tons of tuna, each ton is calculated as 70,000 yuan, 7 tons...490,000.
Diesel at sea is expensive. For 12 days and 30 tons of oil, there is still a profit of hundreds of thousands.