Because the Fu'an fleet arrived in Tuguo a little late, in total, the fleet had been operating in Tuguo for 9 days.
Calculated based on longline fishing vessels within 50 meters, the Fu'an fleet has purchased a total of 72 standard operating days in the country.
For longline fishing vessels within 50 meters, the operation coefficient is 0.5, which is 36 operation days, or effort.
One standard working day is equivalent to about 15,000 yuan. It is 7,000 yuan cheaper than in Kiribati.
Tuvalu in Polynesian means the group of eight islands, just eight islands or atolls. In eight days, Chen Yuan and the others roughly ran around in a circle. The main thing was to turn around all the previous punctuation points.
Tuvalu is close to the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati, and the climate, environment, sea area, etc. are not very different. Therefore, the tuna here are also relatively large. Seventy to eighty percent of the tuna caught are adult tuna, so
Mainly yellow fin.
At noon, a large group of dark clouds drifted over from afar.
"Try your best. Have the longline fishing boats from my childhood left?"
"Why not go to Gilbert?"
Chen Yuan was about to start the fishing boat when the satellite phone rang: "Hello."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Jianguo turned around and asked after hearing Chen Yuan's curse.
One thing I have to admit is that the Yankees' equipment is more advanced. This is not just because of helicopters. Theirs is a tuna seine boat, which is 70 to 80 meters long and can carry powerful equipment. In addition to these, large American fishing boats also
The external equipment that can be used is commercial ocean satellites.
Baymax's speed was so fast that rainwater flowed from the windshield.
Chen Yuan stared at the remote sensing fish finder and vertical fish finder...
Half an hour later, Zhou Sheng stopped the boat and Zhou Jianguo took back the drone...
After lunch, it started to rain heavily.
"Have you found anything?" Zhou Jianguo looked at Chen Yuan.
After more than two hours, the fishing boat escaped from the thunderstorm cloud area. The sky cleared and the sun could be seen again.
Zhou Jianguo drove the boat and glanced at the 'collision avoidance' screen from time to time.
More than 20,000 fish hooks, 5 tuna. There are 3 large super tuna, and the remaining two, one weighs more than 30 kilograms, and the other weighs more than 40 kilograms.
After previous calculations, Chen Yuan and the others unified the length of the ropes. They placed two ropes, one 110,000 meters and the other 90,000 meters. The total is 200,000 meters, which is just right to retract and unwind the ropes in one day.
"So miserable?" Zhao Hai's voice came out.
"Nothing was found..." Just as he was talking, Zhou Jianguo also saw the Yankee helicopter.
"I heard it." Chen Yuan said, "What's the matter?"
"It's not working these days. Zhao Hai, Qian Degui and their fishing boats haven't made any money. We have to find a school of fish. We will try to have the nanny return home with a full load when we leave Tu Country."
"The fishing boat going to Gilbert is full and we can't get in."
Qian Degui's boat's fish catch today was bleak, but the fish catch the previous time was pretty good. Overall, their boat didn't make a loss, but it didn't make much.
"Okay, I'm going to look for fish." Chen Yuan scratched his head and started the fishing boat.
Qian Degui laughed: "Your situation is not much better."
Zhou Sheng also saw it and said: "The Yankee's helicopter."
"Gan." In the distance, Chen Yuan saw the Yankee helicopter again: "It's paralyzing."
There is no accurate ocean current map. In the past few days, Chen Yuan and the others have only found one level 2 punctuation point and five level 1 punctuation points.
Chen Yuan went to the bow of the ship to remove the remote sensor, installed it on the drone, and then released the drone.
"Go to the southeast sea and have a look. If there are no fish, go north." Luo Hao said.
About five days ago, Chen Yuan found a school of fish in the water. But when he saw the school of fish, the Yankee helicopter also flew over, and their fishing boat was close to the school of fish.
I went in to drink some water, rest for a while, and waited for Zhou Jianguo to replace the drone battery and set off again...
"The American helicopter is coming again." Chen Yuan pointed in the direction of half past six and said loudly.
"Contact the fleet and ask the fishing boats that are not operating to come closer to us."
The density of fish in Pacific atoll island countries is actually not high. However, these countries have small populations and few fishing boats. Moreover, there are tuna, which are very big.
"Our next stop, Vanuatu?" Chen Yuan asked.
Their Fu'an company now has two boats, and they have only found 6 good marking points in total in the past few days. These marking points have all been assigned to Dayuhao and Gao Laogao. There are still some bad ones left, but they can be used to set fish hooks.
, only to Lao Qian, Lao Zhao, Xu San and Liu Si.
"No." Chen Yuan waved his hand and came down from the observation platform. The sun was shining brightly, and Chen Yuan was still uncomfortable even though he was wearing sun protection clothing.
"OK."
This time, each fishing boat carries an auxiliary boat, which can lower two ropes at a time.
Then there are more than 500 messy fish, more than 90% of which are worthless fish. The purchase price at sea is in the single digits of 1 catty.
"Hello, Chen Yuan." Qian Degui's voice came from the radio channel.
"I'm going to the southeast, and then I'll search north. Are you no longer fishing offshore?" Chen Yuan asked.
Wind level three.
The helicopter was still far away, but it was coming towards them.
The 87 marking points were completed in a few days. Big Fish and Gao Laogao were each operating at a level 1 marking point, and the remaining fishing boats were all offshore the atoll.
"No. How's the fish catch over there?"
The remote sensor I’m using now is the one I bought in a thrift store last year. This remote sensor is very good. It’s not bad at all compared to Luo Hao’s new remote sensing fish finder.
I was unlucky this time and it was not the fishing season, so the fish catch was understandably poor.
"They are in the north, waiting for the Gilbert Islands to open to the sea, and then they will go there." Luo Hao said.
Three large supermarkets, based on the sea purchase price, are worth 17,000.
"exist."
"Anything found?"
After Dabai filled up the tank in the morning, it was directly into three-engine economic cruising, with a speed of 35 knots.
"I've seen it a long time ago. If you ask how many fishing boats are not working, they can almost move closer to this side." Chen Yuandao.
"I've finished collecting the fishhook here. Give me your position and I'll move closer to you." Qian Degui said.
"If he comes over, we will be in trouble." Chen Yuan took out the walkie-talkie: "Zhou Sheng."
Now Zhou Sheng is sailing the ship, cruising with twin engines.
Zhou Jianguo was on the bow deck of the ship, controlling the drone.
If calculated based on the number of hooks and fish caught, the fish catch rate in the offshore atoll is about 2.2%. That is four to five hundred fish caught in a day. But high-value tuna is usually only in the single digits.
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"It's better than you, and I can protect my capital." Zhao Hai said.
One drags six, it's too difficult.
"Hear."
Chen Yuan found the fish and told Luo Hao directly. Then Luo Hao made arrangements...
Chen Yuan climbed onto the top of the ship and observed the sea surface from the observation platform on the top of the ship.
The rain was getting heavier and there was thunder.
"I, Luo Hao."
"I just collected more than 20,000 fish hooks. I roughly calculated that the total value is about more than 40,000 yuan." Qian Degui's scalp was now numb.
"Jiba's..." Zhou Jianguo was also angry.
Since then, until now... no schools of fish have been found.
"right."
Ocean satellites are also available in China and are being put into commercial use, but the sea areas they are mainly targeting are major fishing grounds, such as Peruvian fishing grounds, Chilean fishing grounds, and North Pacific fishing grounds, which are areas where there are many Chinese fishing boats.
The Western and Central Pacific is dominated by the eight Nauruan countries, and the number of Chinese fishing boats fishing in the eight Nauruan countries is not large.
However, the United States accounts for a large share of the eight countries on Nauru. American fishing boats can use satellite remote sensing to extract key information services such as marine environment information and fish situation information forecast in real time.
Use this information to find schools of fish more easily.