Chen Yuan and the others stopped the boat, went ashore to eat something, and then purchased some supplies.
When I came back in the evening, the nanny had already left to sell fish.
Since last year, tuna and bonito prices have been very strong in major global markets.
For example, the price of skipjack tuna in Ecuador has reached US$1,800 per ton. The price of yellowfin tuna has reached more than US$2,700 per ton.
The price in Bangkok is cheaper, with bonito at US$1,680 per ton and yellowfin tuna at more than US$2,400 per ton.
The company contacted by Fu'an Fishery stated that yellowfin tuna is US$2,260 per ton, which is a price determined in advance. Furthermore, they deliver the fish at sea, which is cheaper.
Albacore and bigeye tuna, $2,000 per ton.
These fish are required to weigh more than 17 kilograms.
The prices of tuna and bonito should have been rising since the year before last. This is mainly due to the prohibition and reduction of FAD (fishing aggregation devices) in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions. And then there is the sharp increase in oil prices...
The rise in tuna prices will have the biggest impact on Europe and the United States. These countries are very strong...
Chen Yuan and his other fishing boats will not be able to enter the waters of the atoll country until November...
"Why so little?"
These reasons have also resulted in fishing boats queuing up to enter the PNA fishing area.
"Luo Hao and Master are looking for you."
"Only half of the tuna caught in Tuvalu is sold. There are now large stocks of large tuna, and the price is high, but the sales volume is not good. Over in Varuatu, they are all cheap fish... Over here in Solomon
The situation is not very good. If Varuatu is calculated separately, the profit is only 3.11 million yuan." Luo Hao said.
Zhao Hai's fishing boats cost about 450,000 yuan each.
That’s mainly what I’m talking about.
"The water here is only a few dozen meters deep. How about I try fishing on the bottom? Fishing for grouper." Zhao Hai asked.
"I want to try."
Last month, that is, September, fishing was mainly in Tuvalu and Varuatu. I came to the Solomon Islands on September 25th, and the profits from the Solomon Islands have not yet come out.
"Oh. I'll make satellite phone calls from now on... It's National Day, do you have a holiday?"
"I know, let's go play for a few days, stay on the shore and not go into the water."
"A friend of mine, Huang Hao, if you remember, he has a tuna purse seine boat of more than 60 meters, which mainly fishes in the Indian Ocean. In the past, the supervision of fish aggregating devices was very strict, but starting last month, he
I saw many European and American fishing boats using fish aggregation devices, and their fishing boat also started to use them.”
"I sent you a WeChat message, why didn't I reply?" Yan Xiaoxi asked.
Six fishing boats can produce eighty or ninety tons in one day. With the little nanny's transportation capacity, one boat can be filled in four or five days.
"Fishing here is really bad. Although there are many fish, there are too few big fish..."
"Don't you have satellite network on your ship?"
"That's all."
"He also did domestic market research. At this stage, the tuna reserves in domestic freezers are not high." Lin Xinhai said.
Many island countries in the Western Pacific, although economically backward, are rich in marine resources.
"After seven days, we are going to go to Hailing and stay at your house." Yan Xiaoxi said.
"The fish catch rate at the bottom is not high..."
The fleet has arrived in the eastern waters of Nalekel Island.
"So, the prices of bonito and tuna are going to drop?" Luo Hao said.
"Where did you hear that?" Luo Hao asked.
Going north, the fish catch rate increased. I mainly caught tuna and marlin, but also caught some other fish. The hooks used were relatively large, and the fish that came up were at least several kilograms each.
The raw materials for bonito and tuna are expensive, and it is difficult for factories to engage in fishery processing.
"That's not clear. How about the market research conducted by Wang Peng?"
I caught some grouper, snapper, red rockfish... These are all valuable fish, but after calculation, the total value is only more than 60,000.
Chen Yuan and the others still caught a lot of fish at the punctuation points they were looking for, but most of these fish were worthless.
Chen Yuan hung up the phone and sat in the driver's seat given by Zhou Sheng: "Hello, Master."
"What are you doing?" Chen Yuan answered the phone.
"9.61 million."
"Hello."
One boat, about 350 tons of fish, was sold for a total of 590,000 US dollars, which is 4.1 million yuan.
"exist."
"No signal."
"Zhou Sheng called me, I don't know what happened, let me go in and have a look..." Chen Yuan said as he walked into the cabin: "What's the matter?"
The main consumer countries of canned tuna are Europe and the United States, and Asians, especially the Chinese... are not interested in canned tuna.
"OK."
"In..." Lin Xinhai responded, our company's profit came out last month.
"No. There is no such thing as a holiday at sea..." Chen Yuan smiled and said, "You guys have a holiday?"
"You should be busy and call me back when you have time. We are getting ready to take the high-speed rail." Yan Xiaoxi said.
"Chen Yuan, are you there?" Zhao Hai called through the radio.
Chen Yuan was about to go back and lie down for a while. He had nothing to do and was very free. Gao's congratulatory voice came from the radio again: "I received news here that the IOTC National Economic Exclusive Zone will relax restrictions on fish aggregation devices. If this restriction is relaxed
, tuna prices will plummet."
It took ten days to load the fish, but this was because the loading was too slow.
The profits of Zhao Hai and his fishing boats are pretty good. Calculated, they amount to 27,000 yuan per day. This profit is already more than 99% of that of longline fishing boats of the same size.
Zhao Hai still tried fishing for the bottom and put out 90,000 meters of rope. It was easy to put down this single rope, but it took time to take it back... It took two whole days.
If an independent fishing boat can earn about 30,000 yuan a day, that is very good.
Their fleet catches a lot of fish, but the operating costs are much higher than other fishing boats.
"I use the EP branch."
Zhao Hai's fishing boat arrived first, with a total of 6 days of operation, averaging 75,000 yuan per day. They still had some fish caught on the boat, which was estimated to be 90,000 or 100,000 yuan in one day.
"That's our home..." Chen Yuan said with a smile: "I'm not here, so don't go out to play in the water by yourself, it's not safe."
"Then let's give it a try." Chen Yuan said with a smile.
The freezer ship rented by Fu'an Fishery finally arrived. A freezer ship loaded with thousands of tons of fish can be filled in about ten days. These fish are not only Fu'an fleet's own catch, Luo Hao also contacted other fishing boats and purchased some
Fish catch.
Yan Xiaoxi called via satellite phone.
The transaction process went smoothly.
In the 12 days in Tuvalu, the total amount of tuna caught was still relatively large.
"Be careful of hanging at the bottom, the rope cannot be pulled up." Luo Hao said.
While they were chatting, Zhou Sheng shouted in the cabin: "Chen Yuan."
"Hey." Chen Yuan replied.
When the output is low, the price will naturally be high.
We don't use much oil, but when we calculate wages and daily operating costs, we end up losing money.
This is selling fish at sea, and the cost paid by Fu'an Fishery is relatively low. If calculated based on 50% of the selling price, Zhao Hai and his fishing boats would not make much money, so they gave them more.
"The seabed here is rocky and coral-laden, so be careful if the main line hangs on the bottom."
By October, Chen Yuan and the others had arrived in the Solomon Islands.
There are two longline fishing boats in the Solomon Islands that call on Dongjiang Fisheries, and their daily profit is about 10,000 yuan.
After Zhao Hai's 'try', everyone was honest and concentrated on fishing for tuna.
"Are you going to be busy?"
Fishing boats using fish aggregating devices netted dozens and hundreds of tons of fish. Luo Hao contacted two purse seine boats, and the catch amounted to more than 500 tons of fish in four days.
"How many?"
"It's not open. Last month, I spent more than 70,000 yuan paying for the satellite network. It's too expensive."
"Okay." Chen Yuan then said to Yan Xiaoxi, "I'm busy here and will call you back later."
There is also a big tuna consumer over there, but they mainly sell sashimi, that is, the demand for conventional ultra-low-temperature tuna is huge.
"Whatever, we are going to the Marshall Islands next month. The main thing now is to contact Xiaozhi and catch the big tuna at the end of the year. That will be the big one." Chen Yuandao.
Luo Hao said 'hmm': "Wang Peng and the others will go to Tokyo in a few days."
Domestically speaking, the market for high-quality tuna is still small. This is mainly because there are not many top sashimi restaurants in the country and they are scattered.
If you want to sell tuna at a high price, you should send it to Xiaori. The large-scale tuna from Xiaori is in high demand and the price is better.