Zhou Jianguo and Luo Hao were chatting on the fleet’s public channel.
Hearing Zhou Jianguo's excited voice, Zhao Hai and the others were also a little excited.
In the past two months, their harvest could only be considered average. In October, they experienced high temperatures and negative pressure, but they still maintained good profits...
One boat can earn two to three hundred thousand a month, which is what most longline fishing boats of the same level can do.
And compared with what they harvested in the Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu, it was not even the slightest bit worse.
Now in the Gilbert Islands, the daily operating fee is 22,000 yuan.
The Marshall Islands is just north of the Giltbo Islands, and the operating fees here are also expensive, especially at the end of the year... There will be a fishing season at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, and the daily operating costs are as high as 21,000 yuan.
Chen Yuan and the others are not afraid of high operating fees, but they are afraid of not having fish.
As long as you can make money back, that's fine.
After Luo Hao answered the phone, he walked over and said, "Hello."
"Master is looking for you, come in." Zhou Sheng shouted.
200,000 meters of dry rope can hold almost 20,000 fishhooks. Of course, this many cannot be placed during actual operations, and there is no need to put so many.
"I'm on the old tall ship."
Deep-water tuna schools, which means adult fish. In water depths of more than 200 meters, yellowfin tuna or big-eye tuna...
"Call Chen Yuan and Zhou Jianguo."
"How deep should I put the fishhook here?"
"Zhou Sheng." Lin Xinhai contacted Chen Yuan.
Lin Xinhai's voice came over the radio: "I have arrived at the marking point. There is a school of fish here at a depth of about 400 meters. It should be bigeye or yellowfin tuna."
Before the homework even started, everyone's moods were aroused and they chatted until very late.
In order to come here to catch tuna, they kept all the worthless fish on the boat, so as not to run out of bait later and have to fish for special bait.
The next day, after ten o'clock in the morning, the Big Fish drove out from Majuro Atoll and went straight to Marking Point No. 11, which was the level 2 marking point found yesterday.
Chen Yuan and the others slowed down and chased the tuna. In the evening, the fish came to a small eddy sea area. The fish floated up and were already within a hundred meters.
"receive."
"Okay." Luo Hao smiled and said, "How many."
Lin Xinhai observed through fish detectors that there are quite a lot of tuna in this large area of sea. However, during the day, these tuna are all in deep water areas.
"Wait for the drone to come back." Zhou Jianguo controlled the drone back, took off the remote sensor and hung it on the bow, and entered the cockpit with Zhou Sheng...
Luo Hao interjected: "Isn't it a little late to put the fishhook at two o'clock in the afternoon?"
The dry line of longline fishing will go down, so sink the dry line...Use the length of the buoy branch line to calculate the hook depth.
"After chasing this school of fish in the afternoon, we have to work overtime in the evening to check out the nearby landmarks," Zhou Jianguo said.
"Wait until after two o'clock in the afternoon before sending out the fish hooks," Chen Yuan said.
"How many punctuation points have been determined today?" Gao He asked.
"The tuna in the water layer of nearly 400 meters has a bad mouth...it's okay. By the way, what's the density of the fish?"
Zhao Hai, Qian Degui, Lao Xu and Lao Liu, their fishing boats also came out of the atoll and rushed to the remaining level 1 landmarks...
"It's the same on our ship. The freezer compartment is full of mackerel," said Zhao Hai.
"Okay, you guys come over quickly and get closer to us."
"Okay." Chen Yuan replied with a smile.
I estimate that putting 15,000 fishhooks is a lot.
Zhou He saw Luo Hao coming back with a smile on his face: "Have you made a big discovery?"
"It's done."
"Fish, put more hooks. We still have plenty of bait."
"Chen Yuan, Zhou Sheng, old cousin Jianguo..." Gao He took the walkie-talkie and shouted.
"A school of deep-water tuna, more than a hundred fish. The water depth is more than 200 meters..."
Chen Yuan dialed Luo Hao's phone number.
"OK."
Chen Yuan thought for a while and said: "Put 380 meters - 20 meters. Don't rush to set the hook now. Have you done the preparations?"
"What level of punctuation?"
"Okay, we are inspecting the ship here, and we will leave in an hour."
Luo Hao also listened to the radio channel.
"Here." Zhou Sheng was in the cab.
It’s still very hot in the Marshall Islands right now. If bluefin tuna comes over, it’s really possible that it’s in the water layer around 400 meters.
Zhou Jianguo excitedly patted Chen Yuan on the shoulder: "Zhou Sheng, stop the boat..."
The drone launched by Chen Yuan had just received a dense biological signal. According to calculations, the water depth was more than two hundred meters.
"It's possible. But the possibility is very small... There is a high probability that he is a big-eyed guy."
This eddy sea area is relatively small, so it is probably a gathering area for fish. Put the auxiliary boat down and put two ropes at a time, but it cannot be pulled apart.
Gao He and his fishing boats also came over.
It is difficult to judge the water depth of 400 meters. In the Gilbert Islands, the main habitat depth of bigeye tuna is between 240 and 80 meters.
Gao He is also exhausted. The past two months have been tepid. The fish catch is quite large every day, but valuable fish are rarely seen. Every time he collects the fish hook, there is no excitement in his heart and no sense of expectation.
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"Thank you for your hard work. Leave the rest of the work to us, and you can be busy with other things." Gao He's fishing boat came over, but the auxiliary boat didn't put it down and just lowered the fishhook.
"Four. In just one afternoon, four punctuation points were determined that can be hooked..."
"No, he and old cousin Jianguo are flying drones outside."
At this time of year, there are very few bluefin tuna, and it must be December.
At 12 o'clock, the Big Fish arrived at the designated location.
"There is a school of deep-water tuna, with more than a hundred fish in number and a depth of more than 200 meters. We are chasing it, and we should have a good harvest."
"There are a lot of them, more than a hundred tons of bait." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.
"Is Chen Yuan next to you?"
"They are all level 1." Chen Yuan said with a smile: "The marking points of level 1 are also very good. If each ship has its own marking point, the daily harvest will be very considerable."
Luo Hao got up when he heard haha.
"immediately……"
"School of Fish." Lin Xinhai.
"We found a school of tuna here. Are you on the nanny boat now?"
"Cowhide." Gao He said with a smile: "By the way, the fish layer at the 400-meter-deep fish layer marked by Brother Hai and his friends, is it possible that it is bluefin tuna?"
The length of the fishhook branch line is now uniformly 3 meters. The distance between two fishhook is 9 to 10 meters.
Zhou Sheng turned the steering wheel to steer the fishing boat away from the sea, and then stopped to cook dinner...
When fishing for tuna in the exclusive economic zones of atolls in the central and western Pacific, fishing is usually done with deep-water longlines, with hooks reaching a depth of 40 to 400m. This depth covers most of the habitat depths of bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna. However, bigeye tuna and
Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna are at most between 240 meters and 80 meters. Yellowfin tuna is even shallower.
"The deep ones must be bigeye tuna, or yellowfin tuna... At four hundred meters deep, it must be bigeye tuna." Four hundred meters, this depth is too deep. It may also be bluefin tuna, but this season...
"The tuna here are big. After setting the hook, you start to collect it... It is best to release the hook in a roundabout way. The hook that is released first is collected first. To maintain the quality of the fish..." Chen Yuan said.
Chen Yuan said 'hmm': "Okay."
In the past two months, Chen Yuan and the others had been enjoying their time. They were doing nothing on the boat every day, playing cards...or fishing...or diving for seafood. It was not work at all, but a vacation.
"If our fleet has been operating in the marked sea area, even if it is a level 1 mark, we will gain a lot every day." Zhou Sheng said.
"It depends on whether there are a lot of yellowfin tuna," Chen Yuandao said.