A few people were chatting and making trouble for a while.
Chen Hao next to him showed serious confusion and said: "It should be easier to find fish schools if you go downstream."
If the boat goes with the current, fish like to go against the current. If the boat goes with the current, it is easier to find fish schools.
Chen Yuan, Gao He and the others looked at each other and smiled.
Zhou Jianguo explained from the side: "Finding tuna is never as simple as downstream or countercurrent. It depends on the season and climate. This year's climate is abnormal. The southern hemisphere has been hot, and the temperature outside the Antarctic Circle is very good..."
When looking for tuna, in addition to migratory habits, look where there is more food.
Actually, you can take any route. However, there are relatively few southern bluefin tuna in the eastern part of the Pacific. If you go to the west, you are more likely to encounter schools of fish.
In the end, it was Zhou Jianguo who made the decision to go to the Pacific West.
This year's weather is hot, and southern bluefin tuna are mostly concentrated in the outer reaches of the Southern Ocean, where food is abundant.
The tuna caught by Chen Yuan and others this time are relatively large and fat. Many of them can be sold at a good price...
In the first half of the year, they fished for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean, and they had the experience of catching a full tank in one net three times. More than two thousand tons were caught in one net, all of which were bonito and yellowfin tuna. That was when they caught up with the migrating fish, but
Those fish are worthless.
Bonito, $1,341 per ton.
Bluefin tuna, US$1980-2315 per ton.
However, the number was considerable, and the network with the highest value earned US$4 million.
But compared with bluefin tuna, the gap is huge.
This year’s bluefin tuna catch was large, and the average transaction price was not high, but the price of high-quality bluefin tuna has increased a lot. In this year’s first auction in Japan, a 196-kilogram bluefin tuna was sold for US$1.59 million.
First competition...
Similar to the headfish caught in the east of Chagan Lake, it has no particular reference value.
The reference for the price of the best bluefin tuna is the weekly auction price...
Setting up and closing a two-kilometer-long seine is very fast if everything goes well. But if something unexpected happens, the step of closing the net will take several days.
There were all skilled workers on board, and everything went smoothly this time.
The Pacific Ocean is not peaceful at all. But compared with the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, the sea conditions here are much better.
It's a breeze again today and the sea surface swell is very small.
Chen Yuan went to the observation deck and observed the sea with a telescope.
Without a helicopter, if you want to find fish, you can only use auxiliary boats, or the fishing boat's own equipment, and climb up to observation decks to observe.
From the observation deck more than ten meters high, you can see far and far away. Chen Yuan saw a whale leaping out of the sea in the southern sea...
While he was watching intently, Chen Hao climbed over with a thermos cup in hand: "Brother."
Chen Yuan looked over.
"Drink tea." Chen Hao handed the cup to Chen Yuan.
"Thanks."
"I just made tea, it's hot." Chen Hao assisted the steel pipe of the guardrail: "Did you notice it?"
"No. There are not many fish here, and there are not many fish in the water." Chen Yuan put down the binoculars and sat down: "Have you paid off your mortgage in the past few years?"
"It's all paid off." Chen Hao said with a smile: "It was paid off last month."
"Do you have any savings?" Chen Yuan thought about taking out the cigarette and handed it to Chen Hao.
"No." When Chen Haojian saw Chen Yuan sitting down, he also sat down.
This is a high platform with a hollow bottom. Although it is not particularly high, it is still a bit scary.
Chen Yuan lit a cigarette and took a puff: "After returning to China this time, I am ready to leave the company."
Chen Hao said 'hmm': "Then...what are your plans?"
Chen Yuan pictured Yan Xiaoxi's clear smile in his mind and shook his head: "I didn't think about it..."
Chen Yuan wanted to buy an island before, but he couldn't afford it before. Now that he has money, he feels that buying an island and living alone on the island is too lonely.
"After we go back, we will go on a blind date, get married and have a baby as soon as possible, and we can take care of the baby at home." Chen Hao said with a smile.
Chen Yuan rolled his eyes.
Chen Hao smiled coquettishly.
It's been several years since Chen Yuan and Yan Xiaoxi broke up, and they haven't come out yet. Chen Yuan doesn't say exactly how they broke up, and no one knows.
It's hard to talk about feelings.
Chen Hao accompanied Chen Yuan on the watchtower, enjoying the wind. After sitting for a long time, he heard a voice calling him on the intercom, and then he went down.
Chen Yuan smoked another cigarette, picked up the telescope and looked into the distance.
It's getting dark.
"Chen Yuan." Gao He shouted.
"exist."
"Fish aggregator No. 3 was found."
"Is there any tuna?"
"No. They are all small fish..."
"Do you want to get off the net?"
"I estimated it, it's not too much."
Chen Yuan said 'hmm': "Collect the fish collecting device and go find the next one."
"Okay. The next crucian carp drifts to the Southern Ocean. The distance is more than 40 nautical miles..."
"Go over and have a look."
More than 40 nautical miles, more than two hours.
Chen Yuan went down to the observation deck and came to the driver's cab, and looked at the chart. After walking east for more than a day, he arrived at the location where Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng fell into the sea seven years ago.
In the past few years, Fu'an 79 has traveled around. But there has never been a chance to go back to the adventure sea area seven years ago...
This is a worry for Chen Yuan. If there is a chance, Chen Yuan would like to go and have a look.
After dinner, the fishing boat found the third fish concentrator, observed it with a fish finder, and then started to lower the net.
There are quite a few tuna around the fish aggregator.
Chen Yuan commanded and successfully completed the encirclement of the fish school, and left the rest of the work to Zhou Jianguo. He went to the kitchen and took some freshly baked bread and returned to the room.
Chen Yuan ate the bread, closed the door, and took off his shirt...
Chen Yuan has just the right muscles. Over the years, Chen Yuan's appearance has not changed much, and his figure has not changed much.
‘That ball of light that fell into the sea seven years ago and entered his body?’ Chen Yuan was lying on the bed, unable to think of the reason.
In the past few years of his fishing career, Chen Yuan has also been injured once, but the wound healed quickly...
Thinking of this, Chen Yuan tossed and turned on the bed.
In recent years, Chen Yuan has suffered from insomnia frequently.
Chen Yuan also fell asleep very late that night, and when he woke up, fish were still being caught outside.
"Mr. Chen."
"Hey." Chen Yuan turned around and saw a young man in his twenties holding a penguin that was kicking its legs hard.
Chen Yuan reached out and touched it: "Has it been sucked into the fish cabin?"
"Follow the fish trough and enter the cabin." The young man said with a smile.
"Give me a hug."
Chen Yuan took the penguin with a smile on his face, moved the penguin's head a few times, came to the groove of the ship's side, and threw the penguin down.
Their boat has a fish suction trough, which is a retractable square with a conveyor belt-like device inside. The fish suction trough is specially designed to collect large fish. Fish as large as several hundred kilograms can enter the fish suction trough, which makes it easier to catch fish.
.
In addition to the fish suction trough, there is also a fish suction pump (fish suction device) on the boat, which is specially designed to suck small fish.
Large seine boats can catch dozens, hundreds or even thousands of tons of fish at a time. If you use a sliding pole or a crane to lift the fish, it is too slow.
The machine was buzzing, and Chen Yuan came to the fence and looked at the people working inside the fence: "Are you done collecting it?"