The sea will open on the 12th next month, there are still 18 days left.
Lin Xinhai still has a lot to prepare for.
Lin Xinhai's two fishing boats need to install high-power refrigeration equipment, which is a very time-consuming task. They also need to install sliding rods...
Tuna seine, a 1,700-meter-long seine, with a depth...that is, a width of 270 meters.
This is a specially customized fence. This fence is worth more than 400,000 yuan.
This net weighs 21 tons, not counting the weight of the sinker. Its folded volume should be about 200 cubic meters.
Lin Xinhai's fishing boat is not an advanced modern seine fishing boat. It is very troublesome to collect the seine net into the net cabin. Therefore, a vertical sliding rod must be installed in the middle of the rear deck...
The sliding rod is also called the lifting sliding rod and can be used to place and collect the net.
The branches on the rear deck, also known as the lifting rods, also need to be replaced.
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"This time I go overseas, I will bear 40% of all expenses and take 40% of the profits," Lin Xinhai said.
Lin Xinhai has said these things before, such as capital contribution and dividends. Now he will say it again to confirm the matter.
Today’s fishing boats are not easy to build.
There are fewer fish in the offshore area and they run farther away. If you don't do it well, you can easily lose money.
However, in the first month of opening the sea, the probability of losing money is very small.
When Lin Xinhai approached Chen Yuan and the others to cooperate, he was interested in Chen Yuan's ability to find fish.
How to find schools of fish on the sea is not only a science, but also requires special eyesight and observation skills.
In the previous fleet, Chen Yuan was the best at finding fish, and he was also very lucky.
Lin Xinhai provided two fishing boats, as well as fishing nets and other equipment, and then invested 40% and took 40% of the profits. This share is very generous.
Chen Yuan nodded and said there was no problem.
Zhou Sheng looked at Chen Yuan and said, "The remaining 60% of the expenses will be half for each of us. The income will be 60% for you and 40% for me. How about that?"
"I'm 20% more than you, and we contribute 50-50, will you feel unbalanced?" Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Sheng.
"The imbalance is just a little bit." Zhou Sheng spread his hands and said, "Who makes you a technician?"
"You are also a technician..." Chen Yuan said with a smile: "I am 5.5, and you are 4.5. I will give you an extra 10%...get an extra 20%. If you don't find a big school of fish when you go out, your mentality will not explode."
"Am I as stingy as you say?" Zhou Sheng laughed as he said this: "Okay, you can give me 10% more, and you won't regret it."
"During this period, I will resume physical exercise. This time I go to sea, diving is indispensable," Chen Yuandao said.
"I know. Don't you know what I'm capable of? Don't worry... Leave the underwater work to me. It's easy."
"There are at least three underwater workers." Lin Xinhai looked at Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan nodded: "You don't need three people underwater. Zhou Sheng and I can just go down..."
Lin Xinhai thought for a while and nodded: "That's okay. I will bring 3 tons of Antarctic shrimp and 3 tons of small fish to the sea this time. Is that enough?"
"That's enough. We haven't run very far, but with so much, are you going to sell fish at sea?" Chen Yuan asked.
"It depends on what kind of fish you catch. If they are all cheap, then they are sold at sea..."
"I bought all the tuna seine nets. I will definitely catch tuna this time." Zhou Sheng said with a smile.
Lin Xinhai also laughed and looked forward to it: "I will make a list of people who will go to sea in the next few days... I used to give them a salary of 400 yuan a day. They are all acquaintances and know everything about them. If the fish is good, I will also give some bonuses.
What do you think?"
Wages on offshore fishing boats are generally not high, 400 yuan a day is already very good.
Nowadays, many ship owners cannot make much money, and there are even cases where they are subsidized to maintain fishing boats... The wages paid to sailors are naturally not very high.
Not to mention offshore, even ocean-going shipwrights do not all have high wages.
Chen Yuan and the others used to work in the ocean-going fleet of a large ocean-going fishing company... Only with an additional fishing share can they get so much money.
If it is a private ocean-going fishing vessel affiliated with a company, or an independent fishing vessel operated by a small company, the salary is usually not high...
There is a reason for Lin Xinhai's treatment. After all, he gives a salary slightly higher than the market price. Every time the fishing boat returns to port, as long as it makes money, he will also give some bonuses to the workers.
Lin Xinhai was looking for all acquaintances, some of whom were neighbors or relatives. Or they were neighbors of neighbors or relatives of neighbors.
Like Lin Xinhai, he left the ocean-going fleet just because he was stabbed.
The work on the fishing boat is very hard, and many people who rush to work on the boat cannot stand the hardship, and their tempers will become very bad...
Chen Yuan also likes Lin Xinhai's crew configuration. Everyone knows everything about it and they are all skilled workers, so it will be easier to work.
Although the South China Sea is not considered a distant sea, you still have to be prepared to stay on the ship for more than ten days, or even a month or two.
If you pull together a temporary team, it's okay to go close to the sea, but far away... The main reason is that you stay at sea for a long time, and problems are easy to occur.
Just like Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng, they also worked on the company's offshore fishing boats for more than half a year before joining the ocean-going fleet.
Chen Yuan nodded and said: "The salary is no problem. If you catch more fish, you can get more bonuses. But to be honest, from what I know, the probability of finding large tuna in the South China Sea is not high."
"Last November, a fishing boat caught 117 tons of yellowfin tuna in the South China Sea." Lin Xinhai stared, and then said: "But they don't have an ultra-low temperature freezer on the ship, and the tuna is no longer fresh when it returns to the port.
The price is only 25 yuan per kilogram.”
"One net is 117 tons?" Zhou Sheng was excited and said, "Really?"
"Really. I still know that captain..."
"Why not sell it at sea?"
"The price quoted by the sea was 35 yuan, and he sold some. But he thought the price was cheap, so he kept some for himself..." Lin Xinhai said and shrugged: "I was also stimulated by him, so I wanted to try my hand at tuna."
117 tons, as long as it is of decent size and properly stored... the price per kilogram may even be hundreds of yuan. Proper storage requires timely processing, and then ultra-low temperature freezing of minus 60 to 70 degrees Celsius.
Let's put it this way, as long as it is not ultra-low temperature preserved tuna, it is not valuable. If it can be sold for 25 yuan per catty, it is considered good.
In the South China Sea, a net of 117 tons of tuna seems impossible.
But if Lin Xinhai said it, he shouldn't be lying.
Zhou Sheng looked at Chen Yuan and said with a smile: "One net is a hundred tons, you have to work hard. We only need to catch one net and we can walk away from the young model club."
"Just dream." Chen Yuan looked at Lin Xinhai and said.
You don’t have to think too much about large schools of yellowfin tuna, it all depends on luck. But you can bet on mackerel, sardines, bonito, etc.
As far as they are concerned, the fishing season for purse seine operations in offshore areas should be from December to April next year, with February and March being the peak season...
But there are too many fishing boats now. When the sea opens, tens of thousands of fishing boats go out to sea... think about that scene. It is already very difficult to seine the offshore sea. You have to go out to look for cruising fish schools, or use light lures.
Fish seine.
Lin Xinhai approached Chen Yuan and the others to cooperate. Firstly, he was stimulated by last year's catch of 117 tons of yellowfin tuna. Secondly, Chen Yuan knew how to find fish and could share risks.
Tuna seine nets are troublesome to operate.
Finding tuna requires luck, but if you have luck, you also need the cooperation of the command.
The boatmen he found were only a few who could build such a 270-meter-high fishing net.
If you get lucky and encounter a school of tuna, you will regret it to death if you did it improperly.
How to put it this way, investing hundreds of thousands of yuan in a fishing net can bring you the opportunity to get rich overnight. But this opportunity requires both luck and strength...
Lin Xinhai also knows that there is little hope of finding a large school of tuna, let alone a hundred tons of tuna. As long as a net can catch more than ten tons of tuna, that will be quite good.