When he saw a fish biting the hook, the first mate next to him immediately wrapped the fishing lines on the other two poles. He rolled the lines as fast as he could to prevent the two fishing lines from getting entangled and catching fish.
As soon as the fishing line is tangled, the fishing line will basically break and the fish will be gone.
After putting away the two poles, the first mate stood behind the captain, ready to help at any time. To catch big fish, you need to work together, otherwise, you may be in danger if you are not careful.
At this time, the captain didn't care about anything else. He just concentrated on winding the line, pulling it firmly in circles.
"Do you want my help?" Han Peacock asked.
"No need!" the captain said without hesitation.
At this time, Boshanka said with a smile: "For a fisherman, what can be more enjoyable than pulling a big fish?"
Han Kongque said nonchalantly: "I just want to help."
Bo Shanka glanced at Han Peacock with disdain and said, "I heard that you also like fishing very much?"
"I once caught a tuna weighing more than a thousand kilograms," Han Kongque said.
"I know, so you prefer big fish, so don't be disappointed. The bluefin tuna here are all big. When it's over, you can catch whatever you want." Boshanka no longer paid attention to Han Peacock, but concentrated on watching.
Fishing with the captain.
The captain's standard is still very high. As an experienced fisherman, of course, his rich experience means fewer mistakes.
"Move forward!"
At this time, the crewman driving the boat immediately pushed the control console on the side of the ship. This control console made it easier to see the fish in the water.
Tuna fishing boats generally have such a simple control console at the stern. However, each boat naturally has a different location according to the captain's habits. The control console of this fishing boat is in the middle of the port side of the stern.
Following the captain's instructions, the crew controlled the boat for about ten minutes, and the captain pulled the fish to the side of the boat without any danger.
"I saw it. Captain, prepare the speargun." The first mate shouted excitedly from the side.
As soon as the first mate finished speaking, he turned his head and saw Han Kongque standing next to him, and the fishing gun in his hand had already flown out. The fishing gun barely made any splash and hit the fish accurately.
on the front and back.
"Take the rope." The first mate did not hesitate to admire Han Peacock's prowess. He immediately ordered Han Peacock to close the rope on the fishing gun.
The fishing gun accurately penetrated the fish's back. Han Peacock tightened the tail rope and pulled the tuna toward the side of the boat.
Soon the fish was pulled to the side of the boat, and the first mate immediately picked up the lasso and tied it to the tail.
Although it was their first time working together, the movements of the few people were like flowing water, opening the lock and dragging the fish onto the boat.
Only five or six minutes after Han Peacock launched his fishing gun, the bluefin tuna was dragged onto the boat.
"Ah! This fish weighs over 400 kilograms," the captain and first mate exclaimed in surprise as soon as the fish got on the boat.
After being happy for a while, the captain began to prepare to take care of the fish.
First, a cut was made at the base of the fish's tail to drain the blood, then the gills were taken out from the head of the fish, and then the internal organs were taken out.
By the time a series of actions are completed, the fish's blood has been exhausted.
The captain did the whole action very fluently, with almost no pauses in the middle, and the fish on the deck were processed as soon as the blood flowed out.
Next, the two people used the small crane on the boat to hold the tail of the fish and hoist the fish into the storage cabin. Finally, they completely covered the fish body with ice. This was the real completion of the work on the boat.
After finishing everything, I put on the bait again and put the fishing rod into the sea again. There were just a school of fish passing by under the water at this time. It was a good time to fish. The captain on this boat was very experienced. So he was not
I will miss this opportunity.
After adjusting the hull, launching a spear gun, and tying the tail of the fish, another fish was dragged onto the deck.
This one weighs almost 400 pounds, and according to Han Peacock’s visual inspection, it is about the same as the previous one.
"Okay, today's harvest is good, you can take a rest." After handling the second fish, the captain did not hook it again, but let everyone take a rest.
Northern bluefin tuna can live up to 30 years, with a body length of about 2 meters and a weight of about 400 kilograms. Most tuna fishing boats catch about 150 kilograms, and anything over 200 kilograms is considered a good harvest.
"The harvest is good, but I wonder if harvests like this happen every year?" Han Peacock asked.
The captain said: "As long as the fishing season is well controlled, it is not difficult to achieve steady water flow."
"Yes! I don't know what's going on. There are many kinds of fish in the waters of Peacock Island. As long as we don't overfish, we can have a good harvest every year." The first mate also said.
Boshanka saw that Han Peacock still wanted to ask, so he said: "The sea area we have enclosed is vast, and the land is large, and all kinds of environments under the sea are available. Now it is just suitable for bluefin tuna to survive, and all the
The resulting bluefin tuna has better meat quality.”
"Actually, the most difficult thing about fishing for tuna is attracting fish. As long as you find the fish school, it is very easy to catch big fish. So it is relatively easy for us to catch bluefin tuna in this sea area, because there are bluefin tuna here.
There are a lot of fish." The captain said at this time.
Bo Shanka and Han Peacock looked at each other, neither of them said anything. They naturally knew that this was because the water quality here was good, which attracted many fish schools, and when there were more fish schools, the blue fins kept hunting.
The tuna schools naturally followed.
"How much can these two fish be sold for?" Han Peacock changed the topic.
Looking at the processed bluefin tuna, Han Peacock discovered that the cut edges actually showed a beautiful pattern. It was not surprising that such fish meat was sold at a high price.
While handling the fish in front of him, the captain said: "Our northern bluefin tuna is heavy and delicious, and is a good ingredient for making sashimi. The price of a good black tuna can often exceed 100,000 US dollars in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market."
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"One hundred thousand dollars? So the price of these two items is more than two hundred thousand dollars, which is equivalent to more than one million yuan!" Han Peacock said a little surprised.
Boshanka smiled and said: "Yes! Once you go to sea, you will become a millionaire after deducting various expenses. Such a harvest is naturally enviable."
At this time, the captain was also smiling so hard that he couldn't see his eyebrows. He said happily: "We naturally have to keep this kind of harvest, so every time we go out to sea, we choose big ones, and we return to port after catching at most two.
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"Huh? If you do this, your income will be reduced a lot." Han Kongque said.
The captain laughed and said: "Although we have to reduce some income now, as the price of bluefin tuna increases year by year, this loss before us is nothing. Besides, compared with our income in other places, our income is
Now even if I go to sea once a year, my income is higher than that of ten years in other sea areas."
Han Peacock was stunned for a moment, then laughed. The price increase of bluefin tuna is almost inevitable, and the quality of bluefin tuna in other places really cannot be compared with that here.
Some bluefin tuna of ordinary quality are not expensive, just like the two fish just now. If the quality is not good, the price is only between 30,000 and 40,000 yuan, and the average is only 50,600 yuan per catty.
Therefore, until now, only a few countries can farm bluefin tuna, and the output is still very small. This mainly depends on whether the quality of the bluefin tuna produced can reach high quality.
If the quality is good, the price will naturally be good, and you can make money. If the quality is not good, it will not be sold at a high price. And given the difficulty of raising bluefin tuna, the cost is naturally high, so as long as the quality is not good, you will lose money.
Therefore, it is difficult to make money from bluefin tuna farming. If you can't make money, there will be fewer people farming it.
As for things that cannot be farmed, they can only be grown in nature. Given the current living environment of bluefin tuna, the number will naturally decrease year by year, so it is certain that the price of bluefin tuna will increase year by year.
Because of the unique commercial value of bluefin tuna, bluefin tuna around the world are being overfished. Overfishing is a serious problem. The movements of fish schools are blocked by fishing boats equipped with sonar. Therefore, the bluefin tuna species living in the Atlantic Ocean are
The number has dropped by 90% since the 1970s.
Therefore, bluefin tuna has been listed as one of the "avoid eating" fish by many regions and countries. Due to the sharp decline in numbers, it is listed as a critically endangered species on the i Red List.
The World Wildlife Fund even stated that if the current catch rate does not change, the Mediterranean tuna will become extinct in 2012, and called on the catering industry to stop supplying bluefin tuna.
However, some groups still ignore it. For example, the Nissan Mitsubishi Group has been accused of continuing to fish for tuna in the Mediterranean and hoarding it to make huge profits, making the northern bluefin tuna face a more severe survival prospect.
Although there are current conservation measures, such as the International Atlantic Tuna Conservation Commission's announcement to reduce the catch of bluefin tuna to less than 20,000 tons in 2011 and shorten the fishing season to four months, the intensity of the measures is still criticized.
insufficient.
Monaco officially proposed on October 16, 2009, to list the endangered northern bluefin tuna as an endangered species of wild fauna and flora, an Appendix I species of the Convention on International Trade, and prohibit its international trade.
The northern bluefin tuna is now listed in Appendix I of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Although so much protection has been done, these are all in vain.
Because both the United States and Nissan can ignore these things. Nissan will not talk about it. Its main threat is the bluefin tuna in the Pacific Ocean. Everyone knows this.
The United States seems to have strict laws to protect various rare animals, but few people know that the United States has not joined the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, so during the fishing season, people can catch bluefin tuna in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Although the number of catches has been limited, it is just a numbers game, because their annual catch limit will definitely not be reached. In other words, even if they catch a lot of fish during the fishing season, it is impossible to catch what the national regulations require.