sbdcsierra Chapter 1255 Radar Net Hairtail
Chapter 1255 Radar Net Hairtail
Chapter 1255 Radar Net Hairtail
Ye Yaodong took advantage of his father's absence at home and went out to sea with Uncle Zheng at night for two consecutive days before returning. He also mastered the skills of the radar network on the ship.
Meanwhile, other fishing boats also took a few people out to sea to learn during these two days of rest.
After everyone discussed it, they decided to rest for a while before going out to sea together.
However, when he got up, opened the door and went out, he felt that there was something wrong with the wind today, as if there was a bit of a typhoon atmosphere.
He asked casually and found out that there really was another typhoon. Many fishing boats returned to the port to rest this morning and they could no longer go out to sea as planned.
Ye Yaodong looked at the big sun in the sky again and had to give up. He had to wait until the typhoon was over before going out to sea.
Fearing that the typhoon would last for several days, he sent people out to chop firewood, and he also went to buy some coal briquettes, and brought back more fruits, vegetables and meat.
However, he got up a little late, and all the stalls in front of the morning farmers' market had been cleared out, leaving only rotten vegetable leaves on the ground, not to mention meat, there was not a single bit left.
He usually goes there at 8 o'clock, and there are still a lot of vegetables in the market. He can pick whatever he wants. The vegetable farmers from the countryside basically can't sell all their vegetables until noon.
Today is really exaggerated.
He had no choice but to go back first and ask his father to get up early and buy more tomorrow.
His father went out to buy things as usual this morning, but he thought he needed to prepare more during the typhoon, so he made another trip.
Seeing people gathering to buy things on the road, he wanted to go up to see what was being sold, thinking of buying something edible.
It turned out that they were selling coarse salt, and all the salt had been divided up by the people.
"Tsk tsk tsk... How outrageous! They even want to snatch the salt..."
“Everything sells well during a typhoon…”
Ye Yaodong stretched his neck to take a look, clicked his tongue twice, and then had to go back empty-handed.
The fishermen from other boats were playing cards in the open space in front of their doors and talking about the typhoon. Everyone was rushing to buy things.
Things that I normally wouldn’t buy, I’ll buy during a typhoon.
There were just some signs of it today, and before it even started to rain or blow, the food was snatched away.
Everyone says that city people are afraid that they won’t be able to buy things even if they have money.
This typhoon was probably just passing through. The sun was shining brightly for four or five days in a row. There was no rain, and even the wind was not strong. Only in the evenings when the sunset reflected the red sky could one see traces of the typhoon.
Ye Yaodong goes to the dock every day to check the wind and waves, as well as the situation of the fishing boats.
Basically all the fishing boats have returned to the port. The dock is divided into areas with tens of thousands of large and small fishing boats docked. He has been here for nearly half a month, but this is the first time he has seen so many boats and such an empty dock.
The word "empty" is only relative. In fact, there are still people coming and going as usual. Everyone is saying that the typhoon has passed and cheering to go back to their daily lives. They will probably go out to sea at night or in the early morning.
It is still morning, and by noon, there will be a loudspeaker announcement on the dock, saying that the typhoon has passed.
The dock immediately came alive, with everyone busy adding fuel and ice, preparing to go out to sea immediately.
Most of them are foreign fishing boats. One day without going out is a day’s loss.
After hearing the news, Ye Yaodong also followed everyone to queue up for gas and ice.
He booked the cruise to set off after dinner, which just happened to avoid the peak sailing times in the afternoon, night, and early the next morning.
After refueling and adding ice in the afternoon, he saw that the sea was in chaos.
Most of the fishing boats rushed out immediately. With thousands of fishing boats in motion, collisions were inevitable. The order on the sea was disrupted, several accidents occurred, and the entire sea was in chaos.
Just like a traffic accident on land that caused a traffic jam, the sea was also blocked and paralyzed for a long time.
He was glad that he didn't get impatient.
It lasted until dark, when the fishing boats on the sea gradually left the port, and the order of the past was restored.
While having dinner, he still heard many gunshots on the sea throughout the afternoon.
Ye's father and others who had just returned from docking these days had a new understanding and repositioning of the degree of chaos at the dock.
However, no matter how hard they tried to avoid them, there were still a lot of people when they set out, and they could only line up and slowly sail away from the shore.
Fortunately, the chaos in the afternoon had passed, and now it was only a short delay, and several fishing boats were able to go out smoothly.
Ye Yaodong drove his fishing boat behind the Harvest, and the same went for several other boats.
Father Ye had already discussed this with Father Pei. This time, Father Ye would stay at home and let Ye Yaodong come out, and then Father Pei would drive the Harvest to lead the other boats.
Next time it will be Ye’s father.
The two old ones take turns, and at least one of them must be at sea, so that they can feel at ease, after all, they are in a strange place and unfamiliar waters.
After these few days, the two older ones have more experience, and it is relatively safer for them to take turns going out to sea.
Ye Yaodong also brought a large trawling fishing net with him on this trip out to sea.
They will definitely not go back on the same day. In case the radar net's harvest is not ideal, they can turn around and trawle instead of having to do it out on the sea or have to return.
After all, it is not yet the season for hairtail, so it is still early.
While he was sailing on the sea, the boatmen were also sorting out the fishing nets so that they could set the nets directly when they arrived at the destination.
They had no experience in which sea area had more hairtail, and there was no detector on the boat, so they could only go a little further out from the location where Uncle Zheng and his fishing boats usually fished, but it was still within the near sea.
Because cutlassfish generally live at a depth of 50 to 100 meters. Although they cannot be considered deep-sea fish, they do have some of the habits of deep-sea fish.
When hairtail is quickly caught and brought ashore, the external air pressure decreases, but the internal pressure is still very high.
The huge pressure difference will cause the oxygen, nitrogen, etc. in the organs and tissues of the hairtail to be released from the blood, blocking blood circulation and even causing organs to rupture, leading to the death of the hairtail (commonly known as "decompression sickness").
So you will see a lot of hairtail fish with their internal organs bursting out on the market.
Several fishing boats kept moving forward, and the flashing lights of fishing boats could be seen everywhere along the way.
It was not until they saw a fishing boat nearby using a radar net to catch cutlassfish that they took a collective action and separated to start fishing in the nearby area.
Thanks to the abundant resources nearby, they could see fishing boats intermittently along the way. Multiple fishing boats in the same sea area did not affect fishing.
After Ye Yaodong found a good position, he slowed down and notified the boatmen to lower the net.
They took turns learning from Chu Hai for half a month and now they all knew how to do it.
He also stood on the deck and watched the fishing nets that had been prepared in advance. Under the dim orange light, they began to be released from the side of the boat, and at the same time, buoys and floats were released, allowing the net to gradually unfold and sink to the predetermined depth.
At the bottom of the fishing net, there is a large iron cat fixed to the seabed. One end is connected to the iron cat and the other end is connected to the fishing net. There is a 360-degree rotating component connected with a float on it, and the net will rotate according to the tide.
After all the nets were lowered, Ye Yaodong returned to the cockpit and controlled the fishing boat to move in a slow and steady circular motion, simulating a radar scan.
The purpose of doing this is to make the fishing net form a gradually expanding circular or spiral circle in the water, thereby driving and concentrating the fish into the fishing net.
It is also called a sail-raising net. When the water level rises, the fish bags are collected and emptied, then put back into the sea. When the tide recedes, the nets are raised again to empty the fish, and then put back into the sea.
This cycle repeats itself, with four tides a day, rising at sunday and setting at sundown, rising at night and falling at night.
This fishing method is very rare, and the specific operation depends on the experience and skills of the fishermen. It can only be used for hairtail, and can catch the hairtail with the thickest meat.
And the hairtail caught are basically small-eyed hairtail, also called oily hairtail, which is fat, oily and tender, so it is a little more expensive than other hairtail.
The boatmen had just come out and it was not yet time to go to bed, so they all stood on the deck curiously, looking around and chatting.
After this wave of workers arrived, they stayed on the shore with Ye Yaodong. Some of them only went out to sea with the fresh fish collecting boats to collect goods, and they hadn't set out the nets for quite a long time.
No one was sleepy at this time, and everyone was watching and talking and laughing.
"We don't need to go too far here. There are a lot of goods near the coast..."
"There are so many ships, all concentrated together. We can't see a single ship in the same sea area, but here we can see five or six spots of light. If we look again, there are five or six new spots..."
"Why else would it be called a fishing ground? I've never seen so many boats in my life..."
"That's true..."
“I don’t know how many hairtails we can catch.”
"...lots of little silver fish jumping around there...even the little fish look more numerous than ours..."
Everyone stretched their necks to look outside the boat. Wherever the boat light shone, there were a bunch of silvery-white little fish jumping around.
Ye Yaodong looked at a group of people chatting and laughing on the deck, while he himself was focused on driving the boat in a similar circular motion.
This trip out to sea took them nearly an hour to set the nets, and only two hours until the tide went out.
He waited for more than two hours, and based on his experience he felt that the tide was about to recede, before he notified everyone to pull up the nets.
Everyone knew that the nets had to be raised and lowered when the tide rose and fell, so they were all waiting on the deck.
It's just the right time to put away the net, so those who need to take a rest can take a rest.
Ye Yaodong stopped the rotation of the fishing boat, maintained a stable position, and began to slowly lift the fishing net.
As the bottom of the net gradually rose, the fish in the fishing net fell into the fish collecting bag and slowly floated up from under the water.
"Oh... it's coming up... it's a lot. It's only been two hours, but there are already several thousand pounds."
"They are all hairtail, and there are also some small yellow croakers and other fish. This net should yield 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms, right?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, I've seen it many times, and I think it's beautiful every time..."
"So beautiful! These hairtail fish are shining silvery just out of the water."
"Yeah, the scales are really pretty, some of them even glow blue..."
Ye Yaodong was also very happy to look at the hung fishing net. The catch was quite large, and most of them were big fish and small yellow croakers, all good stuff.
Although the radar net is specifically used to catch cutlassfish, it does not necessarily mean that only cutlassfish will be caught in the net. Other miscellaneous fish may also be caught in the net.
The collected hairtails are silvery white all over, and some of the scales have a slight blue glow and a metallic luster.
It is much more beautiful than the dead one on the shore.
Some of the fish in the fishing net were still able to struggle and move, but by the time the net was moved to the deck, they were all dead.
At this time, the boatmen also started to move, adjusting the nets to further reduce the space and make the fish gather more closely together.
Then pull the fish bags and transfer them to the deck.
After untying the rope at the door, a whole net of cutlass fish and small yellow croakers was tilted onto the deck.
Ye Yaodong was watching the fishing net being pulled up from the rudder tower. He also went down to take a look and said with a smile, "This net has caught all the gold and silver."
"Eh? You're right, this is both yellow and silver..."
This net is truly a net of gold and silver, and it fits the fishing net song.
The gold is the glittering color of the small yellow croaker, and the silver is the silvery-white light reflected by the scales on the body of the cutlassfish.
It's really beautiful.
The smell of fresh fish also wafts into the air.
The fishing grounds in Zhou City are indeed dominated by the four major economic fish species. Once caught online, there are only slightly fewer small yellow croakers than hairtail, and very few miscellaneous items.
Normally, when I drag a net at home, more than half of the items are useless groceries, and if I’m lucky, I can get another half. But here, these items are more common.
No wonder the other three major economic fish species no longer have a fishing season, and the yellow croaker is almost extinct. Only the hairtail can survive because of its habits and long-term publicity and fishing moratorium, and the fishing season is maintained.
Ye Yaodong estimated that the goods bought online should be around 3000 kilograms. The quantity was not large, but it was still a good harvest.
Hairtails are the majority, with smaller yellow croakers, and some pomfret and eels, but not many miscellaneous items.
Although the amount caught is not as much as that of a trawl, after all, it is moving in a circular motion rather than dragging on the sea surface, but the quality of the fish is much better than that of a trawl.
He held the flashlight in one hand and picked and scratched with the other.
The "radar net hairtail" is much uglier than other hairtails, such as fishing hairtail, because hairtails are impatient and will struggle violently once they are caught.
As a result, the skin on the body can be easily rubbed off, causing scales to fall off and turn white.
However, the "uglier" the hairtail is, the tastier it may be, and the shed milt is also proof of their vitality.
However, most people will definitely be selective when buying fish, and choose those that look beautiful and intact. Hairtail with its skin rubbed off or its belly bursting will not sell for a good price.
"The skin has been rubbed off and the belly is bursting. You guys pick it up."
"Yes, there are so many hairtails at night, much more than during the day. Let's continue to put out the nets."
Ye Yaodong nodded, put the net down first, then those who needed to rest went to rest, and the rest of the people who needed to pick continued to pick.
There are two high tides and two low tides in a day. Radar nets are different from trawl nets in that they only need to be raised and lowered four times a day.
He didn't understand the principle, and Uncle Zheng couldn't explain it clearly either. Anyway, that's how they did it locally, so they learned it and did it the same way.
When the next high tide came, it was daybreak, and the number of fish caught in this net was even greater, twice as much as the previous one. Everyone was pleasantly surprised.
I was a little tired after picking fish for several hours, but now I feel energetic again.
"There are so many goods on this website..."
"This network has been running for a long time, so naturally there are more goods..."
"It's a good harvest. Our boat is big, and the fishing nets we ordered are also big. We have much more than Lao Zheng..."
"It's dawn now. I'll wake up the others and ask them to help..."
Ye Yaodong also watched excitedly. There was no need to wait until the flood season for the quantity to be so high?
In my previous life, I saw some boats that specialized in catching cutlassfish, and he was the only one like this during the flood season.
He sighed, "It is true that resources are good these days. The grand occasions in the future will not be comparable to the daily life now. They are all picked up from the things that are not needed these days."
After he finished sighing, he went downstairs to let Chen Laoqi take over his shift and let him control the fishing boat. It was just right that there were two nets in one shift, and he would go to bed soon.
However, looking at the full cargo, he was reluctant to go back to the hold at this moment and had to help.
"How much will this net sell for? There are so many fish. I had to lift the fish bag twice to release all the fish."
"I think there are about 1 or of them, like a small mountain, much more than the first network..."
"No wonder they have to make such a net, specifically for catching hairtails, they all look like oily hairtails."
In their dialect, it is called "youdai", which is equivalent to the "radar net hairtail" here. The names are different, but they are the same kind of hairtail.
There are two types of hairtail fish: black scale and white scale. White scale hairtail fish is rich in fat and delicious, while black scale hairtail fish tastes much worse.
The white-scaled hairtail can be divided into several grades. The highest grade is the radar hairtail, which they call oily hairtail.
The eyes of this type of cutlassfish are smaller than those of ordinary cutlassfish, so the locals here call it small-eyed cutlassfish. It is fatter than ordinary cutlassfish.
Ye Yaodong picked them out and said, "While they are still fresh, I will fry a few of them later. They will be perfect for breakfast."
"It's already cooked. You can eat it after the porridge cools down."
"I just ate a piece. The meat is very thick, and a little bigger than the ones we have here. It's very fresh and tender."
Ye Yaodong was told by them that he was hungry. They were all bored downstairs and could cook a pot of seafood, eating while chatting, but he had no time to go down and get it.
"I'm going to eat first."
I can't say much about other things on the boat, but the food is very good. As long as you catch some seafood, you can cook whatever you want to eat, without having to consider the price, except for the really expensive ones.
Most workers also have a sense of propriety, knowing what can be eaten and what can be sold for money.
After filling his stomach, Ye Yaodong stretched his body, watched the sun come out from behind the clouds, and then he left the work to others and went to rest.
He only woke up when the next net was pulled up.
However, the catch during the day was not as much as that of the second net. Although the fish were also put into the sea and brought up at about the same time, the quantity was only about 2/3, and the main decrease was in hairtail.
The main habit of hairtail is to be active at night, constantly traveling back and forth between deep and shallow water layers on a day and night basis.
Therefore, night is the best time to catch hairtail, as they have all come up to the shallow water layer and are more active.
There are also some treatments for the goods that come in during the day and at night, but they are mainly small yellow croaker, as well as some pomfret, eel, black carp, water carp, croaker, etc.
No one was too disappointed, because they had experience and knew everything about it.
But the harvest of this net was not low. Small yellow croakers accounted for half of the catch. After picking out and throwing away the useless groceries, there were still 3000 kilograms left that could be sold.
After Ye Yaodong took a look at the cargo collected at noon, he went up to the cockpit and asked Chen Laoqi.
"Have you asked about the receipt of other fishing nets?"
"Haha, they asked us this morning, and they all said they had a lot of goods and they didn't plan to move."
"That's good too. We can stay in this area. We don't have to travel too far. It should only take about three hours to get back."
Chen Laoqi hesitated for a moment and said, "You said that now they don't have to travel far, will they go to the shore to sell the goods themselves? After all, it is more convenient. The distance is not too far now, and there are a lot of goods caught. It may be more cost-effective to sell them by themselves when they go back."
Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that it was indeed very possible.
"Wait until they bring it up. If they don't, then forget about it."
"Haha, that's what I thought of, so I said it."
"Thank you very much. Go eat and rest. I'll watch over you."
Ye Yaodong entered the cockpit and took over the circular motion, thinking about it in his mind.
After a quick calculation, I figured out that the harvest from these few nets would probably be around the same as this one by the time the next one is ready.
This is equivalent to the ebb and flow of the tide throughout the day. After four times, the daily profit for each boat might be around 4 to yuan, which is more than the profit from trawling for a day and a half.
The quantity is not comparable, but the main thing is that the goods are valuable.
If they take half of it, it means that each wave of fresh goods collection ship will take nearly 1,700 or 1,800 yuan. It is really not cost-effective for them. It is better for them to dock and sell goods once every two days, and then go out again.
The round-trip gas cost is at most two hundred yuan, and the loss is not worth the half-day delay, so it is indeed worth returning to sell the goods.
Before, if the fish collecting boats trawled, they would only be charged a thousand yuan for each trip, but now they are charged several hundred yuan more for nothing.
If it were him, he would rather rely on selling goods. Don't talk about whether they are relatives or brothers. They all make money by taking risks, and of course they want to put the money in their own pockets.
Ye Yaodong thought about negotiating the ratio with other ships to find a ratio that would be good for everyone.
His seafood collection boat will not be idle at that time, and everyone can stay at sea more often while the weather is good and earn more money.
The main purpose is to prepare for the flood season. We can earn this much now, not to mention when the flood season is more concentrated, we will definitely earn more than now.
But no one mentioned it now. He thought that his father would come out by boat to pick up the goods the day after tomorrow. At that time, he would temporarily hand over the boat to his father to work while he would weigh the goods.
By the way, talk to a few boats and change the proportions.
Of course there are some thoughts, no one is a fool, but they either haven't reacted to it now or are too embarrassed to say it. They will definitely mention it when receiving the goods.
Rather than letting others bring it up, it’s better to be tactful and bring it up yourself.
His fresh-catch boat is indeed much more convenient than other people's fresh-catch boats.
The several ships docked with other fresh-collecting ships may not all go out to sea at the same time, nor may they all sell goods at about the same time, and it is even less likely that they will be in about the same sea area.
There is a big difference here.
There are 6 ships docking, but only three or four may go out to sea on the same day, and the time of receiving the goods is uncertain, but no ship like his makes as much money.
We should make more concessions when we should, and win-win cooperation is the only way to achieve better results.
After figuring it out and having a set of rules, he felt more at ease.
He even thought that when the harvest is bigger during the flood season, he would help several ships collect the goods and pay each ship a certain amount of money.
Whatever profit they make belongs to their fishing boat, and it’s fine as long as they are given a commission. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.
He thought so and decided to bring it up the day after tomorrow. Unexpectedly, Pei's father contacted him the next day and talked about the same thing.
It’s really exquisite.
He really admired Uncle Pei from the bottom of his heart. Only smart people would not suffer losses, and would be able to maximize their own interests and accumulate the current wealth.
However, there is nothing wrong with his behavior. Who would lose money just to make money for others?
If a person does not serve himself, he will be destroyed by heaven and earth.
It would be good enough if you didn't talk to him right away on the same day.
"Ah Dong, haha, did you receive the goods these two days?"
As soon as Ye Yaodong heard his opening remarks, he understood what Pei's father wanted to talk to him about.
"It's a good harvest. Uncle Zheng's radar network really didn't fool us. It's not in vain that he called us here. It's really profitable."
"Yes, he also instigated me to do so. He has been calling me that for two years. But I am worried that it is too chaotic here. There are only a few boats. How can it be safe enough? It is better for me to earn money safely at home."
"Yes, even if you earn money, you have to live to spend it. No matter how much money you have, it is not as important as living in peace and safety."
"Yes, safe and profitable. Safety comes first, profitable comes second. We are also lucky. Many people from our village came this time. We can take care of each other and make money together."
"Yes."
"Everyone comes here to take big risks just to make more money. Now there is a lot of goods, and we can earn twice as much as we do at home every day. Everyone is happy. When the flood season comes, we can earn even more..."
"Ok!"
"This flood season can last for three months, which is very serious. The profits will be great... We are not outsiders, so I will speak frankly..."
Ye Yaodong felt sorry for him after hearing him talk so much, so he took the initiative to say, "Uncle, you want to talk about the fresh food ship coming to collect the goods tomorrow, right?"
"Oh? What do you want to say? According to the original agreement, the fresh food ship will come to collect goods every two days. Tomorrow, they will indeed come out to collect a wave of goods and replenish supplies for everyone."
Ye Yaodong shook his head and said, pretending!
I clearly wanted to say this, but I was still waiting for him to say it.
It's okay to be smart, but you have to pretend to be smart.
A Guang is still the best. Fortunately, this smart guy is almost ready to retire. A Guang will be the one in charge from now on.
He said directly: "I was thinking that if the fresh cargo ship comes to collect the goods the day after tomorrow, I will talk to you and adjust the ratio then."
"After all, we are closer to the shore now, and there are more goods. If you continue as before, it will not be cost-effective for you. In fact, I am taking advantage of you..."
"How should I put it? It should be mutually beneficial. So after I saw the delivery yesterday, I thought we should talk again. It just so happens that uncle is calling now... No, it just so happens that uncle is talking about it now, so let's talk first."
Father Pei smiled and said, "Then let's chat..."
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