Chapter 342: A Wave of Warehouses
(Yesterday there was a temporary break for one day, and today there are three changes.) Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info)
There are many fish schools within a radius of several nautical miles, and every trawler is now equipped with a fish search device, so there is no need for Shuichi Minamino to command it when fishing. Each of the 20 trawlers carried out separate fishing operations within a radius of several nautical miles.
The sea breeze is level 4, and the waves are still relatively large, but it does not affect the fishing operation at all.
In the rolling waves, you can sometimes see schools of fish down to a meter or two below the water. The scales of each fish reflected in the sunlight and were unusually dazzling.
On the roof of the 1,000-ton trawler on which Shuichi Minamino belongs, two lookouts are watching the sea.
"Fish found 100 meters ahead!"
"Convey, 100 meters ahead, a school of fish has been found!"
"Get off the trawl, hurry up!"
The sailors had a clear division of labor, and the eight sailors at the stern of the ship began to operate the trawling machinery.
"Adjust the direction, the position!"
"Get off the net!"
At the stern of the boat, a 600-metre-long net with a circumference is instantly lowered, and two giant steel supports weighing 1.2 tonnes prop up the net to form an oval net 50 metres wide and 25 metres high. As the huge trawl was lowered into the seawater, it was then operated by machinery.
The oval net, which is 50 meters wide and 25 meters high, is dragged by the trawler and rushes quickly towards the fish 100 meters ahead. This school of fish, Shuichi Minamino, found that there were still a lot of salmon fish, about 2,000 or so.
With a width of up to 50 meters, the school of fish was trawled into it without any chance of resisting.
"Haha...... The fish finder shows that the fish have entered the net and are ready to be raised!"
"Pick up the net!"
The wide trawl was slowly lifted by steel supports and hoisted above the deck.
As the trawl net came out ......of the water, the salmon in the trawl were struggling in terror but had no chance of escaping. Pitifully hoisted up to the deck.
"Salmon, it's salmon!"
"Hurry up and get the salmon into the cold storage. Shuichi Minamino commanded from the deck.
While the sailors were busy, the lookout shouted loudly: "Fish found at 7 o'clock on the right side of the fishing boat, find fish! About 300 meters away from us!"
"Half of the people were handling the salmon on deck, and the boat immediately turned around and went to catch the next wave of fish. You guys have another trawl!" said Minamino Shui.
"Yes, boss. ”
The eight sailors immediately unhooked the trawl hooks from the steel supports. Then immediately pull up a trawl net from the side and hook it on the support. It was ready in ten minutes. Fishing boats are also starting to approach another wave of fish.
"Cast the nets!"
The second trawl was again thrown into the sea. As the fishing boat and the sea rushed down, the trawl net with a circumference of 600 meters was instantly opened.
"Click......"
The steel bracket slowly stretched open the robotic arm under the pull of the power, and the trawl was immediately stretched out to form an oval mesh with a width of 50 meters and a height of 25 meters.
"The fish started to sink, the fish started to go down. At present, the depth of the fish search device is 50 meters. Start adjusting the depth of the trawl sea water ......"
The mechanical arm rotated slowly, and several steel chains were also slowly lowered. All of a sudden, the trawl slowly sank deeper.
"The fishing boats are faster, faster! This school of fish seems to be faster and bigger. Maybe it's a school of tuna!"
The diesel engine unit of the fishing boat worth more than $100,000 is still relatively powerful, and the speed begins to accelerate in vain.
Sure enough, the speed of this school of fish was really fast, and at first the fishing boat felt that it could not catch up. But after less than twenty minutes of chase, the fish were finally caught in the net.
When the trawl was hoisted onto the deck, it turned out to be a school of tuna. It turns out that tuna, in addition to longline fishing against them, trawlers are their nightmare, and they are completely caught in one catch!
"Tuna, really tuna!"
At this time, the other 19 trawlers were also engaged in intense and busy fishing operations. It has to be said that a small fishing ground has indeed formed in this area. There are dozens of fish in the fishing grounds. Every trawler is constantly fishing.
Shuichi Minamino, who was switching his vision to observe, also noticed that there were big fish eating small fish in the fishing grounds here. It seems that the small schools of fish here have welcomed the predatory schools of fish to feed. For example, schools of tuna, swordfish, sharks, etc......
"It's been a long time since I've encountered a fishing ground like this, haha......" Shuichi Minamino was overjoyed as he watched the waves of fish being trawled. He also discovered another surprise. That is, there is a steady stream of fish joining this area. Anyway, a few hours passed, and four or five more waves of fish came here. It's still the kind of fish that are bigger. It seems that there are many herrings here, and schools of sardines attract them.
For these, of course, he does not refuse to come, big and small.
The day's worth of fishing passed like this.
At the end of the day, two schools of tuna, ten schools of herring, three schools of salmon and five schools of cod were caught......
The fishing capacity of large trawlers is obvious to all, mainly because the trawl has a large opening, and it is difficult for ordinary fish to escape. The fishing boat rushed straight over and the fish were caught in the net. As long as tuna, sailfish and sharks and other fish with good swimming ability are in a position to resist or even escape. However, most of them did not escape the fate of escape.
When night falls, the fishing is over.
Happily, a single day of fishing filled a single transport boat! This time, Shukazu Minamino rented a total of three transport boats to help with the transportation. Now the harvest is full in one day, and a transport boat is really a huge harvest.
"I didn't expect to catch so many fish in one day, it's really unexpected!" said Ami Inoue.
"Well, it's all a small fishing ground that was found and formed this time, otherwise it wouldn't have filled a transport ship so quickly. Shuichi Minamino smiled. At this time, the transport ship was no longer with the fleet after it was full. Seafood and fish are transported directly and separately to Nemuro Fishing Port. As for the other two transports, they continued to follow.
As night fell, Shuichi Minamino had no intention of continuing fishing, mainly because there were no more fish nearby.
It's time to eat seafood and rest now, and then set sail tomorrow to continue fishing. This two-month ocean fishing is sure to be a big catch!