Chapter 149: Sailfish
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Since 1946, there has been a gradual decline in fishery resources in the islands. In the late 1970s, squid fishing was concentrated in the central part of the island sea, and salmon fishing was mostly carried out in the shallow waters of the north and southwest, while in the deeper seas, it was mainly for crustaceans such as shrimp and crabs.
However, in the current fifties, although there was a trend of gradual decline in fishery resources, they had not yet reached that level of depletion, and fishery resources were still very abundant in these years.
After a day and a night of travel, Minamino Shuichi's fleet shuttled through the Soya Strait from the waters near the Kuril Islands to the northern part of the island country's sea.
For more than a week, Shuichi Minamino was planning to fish here.
After arriving here, Minamino encountered three waves of fish in just one morning, two waves of sardines and one wave of herring. If you put it before, Shuichi Minamino will choose to catch it when he encounters it. But now, he really doesn't want to do fishing.
One is that it has a falling out with the US imperialist distant-water fishing company, and this kind of cheap fish is not needed, and it will not make a lot of money.
He still prefers to catch more valuable fish.
Two days ago, he ate the embarrassing thing he encountered with oysters, and he decided that he must eat less in the future, even if he eats, he will wait until there is a woman to eat again, and then eat 20 every day, hum!
"Boss, there was a school of sardines nearby just now, and you really don't plan to catch this kind of fish?" asked Minamiki Noguchi as he walked up to Shuichi Minamino, who was napping. In fact, he still feels a pity that he doesn't catch fish when he encounters them.
"If you don't fish, there's no point in catching this kind of fish!"
In such a situation, several backbones want to persuade him, after all, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, and it is better than nothing, okay? At that time, at most, it can be sold to those local buyers at a low price.
But they all know that the boss is a persistent person, and they don't dare to persuade him more.
"Ding-dong...... Schools of yellowfin tuna and squid were found at a distance of 5 nautical miles from the host due west, with a longitude of 122.1 and a latitude of 44.3. The number of yellowfin tuna is 1823 and 1598 are squid. ”
"Two schools of fish in the same position, it looks like the yellowfin tuna must be attacking the squid!" said Minamino without even thinking about it. Because squid is one of the foods of yellowfin tuna.
He was secretly happy that he had found a school of tuna on the first day he came here. It's a good start!
Shuichi Minamino came to the cab and said to the old man Kimura: "Kimura, you can take a break, it's been a long day, I'll take over." ”
"Okay, thank you boss. "The old man Kimura no longer insisted, driving a boat is a boring technical job. Others are also old, so they need to take a break.
Originally, the fishing boat was heading westward, but the west side was so wide that it would definitely not hit the fish. This requires Shuichi Minamino to personally correct the specific direction.
At a distance of 5 nautical miles, he had more than enough time to correct. Soon, the three fishing boats were slowly approaching the yellowfin tuna school.
It didn't take long for the sailors on the fishing boat to exclaim because they had seen the squid, and then they found something that surprised everyone, and that was yellowfin tuna!
"Oh my God, those yellowfin tuna are preying on those squid, poor squid......"
In the seawater, the fat yellowfin tuna twisted its body and shuttled quickly in the water, and any squid that was targeted had no chance to escape.
More than 1,800 yellowfin tuna and more than 1,500 squid, at this time there is a feeling of more monks and less porridge, each yellowfin tuna is a quick grab, for fear of falling behind and not being able to eat.
"Boss, find tuna!" Noguchi Nanki burst into the cab with a happy expression. Because none of them had ever encountered a school of tuna during this time.
"Tell me what to do, why don't you hurry up and go longline fishing!" Shuichi Minamino gave him an angry look.
"Yes!" Noguchi Nanmu was scolded by Nanno Shuichi, and suddenly became dying, so he could only turn around and leave aggrievedly.
"Wait, come back, you come and sail, I'll take a look. ”
"I'm ......" Nanmu Noguchi, who was called back, had a grudge on his face.
Shuichi Minamino ignored him, and he walked quickly towards the deck, where the sailors were already preparing for longlining.
Ami Inoue and Yukina Sakai also came out to help with bait on the hook. The bait is frozen sardines, and usually when you come out and encounter sardines, you will catch a little to refrigerate them, such as when you encounter tuna schools now, you can come in handy.
Everyone didn't gossip, and everyone was familiar with this way of tuna fishing, so they didn't need to command much. All you need to do is choose the direction and control the speed. The other is to observe the movement of the fish, so that you can put down the longline hook.
"Boss, how many hooks?" asked Ishida.
"A fishing boat goes down 2,000 hooks!" said Minamino Shuyi. At present, there are only two fishing boats that can go down longline, and the trawler does not have this function. It is an exclusive trawling vessel.
There are less than 2,000 tuna in total, and 4,000 hooks is more than enough.
As the hook of bait was thrown into the water, it quickly caught the attention of the yellowfin tuna in the water. The first is because the bait dropped by the fishing boat is dropped in the school of yellowfin tuna. As long as these tuna don't have a malfunctioning nose, they will basically smell the bait. The second is that there are already more monks and less porridge for squid, but now that there is a new food, how can these tuna be spared?
So, half an hour later, the yellowfin tuna bite one after another.
Flutter flutter puff ~
The water splashed, and the fat yellowfin tuna was also caught. The sailors of both fishing boats were busy. Of these, processing tuna is the busiest green. Bloodletting, evisceration, etc., this is a simple but tedious job.
In the end, the longlines of the two fishing boats caught more than 1,400 yellowfin tuna, which took more than three hours to process. And they were all tired. At this time, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon.
"Tonight, a fishing boat slaughters a tuna to eat!" said Shuichi Minamino to everyone after seeing that he was busy.
"Wow...... Tuna sashimi was eaten tonight. ”
"Long live the boss!"
"Don't worry, follow me, I will never lose you. Minamino said with a smile. In fact, the average sailor of the fishing team is a part-time worker. The high-value fish caught are generally refrigerated, so how can they be eaten? It can be said that Shuichi Minamino is definitely more generous when it comes to eating. In fact, he wanted to eat it himself. If you can't eat one by yourself, it's nothing to call the sailors to eat.
At this time, Inoue Ami pointed to the sea not far away and exclaimed, "Ah~ What kind of fish is that!"
Everyone listened and looked in the direction she pointed, only to see a big fish about three meters long jumping on the sea, this fish was blue all over, and the whole fish gave people a very streamlined feeling. The most eye-catching thing is the crown of flags in the north of it!
"Sailfish, this is a sailfish!" exclaimed one of the sailors.
"That's a lot of speed! it's gone all of a sudden......"
"Look, you see there are three over there!" another sailor also saw that three sailfish had been spotted not far away. The three swordfish did not jump, but the crown on their backs was thus above the water, which was very easy to identify.
"There are two ...... over there, too"
In just a few minutes, everyone saw seven or eight sailfish, they swam very fast, and jumped out of the sea from time to time. However, they have no intention of leaving, as if they are foraging for food nearby.
"Sailfish!" Minamino muttered. Speaking of which, it was the first time he had seen a real version of the sailfish, and he had only seen it on the computer in his previous life.
I saw that the body shape of these sailfish resembles a moonfish, blunt round and strong, spindle-shaped, and the tail peduncle is also wide, and it is bifurcated in the shape of "eight". The snout of the head is obtuse and rounded. The outer edge of the caudal fin is straight. The dorsal fin is larger than the anal fin, and the dorsal and anal fin margins are curved.
The upper jaw protrudes forward like a sword. The blue-brown body is inlaid with gray-white spots, which are arranged in longitudinal rows, looking like dot lines. The first dorsal fin of the sailfish grows long and tall, with a concave upper edge of the front end, and when they are erected, they look like a sail raised on a boat, and they look like flags pulling at them.
Shuichi Minamino knows that the sailfish can be regarded as the champion swimmer among animals, with a speed of 90 kilometers per hour on weekdays and about 110 kilometers per hour for short distances! Dolphins are expert swimmers with speeds of about 60 kilometers per hour. However, it does not swim as fast as a swordfish. According to the swimming speed record, the order is: swordfish first, then swordfish, tuna, large tank whitefish, flying fish, trout, and then dolphins.
There are many kinds of sailfish, mainly including true swordfish, mesmer, black-skinned swordfish, and plantain swordfish, and their habits are similar. However, Shuichi Minamino knows that it is a highly nutrient fish like tuna, and it is a treasure in sushi and sashimi.
Sailfish and tuna swim fast, so they exercise a lot, so their meat quality is definitely better.
"It would be nice to catch one or two for sashimi and sushi, but unfortunately we don't have a professional trolling stick......!"
"Boss, although we don't have a professional trolling stick, we can also let the fishing boat drive as fast as possible and try fishing!" Ishida Yu, who was standing next to him, suggested after listening to it.
"Is that okay?" asked Shuichi Minamino.
"Ahem...... I've tried this with my previous fishing team, but the success rate is low because our fishing boats are not professional trolls. Sometimes, though, you can catch it with a bit of luck. Ishida explained.
"I see, let's give it a try, I haven't found any other fish anyway. Minamino Shu nodded. (To be continued.) )