Chapter 14 Fishing
The next morning, Zhao Kang went to the fruit and vegetable supermarket to order a batch of vacuum-packed fruits and vegetables. If we www.biquge.info talk about what is indispensable for survival in the ocean, the first thing we think of is fresh water.
Without water, no living thing can survive, and for fishermen who go out to sea, water is life. If they had to choose one more, it would be fresh vegetables and fruits. Vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamins and essential minerals. Daily supplementation can strengthen the crew's immunity to various diseases and will also avoid symptoms such as scurvy.
Zhao Kang wants to prepare some daily necessities for tourists who are about to come to the island. Otherwise, if they catch seafood around every day to eat, it is estimated that they will not want to see all seafood-related foods in the future.
Zhao Kang booked the five-day portion of seven or eight people, and Zhao Kang paid the deposit and walked towards Wu Zhipeng's dock freezer.
"Brother Zhao, are you ready? We're ready to go! Wu Zhipeng saw Zhao Kang at the door of the cold storage and said.
"Angkor, I'll bring a few big yellow croakers back to SY. When is your brother-in-law coming to collect fish? Zhao Kang said.
Wu Zhipeng said with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, there is no problem, I asked him to arrive at one o'clock in the afternoon, and we have already finished fishing by that time." ”
After Zhao Kang finished sealing the big yellow croaker in a foam box, he said to Wu Zhipeng: "It's almost seven o'clock now, those technicians should be ready." ”
Zhao Kang handed over the sealed foam box and four tickets to the four technicians who had completed the work, and asked them to hand over the foam box to his father.
Zhao Qimin will wait for them at the pier, and when they came before, they were sent by Zhao Qimin, so they also know each other. They did not shirk the request of a large customer.
"Brother Zhao's wooden houses are good! If you have time, come and stay for a while. Wu Zhipeng docked the fishing boat on the floating wharf of Jinquanyu and said enviously.
Zhao Kang led the technicians to check the materials in the middle of the island and found that they had not been flooded. Zhao Kang breathed a sigh of relief instantly. In the future, you have to record in detail the location of the tide, you can't take such a risk.
I checked everything and found nothing wrong! Zhao Kang and Wu Zhipeng got on the fishing boat, leaving the three technicians to continue their work.
Fishing boats have three important instruments: fish finders, locators, and collision avoidances. The fish finder is mainly composed of a display and a sonar probe, which can not only detect the situation of fish in the sea around the fishing boat, but also measure the depth of the sea water to prevent it from running aground.
The locator ensures the correct position of the route for the driver during the voyage, otherwise the driver will not know where to go in the vast sea. As the name suggests, the collision avoidance device is to prevent collisions. The main thing is to prevent other fishing boats from colliding with each other in the surrounding rain and fog.
After the fishing boat left the dock, Wu Zhipeng and Zhao Kang stared at the flickering dots on the fish finder's display. Most fishing boats use trawls, and when they find schools of fish in that area, they lower the trawl and use the fishing boat to tow them at sea for an hour or two.
Having a fishing boat dragging a net along the way is more fuel-intensive than normal driving. If you go to sea for a day or two, and the seafood harvested is not 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, then this trip will definitely be a loss, and it may not even be enough for oil. So the boat boss is very cautious when releasing the net.
Zhao Kang's plan is to circle around the island, find a school of fish, and then follow the direction of the fish.
After driving along the reef on the south side of Jinquanyu for a while, the monitor appeared densely packed with red highlights. At this time, the location of the fishing boat was about a thousand meters away from the island.
Wu Zhipeng excitedly asked the driver to adjust the direction, and at the same time notified the other crew members on the fishing boat to take their positions and prepare to release the net.
He turned around and told Zhao Kang that they were still three or four hundred meters away from the position of the fish.
Under Wu Zhipeng's command, the fishing boat had been towed above the school of fish for half an hour. The speed of the boat has also slowed down significantly, indicating that the weight in the nets has reached a new height.
Wu Zhipeng ordered the fishing boat to stop moving forward and started the motor that dragged the trawl. Excitedly ran out of the wheelhouse and went to the deck to direct the crew to collect the nets.
Zhao Kang also followed to the deck, but did not step forward, but watched from the sidelines. Zhao Kang, who had been on his fishing boat for a period of time before, knew that every position of the crew was fixed, and he rushed up, saying that he might not be more helpful.
As the fishing net was pulled up little by little, Wu Zhipeng's face flickered. After the nets were brought up, Zhao Kang found that more than half of them were very small anchovies, which had low economic value, and most fishing boats would sell them to farmers in offshore fisheries as fish feed.
This is also the reason why Wu Zhipeng was disappointed, but his luck was not very bad, and this net also caught more than four or five hundred catties of silver pomfret. The fish were roughly sorted by the crew and sent to the ship's own freezer.
"There should be schools of silver pomfret and sardines around, and they should be migrating around the anchovy." Wu Zhipeng analyzed, and said with a smile at Zhao Kang: "Although this net is a little disappointing, the harvest is still good. At present, wild silver pomfret is sliding in the price range of 50 yuan to 60 yuan per catty, and there are more than 500 catties of silver pomfret in this net. We netted around a few more times and said that we might not actually run into a school of silver pomfret. ”
Zhao Kang said with a smile: "Everything on the fishing boat listens to Angkor." ”
When the sun reached the top of their heads, Zhao Kang and the others caught a total of three nets. Roughly spared Jinquanyu twice. Although I didn't encounter the expected big yellow croaker, I still caught four or five hundred catties, and the most important thing was that the third net finally touched the silver pomfret and caught six or seven thousand catties in one net.
Zhao Kang believes that the number of fish in one to two nautical miles of the entire Jinquanyu Island should be halved.
Wu Zhipeng estimated that the harvest of silver pomfret this time was four or five hundred thousand, and said to Zhao Kang, who was picking fish together: "Brother Zhao, it's already more than twelve o'clock, and my brother-in-law should have arrived." What's more, the freezer is almost full. ”
Zhao Kang looked at the time, the first batch of tourists should have arrived, and said, "Yes, but we have to leave some food for the three technicians on the island." ”
So Wu Zhipeng instructed the part-time cook of the fishing boat to start cooking lunch and sail towards the pier of Jinquanyu.
"If there is so much harvest this afternoon, Brother Zhao, you will be rich, at least you will earn back the money you used to buy the island." Wu Zhipeng said on the deck.
Zhao Kang said with a smile: "Tongxi, Tongxi!" Angkor's harvest is also not bad, and one trip today should be worth several trips to the sea of Angkor. ”
Although Zhao Kang took the lion's share of today's catch, he was able to divide two or three hundred thousand yuan this time, which was comparable to three or four previous trips. Besides, not every time you go to sea, you will get a harvest, and sometimes God is very faceless.
Wu Zhipeng sighed: "It's a pity, such a good thing is only once." I don't know if the fish will pass through here in the future. ”
The migratory paths of fish are actually constantly changing with the currents. The movement of ocean currents drives nutrients from the seafloor and attracts a large number of plankton. These plankton attract some small fish, and in this world where big fish eat small fish, the entire food chain is tied together for migration. If it weren't for food and the next generation, who would be running around without it!
After delivering lunch to the island's technicians, the fishing boat began to sail home. Zhao Kang told the technicians that he would come back in the afternoon, mainly to sell his catch at the dock in SS City.
Otherwise, these technicians would think that they would leave them alone!
When he arrived at the wharf in SS City, Wu Zhipeng instructed people to go to the wharf freezer to get more plastic baskets to sort fish.
"Brother Peng, how is today's harvest? Come back so early! A young man walked up to Wu Zhipeng's fishing boat and said hello.
Hearing someone call him, Wu Zhipeng stood up from the pile of fishing nets he had sorted out and saw someone coming and said, "It's Jin Cheng!" I'll call you later! ”
After saying that, he continued to squat down, rummaging through the fishing nets to find the garbage hanging in the fishing nets.
"I just went to my house to see my sister, and when I got back to the dock, I saw our fishing boat." Hu Jincheng said.
"Let's go, lead you to see today's harvest." Wu Zhipeng led the way to the fishing boat's freezer.
"It's a silver pomfret! So much, no wonder you're back so early today. It's got to be three or four tons, I can't use it. Hu Jincheng exclaimed.
Hu Jincheng's Donghua Restaurant is located in the bustling city of SS City, and thanks to the hiring of several high-end chefs and the supply of high-quality ingredients, the traffic is always full. But it only uses a few hundred catties a day, and it is a good species of freshwater fish and saltwater fish. Although the fishing market has not been good in recent years, there is always good luck when there are more times to go to sea, and every time Wu Zhipeng catches high-end seafood will be sent to Hu Jincheng's restaurant to greet customers and enhance the restaurant's signature and reputation.
Wu Zhipeng scolded with a smile: "Of course I know that you can't eat, and I have already asked people to call the clerk of Hongyun Seafood Wholesale Company in SS City." ”
Wu Zhipeng fishes all year round, and of course has his own sales channels. The seafood wholesale market in SY city is the largest and most influential wholesale market in the whole of HN province, and Hongyun Seafood Wholesale Company is one of the best among them. Wu Zhipeng's catch of seafood is often sold to them.
"Angkor, how long will it take here?" Zhao Kang walked over from the side passage and said.
Wu Zhipeng saw that Zhao Kang was still on the phone, so he whispered: "It will take at least half an hour!" Did something happen? ”
Zhao Kang hung up after saying a few words into the microphone of his mobile phone, turned to Wu Zhipeng and said, "I have a few friends who are going to SS City to play on the island!" Don't worry, I'll let them rest in the hotel first, and I'll pick them up after a while! ”
Wu Zhipeng nodded and introduced to both parties: "It's okay." This is the owner of the batch of big yellow croaker, Zhao Kang, the owner of Ocean Country Tourism Development Co., Ltd. This is my brother-in-law, Hu Jincheng, the owner and general manager of SY Donghua Restaurant. ”