Most large distant-water fishing vessels are equipped with a maximum depth of about 1,000 meters, and their fishing range is also a thousand meters below the surface of the sea, which can catch more kinds of deep-sea fish.

And Lin Fan's two deep-sea ships, after being modified by engineering fighters, can be fished at a depth of 500 meters again, and can reach a depth of 1,500 meters, which is more powerful than other large ocean-going fishing vessels.

At this time, the fishing boat is placed on a relatively fine barrage net, which is aimed at small fish such as mackerel, which can not only intercept, but also retract to form a net bag after interception, wrapping all the fish in the net.

Soon, the fish began to hit several huge nets, and everyone on the fishing boat could feel a huge impact that caused the fishing boat to shake, but as the fishing boat began to increase its speed, the impact gradually eased, and most of the fish were dragged in reverse by the giant net.

Eventually, only about three-tenths of the population was not netted, including all the juveniles, which were too small to burrow out of the mesh, a common practice for fishermen, who abandoned the juveniles and allowed them to continue to grow and reproduce so as not to deplete the fishery.

"Let's get the net."

Twenty minutes later, the huge nets on both fishing boats were slowly hoisted up, and the thick steel ropes above them slowly tightened under the twisting of the winch, making a creaking sound. Huge nets and fish bags at a depth of hundreds of meters below the surface of the sea are gradually pulled out of the water.

"Wow-"

When the giant nets and fish bags came out of the water, the sea water discharged with a loud noise, stirring up huge waves several meters high. The splash hit the deck like a heavy rain, drenching some of the people who were close to the deck.

However, no one said anything, and everyone looked at the big bag of white fish, with gloves on their hands, and prepared all kinds of fish processing machines. I'm just waiting to clean up the fish mountain that has fallen on the deck.

"Whew-"

One by one, the nets and fish bags were finally moved to the deck, and the cables of the giant nets were untied in a no-man's land. A hole was opened, and tens of thousands of mackerel poured down to the deck, stirring up a whirring wind.

Lin Fan was also on the deck and looked outside the cabin, and he found that these mackerel heads were big. The tip is conical, the eyes are large, the mouth is large, and the upper and lower jaws have a row of fine teeth. The body is covered with small round scales, the back of the body is blue-black or dark blue, and the sides of the body have irregular dark blue insect erosion patterns. The abdomen is white and slightly yellowish. There are 2 dorsal fins, caudal fin deeply forked, pectoral fin light black, anal fin light pink. The other fins are pale yellow.

These mackerels are not very large, the largest ones are just over a catty, and most of them may weigh close to a catty. But there are not many of them, and I am afraid that there will be no one or two thousand of them, and they will fall on the deck and pile them up like a small mountain.

The surrounding mackerel struggled violently, and it was obvious that they could not survive for long after leaving the sea, so the mackerel close to the side of the boat even jumped directly into the sea.

But. Everyone didn't care about the fish that jumped into the sea, but rushed forward quickly. With thick gloves on his hands, he quickly handled the mackerel on the deck to the size of his head.

For these, Lin Fan has also done it, although he doesn't have to do it himself now, but he saw that everyone quickly picked up the mackerel and threw it on a conveyor belt, which was quickly transported to the processing room inside, cut, cleaned and frozen, and finally sent to the freezer to be frozen.

It took nearly two hours for everyone to dispose of the pile of mackerel and fish mountains, leaving some edible fish, shrimp, turtles, snails, etc., which were useless from the net, and throwing the rest back into the sea.

Of course, there will also be some marine garbage and the like, which are packed in special garbage cans, and when they go to make up for it on the way, they will hand over these marine garbage to people on land to dispose of, which is a common thing in the International Convention on the Sea, and everyone will consciously abide by it.

However, in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, there is not much marine garbage coming from the net, far less than the marine garbage that Lin Fan picked up in the offshore position when he went to sea a few times ago, so it will not become a burden on fishing boats.

When Lin Fan finished dealing with Yushan, it didn't take long for Zhang Zhide's fishing boat to also send news, and they also finished processing all the mackerel, and got a total of 18 tons of 36,000 catties of mackerel.

The fishing boat on Lin Fan's side is about 19 tons and 38,000 catties, which adds up to 37 tons and 54,000 catties of mackerel. This first net yielded 37 tons of mackerel, which made everyone very happy and excited.

Although the price of mackerel is not like the precious fish that Lin Fan used to catch specially, in Europe, a kilogram is about 2 US dollars, and a ton is worth 2,000 US dollars.

So this first net, Lin Fan's harvest is 74,000 US dollars, which is about 450,000 Chinese dollars, which is a relatively good income, and everyone is only busy for more than two hours, plus the time to get off the net is not more than four hours.

However, the storage space of the Deep Sea has a total of 1,200 tons, including frozen storage space and seawater live storage space, but after the modification of the engineering warriors, the storage space has been expanded to 1,500 tons.

Therefore, after the 30 tons of mackerel are stored in, they only occupy a corner of the storage space, and they are inconspicuous in it, unlike the previous medium-sized fishing boats, which can almost fill the storage space of a medium-sized fishing boat.

"Uncle De, today's harvest is not bad. Let everyone rest and eat, and the fishing boat will automatically move forward after correcting its direction, and wait until it encounters a school of fish before making plans. Lin Fan said to Zhang Zhide on another fishing boat.

"Mr. Lin, everyone is not tired, if you encounter a school of fish in front, let's continue to go to the net. You don't know, everyone was very excited when they saw the mountain of fish on the deck just now, but when they saw the fish piled up in the storage room and only occupied a corner, everyone felt that there were too few fish, and they had to hurry up and fill the storage space with a few more nets to have a sense of accomplishment. Zhang Zhide said loudly on the other side.

"Hehe, I can understand everyone's intentions, but we will be floating on the sea for two or three months this time, and everyone's body must not be exhausted. So it's time to rest or rest, fishing is not in a hurry, there are fish in this endless deep sea that we can catch. ”

Compared with the captains of other fishing boats, Lin Fan is a person who sees very far, he does not squeeze the crew and ask them to work without sleep, but values the relationship with the crew and their sense of belonging in their hearts.

Therefore, Lin Fan formulated the company's crew manual, there is a clause that must meet eight hours of sleep every day, prohibiting the situation of staying up late to fish, and at the same time, the daily necessities are also more thoughtful.

Of course, this is also because Lin Fan's fishing boat is controlled by at least one engineering soldier, which can effectively find a large number of fish, and there will be no situation where the net is not caught and the fish cannot be caught, thus saving a lot of work time.

It wasn't until just after 3 p.m. that the two boats went net again, this time with a school of cod. Cod is one of the world's most caught fish annually and is of great food and economic value.

The local names of cod are: big-headed bluemouth fish, big-headed fish, mentai fish, mizuguchi broadmouth fish, big-headed fishy sausage fish, etc. Pure cod refers to the cod genus, which is divided into Atlantic cod, Greenland cod and Pacific cod.

Most of them are found on the continental shelf of the northern Atlantic Ocean, and the important fish species are haddock, blue cod, green pollock, Norway longarm whiting and pollock.

Cod meat is white, delicate and tender, clear and not greasy, and many countries in the world regard cod as the main edible fish. In Northern Europe, cod is known as the "nutritionist of the table", in addition to fresh food, it is also processed into a variety of aquatic foods, in addition to large and high oil content, rich in vitamins A and D, is the raw material for extracting cod liver oil.

This time, it was the same aircraft that spotted it first, and then the fishing boat rushed over for more than 20 minutes to intercept this huge school of fish, and then used multiple layers of barrage nets, and that kind of huge trawl nets.

Half an hour later, two-thirds of the huge school of fish had entered the nets, and six huge nets were so full that they could not be piled up on the deck, because each net contained nearly 20,000 catties of cod.

In the end, the other nets had to be dealt with one by one, and the other nets were temporarily soaked in the seawater, which was slightly tightened, but the nets were not tied up and tied to death, so that the fish squeezed in the middle would die in the squeezing.

After more than five hours of work, the two boats had caught a total of 45 tonnes of cod, more than the mackerel in the morning. The price of cod is slightly higher than that of mackerel, and it is estimated that the harvest will reach more than 600,000 this time.

"Tonight barbecue, bring out the barrel beer we prepared, there is no wind and waves tonight, everyone is happy." Lin Fan finally decided to celebrate, it was a rare quiet evening in the past few days.

All the crew members on the Deep Sea No. 2 also came, leaving only the engineering soldiers in the control room, they just didn't eat or drink all the time, and there was no problem, but in order to prevent others from seeing anything, Lin Fan still asked people to send him some food and drink.

On the wide deck, a few bright light bulbs lit up as if it were daylight, which was the light supplied by the solar energy. There are still dense stars in the sky, listening to the sound of whirring waves on the relatively calm sea, all kinds of grilled fish and seafood, beer, singing and laughing all over again. (To be continued) >