With the Catch Ripple sailed into the berth of the port, when Bei Hai docked the ship to the berth, he happened to see the fishing company's car trading with Diego's network number at the dock twenty or thirty meters away.

Waiting for Matt to tie up the boat, Bei Hai jumped on the dock and walked towards the net number.

"Hey! Hull: "Diego hurriedly greeted Bei Hai when he saw him coming, and then took out a cigar and gestured to Bei Hai.

Bei Hai hurriedly waved his hand to signal that he would not smoke a cigar and said, "How is it?"

"Not bad, the two smaller ones are estimated to be $3,000 to $4,000 each, the 400-pound one is estimated to be worth 5,000 dollars, and the 600-pound one is estimated to be worth 8,000 dollars, this time it's really thanks to you" Diego said to Bei Hai, and then immediately asked, "Do you have any new harvest?" ”。

"There's a big fish that can't fit in the cabin at all, about a thousand pounds!" Bei Hai whispered.

Hiss! As soon as Diego heard a thousand pounds in the big fish, he immediately took a breath, and raised his foot to walk in the direction of the Ripple of Beihai.

"Hey! Diego, you haven't signed it yet! The owner of the fishing company immediately said to Diego. The boss was a silver-haired old man with a baseball cap with the name of the Mustang Fishing Company on it and embroidered with a leaping black horse.

"Are you going to sell your catch?" Diego turned his head and asked Bei Hai.

Bei Hai nodded and looked at the boss of the fishing company, he hadn't said hello to anyone before, but he just watched Diego sell it to this family, and he also wanted to take a ride and sell it together.

"I'll sign it with the Ripple later, I'll go see Hull's catch first," Diego said to the owner of the fishing company, and then yelled at his son Isda, "Fix the cables, do everything you need to do!" ”。

"I have three fish on my boat, I'll come and trade them later," Bei Hai said to him, "Just call me Hull, I'm the captain of the Ripple now."

When I heard that there was a business coming to my door, I was naturally very happy as the owner of a fishing company.

"Benny! You have to keep this captain and don't let the compass snatch it" Diego patted Bei Hai on the shoulder and said, "It won't be long before he becomes the best tuna captain in the whole of New England!" ”。

"Call me Benny, it's almost over here, let's move the car over right away" Benny immediately reached out and shook Bei Hai.

Benny didn't know that Bei Hai had a thousand-pound fish in his hand, but he had heard Diego say that there were two fish of more than 500 pounds.

Gloucester has two fishing companies, one is the Mustang Company and the other is the Compass Company, and the two companies are in competition, Compass is relatively larger, because there are more fishermen working with this company, and the Mustang Company is only about two-thirds the size of the Compass.

The price of the two companies is about the same, both are equivalent to the consignment company is mainly for these fishermen to serve, the income is mainly to see the customer base, the vast majority of people in the town are fishermen who have been working for several lifetimes, some cooperative relations are stable, the so-called expansion of business is light, it is not easy to do.

If there is some other new captain appearing, whether it is Benny or Compass's George, they will go to say hello or something as soon as possible, the reason why Bei Hai does not have such treatment is because Bei Hai came out too quickly, and second, the two bosses don't care much about Bei Hai, a rookie who is only twenty-five years old.

Benny heard Diego say that Bei Hai had caught two 500-pound fish, so he wanted to get in touch with Bei Hai, but he just thought about Bei Hai and sent it to the door himself.

Benny said to the backs of Behai and Diego, "You go first, we'll go right over!" ”。

Behai returned to the Ripple with Diego, and Matt smiled and said hello to Diego by leaning on the side of the ship.

"What a big guy, it looks like a sea monster!" Diego said as he looked at the huge tuna lying on the deck with a little head and a small tail.

"It's not easy to get it up," Bei Hai smiled and pointed at Matt, "It took Matt more than two hours to tow it to the side of the boat!" ”。

"Did you use a speargun?" Diego asked.

Matt and Bei Hai shook their heads at the same time: "It didn't work."

Matt patted the tarpaulin over the fish and said, "By the time I got to the side of the boat, it had lost its strength, and it was the biggest fish I've caught so far in my life, I estimate a thousand pounds!" ”。

"It's about that heavy, and hopefully it's a little heavier," Diego said to Bei Hai, "and it's probably the biggest bluefin tuna catch in the whole of New England this year." You know what? Last year's biggest fish was caught by the Christine, eight hundred and ninety pounds! Now, once the fish exceeds 1,000 pounds, this year's record is basically unbreakable."

"Got a first?" Bei Hai didn't know whether to be happy or sigh when he heard it.

The three of them were chatting about the big fish on the deck, when they suddenly heard a few cheers in the distance.

Diego turned his head to look, "Christine is back?" I think I caught a nice fish! ”。

Hearing this, Bei Hai also stretched out his head and looked over there, but because the dock is I-shaped, the pier of the Christine and the Ripple is still separated by a small channel, so it is naturally impossible to see clearly.

Diego was really lively looking at it, this scene could only be that the Christine caught a big fish, and it was definitely at least eight or nine hundred pounds, if it weren't for the fact that there weren't so many onlookers around.

Soon the three of them saw a big fish being hoisted up from the boat, and it seemed that compared with the loaded car, they knew that this fish was small and definitely had a fight with what was placed on the deck of the sea of Beihai.

As soon as Diego said that this was the biggest fish of the year, a fish immediately came up and slapped him in the face, but everyone here didn't expect this, and they were all staring at the big fish being lifted in the distance.

"How many pounds can it have?" Matt was a little nervous, for all fishermen, the annual fishing season is a practical test, and the fisherman who catches the biggest fish is the most proud, and this is not just reputation. If you've been in the top two for a few years in a row, you'll be able to get a bank loan in Gloucester with this stuff, and it's hard currency.

Matt is nervous because Matt has been fishing for so many years, let alone the first, and he hasn't even seen the hair of the third runner-up. Matt has more hopes for this fish than Beihai.

Bei Hai wanted to exchange money, and then buy a house and marry a daughter-in-law, and Matt's family also wanted to get closer to the honor of advanced fisherman.

"I can't tell," said Diego, who was also a little unsure.

After saying that, Diego touched the phone and called Finch Golda, the captain of the Christine.

After the phone call, he said to Matt and Behai, "He's 1,005 pounds over there, the most fish in four years, and the last one bigger than him was five years ago, and it was 1,110 pounds caught by Kidd Anderson's Hunter."

While the three of them were talking, Benny came with a person and a car.

"You've heard, the compass received a thousand hundred pounds of Finch's fish, it's a big fish!" Benny jumped out of the rear lift of the parked car and said to the three of them.

Benny hadn't just come down and hadn't seen the tarpaulin on the Ripple. But it's hard not to see something so big.

As soon as his words fell, Benny shouted, "Hey! There's a big guy here! ”。

Benny's voice not only attracted the attention of several of his staff, but also some of the nearby boat owners and their families on the docks.

"What a big fish!"

"Well, it's not small"

"What a good catch this year! Catch two big fish in one day! ”。

Soon there were twenty or thirty people on the yard.

"Can you surpass the one from Finch?" The man with good deeds on the shore immediately asked Benny.

Benny looked at the fish and said, "It's hard to say, this fish should be about a thousand pounds, and you won't know until you weigh it."

"Hurry up and do it!".

"Look who's the biggest!".

Immediately there was a lot of chatter on the docks. The onlookers are now not concerned about the big fish, but about whose fish is bigger, and who received the biggest fish from the two fishing companies this year, these are all topics in the town, and the so-called sense of competition is made out by these people.

On the other side, the captain and crew of the Christine also heard that the Ripple had caught a thousand-pound fish, and now they also looked over to the sea through the ship's lane, and they were also concerned about the weight of the fish caught by the Ripple.

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