Chapter 388: One Eliminates the Other
"Captain, in the afternoon Diego and Marlene inquired about the new boats, and then got the news that there were ships back to port to sell their catch, and six or seven boats were said to have caught three or four thousand pounds each," Matt saw that the bridge was on the sea, and immediately told his captain the news.
Hearing Matt say this, Bei Hai couldn't help but be stunned for a moment and asked, "You heard it right?" Three or four thousand pounds of fish can return to the sea, and what money can they make by running back and forth? ”。
Now everyone is mixed in the Atlantic, and it doesn't matter where it is, as long as it is a high-sea operation, the ship is generally more than eighty or ninety feet, which is about 20 meters, and such a ship can be loaded in the cabin, let alone three or four thousand pounds, even if it is 10,000 pounds. Are these captains brains broken to make a return to port for three or four thousand pounds?
"Because there should be nothing wrong, now I have inquired about almost a third of the ship's harvest is very good, I heard that the harvest is very good, I have heard that the harvest is very good, the morale of the whole ship is now very high, some people expect that the Goddess will have at least ten thousand pounds of harvest......" Matt told Bei Hai one by one the news he heard.
Hearing this news, Bei Hai couldn't help frowning, because he has always been a person who eats alone and swallows a large share, Bei Hai doesn't like to hear the news that everyone has a bumper harvest, because this often means that the price of these crabs in the market will eventually fall, don't look at the price of these crabs in the market has risen by seven dollars now As more and more boats return to port with their catches, the price of the entire market is likely to fall, maybe there will be a pound down ten dollars at that time.
"What should I do?" Matt looked at Bei Hai and asked. The old man had been following Bei Hai for several years, and Xiao Jiujiu, who naturally knew his captain, saw that Bei Hai didn't speak, and added another sentence to himself: "Why don't we take advantage of the high price of this batch in our hands now?" ”。
Obviously, the old man also sensed that the price of king crab might plummet in a week or even less. gave Bei Hai an idea, and hurried to sell this batch of goods while the price was good now.
Fishermen who go to sea are not fools, and when the price rises to $30 in the market, then there will definitely be people who interrupt the fishing and return to the dock to exchange their catch for real dollars, and there are constantly fishermen joining the fishing industry, and if there are many things, then the price will definitely fall. Even if the demand side is stupid enough not to lower the price, the transit harvest company will lower the price of the harvest, everyone is not stupid, and no one will dislike their own earnings.
With so many fishermen coming in, no one thought about the supply and demand for this price? That's impossible! When a trip to the sea didn't start, everyone was calculating how much they had to get to make money, how could this matter not be considered! But now the price of king crab has risen to $37, and even if it drops halfway, it will be $20 a pound, so that the price can satisfy most fishermen except Bei Hai.
The good price and the news brought by the fishing boats that many people have harvested at sea, who can resist the temptation of the dollar under the double stimulus, and the means will naturally be used.
Bei Hai shook his head without thinking about it and said, "Forget it." Let's follow our own pace, even if the price drops, we can only catch the best of them."
Originally, Bei Hai wanted to catch a little bit of the size, anyway, the price is really suitable, and the difference between the big and the small is not too big. As long as there are crabs, they will be caught, and the size is meat, and if there is something, they will be caught.
Now it seems that it can't be done, this world has begun to force itself to go high-end again! What's high-end about crab shrimp and the like? The main thing is that a large one is a real king crab, and an adult male crab should weigh forty pounds, and the female crab should weigh more than thirty-five pounds. The Marbury Blue Dragon is also about the same size, slightly about five pounds short. Bei Hai means that he will only catch these things in the future. No matter how you drop this kind of most fat shrimp and crab, it will only be a minority, generally speaking, it is estimated that the first generation bred in the seawater may grow so big, or only the sea can have such a big size.
"We're putting all the cages in now, and this amount is not small" Nearly 7,000 pounds of harvest, even if it is a drop of one dollar per pound, it is still seven thousand dollars, and looking at this price, thirty-seven dollars a pound will not last for a few days.
"It's too much of a waste of time to go back and forth," Bei Hai waved his hand and directly rejected the first mate's suggestion: "It's all over, right?" When that's all over, we'll move on to the next point, scoop up the cages, and see, and if it's appropriate, throw six more cages at that point."
Hearing Bei Hai say this, Matt didn't speak, although he had an opinion, but Matt believed that his captain must have the ability to reverse the problem.
Matt, who had returned to the cabin, pushed open the door to the dining room and saw all the sailors looking to his side. I couldn't help asking, "What's the matter, I'm more attracted to you today than the food in front of you?" ”。
"What did the captain say?" Big Mike turned to Matt and asked, "Do you want to go back to Hong Kong first?" ”。
"What you all thought of the captain wouldn't have thought of?" Matt didn't talk to the crew about the process of his own discussion, and there were doubts in his mind, because it was not necessary to tell the crew: "The captain said to continue to recover the cage. If the harvest is good tomorrow, six sets of cages will be cast directly, and they will go to bed early tonight, and tomorrow's work will not be light! ”。
Isla said at this time: "I know, but now this job is much easier than tuna fishing, and things are not so cumbersome, and a few big things can be done as soon as they are done......."
"No matter what you think, go to bed after eating, and wait for tomorrow, if anyone doesn't work hard, then I won't be polite," Matt said, Isla's words, Matt naturally knows, the main enemy of crab fishing is the weather, and the waves, as for the work on the deck, the old man said that the intensity is about half of the original tuna strength, if the climate on this side of the Labrador Sea can always be so good, Matt also feels that he is on vacation, but the crew's idea is that he has to be the first mate, let alone agree.
When Matt was training the crew, Bei Hai was sitting on his chair with his chin on his chin and whispering to himself: "Why are these goods so good at doing this, this is the rhythm of Junhaiquan and everyone to get rich together?" ”。
Bei Hai didn't expect that it was something that came out of his own space, it was a bit too good, and when he threw it into the sea, there were basically no natural enemies, and even if there were natural enemies, it could only be when the shrimp and crabs were small. Once they grow up, few things will eat them, after all, they are hard shells for a year, and they are so big, and few carnivorous fish in the sea have their own open-shell equipment. What's even more bizarre is that small crabs and small shrimp live in crab schools when they are less than the size of the most dangerous adult fists, so the survival rate of larvae is very high. It can be said that before you know it, the giant king crab has begun to become a scourge, and now even the Marbury Blue Dragon is a little bit out of touch with the big crab.
And the next king crab market price once again confirmed everyone's speculation, the king crab below 20 pounds has dropped to 18 dollars a pound, 20 pounds and 30 pounds are also around 23 dollars, and the king crab above 30 pounds is now back to $30 and from time to time into the range of more than 20 dollars.
However, this is the price, for the average fisherman, catching crabs is also a very lucrative business, and a boat returning to port only needs to have three or four thousand pounds of harvest to cover the cost. Often, this time is not too long, that is, half a month, so although the price has fallen, the enthusiasm of the fisherman has burned as always.
And Bei Hai now thinks this matter is a bit troublesome, although the price is more expensive than tuna. However, the size of the cage is limited, and the weight of a cage caught is also limited.
To put it bluntly, a cage could hold seven of them weighing more than twenty pounds. If you change to a 30-pound one, you might be able to hold four. If you change it to a 35-pound one, you can only hold three, don't look at it, it's only so big, the big crab takes up more space, and if you stay in a big cage with such a big head, other crabs can't climb in even if they want to crawl in to eat. And not long after the beginning of this industry, there is no specific standard for the size of the diners, which means that this kind of crab that is big enough to be used to pretend to be forced has not been sold separately, so that Bei Hai's income here has obviously dropped a lot, the big is big, but the big one is only sold for one pound and ten dollars more. The whole extra is two or three hundred dollars a piece, and Bei Hai is really a bit unsightly.
I thought that the initial price could go up. However, because everyone has had a bumper harvest, half of the boats in the entire industry have caught the amount, and the price has fallen, which really makes Bei Hai not know what to say.
"Hey!" Bei Hai sat on his seat and looked at the price in today's market and couldn't help sighing: "I knew that I shouldn't have come to catch crabs this year, and now I don't know when the cost of crab claws will be collected at this price!" ”。
Bei Hai is a little self-pitying, in his opinion, he doesn't know when he can't recover the cost in a year, and he didn't think about others getting a new ship, saying that it would take eight or nine years to catch his breath. He is on his side, and he can't stand it for two or three years at most.
Just when Bei Hai was distressed, the ship's satellite phone rang, and Bei Hai took it and knew that it was Benny calling.
"Hull, when are you going back to Hong Kong to unload the goods, if you return to Hong Kong, I will send a plane to transport it" Benny is very happy, now for Benny, this business is finally not annoying new well meddling, and not only can he collect the goods in Beihai's hands, but four-fifths of the crabs in Gloucester are currently in his own hands.
"More than 30,000 pounds of goods, hey!" Bei Hai sighed.
"That's good, I've heard you're all big guys over there!" Benny laughed and said, "Ninety percent of the people who are over thirty pounds are said by Matt."
"The day after tomorrow, I'll be back in Hong Kong in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow, and it should be about 35,000 pounds of goods," Bei Hai said.
Benny laughed twice when he heard this, and then asked, "What about the blue dragon?" How many blue dragons are there? That's what it's worth."
"What?" Bei Hai couldn't help but perk up when he heard this.
"The price of the Marbury Blue Dragon has gone up, a pound is now thirty-three dollars, fifteen pounds is the price, fifteen to twenty-five pounds is thirty-six dollars, twenty to thirty pounds is forty-five dollars, thirty pounds and more sixty dollars...... Many people told me that they wanted a blue dragon, and now as soon as it is listed, there are more crabs but fewer blue dragons" Benny immediately said the price of Marbury Blue Dragon to Bei Hai.
As soon as this price came out, Bei Hai immediately felt a big surprise, haha, laughed twice, and then a sentence of Chinese popped out of his mouth: "The road to heaven is endless!" ”。 (To be continued......)