Chapter 209: Safety First
Matt and Qi Yiming finished their work and went to the bridge together, it was half past ten o'clock in the night, the two ran to the cabin and stayed for an hour, neither of them was sleepy, so they went to the bridge and prepared to talk to a few people on the asterisk using satellite phones.
The main thing is that the content is nothing else, showing off the fish caught today, and there is a little bit of concern for others, but the ones on the asterisk are their own people, and there is nothing that can't be said. Matt and Qi Yiming talked about the catch of fish caught today and the fish encountered by the arrow in front of Bei Hai.
"Sixteen tuna?" Joey couldn't help but take a breath when he heard what Matt said, not only was there no one in the cockpit of the Joey Star who was not greedy, but sixteen tuna didn't say anything, even if they were all more than 300 pounds of yellow fins, there were tens of thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars a day! Can this kind of income not be covetous? And now there are bluefins and bigeye tuna, and this trip alone is enough to make people blush.
The voice from the satellite phone was very satisfying to Matt and Qi Yiming.
"Tomorrow, all of you! The captain's work in finding the fish was amazing, and you know how it was like to see that school of fish today? A large school of tuna and the largest bluefin tuna wanted to swallow the camera on the boat, and I looked at at least 13 or 400 pounds, and he wasn't the only one in the school! It was like seeing green dollars swimming in the water," Qi Yiming said happily.
"A school of tuna? Or a school of bluefin fish? It's such a rarity! Lauren on the other end hurriedly said after hearing this. Schools of bluefin tuna are small when they are close to shore, and few people can see schools of bluefin tuna in the deep sea, and they are still so large because bluefin tuna have a habit of living on the bottom of the sea. It is a demersal predatory fish. Add to this the fact that previously unbridled fishing is now too small in stock, although it is not known how much is left in the entire Atlantic. However, the fishermen's dwindling catches show that the fish is getting smaller and smaller. It's still very telling.
Even if there was such a big school of fish before, humans didn't have much chance to photograph these fish, and it was even more impossible for these fishmen to see them, if it weren't for the advanced equipment on the Arrow, Matt and Qi Yiming wouldn't have this kind of eye-catcher. Except for the captain of Bei Hai, who would add such advanced detection equipment to his fishing boat.
"Hopefully tomorrow we'll meet the fish you mentioned! You know we have a lot more hooks than you do! Isla said loudly.
"God bless you!" Mattle said with a haha.
There seemed to be someone on the other end who wanted to say something, but was stopped by Joey: "You four go back to the cabin to rest, or it will be an extremely luxurious thing for you to start sleeping tomorrow morning!" ”。
Then there was a burst of laughter on the other end of the phone. Someone kept laughing and saying something, and the voice became quieter and quieter, barely audible. Bei Hai didn't know what these four boys were talking about.
"You guys should rest early, everyone will be busy after today, and tomorrow will start to drag the fishing gear and then lay down the fishing gear, which means that the work will be at least ten hours a day, and go back to recuperate!" Bei Hai said to Qi Yiming and Matt.
"Okay!" Matt and Qi Yiming both knew that there would really be no more time like this now, because every little time wasted was a small part of the catch. According to today's catch, if three more sets are distributed tonight and harvested tomorrow morning, it will be at least 100,000 US dollars on board, and time is really wasted.
Wait for both of them to get out of the cabin. Bei Hai heard the satellite phone ring again.
"Are these crew members still obedient?" Bei Hai asked Joey. Now Bei Hai is afraid that Joey will put on the character of a good old man and can't suppress the scene, if so, then Bei Hai really has nothing to say, and he can't think of any way except to change people.
"No problem. I'll handle it myself! I'm not worried about these boys, but I'm a little nervous! Joey asked Bei Hai, "What will tomorrow's harvest be, I don't know the bottom of my heart at all!" ”。
Bei Hai smiled and said, "Don't worry, as long as you arrange the fishing gear in the right place." A catch is not an ordinary catch, and believe me that the fish are there! ”。
Listen to what Bei Hai said for sure. Joey seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, not because of something else but what Bei Hai said earlier that made Joey very worried. Bei Hai said that at least once this fishing season, let the star return to the deck! It's not just Joey who knows, but almost no one in Gloucester now doesn't know.
Now no one has anything to say about Bei Hai, and that's because everyone was frightened by the catch of Bei Hai last season. A lot of people are convinced? Agree with Bei Hai to do it? Joey believes that there will not even be such a person, and most people are waiting to see Beihai's jokes now, which is also equivalent to waiting to see Joey's jokes.
Joey doesn't have any confidence at all now, and Joey knows and is sure to make money with Bei Hai, but side by side with a legend? More than a week to fill the tank? Joey doesn't have a bottom in her heart! If Bei Hai is on the boat, Joey doesn't worry about this, because the pressure is on Bei Hai, the captain, and the current situation is that Bei Hai is not there!
As soon as Bei Hai heard it, he understood Joey's thoughts, the old man had no score in his heart, and he wanted to come here to find a reassurance!
"Don't worry! Sleep well today, and wait for the day after tomorrow when the cable is retracted, and no one on the asterisk will have time to do anything else," Bei Hai said with certainty.
Swordfish is slightly easier to catch than bluefin tuna in Beihai's opinion, and as long as the hook appears in the right place, the catch will not run! Although the price of five dollars a pound is very low, Bei Hai is not ready to let the star fish for swordfish, and what kind of big eyes, yellow fins, and appropriate can also come to such a little more.
"When we operate tomorrow, we must let this group of young people pay attention to safety! This is important! I'd rather be slower than to ensure this. I'm not worried about the catch, but I'm worried about the safety of the sailors! Now that he had said this, Bei Hai repeated the safety question to Joey.
Bei Hai has a bottom in his heart about catching fish, and he is more concerned about the safety of sailors, don't look at the ship only rolling barrels, fishing lines and hooks, but as long as a little sloppiness, these things may become murder weapons at any time, although Bei Hai changed the fishing line on the asterisk, from the general 300 pounds to 1,000 pounds of line, but this only reduces the probability of breaking the fishing line, and does not guarantee that the strength of the line when it is broken, but it is enhanced in strength.
If a fishing line is thrown without a hook, it can crack your cheekbones without any suspense, and if you have a hook on it, it will make people shudder.
And as time goes on, the sailors get more and more tired, and the danger of a decrease in reflexes increases. Bei Hai didn't want any accidents to happen to his crew.
Although Joey said that he had worked on a cable boat, after all, it was more than ten years ago, and now all the people on the ship are young people in their early twenties except for old Joey, Bei Hai is worried that these guys are careless, and Bei Hai is not afraid of breaking things, because Bei Hai is not worried that his boat will not make money, and he is most worried about the safety of the sailors on board.
It's very simple to listen to the cable boat fishing, but if you have done it on this boat, you won't say so, Bei Hai has personally experienced the operation of the star a few times, and after a trip, Bei Hai directly lay on the bed and didn't want to move, so he was tired like this.
Of course, the length of the longline varies from ship to ship, generally between three kilometers and five kilometers, take the asterisk as an example, and use a five-mile extension line. The asterisk will be laying out a cable about five kilometers long tomorrow morning, and it will take a little time to walk such a length of fishing line! Not to mention the equivalent of human hand.
The crew members have to hang a hook line every four meters, and the people who cooperate next to them have to hang bait on the hook on the line, and every ten lines, the third crew member will add a buoy, and every six buoys will add a set of buzzers, such as some repetition and the smooth of the buzzer and the buzzer can not be mistaken, and the whole more than 1,000 groups of hooks should be installed on the five-kilometer-long main rope. Moreover, the line of the barrel is constantly released, and the time interval between each hanging line and the bait is about a few seconds, and the crew has to work almost non-stop for about six hours to complete this set of fishing gear.
And this is only one group, and most fishing boats usually have two sets of main cables. With such labor intensity, people are prone to fatigue.
"I'll be careful!" Joey said to Bei Hai.
"Then you're ready to collect the fish!" Bei Haihaha said with a smile. (To be continued......)