It was Qin Shiou's idea to divert the money from the treatment of the fish disaster in Shenbao Lake to expand tourism channels, so when he encountered trouble in this regard, he needed to help.

The main thing is that he doesn't have much to do, so he can't lie on the beach all day in the sun, right?

Not only did he come to help, Qin Shiou also took Iverson and Nelson with him, and drove to the lakeside in the morning, where Hamley, wearing a small vest and suit, was already waiting. In addition, there are more than a dozen large and small fishing boats docked on the lake, and fishing nets are placed on the shore.

Seeing Qin Shiou, Hamlet came up and shook hands warmly, and then said, "Have you eaten?" ”

"What?" Qin Shiou didn't react for a while.

Hamlet laughed: "Isn't this the most common greeting you Chinese?" Recently, I invited a professor from the School of Foreign Chinese Studies at St. John's University to come to town to teach the big guys about your country's culture and customs. ”

Qin Shiou suddenly realized, look at the civil servant, he really spared no effort to develop the town's economy, and he really took the development of tourism as a serious matter.

"Eat, man, breakfast was great, did you eat?" Qin Shiou replied.

Hamlet sighed and said, "I haven't eaten yet, damn it, why don't those old men in Maple Leaf City sit in the office and listen to our good news, and give us problems." ”

Qin Shiou was choked for a moment, it seems that Hamlet does not have a deep understanding of the culture of 'eating greetings', how can he answer like this? This is a Chinese-style question, and the answer is European-American.

Later, people arrived one after another, and Hamlet found the backbone, including Qin Shiou, and introduced: "This time, we are going to perform a purse seine net to catch Asian carp." Give an explanation to the old man above, no problem, right? ”

Hughes laughed, "God, this is a real job, purse seine fishing for Asian carp has proven to be a losing option." ”

Hamlet said: "We're just here to deal with it, do you really want to kill our God of Wealth?" ”

After Hamre's propaganda. Many people in the town know that the Asian carp, which they see as a disaster, will be a specialty in the tourism industry.

After arranging, he started working, Qin Shiou took Nelson and Iverson to get on a boat, and took the purse seine net and went into the water.

A purse seine is a type of net used to round up a group of fish, which can be used to enclose the fish and force the fish to concentrate in the net. So as to catch it all.

This is a relatively effective traditional fishing gear, especially against pelagic fish stocks in marine lakes, which were used in Newfoundland fisheries to catch cod.

Until now, purse seine fishing has been the main force of the world's fishing industry. The annual catch can account for 20 to 30 percent of the total catch in the ocean, and with the improvement of fishing technology and the popularization of modern fish-finding equipment, the scope of purse seine fishing objects has been continuously expanded, and even the bottom of the ocean can be clumped fish.

Nelson rowed to the center of the lake and said, "There must be a lot of fish here, so how about we start here?" ”

Qin Shiou signaled to come casually, Iverson took control of the fishing ground, and Nelson cooperated with Qin Shiou to start the net.

A purse seine is actually a net fence for fishing. The net is kind of like a funnel that has been cut at one end - the funnel opens upwards and has a sac with two wings.

The so-called sac is a force point at the bottom of the funnel. The two wings are the two sides of the fishing net, so that after the fishing net is cast into the lake, the two wings are retracted, as if a funnel is closed, and the fish that are enclosed are wrapped in the fishing net at that time, but they will not be able to escape.

Fishing nets are spilled. Ivoson rowed the boat fast, and after a while, Qin Shiou felt that it was almost over. Giving Nelson a look, the two began to close the net.

Be careful when closing the net. The wings of the net are slowly retracted, and instead of pulling the net immediately, drive the fishing ground to the shore and drag the net through the lake for a while. In this way, the edges of the nets become entangled, and the fish inside cannot escape.

The fishing boat docked, and at this time, two Buick Regales drove over, which was the government car of the farewell town, the car was parked on the shore of the lake, and a group of middle-aged people in straight suits walked down.

Qin Shiou looked up, and the people dressed as dogs, a picture of human elites, were obviously the officials arranged by Ottawa to check on the fish disaster control work.

Outwardly, these officials are no different from those officials who inspect the work everywhere in China, but they are much thinner, and the kind of bloated, fat or pouting beer belly people do not appear.

In the same way, these officials were accompanied by a TV interview team, and a female host wearing an OL professional suit said a few words to the camera, and then interviewed these officials and Mayor Hamre.

Hamre is a veteran in this area, and he said a few words in a nutshell, nothing more than how important Shenbao Lake is to the town, how dangerous Asian carp is to Shenbao Lake, and how we can deal with the Asian carp disaster after we get financial support from Congress.

It's all useless clichés, Qin Shiou lost interest after listening to two sentences, so he began to pull the fishing net wholeheartedly.

Both he and Iverson are brute force, with Nelson on the side locking the wings of the nets so that as the nets are dragged up, the big Asian carp are pulled to shore.

The trawls used this time were all five-centimeter-diameter mesh, which only caught large fish, and some small native fish could easily escape even if they were surrounded by fishing nets.

Qin Shiou caught a lot of Asian carp in this net, and it seems that there are more than 20 of them, each of which is seventy or eighty centimeters long, and the visual impact is very great.

In this way, he became a benchmark, Hamlet brought the reporter of the TV station to him, the female reporter asked Nelson first, the latter shrugged, pointed at Qin Shiou and said: "If you have any questions, please ask our boss, I am a wage earner." ”

The female reporter didn't expect Qin Shiou, a Chinese, to be the boss here, so she quickly turned around to hide her embarrassment and asked him, "Sir, did you catch this net fish?" ”

Qin Shiou secretly said to you, isn't this nonsense? Lao Tzu is grabbing the fishing net right in front of you, who did it if it wasn't Lao Tzu who fished?

He coughed and said calmly, "I didn't catch it." ”

The female reporter was stunned, and Qin Shiou added: "It was caught by our team, look at the two friends around me, they put in more energy than me." ”

Hearing this, the female reporter smiled and said, "You are really an excellent team, so how long did it take to catch these fish?" ”

Okay, the topic came, Qin Shiou said: "Oh, it didn't take long, about twenty to twenty-five minutes." ”

It took more than 20 minutes to catch more than 20 Asian carp, and his fishing boat is still very efficient, normally speaking, a half-hour net can not catch so many fish, which is why purse seine fishing has no effect on the management of Asian carp disasters.

At this efficiency, it is estimated that if you catch a hundred fish, the fish father and fish lady in the lake can give birth to a thousand small fish, and the method of purse seine fishing is ineffective for small fish.

In other words, it's a palliative, not a cure. (To be continued)