626. Purse seine pipefish
Usually attacked by cod, salmon, and various tuna, capelin will swarm into shallow small rivers, in fact, most marine fish are very sensitive to salt, and they will not be near the mouth of the river.
Therefore, it is safer for capelin to stay at the mouth of the sea.
But this is useless for the pipefish, which also likes to survive in the estuaries of rivers and is a natural predator of capelines.
Normally, capelin do not stay in large numbers at the mouth of the sea, and they do not have enough space, food and security, and they enter the deep sea when they are almost mature.
These capelin in the Daqin Fishery have been transformed by the energy of the sea god, and the attraction of food in the fishery has made them stay in the fishery and become poor beings at the bottom of the food chain.
Although the capelin was left, Qin Shiou wanted to use this fish to replace herring and mackerel to feed the big fish in the sea, but this did not mean that he allowed any fish to eat them, in other words, the nuns in the temple, the monks, could not touch Ah Q.
The school of billfish was so excited when they spotted the school of capelin in the estuary that they plunged into the waters of the estuary like torpedoes, opening their mouths to wreak havoc in the water, not only eating but also biting and killing the capelin for fun.
Qin Shiou was immediately angry, these capelin fish were the key objects of his cultivation, and the input of the sea god energy was more than that of tuna, just so that they could grow and spawn as much as possible, and increase the strength of the capelin school.
As a result, it's now cheaper pipefish!
After discovering this problem, he jumped up from the recliner, first drove the motorboat out for a spin and pretended to be patrolling the fishing ground, and then came back and shouted the smoke gun that had just disembarked: "Bring the purse seine net, the fishing ground has been invaded!" ”
Smoking Guns and Bulls with a few fishermen now mainly manage the Harvest Horn. Hearing Qin Shiou's shout, they thought that someone had come to the door. Hurry up and fight hard.
The bull took off his shirt to reveal the black hair on his chest, and roared, "Captain." Wait a minute, I'll take the Remington that my dad left me! I'm going to smash those biao's heads! ”
The cigarette gun frowned and said, "Is it useful to hold a gun?" I also believe in his God, didn't the missiles in the fishing grounds not be demonstrated? This time, we're going to bombard them with missiles! ”
Zach said weakly: "Am I the only one who has found out about the problem, the captain said let's bring purse seine nets, obviously it is sharks and the like that have invaded the fishing grounds, right?" ”
Everyone looked at Qin Shiou, and Qin Shiou asked Cangtian speechlessly: Did he advocate violence a little too much before? So much so that they have affected these originally honest and honest fishermen and become more violent than themselves!
"Billfish, it's a school of pipefish!" Qin Shiou said weakly, "No guns and missiles." Bring purse seine nets and fish them up and sell them. ”
The meat of the pipefish is very delicate and tender, and there are relatively few finely minced fish bones, small fish can be dry fried, and large fish are suitable for steaming, and the taste is very good.
The bull took people to clean up the purse seine net, and the link on the harvest was a trawl, and Qin Shiou generally did not use a purse seine net.
In Qin Shiou's opinion, this kind of net is a bit too fierce. It is used to round up groups of fish, and the fish are surrounded by nets during operation, forcing them to concentrate in net sacs, regardless of size. Clean sweep!
This is different from trawling, which drags the fish all the time, when in fact the fish have room to move. As long as the mesh of the trawl is large enough, the small fish will get out of the mesh. As long as the big fish escapes quickly, they can also get out from both sides.
What about purse seines? That's a net. Although nominally, the efficiency of purse seine fishing depends on the level of technical skills in the operation of fish prospecting and fishing. However, due to the current use of high-tech sonar fish finders and the strengthening of the automation of fishing boats' purse seine nets, the phenomenon of empty nets rarely occurs.
As long as it is not an empty net, the selected sea area, the fish will continue to shrink to the middle of the purse seine net when they are frightened, and finally the big fish and small fish are crowded together, no one can run away, they can't run around, the road is blocked, and they jump over the purse seine net from the water? That's impossible.
Qin Shiou refused to use purse seine nets, he used trawls to catch only those big fish, and the small ones would be spared. However, purse seine nets are now the main fishing gear for pelagic fish resources in various countries, accounting for about 30 percent of the total annual catch in marine fisheries.
In addition, with the improvement of fishing technology and the popularization of modern fish exploration equipment, the range of purse seine fishing objects has been expanding, and it has been possible to catch clusters of fish close to the bottom.
What a disaster for marine fish!
The bull and a few fishermen quickly hung the purse seine nets on the Harvest, and the smoking gun drove the boat with the pipe in his mouth, and the Harvest quickly turned around and drove towards the waters of the river to the northeast.
When approaching the water, the fish finder begins to make a 'didididi' sound, which means that a school of fish has been found.
The boat sailed above the water, the motor went to work, and the bull and Zach stood on the stern side of the boat, throwing the long ribbon of fishing nets into the water.
The purse seine on the harvest is a low at both ends and high in the middle, which is composed of a fish taking part and two net wings located in the middle of the net, the upper gang is the edge of the fishing net is equipped with a plastic ball with strong buoyancy, which is enough to ensure that the upper gang of the net always floats on the surface of the water during operation, and the lower gang is equipped with a heavy lead sinker, which can facilitate the net to quickly settle down and close the bottom of the net ring.
In addition, the upper and lower ends of the edge of the net that the bull throws into the water at the beginning are also very different, the upper end is also a large rubber ball, and the lower end is hung with a plumb sinker, so that after entering the water, one end of the net hangs straight down in the sea.
The Harvest dragged the other end of the net in an arc, and after enclosing the densest waters of the sharpfish, the other edge of the net was thrown into the water, the same structure that ensured that the other side of the net was erected in the ocean.
In this way, the machine retracts the rope that runs through the lower part of the fishing net, first closes the bottom of the two circles, then retracts the net, narrows the net circle and begins to carry out the finishing work.
The pipefish is frightened and runs away from all sides to the middle, but the big fish are easily knocked out when they collide together, so that the small fish are even more frightened, and finally have no way to escape and concentrate on the fish collection department in the middle of the purse seine net.
The bull looked at the crowded pipefish in the purse seine and sighed: "Captain, the harvest is suitable for purse seine fishing, you see, its structure is flat-bottomed and square-tailed, fast and maneuverable, and the lateral stability is good, it is too wasteful to use it for trawling." ”
Qin Shiou smiled and said, "Let's still trawl fishing, purse seine fishing can be done once in a while, such as this time, these damn mouthfish actually want to eat small fish in the upper waters of our fishing grounds, this is not good!" ”
After the purse seine was closed, the ship's motor was activated, and with a rumbling roar, the seine net was pulled up in the shape of a funnel.
The cigarette gun poked its head out of the cab and whistled, and laughed: "The fishing ground is really good, and it's a good harvest, huh?" ”
The price of the pipefish is okay, this net is full of two or three meals, if it is sold, it can be sold for forty or fifty thousand yuan.
There are still a large number of pipefish in the sea, and the harvest is not over, and this net must be lowered after the net to continue fishing, and not too many pipefish can be left. (To be continued......)