Chapter 630: Encountering a School of Fish
Most of the day is spent on rushing, which is not economical for fishing, and it is generally more economical, often to sail or search for two hours, and then at least six or seven hours a day to fish, which is more appropriate.
At this moment, the Dinghai Navy does not attach much importance to this voyage, the limit of the three ships is, of course, to be able to catch a lot of fish, but in this offshore water, it is still experimental, of course, it is necessary to focus on training, and strive to get a harvest one day earlier.
The wind gently blew the sails, and after leaving the canal, the speed of the ship increased significantly, because for safety reasons, it took an hour to stay in the canal alone, but fortunately, in the future, the fishing boat will not stop in the canal, and he will dock at a pier specially opened up in the third port, and by tomorrow, it will save a lot of time.
This special wharf not only has a number of processing plants, which are specially prepared for the processing of fish again, but of course, there is also a huge market.
Dingjun, the demand for meat, from the end of the New Year, began to skyrocket, if before the New Year, those people still have doubts about the Dingjun, after the New Year, they stabilized, more and more people found that leaving the Dinghai, to any place is not used to it.
The Chinese, especially these people at the bottom, are hardworking and tenacious, and their character determines that they can be at ease with what happens.
Even the living environment for escaping the famine is acceptable, and what is the problem of settling in a very good place.
Because of the settlement, after purchasing a house, all kinds of furniture and utensils, it is natural to put my mind on improving the taste of life.
The meat supply of the Dinghai Navy is already too much compared to other places in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a small county town of 20,000 people may consume a few pigs a day.
There are few people who can afford to buy it, and even if it takes a long time to make a tooth sacrifice, I'm afraid it will be a minority.
But in Dingjun, if there is really enough pork to sell openly, it will not be a simple few or dozens of heads, it will be tens of thousands.
Compared with the controlled pork, there is less beef and mutton, and fish has become a certain supplement.
At a time when the Navy had not yet built fishing boats, in fact, small fishing boats were also infested.
The ocean is changing, but the ocean is generous, under the unpredictable, it is the existence of countless fish, with a slightly better boat, and then enter the place ten or twenty miles away from the shore, here you can still get a certain harvest, plus some people catch the sea, the average daily down, is almost 2000 catties to 3000 catties of harvest.
This harvest is a drop in the bucket for the Dingjun, with an average of 2 million people, and everyone may not even have a small bite to eat, but these have become the favorite of those who want to satisfy their appetites, and often the fishing boats catch them, and they are basically sold out before they even go ashore.
Dingjun's emphasis on marine fishing has also made Dingjun's propaganda from the very beginning, and this huge supermarket, which can accommodate 500 stalls, is the largest fish wholesale market in Dinghai in the future.
Since we are doing marine fishing, some systematic projects, of course, will be done, there is not only a market here, but also some deep processing enterprises.
For some fish to be classified, not everyone likes to eat pickled fish, to carry out a certain classification, with the method of canning, to strengthen the preservation time, which has also become an inevitable practice.
Canned food is a very simple, but very practical method of preservation, to put it bluntly, why food is rotten, it is the action of microorganisms.
After cooking, the microorganisms in it are killed as much as possible, and then the air is isolated, this method, as long as the air isolation is good, in principle, the whole food can be kept fresh for a much longer time.
It's just that this method is not suitable for ships, there must be a special factory, and a large number of professional machinery.
At present, the whole fishing port is only slightly under development, and the canning factory is being built, and what can be done at present is simple processing, processing on the basis of the ship.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, some work on the island, it is very simple, only need to build a factory, and then arrange all kinds of machines, it's okay, the key is fishing, in many people question, whether the ocean can provide such a huge catch, three fishing boats, has completed the construction of the foundation, under the control of the operator, into the ocean.
Because the ship went to sea for the first time, it was expected to be more than ten hours after it returned, and during this time, the time when the market opened was set at 8 o'clock in the evening, that is, about one hour after the return of the fishing boats.
The surrounding people, as well as the businessmen in some hotels and restaurants in Dinghai, already know about this matter, and many people are also waiting for this moment, how to say, the big ship is the first compared to the small boat, it should be a harvest, the small boat is at least one or two hundred catties, and the big ship, I'm afraid it is at least a thousand catties.
On the sea, three ships are in the shape of a zigzag, and the sails have been fully hung, under the blowing of the sea breeze, moving forward rapidly.
The slight sea breeze was blowing, which made people very comfortable, watching the land slowly disappear, a man in his thirties, let out a long breath.
Thirty years old, but for Zeng Da Niu, 30 years ago was a difficult day.
Born by the sea, he grew up on the beach since he was a child, and there may be a hint of brightness in his childhood, but when he was 8 years old, his father would not go away at sea, and his mother worked hard to raise him, and at the age of 16, he finally became ill and died.
Relying on the help of the villagers, from odd jobs to ships, I have been working for almost 20 years, but what is the result?
I can't take care of food and clothing, and if there is a slight natural disaster, it will be a real disaster.
After a full meal, when he was 30 years old, he reluctantly got married, had a son, and the burden of life was forcibly pressed on his body, he was only in his thirties, his hair was gray, and his waist was a little bent.
At this time, a turning point appeared, the arrival of Dinghaihou made the entire Dinghai Navy get earth-shaking changes, what it was like before, what it looked like now, Zeng Daniu, who has lived here for more than 30 years, is the most vocal.
Life is better, my son is also going to school, and while he is well fed and clothed, he can also spend money to eat some meat and drink some wine, which is a fairy day for Zeng Da Niu.
The common people are very realistic, and whoever treats them well will definitely be grateful.
Zeng Da Niu is the same, he has passed the study, become a small team leader in the daily necessities factory, the kind that can get 100 per month, I heard that Dinghaihou recruited fishermen, and immediately put down the work at hand and rushed here.
Born and raised by the sea, he sneaked with his bare hands, and he was able to hold on to a cup of tea, and he has been on a boat for more than 20 years, most of which is fishing.
The whole sea, what fish are produced nearby, the characteristics of various fish, he knows very well.
But no matter how clear it is, there is no way, let alone a windsurfing board, even if it is a well-made wooden boat, it does not dare to enter the deep sea casually.
Before, because of the lack of meat in Dinghai, Dinghai also encouraged the people to make use of their spare time, and he and another villager jointly raised 400 yuan to build a 120-material fishing boat, and took the villagers to go deep into the ocean to salvage.
Zeng Da Niu walked farther than his father, or even all the elders in the fishing village, and they went 50 miles away, found a large school of fish, and harvested 3,000 catties of fish at one time.
At that time, the return of fishing boats caused a sensation, which was amazing, but in comparison, it did not make much money.
In Dinghai, all kinds of fish are lower than the price of meat, of course, the price of all kinds of meat is still not low, but slightly cheaper than Bianliang.
Pork is almost 70 Wen, beef and mutton are more than 150 Wen, chicken is between pork and beef and mutton, which is 90 to 120 Wen, and fish is cheaper than pork, about 40 Wen to 70 Wen.
In other words, this time I went to sea, and the total income was about 100 yuan, but I gave the salary, and a few partners had one point, that is, dozens of yuan, which was not much compared to investment.
3000 catties is just a special case, the real number, probably every time you go to sea, you can get about 500 to 800 catties, that is, you can go to sea for twenty or thirty times at a time.
Compared to Zeng Daniu's income, this is really nothing, but out of his love for the sea, he still persevered.
Now it's different, this is a real sea ship, more than 12,000 materials, 100 times which ship was before, that is to say, the possible harvest will also reach 100 times, 3,000 catties, which is already a very large number, 100 times, how much will it be.
Zeng Da Niu doesn't know much about sea charts, but he also knows that the place he went to is relatively far away, at least 100 miles away, which is completely different from their 50-mile fights before.
At the same time, his previous fishing boat, or a Chinese-style sailboat, at most made some minor improvements, this, but the real galleon, looking at the soft sails, eating the wind, moving quickly on the sea, like an arrow, this feeling, is very different.
It seems that for the first time, the lucky one was probably away for more than an hour, and the person in charge of the lookout in front saw the signal of the fish.
Soon, four senior fishermen, including Zeng Daniu, were called to the lookout post and confirmed the fish again through high-powered telescopes.
In fact, the indicator of the fish school is the detection of sailfish and tuna, these large fish, which catch small fish for a living, and they show different appearances when they swim and attack, and this appearance will be used as a basic evaluation indicator.
Sure enough, there are at least hundreds of these fish, constantly swimming, shrinking the position of the fish.
For sailfish and tuna, this thing is not trawl nets, these two are extremely fast, and their impact will destroy the trawl, generally not with nets.
In later generations, most of these two kinds were used, and hundreds of catties were fished at one time, or even more, and they were often seen.
Zeng Da Niu briefly discussed with several other people, and finally came to a conclusion, this is a large yellow croaker fish, the number is not easy to say, there should be tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, the range is not large, as long as the net is in the key position, it will get huge results.
This is the first time, and it is a good start, and everyone wants to have a good omen and decisively go off the net
The arrival of the big boat, the alarmed tuna, they began to gradually vigilance here, three fishing boats, all trawling, huge trawls, with the speed of the boat, chased after the fish.
From the net to the catch, it took 40 minutes, and several professionals were on it all the time to direct and adjust the position of the boat and the net
It's a huge fit, from more than 40 crew members, to fifty or sixty fishermen above, almost all of them are coordinated.
Three large nets, like three huge mouths, swooped down on the fish.
Whether it is tuna, or a school of large yellow croaker, it seems to feel the danger, tuna predation, not over, but jump out in advance, with the speed of tuna, the instantaneous limit can reach 160 kilometers, at an average speed can also reach 60-80,
This thing is not at all the speed that the sail battleships of this era can reach, but they only see a shadow, and they will soon disappear.
The tuna is gone, Zeng Da Niu doesn't care, he is still afraid that they will stay, if they stay, it will definitely have a huge impact on fishing, his impact can break through the trawl, once the trawl has a problem, the trouble will be hit.
The big yellow croaker has no threat of tuna, it seems to be relaxed, and the fish school has begun to disperse, but it is late, the fishing boat has been netted at the key point, and the huge trawl net can cover thousands of square meters, plus the speed of the boat, it is not comparable to the big yellow croaker.
In the most concentrated place, the three trawls passed through separately, and almost most of the fish were given to the net, and once they were caught in the middle, it was over, and it was impossible for them to escape.
The habits of the sea fish determined that it was impossible for them to escape, and when the trawl began to be gradually tightened, some senior personnel, including Zeng Daniu, already understood that this time they would return with a full load.
They had never used trawl nets, but they knew that such a large school of fish, trawling nets must have been rich in harvest when they passed in the most concentrated places.
When everyone pulled the trawl up together, a gratifying scene was born, countless fish, under the drag of the trawl, began to jump up frantically, but unfortunately the height of their jump, it was impossible to escape the shackles of the trawl, when the trawl began to tighten, began to move upward, their result was already doomed.
They can't escape, so they can only be caught under the trawl, become a trophy, and now the huge harvest has become a foregone conclusion, the specific difference is only in the number of fish caught.