Chapter 156: Artificial islands shelter from typhoons
To be honest, not only Zhou Sheng and Lin Xinmin have floated and swelled, but Chen Yuan can't look down on this little money now.
After all, I came out last time to get more than 10 million fish.
If Chen Yuan didn't swell, he wouldn't have bought a fishing boat worth more than 10 million.
I drove a fishing boat to the Lixia and took a piece of tuna's belly meat, cut it into small pieces and marinated it to taste, and used it for bibimbap.
Small tuna, the meat quality is average, but the fat of the belly meat is quite fat, and it has an obvious fat aroma when used for bibimbap.
The sun has set.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng climbed onto the fishing boat, pumped diesel fuel from the Lixia's reserve tank, and filled up the Shengyuan.
Early the next morning.
Chen Yuan came to the Lixia again to plan the route for the next few days.
If you want to find a school of big fish, you need to avoid the main confluence areas.
There are many fish and fishing boats in the confluence area, and there are often groups of trawlers. In those places, the competition is too fierce.
Today it is still blue sky and white clouds, and the sea is rippling.
The Shengyuan dragged a long trajectory on the calm sea.
Yang Xun and He Fei went back to the cabin to sleep. Chen Yuan climbed onto the top of the boat, holding a frozen bottle of beer.
The Shengyuan had already left the waters of the archipelago, and Chen Yuan sat on the roof of the ship to observe whether there were any floating fish on the sea.
"Have you finished your beer?" Zhou Sheng shouted below.
"Not yet." Chen Yuan looked down.
"Did you find it?"
"See a few birds."
"Do you want to chase?"
"Forget it." Chen Yuan looked at the cloudless sky: "The Xinhai hasn't come here yet, and now it's not meaningful to go out to chase the birds."
As he was talking, Chen Yuan saw a splash of water in the distance, and quickly climbed down from the boat: "There is a splash in the distance, go over and take a look."
"You sail."
Chen Yuan sat in the driver's seat and pushed the throttle lever to the top.
Zhou Sheng took the remote sensing fish scouting display and put it in front of Chen Yuan.
The display was red, and it was estimated that there were more than a dozen.
"How many pictures are there?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"A dozen."
"How big?"
"Remote sensing fish scouts can't tell how big they are." Chen Yuan said: "If you need a fishing boat, just take a look."
The fishing boat was at full throttle and caught up with the fish.
I was far away just now, and I didn't see any fish clearly. Through the picture of the fishing boat, Chen Yuan determined that it was a school of tuna, more than a dozen.
The body length is about 1 meter, that is, forty or fifty catties of tuna.
"Discovery?" Lin Xinhai saw Chen Yuan with a telescope that their fishing boat suddenly accelerated and contacted them by radio.
"A dozen tuna, not big." Chen Yuan said.
"So there's no need to go online?"
"No need, keep going."
The tuna, which is common here in the South China Sea, is about this size. And the size of the fish school is not large, the small school of tuna is only in the single digits, and the larger ones are dozens, hundreds.
There are more than a dozen small tuna, and there is no need to go into the net.
Besides, the purse seine nets carried by the Lixia are difficult to catch tuna.
Zhou Sheng went into the sleeping cabin to look for a fishing rod and woke He Fei up: "Found a fish?"
"There's a small school of tuna, I'll come in and get a rod and catch a few."
He Fei immediately got up when he heard it: "I'll try it too."
The two of them took the electric wheel fishing rod, hung up the large iron plate and threw it out.
In the open sea, fishing is easy as long as you find fish. After a few teases, the tuna bites.
He Fei pulled the fishing rod hard, and after hanging the fish, he pressed the back line.
Chen Yuan took the hook and directly dragged the tuna up. This tuna was estimated to weigh more than 40 catties, and then he bled and took a piece of big-bellied sashimi.
Generally speaking, tuna needs to be soured.
But when caught with an electric wheel, the tuna didn't struggle much before it was pulled up, and the acidic substances in the tuna meat did not accumulate much, and the tuna at this time was the most delicious.
The pot-bellied meat melts in your mouth and has a surging aroma. The aroma is similar to that of some kind of fruit, and it is difficult to describe.
After a while, Zhou Sheng and He Fei caught five tuna.
The Lixia came, and Chen Yuan sent the tuna to the Lixia: "The freshly caught tuna is the most delicious."
Lin Xinmin smiled and got the tuna up: "It's going to change, you have to dare to go to Nansha as soon as possible."
"Typhoon?" Chen Yuan asked.
Lin Xinmin nodded: "I received a sea state warning just now, and a low pressure is forming. It's still early."
The weather is changeable in the seasons of alternating cold and warm. A few days of good weather in a row is already a good enjoyment.
Chen Yuan and the others also received a warning of sea conditions, but they didn't see it outside just now.
"Hey, Master." Chen Yuan contacted Lin Xinhai.
"Roger."
"There is a typhoon, have you received a warning?"
"Roger. It's still early for a typhoon."
"Where have you been?"
"It's almost time to get to Sansha. What about you?"
"Near the dark sands of Zhongnan, we will soon reach Nansha." Chen Yuandao.
"Meet at Mechi Reef and wait for the typhoon to pass, then start fishing."
"Okay."
Chen Yuan: They arrived at Meiqi Reef early the next morning.
Because of the typhoon, dozens of ships of various types have gathered at Meiqi Reef, and ships continue to come over time.
Luo Laosi's fishing boats, as well as the fishing boats that came from Zhapo together, are now all here, and they are lined up.
The Lixia also stopped, waited until the fishing boat was secured, then lowered the rope and hoisted the Shengyuan fishing boat to the boat.
The Shengyuan weighs only seven or eight tons, and the two booms of the Lixia can easily lift the Shengyuan onto the fishing boat.
The time to wait for the typhoon was a little boring, and Yang Xun and they were fishing on the boat with fishing rods.
For fishing veterans, there's nothing more fun than fishing.
Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng were in the captain's room, studying the nautical charts of Nansha and the topography of the seabed.
It was still sunny this morning, but now after three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky has become overcast, and the southwest direction is covered with heavy dark clouds.
"Are you coming?" Lin Xinmin contacted Lin Xinhai.
"It's coming."
"How much longer?"
"An hour and a half."
The clouds are getting closer.
Chen Yuan looked at Mechi Reef, an artificial island reclaimed from the sea on top of an oval-shaped coral atoll.
It is really good that the motherland is strong, and with this artificial island, the fishing boats fishing in Nansha have a home.
After six o'clock in the afternoon, more and more fishing boats and cargo ships entered Meiqi Reef, and Lin Xinhai's fishing boat also drove over and stopped next to the Lixia.
Chen Yuan looked at the warship on the shore, full of a sense of security.
"How's the harvest?" Luo Laosi's voice appeared behind him.
"We've just arrived." Lin Xinmin said.
"Nothing?"
"On the way here, I found a school of sardines, and I laid a net, hundreds of thousands." Lin Xinmin smiled and said, "Earn back some gas costs."
"Hundreds of thousands, your ship is really expensive to fuel." Luo Laosi laughed, took out a cigarette and handed it to Chen Yuan.
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