"Call the Great White, Call the Great White ......"

Lin Xinhai's voice came over the radio.

Chen Yuan was eating when he heard a voice reply, "Roger."

"Have you eaten?"

"I'm eating."

"How about I have tuna hooks in this position right now? The depth ranges from 100 to 15 meters."

"Okay, there's a lot of bigeye tuna here. Bigeye tuna mainly feed in shallow water at night, at depths of up to 5 metres, and more hooks are placed at depths of 5 metres to 30 metres." Chen Yuan said.

"Okay. We'll go to you after the hook." Lin Xinhai said.

"Don't do this, I'm rushing to Chen Yuan's side." Zhao Haidao: "Don't move your boat over there, I'll go to Chen Yuan's side to put a shallow water hook."

"***, you turtle son......" Takaga called out, "You're too cunning to cheat, don't tell me in the past." Brother Hai, leave a mouthful of soup for us to drink, and I'll go to Chen Yuan's side too."

Lin Xinhai thought for a while: "Yuanzai, what do you say?"

"Okay. You put two strings of dry ropes over there, and Lao Zhao and Lao Gao come over and put them. It will be a long time since the two ropes are finished." Chen Yuan said: "There is a school of vegetarian fish on my side, and there are quite a lot of them."

"As long as there are a lot of them. Pacific bonito, what is the approximate price?" Zhao Hai asked.

"It's very cheap, the purchase price of Dongjiang Fishery at sea is 900 US dollars per ton, no matter how big or small." Lin Xinhai said, "I'll look at the size here, and I'll give you $800 if the goods are good. If it's not good, up to $600." Lin Xinhai said.

"The price...... That's fine."

In the current bonito market, in terms of domestic prices, the import price of frozen bonito is about 1,600 US dollars per ton. Of course, the price also depends on the product.

The goods are good, and the price can be higher.

Frozen bonito is cheap and can't be sold at a high price.

"Boss Gao, how many hooks are you going to put in it?" Zhao Hai asked.

"About 20,000." Gao He said, "I don't have a lanyard machine here, so I have to hang the branch line manually. It's nice to have 20,000 hooks. What about you?"

"I'm pretty much the same, and 20,000 hooks would be good."

"Lao Hai, your hook is automatically tied to the dry rope." Takaga asked.

"The tuna's hook will automatically bind." Lin Xinhai said.

"What about the bonito hook?"

"In some places, skipjack tuna is also called tuna." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.

"That's fine. 150,000 meters of dry rope can catch 50,000 fish hooks, right?"

"Yes. If the line is slower, 50,000 hooks are not a big problem." Hayashi Shinkaido.

Gao He sighed, "How much does the automatic bait bundling machine cost?"

"This is not the last machine that can do...... Lin Xinhai thought for a while, and then said, "The last machine is also fine, semi-manual." The device alone is not expensive, more than four hundred thousand. But to match the leather rope and buckle of the branch line, all of them are almost a million."

"Where did you get the equipment?" Takaga said.

"I found the Nine Star Shipyard to help us purchase it from abroad." Lin Xinhai said, "A lot of the equipment on our ship was purchased from abroad."

As far as the longline fishing equipment is concerned, it is still more advanced abroad. The most advanced longline fishing vessels abroad can automatically release the hook and collect the fish automatically. The catch is then transported directly to the processing room via a conveyor belt......

….

To put it bluntly, it's money.

In China, if the money is in place, it is possible to design a fully automatic longline fishing boat. The technology of these things is not particularly high.

"How much did you spend on the equipment on your ship?" Zhao Hai asked.

"Not counting the host, a total of 4.67 million yuan was spent." Hayashi Shinkaido.

"I'll ...... it"

"Good equipment can be efficient."

If it was before, Lin Xinhai would definitely be reluctant to invest.

But last year they were fishing, and the Xinhai made Lin Xinhai annoyed. this

The next big fish upgrade, Lin Xinhai is willing to spend a lot of money.

The speed at which the Big Fish released the hook was more than twice as fast as Zhao Hai's fishing boat.

It's just that the speed of the fish is a little faster than Zhao Hai and them.

But these add up, and the efficiency can be about two-fifths higher than that of Zhao Hai's fishing boat.

This is equivalent to Chen Yuan's five days of work, and Zhao Hai's work for three days.

In addition, the speed of big fish is fast, and there is a motor boat that specializes in finding fish. At a time when the catch rate is about the same, over time, Dabai's catch may be more than Zhao Hai and Gao He's two boats combined.

The sky is half a bright moon, and the stars are bright.

After eating, Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng lay on the sun deck again, looking at the sky.

At night at the equator, on the sea, the sea breeze blows, bringing a cool atmosphere.

I don't know when, Chen Yuan saw a light in the distance. After a long time, Zhao Hai's voice came from the walkie-talkie.

"Chen Yuan, Zhou Sheng, received a reply." On the walkie-talkie, Zhao Hai shouted.

"They're out there."

He Fei took the walkie-talkie and walked over: "Uncle Zhao Hai will contact you."

Chen Yuan took the walkie-talkie: "Uncle Zhao."

"How big are the fish on your side?"

"It's big, you can put some tuna hooks." Chen Yuandao.

Now this school of fish is a school of vegetarian fish, but hundreds of tons of fish are gathered, and it is easy to attract large fish.

Takaga's fishing boat also came.

These two of them can't outrun Dabai, so it's also a good choice to come over and fish for this school of bonito.

A little closer, the fish scouts on Zhao Hai's fishing boat had already seen the fish.

Gao He's boat was faster than Zhao Hai and the others, and now it had run to the front: "Old Zhao, I'll go back to the direction of the fish at seven o'clock, and then put the fish hook counterclockwise."

"Okay, I'll follow you, clockwise."

"Okay."

Chen Yuan asked, "The depth of the water here is about 350 meters, is your sunken bottom pendant enough?"

"There are more than 500 pendants." Takaga said.

"I only have more than four hundred here, which should be enough."

More than a hundred kilometers of rope, it is impossible to put it in a straight line. It's a roundabout......

When you find a school of fish, see the direction of the fish and put the hook in front of the fish. The distance is tens of meters, hundreds of meters.

The sea is moving, and if you hit a big fish, the big fish has a lot of strength...... In order to prevent the branch line and the dry rope from becoming entangled, as well as the trunk rope from intertwining with each other, the hook is roundabout, and the dry rope needs to be fixed.

Of course, if the detour distance is far enough, it can also be left unfixed.

Takaga's boat was at full speed, and he rushed over to put down the sinking pendant, which was connected to the trunk rope. There is also a branch line on the trunk rope that connects to the float...... Then the line of defense began, hooked ......

….

When fish are spotted, longline fishing boats can also use mosquito coils to release hooks. It is a hook that takes the school of fish as the center and places circles and circles around the fish. However, this method of releasing the hook requires a high speed of the fishing boat.

Seeing that Zhao Hai came to the designated position and began to put the fish hook, Chen Yuan went back to the cabin and contacted Dabai by radio: "Fourth uncle, are you there?"

"Yes."

"Are you done with your first set of hooks?"

"Not yet, but it should be soon. By the way, how do you use our ship's two auxiliary boats?" Luo Laosi asked.

Dabai also carried two auxiliary boats on it.

The two auxiliary boats also have dry ropes on them, but the main ropes on the auxiliary boats are much smaller.

The auxiliary boat can be used for many purposes, it can help with the rope, you can also go out alone to release the rope, help recover the lead sinker, organize the dry rope, and so on.

Dabai's two auxiliary boats are not large, only 9.3 meters long, but they are 35

0 hp.

There is a rope twister and a rope release machine on the auxiliary boat. However, the rope release machine is not large, and the diameter of the dry rope on it is less than 1 cm.

Although Luo Laosi is an old fisherman, he is a proper novice in the field of longline fishing.

"Zhao Hai and Lao Gao's fishing boats, why aren't they equipped with auxiliary boats?" Luo Laosi asked.

"I can't afford it." Lao Gao's voice came out.

Zhao Hai shouted and said, "Why is there no configuration? Poor. Everyone used to be like you, nouveau riche."

The radio they now use is a separate public channel. Chen Yuan and they spoke, and Zhao Hai and Lao Gao could hear it.

Luo Laosi laughed a few times when he heard hehehe: "Is the auxiliary boat useful?"

"It's not very useful." Lao Gao said.

"Don't listen to Lao Gao's nonsense, the auxiliary boat for longline fishing is very useful. Especially when it comes to rewinding the line, there is a complete difference between having an auxiliary boat and not having an auxiliary boat. I also wanted to build two auxiliary boats, but I was running out of time. By the way, how far can your support boat go, and what is the fastest speed?"

"The maximum speed is about 30 knots, and the range of high-horsepower cruising is still 300 nautical miles."

"In the future, if we take the bait in the same area, your boat will help us fix the rope."

"Okay, if you can get busy." Luo Laosi agreed.

With the assistance boat, it is easy to retrieve the hook. The auxiliary boat helps to pull the dry rope and makes it easier to pick up the fish. Let's put it this way, there are auxiliary boats, and the fishing boats can be parked when the fish are caught.

If there is no auxiliary boat, especially if there is a sunken bottom, the boat follows the line (at an angle of 30 degrees) and the speed cannot be too fast. If there is no sunken bottom pendant, it means that the boat is carrying the line, and the angle between the boat and the line is also 30 degrees.

It's late.

Chen Yuan and the others went back to the bedroom, the big white bedroom was spacious, and the configuration was also very top, which was directly the configuration of a luxury yacht.

It's very comfortable to work on this boat.

At night, Dabai turned on the stabilizer and barely felt the shaking.

Chen Yuan and the others slept until dawn, and the sun outside had already risen.

….

The sun in the morning is very small, and the sun is quite comfortable on the body.

He Fei and they cooked at the kitchen counter at the stern of the boat, and the pressure cooker pressed the beef, and the potato stewed beef.

Chen Yuan stretched his waist and said with a smile, "Make it so hearty early in the morning."

"It's okay in the morning, it's boring to be idle, make a good meal." He Feidao.

Yang turned off the rice cooker and said, "It's really comfortable on this fishing boat, the cockpit is spacious, and there is a living room and a rear deck. On this boat, it's like going on vacation."

Zhou Sheng smiled: "Is the dish ready?"

"Right now, a few more minutes."

Chen Yuan stretched outside, returned to the cab, and turned on the radio topic: "Master, Lao Zhao, Lao Gao, have you run out of hooks?"

"I'm done here." Hayashi Shinkaido.

"It's been a night, and you haven't slept yet." Chen Yuan asked.

"I just finished it, and I went to bed after breakfast. By the way, I'm going to collect the hooks in the afternoon. We couldn't keep busy with the group you arranged earlier, and last night it was two groups working together."

Chen Yuan sighed and said, "Then eat and rest."

"How many meters and how many hooks did you put?" Takaga asked.

"Two bundles of wire, 310,000 meters. The first bundle is 160,000 meters, about 15,000 hooks, all of which are large hooks, mainly tuna fishing. The second bundle is 150,000 meters, and the depth is within 20 meters, and there are about 70,000 or 80,000 hooks." Lin Xinhai said.

Zhao Hai took a deep breath: "How can you release so many fish hooks?"

"For the second bundle of ropes, a dozen or so people on our boat hung fish hooks, and we didn't use an automatic hooking machine. The speed of the automatic hooking machine is too slow." Lin Xinhai said with a smile.

"I'm glad I didn't take the bait with you. It's not like you guys last night

Nearly 100,000 hooks?"

"Almost. It's mainly short-term, and it's easy to operate......

It is also very fast to hang the branch line manually, and the branch line has a metal buckle, which is fixed on the trunk rope, and it is good to press it once, no need to tie the rope.

310,000 meters, equivalent to 310 kilometers, 167 nautical miles.

If it is Zhao Hai's fishing boat, the fastest speed of his boat is 14 knots, and it takes 12 hours to run 167 nautical miles.

"Your automatic bait hanger is good." Zhao Hai said.

"It's okay. Three automatic baits, plus manual baiting."

"Cowhide."

"With nearly 100,000 hooks, if you can have a 10 percent catch rate, it will be amazing."

"Most of the fish in the water are on an empty stomach, so they are easy to catch."

"Did you find any tuna over there?"

Lin Xinhai said: "Yes. I'm done eating, I've stayed up all night, I'm going back to bed, and we'll talk in the afternoon."

"Okay, I'm going back to sleep after eating."

"By the way, how many hooks did you guys make?" Lin Xinhai asked.

"More than 20,000." Takaga.

"About 20,000, a combination of deep hooks and shallow hooks." Zhao Hai.

"Then you can too." Lin Xinhai laughed.

"I, Nima, released nearly 100,000 in one night, and we will have to stay away from you from now on."

"It's just, it's scary."

"What was it overnight, and I started to hook it yesterday afternoon."

Boiled fish with autumn knives