Go to bed early and wake up early.

Chen Yuan: They got up after seven o'clock.

At the equator, the sunrise is early. Normally, the sun comes out at 6 a.m. local time.

The morning sun is not hot, but warm.

Yang Xun and the others have already collected the fishing rods and are making breakfast.

After Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng stretched out on the deck, Chen Yuan went to the bow of the boat and did sit-ups and push-ups.

If you don't exercise for a long time, your body will look like it's rusty. For a long time, at the end of the sea, Chen Yuan saw a small dot. If you look closely, it's a white boat......

Chen Yuan simply moved his body, and after breakfast, Chen Yuan turned on the wireless phone: "Rupee, Zhang Hang, received a reply." ”

"Roger."

Chen Yuan then reported to them the location of his ship and asked, "The white ship in front of us, is it you?" ”

"Yes. We are very close to your ship. ”

Chen Yuan said 'um': "Come over first." ”

"Okay."

"Zhang Hang, you're here." Hayashi Shinkaido.

"I saw Brother Chen's yacht." Zhang Hangdao.

After eating, Zhang Hang and they haven't arrived yet.

"We caught four tuna last night, all big-eyed." He Feidao.

"Okay. Let's go to the fishing boat first. Chen Yuan said: "Is it big?" ”

"One small, three is not bad, estimated to be close to a hundred catties." He Feidao.

"That's the average size." Zhou Sheng said: "To fish for tuna, you can try to make some live squid, octopus, and mackerel. Tuna like to eat these ...... the most If you use an octopus, the octopus should not be too big. ”

"How do you fish for an octopus?" Yang asked.

"It's easy to catch octopuses by fishing the bottom with fluorescent bait. There are fish spotters on this boat, and you can try to find out if there are any octopuses at night. Zhou Sheng took out a cigarette, handed one to Yang Xun, and threw one to Chen Yuan.

After smoking a cigarette, Zhang Hang and their fishing boat finally approached.

Chen Yuan started the fishing boat and drove towards them at full speed, the speed became faster and faster, and when Zhang Hang and their fishing boat were nearby, the speed reached 53 knots.

Ruby and Zhang Hang saw Chen Yuan and them coming over in the wheelhouse, and both of them walked out of the cabin and shouted: "Hi ......"

Chen Yuan's speed was so fast that they could only hear the roar of machinery, the sound of the wind, and the sound of breaking waves.

Chen Yuan drove the boat, circled around Zhang Hang and them, parked the boat next to them, and then handed over the driver's seat to He Fei, and walked out with Zhou Sheng: "Hi." ”

"Hey." Ruby laughed and shouted loudly, "Your boat, how many knots was it just now?" ”

"Fifty-three." Chen Yuandao.

"It's so enjoyable."

"Let's go, let's go fishing."

Zhang Hang made an OK gesture.

Ruby and Zhang Hang's fishing boat began to cruise at high speed, and the speed did not reach 25 knots, but only ran 22 or 23 knots.

There were still more than a dozen nautical miles away from the Big Fish, Zhang Hang and the others stopped the boat and began to release the hook.

They have some tuna hooks on the boat that you can put a rope on first.

Chen Yuan and the others approached the Big Fish, first got the tuna they caught by He Fei and them to the fishing boat, and then took a box of fish hooks handed over from the boat, and sent them to Zhang Hang.

It's past one o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Yuan and they were not far from Zhang Hang and Ruby's fishing boats, watching them release their hooks.

The speed of their boat was okay, but the speed of the rope was too slow. A 15,000-meter rope, tuna hooks with some short-line hooks, there should be more than 20,000 hooks in total, and it took nearly 4 hours.

"What are you guys doing, why are you so slow to put the hook?" Chen Yuan took the walkie-talkie and asked.

"The workers on our ships are all novices and slow." Zhang Hang said.

For the profession of fishing, Zhang Hang is also a novice. Rupee often goes out fishing, also on a longline, but he uses a small boat within ten meters, all by hand.

Professional longliner, Rupee is also a novice. And their fishing vessels are very automated......

"How many workers are there on your ship?" Chen Yuan asked.

"With me and Zhang Hang, there are 16 people on our boat." Ruby Road.

Chen Yuan said 'um': "I've brought you the fish hook, stop the boat, I'll send it to you first." ”

"Okay."

Longline fishing is simple.

Find a place where there are a lot of fish, keep putting the hooks, and then retract the hooks.

But if you want to have a good harvest, you have to judge the water layer where the fish are located. The depth of the hook determines the catch rate.

Zhang Hang and the others are all novices, and when it comes to controlling the depth of the fishing hook, the people on the boat are in a hurry.

The first rope took nearly 5 hours, so to speak, it was placed indiscriminately.

For the second rope, Chen Yuan instructed them to release the hook, 15,000 meters, and it took more than six hours to finish.

"Chen, is it time to collect the fishhook?" Ruby asked.

"You can take it. Stay safe, we've got to sleep. ”

"Good. Thank you for today. ”

"It's fine. There is skill in how to put a hook, put it deep during the day and shallow it at night...... We'll teach you these things in the future. ”

"Okay."

During this day, Chen Yuan didn't do anything.

Early the next morning, when Chen Yuan and the others woke up, the rupee fishing boat was still collecting the hooks.

Chen Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie: "Rupee, Zhang Hang?" ”

"Roger." Zhang Hangdao.

"How many tuna did you catch?"

"The first hook caught four tuna and one swordfish." Zhang Hang said: "The fish has been sent to Master Zhang and their boat." Now the second bunch is now up with 3 tuna. ”

"So little?"

"The depth of the hook is not well placed, and there are few fish in it. In the second bunch, we only harvested a third of the fish, and the catch was significantly more. Zhang Hang said with a smile.

"Gotta come on. You're so inefficient that you won't make money. Chen Yuan said.

"By the time we're skilled, we'll be able to improve our efficiency a lot."

Chen Yuan let out a 'hmm' and said, "Come on." ”

The longline fishing boat of Ruby and Zhang Hang is an inshore fishing vessel, and it is too reluctant to come to the open sea to fish for tuna.

Tuna is said to be a fish that never rests and swims all the time.

This is because the gill cover muscles of the tuna are degraded and they are unable to breathe in seawater, and once they are stationary, they die of lack of oxygen, so they swim all the time and never stop.

For longline tuna fishing, the hook's leg line is very long. In this way, the tuna will be able to swim even after it bites the hook. So when fishing for tuna, the hook spur has to be long, and the distance between the spur line and the spur line is at least twice the length of the spur line.

15,000 meters of dry rope and tuna hooks, only more than 1,000 can be placed.

In longline fishing, the more hooks there are, the greater the probability of hitting the fish. Their fishing boats can only hold more than 2,000 tuna hooks......

Like Chen Yuan's fishing boat, they put more than 10,000 hooks at a time, and if they were lucky, they also found more than 100 or 200 tuna. If you're lucky, it's seventy or eighty.

Chen Yuan's longline fishing boat was much faster than Zhang Hang's ability to release and retract the hook.

Zhang Hang: The fuel consumption of their fishing boat is still high.

If they can't improve the efficiency of their operations, they will still make money, after all, their fishing boats do not have access fees. But it's definitely not a lot of money.

(End of chapter)