Zhao Hai and the others drove at full speed, and at noon the next day, several boats arrived at Port Vila. quick

It wasn't until the evening that the formalities were completed.

Chen Yuan gave them the position, four boats, and went over overnight to put the fish hooks.

To the west of Mangao Island, there are a lot of fish.

Takaga instructed them on the radio how to take the bait, six shallow and four deep, depending on the type of fish and the depth at which the fish were located.

"Tuna hooks within 50 meters should account for more than half." Zhou Jianguo said: "The tuna hook should not be too deep. ”

"It's all small tuna?" Zhao Hai asked.

"There are many small tuna, but few large tuna." Zhou Jianguo said again: "Besides, it's night, and the big tuna will also go to the upper waters." "Min

"Okay. We put half tuna hooks and half mackerel hooks on our boats. ”

Zhou Jianguo said 'um': "There are a lot of fish here, mainly concentrated near the island. ”

Zhao Hai: They are putting fish hooks on their side.

It is relatively close to the island, and there are many fish, so four boats are working in a sea area, so they release the hooks in a roundabout. That is, put a single rope......

At the end of the day today, Chen Yuan and they found a school of tuna fish in the open sea, dozens of them, judging by the depth, they should be big-eyed boys. The school of bigeye also swam to the eastern part of Mangau Island, where they dispersed in the evening because of the abundance of food.

Chen Yuan and they were not far away, and they could see Zhao Hai's fishing boat.

The night passed quickly, the next day, in the morning. quick

Chen Yuan got up very early, and after washing, he came out to look at Zhao Hai's fishing boat, which was already starting to collect the hooks.

Zhou Jianguo turned on the radio: "Lao Zhao, Lao Qian, Lao Liu, Lao Xu, how is the harvest?" ”

Xu San laughed: "Great harvest." The catch rate of mackerel hooks should be close to 25 percent. The catch rate of tuna is also very high, four percent, as it should be. ”

"There's a lot of tuna, but it's mostly albacore, and there's a lot of big-eyed tuna. There are not many yellowfin tuna...... It's not big. ”

"Specifics."

"Most of the tuna here are between 20 and 50 catties, and there are also a few catties and more than a dozen catties." Zhao Haidao.

Particularly small tuna, if it is still alive when caught, is released back into the sea. quick

In fact, 95 percent of the yellowfin tuna caught worldwide does not weigh more than 70 catties. And yellowfin tuna, which weighs about forty pounds, accounts for the vast majority.

Yellowfin tuna, ultra-low temperature price is relatively high. But these are limited to large individual tuna......

One of the main reasons for the high price of ultra-low temperature tuna is the high cost of ultra-low temperature. Yellowfin tuna, which is actually not expensive.

If there is no ultra-low-temperature, sea-frozen yellowfin tuna and regular frozen yellowfin tuna, these are mainly used to process canned ...... The price per ton, more than two thousand dollars.

If the meat quality is better, about 40 catties of yellowfin tuna, conventional ultra-low temperature, five or six thousand dollars per ton.

"I have recovered more than 30,000 meters of rope here, and there is only 1 tuna that meets the requirements of Dachao, and he is still a big-eyed boy." Xu San said: "There are more tuna this time, but the meat quality is very average, is it ready to sell the factory or?" ”

"Look at the catch. If the quantity is large, it will be sent to the factory. If the quantity is small, it will be sent back to Japan. If it can be ultra-low-temperature, try to be ultra-low-temperature...... Selling to factories is also divided into canning factories and fish processing plants. Zhou Jianguo said. quick

"On my side, as long as it is a valuable fish, everything that can be ultra-low temperature is frozen at ultra-low temperature." Xu Sandao.

"No matter what kind of fish, if the freshness is good, the price can always be higher."

The ultra-low temperature can lock in the moisture of the fish cells, and after thawing, it is still very fresh.

Zhao Hai stood on the lookout outside the cockpit, and the dry rope was being recovered below, and the tuna rope was all closed. Now it's the upper hook......

The rope lifter rotates at a very fast speed, about 5 meters per second.

Upper fish, small hooks, mostly small fish, and mainly mackerel. There is no need to untie the hook, there is a blade on the dry rope to cut the branch directly. The fish and feeder line enter the fish tank and fall directly into the processing room of the fishing boat, where there is a conveyor belt to transport the fish to the processing table.

The catch is mainly mackerel, pomfret, small amounts of snapper, billfish, and other catches. quick

There are 11 people in the processing room, and they are too busy.

Mackerel is too cheap, at sea, less than two dollars 1 catty. Workers in the processing room are busy handling valuable catches, and only when they have their hands free to deal with the cheap catches.

If you put more hooks, you can catch any fish.

Zhao Hai took the time to take a look at the processing room: "Give priority to sea bream, those worthless fish, deal with them later." ”

"It's a priority for valuable catches."

Zhao Hai smiled, looked at the fixed stainless steel tank behind the workbench, and then looked at the ice room: "How much more ice cubes?" ”

"It's just over 1 ton." quick

"Beat some more broken ice, there's no ice in the cooler."

"Right now."

In the processing room, the temperature is kept below 6 degrees Celsius. This is tropical, and the fish are shipped with high body temperatures......

Although their longline fishing boats are more than 40 meters long, they are still not big. Generally speaking, it is best to cool the fish caught in tropical waters before freezing them.

Large fishing vessels, most of which use cryogenic salt water, cools down the live fish before they are processed.

Longline fishing boats do not have low-temperature salt water tanks, so they use ice water in stainless steel tanks to cool the fish.

There are so many catches today, and the stainless steel tank is almost full of fish. quick

Valuable catches such as sea bream are processed directly after they come up, and then packed and sent to the freezing room or ultra-low temperature fish tank. The temperature of the ultra-low temperature chamber is lower, which allows the fish to be frozen as quickly as possible.

The fish was caught, and the crew also had joyful smiles on their faces.

However, Zhao Hai calculated, although there were many fish, there were too few valuable fish.

Mackerel, sold to Fu'an Fishery, 1 ton of 2,000 yuan is considered good. Not only Fu'an Fishery, but also other refrigerated ships that buy fish at sea are sold at a similar price.

The size of the mackerel in the cluster is usually not large, and after processing the internal organs, it costs more than 2,000 per ton.

Pomfret is also more abundant.

Pomfret is very cheap in the public's impression, about 1 pound of more than 10 yuan. But pomfret also depends on the species, and the way it is handled. quick

Most of the pomfret here are ordinary white pomfret and belong to the cheap pomfret. But there are also silver pomfrets, which are more expensive, and the domestic price is dozens of yuan and 1 catty.

The two species of pomfret here are sorted and processed and placed directly on the shelves, placed layer by layer, and then sent to the freezing room. In this way, the pomfret in the ultra-low temperature freezing room still has a good appearance after returning to China.

Zhao Hai is calculating the catch, but today's catch is many, and it is miscellaneous, so it is not easy to calculate.

But no matter how you calculate it, if you want to make money, you have to fish for tuna, catch big tuna......

Offshore purchase price......

1 ton of mackerel is 3,500, 1 ton of white pomfret is about 6,000, and the price of silver pomfret is much higher, but the number of silver pomfret is small.

If it's a medium-sized large yellowfin tuna, it's a common sight in Tuvalu...... A hundred catties is a lot, almost 40 yuan per catty, and one is 4,000 yuan. quick

Today looks like a bumper harvest, but it's all worthless fish.