Chapter 188: Happiness and Sorrow
After collecting three soft wires in a row, another manta ray came up, not very big, Ye Yaodong buckled its nose without talking about martial arts, dragged it up roughly, and threw it on the boat for his father to tidy up.
It's so ugly, and so small, don't think he's gentle.
After loading 5 in a row, the hook was empty, and the fish meat on it was still hanging there, and there may be no fish to bite.
This time he hung a variety of bait, some hung shrimp bait, some hung a variety of different varieties of fish pieces, because they were all pulled up by the ground cage, and the small fish of different varieties were cut and used as bait, and those who wished to take the bait.
Ye Yaodong continued to close the line and open the blind box, and when he pulled it, he knew that it was another big fish, and it felt so good to receive the goods, and he was happy~
"Oh Huo~ Ma Jiaoyu, there are 5 catties!"
This longline fishing is more interesting than trawl nets and ground cages, a branch line is loaded, and there are no small fish, trawl nets and ground cages pull up a bunch at once, although it is also very cool, but it lacks a little feeling.
Father Ye was also happy to pick up the goods and bleed in the back, but he didn't expect longline fishing to be very useful, all the fish were not small, he put the good quality fish in one basket, and the almost fish in another basket.
Ye Yaodong's goods are also very cool, the quality of the fish in the offshore sea is higher than that of the fish along the coast, and there are more big fish, and it is also possible that the bait they use is relatively large.
In this era, the ocean has not been overfished, except for a few species that are originally scarce, most of the resources are still very rich, and a few decades later, what second-class protected animals, first-class protected animals, are still more now.
Ye Yaodong hung the bait while collecting it, and it was already two hours after he finished collecting the thousand row hooks, if he wasn't too tired, he would turn around and start again.
It's just that he has no experience this time, and the bait he brings is too little, 1000 hooks need 1000 bait, and the small fish caught dozens of catties yesterday are used to make up the number, which is not enough bait, and after the bait is used for the second time, the basin and bucket are already empty.
After Father Ye finished packing the goods, he also saw that there was no bait, and muttered, "This bait is a bit fast? In the morning, when I cut it, I still had a big basin and several catties of shrimp."
"But no, there were only three or five hundred hooks to try to put them in before, and I deliberately left all the small fish and shrimp yesterday, and I didn't take them to dry, so they weren't enough."
"Go back at night and ask your eldest brother and second brother to keep all the small fish and shrimp, you can just pay some money to collect it, otherwise this bait is not enough, what's the matter?"
"It's still late to come out today, and if you go out at night tomorrow, doubling the bait will not be enough, so if you go to the dock to collect fish and shrimp, you can get a lot of money. Small fish and shrimp can't be sold for much money, and most people want to keep them for food, and they don't want to sell them."
Thinking about Father Ye's heartache, he originally thought that the efficiency of longline fishing was so high that it could be loaded one after another, and he only fished big fish, not small fish, which was too strong.
Looking at it now, it costs a lot of money to buy bait, as well as diesel costs, and wages, and if the couple goes to sea, they can save a salary.
Looking at it this way, unless there are many and good fish on it, it may not be able to compare with trawling.
Trawl has everything.
Ye Yaodong also felt that there was a bit of bait, the number of worthless small fish and shrimp pulled up by the ground cage was not enough to support his longline fishing, and the fish that could be sold at a high price must not be used as bait.
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[To tell the truth, I've been using @
At the beginning, there are two more than 3 catties of flounder, sea bass, black sea bream, real sea bream, sea wolf and many other varieties, but the weight is different.
There are a lot of baits that haven't moved, and there are a lot of empty hooks running fish, but the harvest of a rope is also considerable, and Ye Yaodong has already estimated that these are worth dozens of dollars.
It's only been harvested once, and if you come out at night and collect it a few more times, the day will not be too old, and if the bait is not enough, it will be worth buying a little.
Waiting until about three o'clock, Ye Yaodong woke up Ye's father, who was sleeping and snoring, and planned to continue to close the line, and just return home for dinner after receiving it.
This sea area is far away, not the coast, Ye Yaodong plans to put away the fishing line at the same time as harvesting, which is not suitable for overnight.
Collected three mackerel in a row, and a flower branch (squid) came up, Ye Yaodong was afraid that its ink would spray his face, so he stretched out his arm to take it when he picked up the hook, and then turned his face to the side, but saw that a fishing boat with a trawl was slowly sailing in their direction.
He didn't care, it was common to run into fishing boats that were working, yours, mine, and not interfere with each other.
But the sparkling waters around the fishing boat, not far away, immediately attracted his attention, and then a large fish rampaged towards the sea in front of him from far and near, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right.
He forgot to reel in the line for a moment, and looked at the tin boat that was trawling, and the fishing boat reacted quickly, turning around and chasing the big fish, trying to drag it into the net.
Father Ye saw that he had been looking into the distance, and he also looked over, but there was nothing special, only a fishing boat in operation, but he drove a little faster, and the normal trawling speed was 3 to 5 knots per hour.
"Look at what? Hurry up and reel in the line, and go home when you're done."
"I just saw a big fish, and the boat seems to be chasing the big fish now."
"What's the matter with us?"
"The boat is coming this way."
I saw that the boat was getting closer and closer to his direction, and Father Ye also looked over.
I don't know if the big fish has been caught in the net, but the boat slowed down, and it was just in front of them, a few meters away from them, and then I saw them collecting the nets there.
Father Ye patted him on the shoulder, "What's so beautiful? Collect your goods."
"Oh." He was actually curious, wondering if they had caught the big fish, and what kind of fish was that big fish? Looking at the movement on the sea at that time, the fish seemed to be quite small, and he felt a little itchy in his heart.
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As soon as he turned his head, he heard a sudden exclamation from the boat, which was so close that it was hard for him to hear it.
But he couldn't see it, so he had to give up for the time being, and continue to close the line regardless of the movement over there.
He was pleasantly surprised to get started, the hand line was hard to pull, and the waves on the water surface splashed on his face, he slowly and carefully dragged it, so as not to be run away, until the fish body was exposed to the water!
"Bomb fish? No, it's tuna, Dad, come on, catch the net! It's tuna!" Ye Yaodong shouted excitedly at his father.
This one definitely looks more than a meter, this is the biggest cargo caught today, and it is much more valuable than the yellow-striped yellowtail that ran away before, so you can't let it run away.
After he pulled the fish to the surface, he didn't dare to drag it hard, waiting for his father to come and catch it with a net.
He pulled slowly, sawing with it, the water splashed so badly that he and Father Ye were splashed wet with its churning splash on their faces and bodies, and only when they reached the side of the boat did Father Ye use his hand to catch it with a net.
But this fish is very big, Father Ye didn't check it for a while, and let it turn out, but fortunately, the hook didn't let it run away.
Father Ye saw it again, held the handle of the hand-pulled net with both hands, and threw it up to the deck with all his might.
Only then did the two of them see clearly that it was a albacore tuna, and their happy faces suddenly smiled.
"It's albacore!"
The fish has a torpedo-shaped shape and smooth skin, which makes him instantly recognizable its species because of it
The first dorsal fin is dark yellow, the second dorsal fin is pale yellow, with a dark blue metallic sheen on the back, and silvery-white around the edges and abdomen.
This albacore tuna is also widely distributed in various seas in China, as well as in the world's seas.
There are many kinds of tuna, including green sweetin tuna, albacore, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna, blackfin tuna, etc., the best of course bluefin tuna, but albacore tuna is not bad.
This one is about 1.2 meters long, and it is absolutely superb.
After the albacore tuna was thrown onto the deck, it bounced a few times and swung its tail, Ye Yaodong planned to quickly bleed him while it was still alive, and then let his father go to reel in the line.
Such a superb tuna, he wanted to do it himself, and it was the first time he had encountered it when he was reborn in this life.
At this time, the ship in front also headed towards them, approaching their ship.
"Young boy, you caught a tuna too?" A short, thin, swarthy middle-aged man leaned against the side of the boat and craned his neck to look at the albacore tuna on their boat.
Ye Yaodong was curious about what kind of fish they had just come up with the Internet, and he also accosted him with a smile, "Uncle, I just saw a big fish on the sea, was it caught by you?"
The short, thin and swarthy middle-aged man smiled proudly, "Yes, the one I just netted is bigger than yours, and it's worth more than your albacore tuna, it's a yellowfin tuna."
Father Ye said with envy, "Really? Luckily, we've seen it before."
"It was chasing a school of anchovies, and we just happened to drag the net near the front, and we found that it had come out of part of its body to the water, so we chased it, but I didn't expect to catch it."
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"It's a school of anchovies, no wonder, I said the fish looked like it was prey." Ye Yaodong was a little sorry, the yellowfin tuna was also very good.
"Luckily, as soon as our boat sailed over, we saw it, and then we caught it immediately, you can't do it, what kind of longline fishing is this, if you also trawl in this sea area, it is estimated that it would have fallen into your net long ago."
Ye Yaodong shrugged, "Albacore tuna is not bad, not much worse."
A middle-aged woman on the boat, presumably his wife, also spoke up at this time, "Who said that, it's too much, okay? The yellowfin tuna is much better than your one, show them."
"I'll show you, I just finished bleeding", the short, thin and swarthy middle-aged man was really happy, and proudly pulled out the yellowfin tuna, held it in his hand to show them, and was proud, "See, this head, this golden fin, beautiful, right?"
Ye Yaodong also saw it, and it was indeed a little bigger than them.
The woman also said proudly, "Better than yours, right? It's big, and it's rare for this fish to be found in the offshore ......."
Before he finished speaking, suddenly a wave rolled, the hull of the boat shook, and the middle-aged man's body also shook.
"Ahh~"
"Ah~Fish...... My fish ......"
The yellowfin tuna actually fell straight into the sea......
The middle-aged man reacted quickly and leaned half of his body out of the side of the boat, trying to catch the fish, but when he saw him, he only touched the tail of the fish, and the yellowfin tuna sank directly.
The woman also rushed to the side of the boat excitedly, leaned out half of her body, stretched out her arms, but only touched a handful of seawater.
"Ahhh......h
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A glass of iced lemonade