Chapter 239 Too scary

"Call Dabai, call Dabai..."

Lin Xinhai's voice came over the radio.

Chen Yuan was eating when he heard a voice reply: "Copy that."

"Have you eaten yet?"

"Eating."

"How about I mainly place tuna hooks in this position? The depth is from 100 meters to 15 meters."

"Okay, there are a lot of big-eye tuna here. Big-eye tuna mainly feeds in shallow water areas at night, and the depth can reach 5 meters. You should put more fishhook at this depth of 5 meters to 30 meters." Chen Yuan said.

"Okay. After setting the fishhook, we will go to your place." Lin Xinhai said.

"Don't be like this, I'm rushing to Chen Yuan." Zhao Hai said: "Don't move your boat over there. I'll go to Chen Yuan to put the shallow water hook."

"What the fuck, you son of a bitch..." Gao He shouted: "You are too treacherous, you didn't tell me in the past. Brother Hai, leave a sip of soup for us to drink, I'm going to Chen Yuan's side too.

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Lin Xinhai thought for a while: "Yuanzi, what should I say?"

"That's okay. You put two strings of dry ropes over there, and Lao Zhao and Lao Gao come over and put them in. It will take a long time to put out the two ropes." Chen Yuandao said: "I have a fish school here, and there are quite a lot of them.

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"As long as the quantity is large, what is the approximate price of Pacific bonito?" Zhao Hai asked.

"It's very cheap. The sea purchase price of Dongjiang Fishery is US$900 per ton, regardless of size." Lin Xinhai said: "I look at the size here. If the goods are good, I will give you US$800. If the goods are not good, the maximum is US$600." Lin Xinhai said.

Xinhai said.

"This price...is okay."

The current bonito market, in terms of domestic prices, the imported price of frozen bonito is about US$1,600 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 cannot be sold at high prices.

"Lao Gao, how many fishhooks are you going to put in?" Zhao Hai asked.

"About 20,000." Gao He said: "I don't have a rope hanging machine here, so I have to hang the branch line manually. It would be good to have 20,000 fishhooks. What about you?"

"I'm about the same. If I can lay 20,000 fish hooks, it's good."

"Lao Hai, your fishhook is automatically tied to the dry rope, right?" Gao He asked.

"Only when tuna hooks are automatically tied," Lin Xinhai said.

"What about the bonito hook?"

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

"That's okay. 150,000 meters of dry rope can hold 50,000 fishhooks, right?"

"Yes. If the payout speed is slower, it won't be a big problem to have 50,000 fishhooks." Lin Xinhai said.

Gao He clicked his tongue: "How much does the automatic bait binding machine cost?"

"It's not just a machine..." Lin Xinhai thought for a while, and then said: "It's also a semi-manual machine. The single piece of equipment is not expensive, more than 400,000 yuan. But it needs to be equipped with a branch line.

The leather cords and buckles all cost almost one million."

"Where did you get the equipment?" Gao He said.

"We asked Jiuxing Shipyard to help us purchase it from abroad." Lin Xinhai said: "Many of the equipment on our ship were purchased from abroad."

As for longline fishing equipment, it is still relatively advanced from abroad. The most advanced foreign longline fishing boats can automatically release the hook and automatically harvest the catch. The catch is then directly entered into the processing room through the conveyor belt...

To put it bluntly, it's money.

In China, if money is available, fully automatic longline fishing boats can be designed. The technology of these things is not particularly high.

"How much did the equipment on your ship cost in total?" Zhao Hai asked.

"Not counting the host, the total cost was 4.67 million yuan," Lin Xinhai said.

"I'll go..."

“With good equipment, efficiency can be high.”

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

But last year when they were fishing, the Xinhai number made Lin Xinhai very angry. This time, Lin Xinhai was willing to spend a lot of money to upgrade the big fish.

Big Fish's speed of releasing hooks is more than twice as fast as Zhao Hai's fishing boat.

But the speed of catching fish is just a little faster than Zhao Hai and the others.

But when combined, the efficiency can be about two-fifths higher than that of Zhao Hai and his fishing boats.

This is equivalent to Chen Yuan and the others working for five days, while Zhao Hai and the others only worked for three days.

In addition, the speed of big fish is fast, and there is Dabai, a motorized boat that specializes in finding fish. When the fish catch rate is about the same, as time goes by, Dabai's fish catch may be greater than that of Zhao Hai and Gao He's two boats.

It adds up to more.

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

After dinner, 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 breath.

I don't know what time it was, but Chen Yuan saw a bright light in the distance. After a long time, Zhao Hai's voice came from the intercom.

"Chen Yuan, Zhou Sheng, received the reply." Zhao Hai shouted on the intercom.

"They're outside."

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

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

"How big are the fish schools here?"

"It's quite big, and you can hook some tuna," Chen Yuandao said.

This fish school is now a vegetarian fish school, but hundreds of tons of fish gather together, which can easily attract big fish.

Gao He's fishing boat also came over.

These two of them can't outrun Dabai, so it's a good choice to come here to catch this bonito school.

Even closer, the fish detector on Zhao Hai's fishing boat had already seen fish.

Gao He's boat was faster than Zhao Hai and the others, and was now in front: "Old Zhao, I will take a detour to the seven o'clock direction of the fish school, and then put the fishhook counterclockwise."

"Okay, I'll follow you and release the hook clockwise."

"good."

Chen Yuan asked: "The water here is about 350 meters deep. Do you have enough bottom sinkers?"

"There are more than five hundred pendants." Gao He said.

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

More than a hundred kilometers of rope cannot be laid in a straight line. Instead, it must be placed in a roundabout way...

After discovering a school of fish, see clearly the direction of the school of fish, and then release the hook in a roundabout way in front of the school of fish. The distance is tens to hundreds of meters apart.

The sea water is flowing, and if a big fish is caught, the big fish will be very strong... In order to prevent the branch line and the dry rope from getting entangled, and the dry ropes from being entangled with each other, and setting the hook in a roundabout way, the dry rope needs to be fixed.

Of course, if the detour distance is far enough, there is no need to fix it.

Gao He's boat was at full power. He rushed over first and put down the sinker that was sinking to the bottom. The branch line of the sinker was connected to the dry rope. There was also a branch line on the dry rope connected to the float... Then he started to defend the line and hook...

When fish schools are found, longline fishing boats can also use mosquito coils to release hooks. This means placing fish hooks in circles around the fish schools with the fish school as the center. However, this hook releasing method requires a high speed for the fishing boat.

Watching Zhao Hai arrive at the designated location and start placing the fishhook, Chen Yuan returned to the cabin and contacted Dabai via radio: "Uncle Fourth, are you there?"

"exist."

"Have you finished placing the first set of fishhooks?"

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

There are also two auxiliary boats on board Dabai.

The two auxiliary boats also carry dry ropes, but the dry ropes on the auxiliary boats are much smaller.

The auxiliary boat has many uses. It can help put the rope, or it can go out alone to put the rope, help recover the lead weight, organize the dry rope, etc.

Dabai's two auxiliary boats are not big, only 9.3 meters in length, but they have 350 horsepower.

There is a rope stirring machine and a rope releasing machine on the auxiliary boat. However, the rope releasing machine is not big, and the diameter of the dry rope on it is less than 1 cm.

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

"Why are Zhao Hai and Lao Gao's fishing boats not equipped with auxiliary boats?" Luo Laosi asked.
To be continued...