By 5:30, Chen Hong's fishing box was full, and the four blue rockfish she had been eyeing had been caught.

Yu Yang, Xiao Hao, and Wang Xin also caught three fish: a bass, a mackerel, and a golden croaker.

It perfectly met their small needs, and each of them got one.

The three children helped Chen Hong carry the stools and fishing rods, like victorious warriors returning home, and went back to the hotel together.

This afternoon, the mother and her three children caught 26 fish of various sizes. When they weighed them at the hotel, they totaled 84 jin (approximately 42 catties) and cost over 2,600 yuan.

Chen Hong only took two thousand yuan of the money, and gave the rest to each of the three children, more than two hundred yuan, as a reward.

The children had a good catch today and were very happy, already planning to go fishing again next week.

Chen Hong: Next time, she won't go with the three of them. Let the village chief and Uncle Erhu go instead.

Fishing with them is exhausting; I'm so busy taking care of them that I don't even have the energy to fish myself.

With her skills, she's only suitable for working at sea alone.

Chen Hong worked in the space for three days, and the pearl oyster was only one-third open. Finally, she received a call from Geng Dazhi, informing her that the fishing boat was ready for maintenance and she could go pick it up.

Chen Hong set off immediately, first taking Xiao Hao's mother's electric tricycle to town, then taking a taxi to the shipyard to pick up the boat.

The sampan was still being repaired and painted, while the fishing boat had its engine, generator, and radar fish finder all repaired and maintained.

The debris on the hull was cleaned, the boat was repainted, and a maritime satellite phone was installed.

Chen Hong completed the handover procedures, and the repair and satellite phone installation cost more than 70,000 yuan.

Satellite phones are so expensive these days! The ship's telephone exchange cost over 20,000 yuan, the phone itself cost over 12,000 yuan, and the annual fee was 10,000 yuan.

In the end, the telecommunications company makes more money. As for how much the shipbuilding company, as the sales agent, can earn, Chen Hong has no idea.

However, the repair cost of over ten thousand yuan is relatively cheap.

It's said that call charges aren't cheap either; making calls in international waters can cost 50 yuan per minute just for roaming.

It seems like nothing important. You really can't just make random phone calls; a few RMB bills could fly away in a minute!

It's cheaper in the open sea within China, but once she's in Chinese waters, she doesn't need to make a phone call anymore.

Fortunately, she is now wealthy and quite generous, so she doesn't care about spending tens of thousands of yuan.

As long as I can contact my family and Zhouyi when needed, letting them know I'm safe at all times, it's enough. I guess it's just paying for peace of mind!

She returned to the village dock by boat in the afternoon, and tomorrow she plans to go out to sea.

After making a phone call to reserve a refueling truck and an ice delivery truck for tomorrow morning, Chen Hong locked the cabin door and went home.

I first went to the hotel and told the village chief and Xiao Hao's mother that I was going out to sea tomorrow.

She left the children's meals to them to worry about; she'd be back in two or three days.

This time she didn't plan to go too far. She just went to her old fishing spots to check on the fish situation and release some fish, shrimp, and crab fry.

The main objective of this voyage is to find a place in the southern seas to transplant red coral.

When I come back, I usually go to Jeju Island and then take a trip around the five islands to buy some fish.

Red coral needs to absorb trace elements such as iron during its growth process in order to become truly "red" coral.

Its growth area must first be a region with frequent submarine volcanoes, where frequent crustal movements bring the trace elements needed for the growth of red corals.

Aside from the limitations imposed by volcanic areas, the high requirements of red corals for their growth environment are also a reason why they cannot produce large quantities of resources.

Red corals have very high requirements for their growth environment. First, they require suitable seawater temperature. Second, they also have high requirements for salinity.

Finally, while ensuring sufficient light, there must also be enough oxygen in the water.

Only when all the above-mentioned growth conditions are met can red corals leisurely accumulate and grow slowly.

It takes ten years for a new red coral to reach sexual maturity and reproduce. It grows no more than one centimeter per year, takes three hundred years to grow one kilogram, and takes one thousand years to obtain a complete red coral tree.

"A thousand-year-old coral is red for ten thousand years, and ten-thousand-year-old coral is better than gold." This is not just a saying; red coral really does grow very slowly!

Chen Hong hasn't been idle at home these past few days; besides opening oysters to extract pearls in her online space, she's also been searching for information online.

Finding a suitable habitat for red coral larvae is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

At the very least, you need to have a general direction and location. This was the result of several days of careful and meticulous research and comparison.

She discovered that there are actually many underwater volcanoes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea of ​​our country.

The closest sea area to her is the East China Sea, but the Pacific Ocean is actually the ocean with the most volcanoes in the world.

The East China Sea has many submarine continental shelves that extend from the Pacific Ocean. Volcanoes in the Japanese archipelago and the Taiwan archipelago belong to the Pacific submarine volcanic cluster.

With a general idea of ​​her goals, Chen Hong entrusted her home and children to the village chief and his wife, as well as Xiao Hao's mother. The next morning, she got up at three o'clock in the morning and went to the dock.

The fishing boat's fuel tank was filled to the brim, and the oil drums carried on board were also filled.

If you include the diesel fuel stored in the space, there should be enough fuel for a trip to the South China Sea.

Even if it's not enough, there's no problem; she can refuel and resupply at any of our major coastal ports.

Most of the sea areas she visited this time were within China.

This time, Chen Hong brought Black Tiger along again. Black Tiger already worked well with her, so there was no need to readjust the glasses.

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