After sailing swiftly for more than two hours on the boundless sea where fishing lights twinkled, the light on the sea surface gradually began to change.

From pitch black to jet black, and from jet black to hazy gray, as a magnificent red sun suddenly leaped out of the sea, half the sky was dyed orange-red.

The fishing boats ahead were hidden in the shadows, appearing to float on the shimmering sea.

The red sun, edged with gold, rose slowly in the east. As it left the embrace of the sea, the world seemed to be suddenly bathed in light.

Facing the rising sun, Chen Hong resolutely sailed eastward into the open sea. The number of small fishing boats dwindled, and the sea appeared even more vast.

As far as the eye could see, only three or five ships came into view.

Occasionally, the sound of ship horns would break the morning calm on the sea, as medium to large fishing boats returned to port fully loaded.

Today's temperature is minus four degrees Celsius, with a level three northwest wind. The sea is calm. Chen Hong is in particularly good physical condition now, and she only wears a thin cashmere sweater and thermal underwear for the winter.

They wore a sports suit over their clothes to facilitate their work and activities on the boat.

Entering the East China Sea, waves as high as two meters are commonplace, and the "New Life" moves steadily forward on the sea like a leaf.

Passing through the sea area where she had previously released fish fry, Chen Hong released the half-grown fish fry that had been growing in her space for more than two months back into the sea.

She no longer worries about whether all the fish fry will survive the winter.

If she doesn't release them soon, the breeding ponds and boxes in her space will soon burst.

Releasing the fish is her business, but whether the juvenile fish can reproduce in this cold temperature is beyond her control.

However, she had great confidence in these seedlings born from the space, which grew in the space water and consumed so many high-quality feeds such as space vegetables, grains, and fruits.

If you can't even withstand this bit of cold, then let's all be eliminated by natural selection and become food for the sea fish!

It wasn't that Chen Hong was heartless; she had no other choice! Her living space was limited, and if she didn't release the animals soon, she wouldn't have anywhere left to put them.

We can't let her dig through the entire space, leaving no land, and use it all to raise fish!

But she was a farmer, and farming was her favorite pastime, even more so than fishing.

To save time, Chen Hong didn't have time to carefully search for other suitable sea areas for release.

Apart from the newly hatched fry and tropical fry, all the other fry in the space were swept into the East China Sea by her.

After releasing the fish fry, Chen Hong stacked up all the breeding boxes that had been emptied out.

Seeing that there was finally a place to put her feet down in the underground space, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Hong felt relaxed and less stressed as she started her journey with a lighter load.

You know, during the time I was accompanying my child to school in Jinan, I went in and out of the space every day, watching the fish fry in the breeding ponds and breeding boxes hatch and grow every day.

Everywhere she looked, there were countless fish fry of all colors and sizes. She felt dizzy and nauseous, and even in her dreams, she saw clumps and patches of wriggling, dark fish fry.

She thought she might have involuntarily developed trypophobia! Several times when she was upset, she impulsively wanted to release the fish fry into the rolling Yellow River.

Fortunately, at the last moment, she controlled herself, killed a batch of breeding fish, and reduced the hatching of some fry, which slightly alleviated her feelings of disgust.

Chen Hong sailed southeast, intending to bypass Kyushu Island in Japan, cross the waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea, and go through the Osumi Strait to fish for bluefin tuna in the Pacific Ocean.

Along the way, Chen Hong saw more than a dozen medium-sized fishing boats that took passengers out to sea to fish.

From afar, Chen Hong could hear the noisy commotion of the fishermen on the boat. She could faintly hear someone shouting in disappointment after losing a fish, or someone breaking their line in heartache and frustration.

Some people even caught a big cod and laughed heartily, as spirited as a chivalrous knight-errant.

These boat owners are all experienced fishermen who understand the migration patterns of fish in winter, know how to find fishing windows, have their own secret fishing spots, and have a wealth of experience in finding fish.

Some of their fishing spots are even passed down through generations, and they would never reveal their secrets to outsiders.

As the water temperature gradually drops, fish will swim to deeper waters to find places to escape the cold and hibernate.

Fish such as blackheads, yellow croakers, and toothed croakers gather in the deep waters near the seabed, in places with deep depressions and crevices, to overwinter.

Like sea bass and mullet, they swim to the deep sea, while eels seek out burrows in nearby waters to hide and live.

Barracudas will burrow into the muddy depths of the water, leaving only their tails exposed to hibernate... Each type of fish has its own way of surviving the winter safely.

Having learned their life patterns, we know that uneven, deep, and low-lying sea areas are their comfortable wintering grounds.

Light winds, sunshine, and relatively warm temperatures, with northerly, northwesterly, westerly, and southwesterly winds below level 4 and small to medium waves of half a meter to one meter, are suitable for winter fishing and trawling.

In the winter, in addition to the most abundant mackerel, ribbonfish, yellow croaker, and cod, there are many valuable reef fish in the East China Sea.

Black carp, bigeye snapper, redtail snapper, scorpionfish, golden pineapple, grouper, etc.

These fish often inhabit rocky reefs and large reef platforms, making them inaccessible to fishing boats.

Besides tuna, this is also Chen Hong's favorite fish to harvest in winter. They are rare in the winter market and have a high price, averaging no less than 70 or 80 yuan per kilogram.

The fish species is rare and expensive, and it is very easy to sell after it comes ashore. High-end restaurants and hotels are vying to buy it.

At noon, Chen Hong stopped the boat to rest for a while. She saw someone on a fishing boat not far away catch a big cod weighing three or four pounds from the side of the boat, and she was also a little itchy to try it herself.

While munching on a steamed bun, Chen Hong went to the stern and cast her line. She took a piece of fresh clam meat from her spatial storage to use as bait. After casting the line for a while, before Chen Hong had even finished her steamed bun, her fishing rod stirred.

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