Chen Hong mixed a bucket of bait with water from her spatial storage and scattered it into the sea. After waiting for more than ten minutes, a school of fish had gathered in the sea. From the boat, it seemed that there were more sardines than fish, which suited Chen Hong's intentions.

She activated the fishing boat's autopilot and quickly returned to the stern to cast nets into the sea. After the boat had sailed a large circle, Chen Hong scattered a lot of bait into the ambush area.

This advanced autopilot function is far more advanced and convenient than the old-fashioned fishing boat that used dumbbells wrapped in ropes to secure the steering wheel. After waiting for half an hour, Chunhong activated the autopilot function again, letting the boat move on its own.

She went to the stern to get a hook and hooked it onto the fishing net float. Using a crane, an electric winch, and a fish-scraping machine, she pulled the nets up one by one, and the catch on the deck piled up like a small mountain.

Chen Hong was so focused on organizing the fishing nets that she couldn't pay attention to the fish scattering all over the ground from the automatic fish-scraping machine. After finishing one net, she pulled the rope of the next net and fed it into the crane and winch.

After all six nets were pulled up, the deck was covered with fish, weighing at least 3,000 jin (1,500 kg). Big and small fish were splashing and thrashing about on the deck, leaving no room for Chen Hong to step.

As Chen Hong kicked the fish at her feet, she bent down to pick up the live fish and throw them into the live water tank, thinking that she had bought a boat that was too small.

Chen Hong quickly picked out the still-living fish from the pile, deflated the more valuable ones, and tossed them into the live water tank. Smaller sardines and skipjack tuna, alive, were thrown into the live water compartment.

Dead or good fish are thrown into styrofoam boxes and frozen, while worthless big fish are thrown into large water tanks to be used as frozen bait.

With so many fish to catch now, I can sort and categorize them all, so I won't need to buy live or frozen bait anymore. I can handle everything myself.

Now, Chen Hong's only headache is that the new boat is too fast. Sometimes Chen Hong's hand speed can't keep up, and she can only watch helplessly as some fish are pulled directly into the winch and crushed to death.

Although they could be kept as bait or frozen, so it wouldn't be a waste, some good fish were still crushed and killed before they could be unloaded, which still pained Chen Hong. You know, some of these good fish are worth a thousand yuan each!

But there's no good solution right now, so we can only prioritize speed over accuracy.

If the speed is too slow, the fuel consumed by the fishing boat cannot be replaced by selling a few fish.

As Chen Hong sorted through her catch, she thought that she still needed to improve the way she untied the longline fishing line. If necessary, she would stop untying the fish by hand, as it was still too slow.

Next time, just cut the fishhook with scissors. Once we get back to port, we can have Uncle Erhu and the others at home slowly remove the fishhook.

Right now, we can only prioritize speed and control fuel consumption. This ship is great, but it's too fuel-guzzling. The high engine power means it goes fast and has plenty of power, but it also consumes a lot of fuel.

Chen Hong was so busy today that she forgot to eat lunch. After cleaning and tidying up the deck, she finally felt hungry and took out her phone to check that it was already 2 p.m.

I roughly estimate that we've caught nearly 8,000 jin (4,000 catties) of fish today, which is equivalent to two days' worth of catch in the nearshore waters in the past.

Chen Hong took out three fishing rods at the stern, hooked them onto live bait—small fish that had been kept in her space for almost two months.

Hopefully, the small fish will be more attractive than the bait, drawing in the larger fish from the deep sea. Chen Hong lowered the anchor, turned off the engine, and lay down on the sofa to rest for a while.

After resting for 20 minutes, I got up, took out the food from my storage space, slurped down a bowl of porridge, and then ate a braised pig's trotter along with two big steamed buns.

No cooking was required, and lunch was done in no time. No wonder everyone wants to have their own space. It's truly versatile and a great tool for both home and sea travel.

Whether for storage or for planting and raising livestock, it's simply the pinnacle of human capabilities.

Chen Hong had just made herself a cup of tea and was about to rest for a while when she heard the jingling of bells on the fishing rods outside. She quickly put down her teacup and ran to the deck, only to find that two fishing rods had caught fish.

Chen Hong started reeling the fish in with heavy effort. She had already clearly seen that the hook in the sea was for a large red amberjack weighing over 30 pounds. With that weight, there was no need to play the fish; Chen Hong simply reeled it in with all her might.

Once the fish was pulled onto the deck, Chen Hong remembered that it was time to bleed it. She placed the fish on the deck belly-out, grabbed its tail with her left hand, and made a sharp cut behind the gills with her right hand, followed by another cut at the tail. She then threw the fish into the ice water tank and waited for it to bleed dry in the ice water.

She then reeled in the line from another fishing rod, revealing a seven- or eight-pound bass. After removing the hook and throwing it into the live water tank, Chen Hong reeled in all the fishing rods. This spot had been almost completely fished out, so she prepared to find another place to cast her line.

After sailing along the strait mountain range for half an hour, Chen Hong discovered that below, there were numerous reefs and abundant corals.

This environment should be a place where shrimp and crabs gather. Chen Hong set all twenty crab traps here.

After sailing another two nautical miles, she stopped the boat and began casting longlines, operating as she had in the morning. However, she was now much more skilled and faster, casting all six longlines into the sea in 40 minutes.

Back on the fishing boat, after stowing up the inflatable dinghy, and waiting a while, Chen Hong saw the float bobbing as it was pulled by fish in the sea. She then began reeling in the first set of longline fishing lines, and one after another, large deep-sea fish were pulled onto the boat.

As the fishing boat sped along, the winch rapidly pulled in the main line. Chen Hong, holding a pair of scissors, would cut the hook as soon as a fish was pulled up. Su Mei and the grouper would deflate the hook and store it in their spatial storage.

The other low-quality fish were simply hooked and thrown into the breeding tank. This was much faster than in the morning, and Chen Hong no longer had to fumble around and have the large fish crushed by the winch.

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