After a flight of more than an hour, they saw an island in the darkness.

No other light sources were observed at the moment.

This is good news.

However, just to be on the safe side, they drove around the island to make sure it hadn't been taken over by anyone else.

Feng Jiaqing and Feng Jialing then moved the boat closer to the island, stopping about 50 meters from the shore, in preparation for deploying the egg-laying device.

The Rising Sun continued its journey forward.

The other target island is about one nautical mile away.

For the Rising Sun, which had picked up speed, a distance of one nautical mile was only a matter of six or seven minutes.

Before long, they spotted their second target island.

Similarly, they circled the island once to make sure there were no other boats before slowly approaching the shore.

Feng Ye stood at the bow of the boat, looked around by the light of his headlamp, and then scooped up a bucket of seawater.

Then they brought over another bucket and poured in about 1 liter of seawater.

Once it calmed down, he gently patted the sides of the bucket a few times with water.

In an instant, four or five points of light appeared in the bucket.

Ah-Can was holding a branch with eggs attached, preparing to release them, when he saw this and asked in surprise, "Brother Ye, what are you doing?"

Feng Ye pointed to the glowing spots in the bucket: "These glowing things are bioluminescent worms, which can serve as a direct indicator of the squid fishing season."

"When 2 to 5 bright spots are emitted by scintillans, it indicates that the squid's feeding season has just begun."

"When the number of light spots reaches 10 to 15, it means that the peak season for squid has arrived."

After hearing this, Ah-Can looked as if he had suddenly realized something.

"There are only four or five spots of light in the bucket, which means the flood season has just begun and it hasn't reached its peak yet?"

Feng Ye nodded and said, "That's right. From now on, the number of squid migrating to spawn will increase day by day."

"Where did you learn this method from?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ah-Can added, "I know, it's from a book."

"Wow, you've even learned to ask and answer your own questions."

Feng Ye glanced at him mockingly, "However, you're wrong. This is a traditional method, and most old fishermen know it."

"Yeah?"

"Of course, you still have a long way to go before you become a qualified fisherman, and there is still a lot to learn."

Ah-Can didn't want to listen to his lecture anymore, so he said instead, "Shall I start the distribution now?"

"I'll release it, you go and steer the boat, try to go as slowly as possible."

"Oh, okay."

Bundles of egg-bearing branches have been tied together with rope, but floats are needed to keep them afloat in the water.

Moreover, in order to prevent them from being swept away by the waves, it is necessary to add a section of slab rope from time to time and tie it with heavy objects such as stones.

Using small anchors would have been best, but they don't plan to recycle them after use, so they won't waste any more money.

Even the ropes were woven from easily rotten rice straw.

Everything was ready, and the ship began to move at an extremely slow speed.

Feng Ye began to evenly drop the egg-laying devices into the sea, and the added floats kept them at a depth of about six or seven meters.

The best results are achieved when the water is 2 to 10 meters deep.

Moreover, when squid come to lay their eggs, they can be clearly seen on the surface of the sea.

There aren't enough embryos, but that's okay, we'll put in more tomorrow night.

Anyway, the squid season has just begun, so there's no rush.

After all the buoys were deployed, he threw down another buoy as a marker.

At sea, everything needs to be marked, otherwise it will be difficult to find.

With buoys present, we can avoid searching aimlessly like headless flies.

"Ah-Can, everything's ready. Go trawle the nets now, and come back this afternoon."

"Okay."

Ah-Can responded, accelerated a bit, and maneuvered the boat away from the vicinity of the island.

After the Rising Sun had sailed some distance, Feng Ye lowered the prepared trawl net down the stern slipway.

"Ah-Can, let's go check out that island over there."

"Okay, I'll drive over there now. But I guess my dad and the others should have already gone back."

"Then we should definitely take a look. If someone mistakenly thinks it's unclaimed and releases the egg-laying device again, there could be a dispute."

"In that case, when we're trawl, we'll just be circling around the two islands the whole time?"

"This is the only way for now."

The sea breeze, though slightly cool, was invigorating.

The operation was very slow, and it took more than twenty minutes for the ship to reach the island where the egg-laying device was deployed.

Sure enough, Feng Jiaqing and Feng Jialing had already gone back.

No fishing boat lights were visible around the island.

This is something to be thankful for.

This also means that no other ships came to this island to deploy egg-laying devices.

Immediately afterwards, Ah-chan piloted the boat to the island where they had deployed the egg-laying devices to continue their work.

Feng Ye greeted him and told him to wake her when it was time to set up the net, then turned around and went to sleep.

Lying in the cabin, with the ship gently rocking as the waves swayed, Feng Ye quickly drifted off to sleep.

I got up before noon, so I didn't get much sleep and was severely sleep-deprived. I could only catch up on sleep on the boat.

Time passed slowly as the Rising Sun cruise ship circled the two islands...

Around 4:30, Feng Ye was called to the scene to close the net.

The catch from this net was very poor, even extremely poor.

After nearly three hours of dragging, they only managed to get a little over 100 pounds of goods.

Moreover, most of the fish are small and miscellaneous, with very few larger ones.

Although both men were prepared that the trawling harvest here wouldn't be good, they didn't expect it to be this bad.

Looking at the deflated net bag, disappointment couldn't help but show on both of their faces.

"Damn, this haul is fucking terrible. Two big bass, one mackerel, three ribbonfish, and that's it, nothing..."

Ah-Can muttered curses under his breath, but his face was full of helplessness.

"It's too close here, so it's normal for the harvest to be poor."

Feng Ye patted A-Can on the shoulder and comforted him, "Besides, we mainly came here to catch squid; trawling is just a side job."

"Well, that's true. We can't expect any catch from trawls. We'll have to see how the squid catch goes this afternoon."

Ah-chan sighed and nodded.

"After you set the trawl net, go take a nap, and I'll steer the boat."

"Um."

The two quickly prepared the trawl net, and Feng Ye went to steer the boat.

Once the boat started moving, Ah-chan lowered the trawl net again and then went to the cabin to catch up on sleep.

As for the cargo that has been hauled up, leave it on the deck for now and sort it together when the next net is hauled up.