After finishing this job, everyone can rest.
It was almost one o'clock at this time. Because the sea area that Fu Wan went to was not only far away but also remote, there was no other ship in sight on the sea except for their ship.
The moon still hung in the sky, its bright light spilling onto the sea, making the entire ocean appear even more tranquil.
Fu Wan washed her hands and happened to run into Ye Lin, who was yawning and getting ready to rest.
"Ah Wan, it'll be dawn by the time we catch the next net!"
Fu Wan calculated, "It should be about the same, but it depends on the situation. If we encounter a school of fish, it's possible to haul in the net around four or five o'clock."
Seeing the sleepiness on everyone's faces, Fu Wan waved her hand.
"No matter what time we start hauling in the nets, everyone go to sleep first. When it's time to start hauling in the nets, my dad and the others will ring the ship's bell to wake everyone up."
Fu Laoda is still steering the boat right now. Chen Balang has arranged to come and relieve him at three o'clock.
After working for most of the night, Fu Wan was truly exhausted.
Back in her rest pod, she quickly washed up in the bathroom, took a shower, and then went straight to sleep.
I don't know how long it lasted, but the ship's bell started ringing and lasted for about a minute before stopping.
Then came a series of clattering footsteps outside the rest cabin, at which point everyone woke up.
Fu Wan sat up, rubbed her temples, and then casually picked up the watch that was placed to the side and glanced at it.
Around 5 o'clock, which means the net had been dragging for almost four hours.
That's about right.
Unable to sleep either way, she washed her face and went downstairs. Just then, the net bag was raised onto the deck.
"Ah Wan, you're awake too?"
Fu Ming greeted them, and Fu Wan nodded. Everyone reacted instinctively when they pulled up the nets, and now the moisture brought up by the nets was blown on their faces by the sea breeze, making them instantly more awake.
"I wonder how much of a catch this net will yield?"
"Just open it and you'll know!"
Fu Ming and Fu Liang stepped forward and untied the ropes. As soon as the ropes were pulled open, all the fish fell down.
When everyone saw the fish in the net, they were all astonished.
"What's this, a tuna?"
Ye Lin was initially excited when he first saw what the tuna looked like, but when he saw the strange-looking tuna in front of him, he was completely bewildered.
"It doesn't look like a bluefin golden spear, nor a yellowfin golden spear, so what is it?"
"This is a longfin tuna."
Fu Dahai cleared up Ye Lin's doubts, and Fu Wan stepped forward, grabbed a fish by the tail, and lifted it up to examine it.
"It is indeed a long-finned golden spear."
The longfin tuna looks about 80% like the bluefin and yellowfin tuna. The most distinctive difference is that its pectoral fins are particularly long, almost extending beyond the gills to the second pectoral fin.
This is also where its name comes from.
The back of the longfin tuna is a dark blue, while the belly and edges are silvery-white. The overall shape of the fish is very smooth, like a small torpedo.
Another distinctive feature of the longfin tuna is the color of its pelvic fins. The front pelvic fins are deep yellow, while the rear pelvic fins are light yellow.
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This fish doesn't taste as good as yellowfin or bluefin tuna, and it's not as big as bluefin tuna either.
Generally, albacore tuna weigh around ten pounds, at most eighty or ninety pounds, and never more than one hundred pounds.
Because its taste is not as good as that of yellowfin and bluefin tuna, albacore tuna is much cheaper than yellowfin and bluefin tuna.
However, it also has a lot of fat in its belly, so for some people who want to try tuna but are on a tight budget, longfin tuna is sometimes the best value for money.
Moreover, according to Fu Wan's memory, albacore tuna is very suitable for making canned fish. Since she happens to have a cannery, why not send some over to try?
Maybe the cannery can actually develop a batch of pretty good canned tuna!
Thinking this, Fu Wan hurriedly called to everyone.
"Quickly, pick out these longfin tuna! Brother, and Brother Liang and Brother Lin, go find some suitable knives and bleed these tuna that you've picked out!"
After saying that, she drew the short knife she always carried.
I don't know how these longfin tuna got into the trawl net. Actually, most tuna are caught by fishing.
Such catches by trawling are rare.
After all, tuna swim very fast in the water, and they usually disappear as soon as they sense danger.
However, now that the fish have been hauled onto the deck by trawlers, Fu Wan no longer worries about it.
This net should contain hundreds of longfin tuna, the largest of which is less than a meter long.
Fu Wan and Fu Ming instantly transformed into professional fish butchers, swiftly severing the tuna's tail and then cutting the blood vessels behind the pectoral fins.
This action requires a high level of skill, because the incision cannot be too deep, otherwise the blood from the blood vessels will spill out and contaminate the tuna meat, affecting the taste.
At the same time, it can't be too shallow, since there are two blood vessels there, and it's difficult to cut them without some force.
Therefore, Fu Wan specifically asked Fu Ming, Fu Liang, Ye Lin, and the others to do it, since they had bled the tuna several times and were already quite skilled at it.
After bleeding the tuna, Fu Ming found a water pipe and cleaned the fish one by one.
He joked around as he worked.
"Oh dear, thank goodness there wasn't too much tuna, otherwise my old back would have given out!"
Fu Liang and Ye Lin were still bleeding the remaining tuna when they heard this, and Ye Lin immediately rolled his eyes at him.
"You're still complaining about being tired? So many people can't catch this many fish!"
Fu Wan chimed in.
"I think you're just bored. If you said that at the dock, see if the villagers would beat you up in the alley!"
"Haha, that's for sure, they're just jealous of me!"
Fu Ming chuckled smugly. Despite his witty remarks, his hands moved with remarkable speed.
While they were processing the tuna, Fang Minfu and Dahai's group were also busy sorting through the remaining fish.
Besides tuna, the net also contained a lot of shrimp, crabs, and various kinds of sea fish.
Fu Wan pondered that these longfin tuna must have been caught in a trawl net while hunting, because some of the tuna even had several palm-sized fish and shrimp in their mouths.
Seeing that the tuna was almost ready, Fu Wan got up to check on the results that Fang Min and the others had picked out.
Ten baskets of prawns, five baskets of bread crabs, and six baskets of mantis shrimp were selected. To Fu Wan's surprise, there were also ten baskets of tiger crabs.
Tiger crabs have a very unique appearance, with patterns on their shells resembling tiger skin. Because they can squat like frogs, they are also known locally as frog-shaped crabs.
Tiger Crab website image, please delete if infringing.
This was the first time Fu Wan had ever seen such a strange-looking crab.
Just then, Boss Fu and Chen Balang changed shifts. Knowing that they were sorting the fish, Boss Fu came over to the deck to check on the catch.
"Hey, there are tiger crabs too!"
"There are quite a few, Dad. Are these crabs delicious?"
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