Listening to the announcement over the ship's loudspeaker, Bai Yu and Brother Huang exchanged a smile. They then released the sea turtles back into the ocean before getting to work.
"Brothers, did you all hear the broadcast? Get moving! Those who need to go to the toilet, go now. If things get really busy later, you might not even have time to go to the toilet."
If you really need to go to the bathroom when things get busy, don't blame me for thinking you're just making an excuse to slack off. And if you get yelled at, don't blame me for not letting you know beforehand.
That's right, Brother Huang is the team leader of this crew on deck. There are six crew members in their crew, all of whom are veterans of the company.
That's why Brother Huang was able to help Bai Yu clean barnacles from the sea turtles. After all, everyone was an old man and they all knew the process of hauling in the nets. He didn't need to supervise everything, and the crew could do whatever they wanted.
However, they couldn't be allowed to play freely in the following period, because they encountered a school of fish.
This school of fish is crucial to everyone's year-end bonus; the more fish they catch, the more bonuses they will receive at the end of the year.
It's already September, and the annual meeting is just around the corner, but their performance this year is far worse than last year.
Last year, their company only had one fishing boat, which is the Yuxue, which they are currently on.
Although they don't have many fishing boats, their performance last year was very high, with each fishing boat earning the company nearly 200 million yuan.
The year-end bonus they received last year was much higher than their annual salary.
After witnessing such high year-end bonuses, who wouldn't want to receive such high year-end bonuses every year?
However, their performance this year has not yet reached 100 million. You should know that their annual performance only includes the performance from January to December. Once January arrives, it becomes the performance of the following year.
It's already September, and with this trip, they only have three more opportunities left this year.
It's not impossible for them to boost their performance to last year's level during these three overseas trips, but the chances are slim.
The simplest way is to do what we did last year and catch a net full of large yellow croakers from the ocean. That would achieve the same level of success as last year.
Therefore, when facing a school of fish, all the crew members on the ship are very excited. They are hoping that the next catch will be a relatively valuable type of sea fish, which will boost their performance even further.
After Brother Huang finished speaking, two of the crew members went to the cabin to take care of their personal matters.
Meanwhile, Brother Huang went to the winch and communicated with Liu Tianyu via walkie-talkie, adjusting the height of the trawl net to catch the group of sea fish they encountered.
On the other hand, Bai Yu was probably the most relaxed person on deck. Someone adjusted the height of the fishing nets, someone fetched the fish baskets and boxes, and someone cleaned up the deck, removing the slime left by the fish.
He just needs to wait until the next round of net hauling to help clean up the scattered catch on the deck.
This wait lasted for more than an hour. Although encountering schools of fish while operating at sea can greatly increase the fishing speed of fishing boats.
However, this significant improvement is still compared to not encountering a school of fish, and it still takes a considerable amount of time.
After all, the fish in the ocean aren't stationary, waiting for Bai Yu and his group to catch them.
When the fishing boat starts moving, the fish will also move. All the fishing boat can do is use its speed advantage to drag the trawl net behind it and attack the fish wave after wave.
This preparation takes a lot of time, after all, the Yuxue fishing boat's top speed is only about 20 knots, and the distance the fishing boat needs to travel in a round of fishing is more than 20 nautical miles.
However, for hardworking people, as long as they put in the effort, they will eventually be rewarded.
This statement couldn't be more fitting for the crew of the Yuxue.
Especially with the existence of the bug that is Bai Yu, their rewards far outweigh the effort put in if they are distracted. This school of fish was brought by Bai Yu.
Under the illumination of the deck lights, Bai Yu saw a huge object rising from the sea at the stern of the ship. The object was so long that it looked like a submarine at first glance, silently floating on the sea at the stern of the ship.
"Mr. Bai, the fish catch has been loaded onto the boat. Would you like to go and take a look?"
Just then, Brother Huang asked Bai Yu a question.
The reason they asked that question was because they all knew Bai Yu's habits. Their boss was a big internet celebrity with hundreds of millions of followers, and he liked to shoot videos and post them all the time.
Now that they've encountered a school of fish and their net has caught such a large catch, shouldn't they let their boss take a look and film a video of it?
"Brother Huang, let's go take a look together and see what kind of fish this net has caught, and how much money this net will bring us."
"Let's go take a look together."
Then Huang Ge and Bai Yu walked towards the stern of the boat together. However, unlike Bai Yu who went empty-handed, Huang Ge was carrying something in his hand: a hook from the crane on the fishing boat.
Judging from the length of the trawl net floating on the sea surface, the catch this time was quite substantial, at least thirty or forty meters long.
The catch of fish at this length would be at least 30,000 to 40,000 jin (15,000 to 20,000 kg), or even more.
With such a large catch, it's definitely unrealistic to rely solely on manpower to haul it away.
Therefore, in such situations, the proper use of machinery is very familiar.
Strictly speaking, although their job as sailors at sea seems very tough, being a sailor on a large ship is actually relatively easy.
Many large ships nowadays are equipped with various mechanized facilities. For example, the Yuxue fishing boat has winches and cranes.
It also has integrated equipment for separation and cleaning, as well as assembly line-like packaging facilities.
For the crew of the Yuxue, the amount of fish they caught that they had to handle personally was very small.
The only hard part about being a crew member at sea is that there aren't many recreational facilities on board. Even though Bai Yu values the crew's leisure time, he only provided a gym and a card room in the cabin.
For those who can tolerate enough boredom, being a seaman is actually a very good job. Not only is the salary high and the benefits good, but it also avoids dealing with many people, making it very suitable for young people today.
However, there is a prerequisite for being an easy crew member: you need to find a large ship or a reputable shipping company.
As for those small boats or small companies, let's forget about them. It's not that Bai Yu looks down on small companies, but the main problem is that small companies themselves have very poor survival and risk resistance capabilities. It's really difficult to get good treatment when working here.
Although the fishing boat shipping company is a new company, established for less than two years, after seeing their revenue last year, they are no longer considered a small company.
Of course, it's definitely not a large company, but a medium-sized or small-to-medium-sized enterprise.
As Brother Huang and Bai Yu reached the stern of the boat, they also saw the catch inside the net through the mesh.
"Is this a net full of silver pomfret? It doesn't look quite right to me, Brother Huang. Look at this catch, it looks more like a net full of fighting pomfret to me."
Bai Yu is probably the person who knows the most about the catch from the fishing net.
After all, he was the one who found all the pomfret in this net, and then Brother Tongzi arranged for them to be on the route of their fishing boat.
However, Bai Yu couldn't show it, so he had to let Brother Huang identify the species of the fish caught.
Brother Huang gave his answer after just one glance.
"Wow, Mr. Bai, we're going to strike it rich this time! This is a whole net full of fighting pomfret, the king of pomfret, these things are really valuable."
Although the pomfret has the word "pomfret" in its name and is considered a type of pomfret, it is incomparable to the golden pomfret and silver pomfret.
The catch that Bai Yu and his crew have just caught is a net full of pomfret.
"Fighting pomfret? I knew they didn't look like silver pomfret, but I didn't expect them to actually be caught in a net full of fighting pomfret. This time I'm really going to make a fortune!"
"Brother Huang, hurry up and get this net of pomfret up! I can't wait to get to work!"
With Huang Ge's confirmation, Bai Yu seemed much more excited; if you're going to put on an act, you have to go all the way.
As soon as Bai Yu finished speaking, Brother Huang hung the hook on the fishing net, then pulled Bai Yu aside and made a gesture to the crew member next to the crane.
Then the crane on the ship started working, and with the combined efforts of the crane and winch, the fishing net was lifted up.
It was only when the crane lifted it up that Bai Yu saw the length of the fish caught in the net.
Just as they had anticipated, the haul was plentiful; at least half the length of the net was filled with fish, and bulging it out. The net must have weighed at least ten tons.
As the crew worked, the catch was hoisted above the unloading point, and then Brother Huang opened the knot at the bottom of the net.
In just a moment, countless pomfret slipped out of the fishing net, scrambling through the unloading port and into the cabin.
Of course, some of the pomfret, during this scramble, did not manage to enter the cabin through the unloading port and instead ended up on the deck.
Fish that slip out like this need to be handled by Bai Yu and others.
Just as Bai Yu was marveling at how convenient it was to have a fish unloading hatch, as the crew on deck had nothing to do, a loud thud suddenly came from the fish unloading hatch.
The sound was very muffled, like the sound of flesh hitting the deck.
Bai Yu looked in the direction of the sound and found a large fish above the fish unloading opening. This fish blocked one-third of the opening, leaving a large number of pomfret on the deck because of it.
Fortunately, Brother Huang, who was releasing the fish, reacted quickly. The moment the fish hit the fish unloading opening, he reduced the size of the net's knot and slowed down the release of the fish.
This meant that the number of pomfret left on the deck was not too large, and the situation was somewhat under control.
Some might ask, why didn't Brother Huang tie the knot tightly to prevent the catch from falling further down?
It's not that Brother Huang doesn't want to do it, it's that he can't.
As mentioned before, the catch of fish in this net is quite good, weighing around 30,000 to 40,000 jin (15,000 to 20,000 kg).
During the process of unloading fish, Brother Huang was dealing with a net containing a catch of ten to twenty tons. Once the net opening was opened, it would be extremely difficult to tie it back up during the unloading process.
If you don't handle it properly, you can easily put yourself in danger and be buried alive by the fish.
Therefore, when a large fish blocks the fish unloading opening, the best way to handle it is simply to reduce the size of the net opening; there is no need to tie it shut.
As for the fish that slipped onto the deck, the crew would clean them up manually. The reason there were six crew members on deck was precisely to deal with this kind of situation.
While Brother Huang was operating the machine, the other crew members were not idle either. They also grabbed a large shovel and pushed the big guy away with one shovel.
As for the big fish blocking the unloading port, it was a giant trevally.
The reason this guy appeared among the pomfret must be that he mistook the pomfret for food, and then got caught in the trawl net during the hunting process.
Unfortunately, although this Tai Niu Hong Gang trevally is indeed very large, the value of this kind of fish is very low. Even though it weighs more than 100 kilograms, its value is only about 1,000 yuan.
That's not even worth as much as a few fighting pomfret.
The key point is that there are quite a few trevally in this net. Every now and then, one will be caught out of the net and then the unloading port will be blocked.
By the time Brother Huang had unloaded all of his catch, the deck was covered with a layer of pomfret, a dense and countless number!
Even Bai Yu, who had been feeling somewhat bored, felt a chill run down his spine when he saw these fighting pomfret.
Because besides the catch from this net, there's another fishing net being pulled in, and it's likely in a similar situation, probably containing trevally as well. Eventually, another deck full of pomfret will be left on the deck.
However, since the catch was left on the deck, it was up to them to deal with it.
Subsequently, under Brother Huang's arrangement, three crew members were assigned to clean the trawl nets, while the remaining three, along with Bai Yu, cleaned the pomfret on the deck.
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