While waiting, Bai Yu and the others sat down on the deck, enjoying the sea breeze and playing on their phones.
For Bai Yu and the others, the current situation was no different from being on land.
After all, there's internet on the ship, and you're surrounded by familiar companions and friends, so you don't experience the loneliness or boredom that often accompanies you on the high seas.
Everyone thought that the 100,000 yuan Bai Yu spent on the internet was absolutely worthwhile and the wisest decision he could make.
Unfortunately, this method can only be used on their yacht. If Bai Yu wants to install this signal base station on other fish farms of the company, the cost will be very high.
After all, the network that Bai Yu got this time was negotiated with the three major telecom operators. It was a deal that was half-sold and half-gifted, with the main focus on promotion, which is why Bai Yu was able to get it for 100,000 yuan a year.
If this were installed on all of the company's fishing boats, the cost would probably increase several times over, and Bai Yu's company has a total of over fifty fishing boats of various sizes.
Moreover, this number will continue to increase this year, and the expenses involved are enormous.
It's not that Bai Yu is unwilling to spend money, but rather that once this money is spent, it becomes a considerable expense every year.
This expense will be charged to the shipping company, and when bonuses are distributed at the end of the year, this expense will be deducted and the bonuses will be recalculated.
For some sailors, they don't care whether there is internet at sea; all they care about is how much money they can get, the more the better.
While waiting, it didn't take long before an alarm sounded from the stern.
Upon hearing the sound, Bai Yu and the others immediately became interested; it meant a fish had taken the bait!
The alarm sound came from the boat's fishing rod. The rod was equipped with an electronic alarm that would automatically sound whenever a fish took the bait.
Isn't this device advanced? Actually, our ancestors had this kind of device before. It wasn't an alarm device, it wasn't electronic, but a bell.
Therefore, some things that seem advanced in modern society had equivalent products in ancient times. The wisdom of our ancestors is beyond doubt, especially in the area of food, where our ancestors were experts!
Bai Yu and the others immediately went to the fishing rod where a fish had taken the bait. Everyone focused their attention on the rod, looking as if they had never fished before.
Bai Yu and others had fished before, but this was truly the first time they had ever fished with this boat rod. Everyone was quite interested in what kind of fish this boat rod could catch.
The first person to fish with a boat rod was undoubtedly Bai Yu. He walked straight to the boat rod, and without saying a word, he picked up the handle and prepared to reel in the line.
Bai Yu has experience fishing while on a boat. He caught a super tuna in an international fishing competition using this method.
In this process, besides the fish biting the hook causing some obstacles for the angler, the rocking of the boat is also a very big problem.
However, Bai Yu, who was holding the crank handle, had a different feeling this time: the movement from the fishing rod was very weak.
It's not that no fish were biting the hook; the alarm just malfunctioned.
Instead, Bai Yu could feel it from the fishing rod; this time, a fish had indeed taken the bait, and it was still hanging on the rod.
But for some reason, this guy didn't resist much; instead, he seemed to be being dragged along by the yacht.
This feels a bit off. Being towed by a yacht? Is this guy running out of strength?
With this idea in mind, Bai Yu immediately started reeling in the line. This time, the fish that had taken the bait resisted weakly, gradually closing the distance between itself and the yacht.
"Brother Fisherman, what's going on here? They're already reeling in the line? Is the fish that bit this time not very big?"
As Bai Yu began to reel in the line, Li Shuang and the others standing nearby were also a little confused. Wasn't it said that boat rods were specifically for catching big fish?
What's going on here? After taking the bait, it started reeling in the line very easily. Could it be that the fish isn't very big?
"It's alright. This time, the fish that took the bait weighed about 30 or 40 pounds, but for some reason, it didn't seem to want to fight back."
"Don't worry, you'll see once I catch this fish."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he picked up his fishing rod and started reeling in the line again, and this time he seemed to be reeling in the line even faster.
According to Bai Yu, the fish that took the bait this time was a large fish weighing thirty or forty pounds. However, he managed to drag this large fish to the surface of the sea in just a few minutes.
"Wow, it really is a big fish! Is that a grouper? Brother Fisherman, you caught a grouper, a grouper that weighs thirty or forty pounds."
As the fish came to the surface of the sea, Li Shuang immediately spotted the oily fish riding the waves.
However, this guy didn't seem to be in very good condition. His ability to ride the waves was forced, with Bai Yu dragging the fishing line in front and the guy following behind like a pet.
Moreover, as the oil slick got closer to the yacht, Li Shuang and the others saw that the creature's mouth was open and its eyes were bulging out.
Bai Yu and the others could recognize these symptoms almost immediately; they were signs of internal pressure loss, and it was highly likely that the person was nearing death.
Moreover, this situation is almost always irreversible. After all, the loss of internal pressure affects the internal organs. No matter what kind of living organism it is, once the internal organs are damaged, it can only rely on itself to tough it out. If it can tough it out, it can live; if it can't, it's over.
Bai Yu and the others had no intention of trying to save this oily creature. It was already nearing its end, so they decided to let it go peacefully and put it in the freezer later.
Everyone present was very satisfied with the first haul: thirty to forty pounds of oil spots.
The unsatisfactory point is that after catching this grouper, no other fish took the bait, not a single one.
This is a bit embarrassing, and not only did no fish bite, but the catch from their extended fishing lines was also very meager.
It might also be related to the fact that their yacht was not moored. After waiting for more than two hours, with three longline fishing lines and more than 500 hooks, the catch rate was only 10%.
Moreover, most of the fish that bite the hook are white-scaled fish, also known as whitebait in the ocean.
Although this fish is more expensive than mackerel, it is really too small. All the white-scaled fish together weigh only a little over ten kilograms, which would cost at most a few hundred yuan.
Bai Yu and his group used a total of 100 jin (50 kg) of mackerel to be cast onto the three hanging ropes. The price was 10 yuan per jin (the mackerel they bought were the larger kind, so the price was higher).
In other words, they didn't even recoup their investment this time using longline fishing; they lost several hundred yuan.
And once they arrived at the Xiamen port, a large sum of money awaited them.
They have over two hundred packages to ship, and if all of them are shipped via cold chain, it will cost them tens of thousands of yuan.
After all, there are quite a few big fish in here.
The term "big fish" doesn't just refer to those few fish weighing over 100 pounds; any fish weighing up to 10 pounds can be considered a big fish. Besides distance, weight is also a separate charge when shipping via express delivery.
When the yacht stopped, two refrigerated trucks were already waiting at the dock.
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