For the next few days, Bai Yu and his companions continued fishing on the sea, their target still being the valuable big fish.
Anyway, the waters they're in are the Atlantic Ocean, not our own. They don't care how much the resources here have been fished out of.
However, there is a prerequisite: for high-end seafood like tuna, they must comply with relevant laws and regulations.
For example, regarding bluefin tuna, some countries have regulations that prohibit the fishing of bluefin tuna smaller than 1.1 meters. If you dare to take bluefin tuna of this size to their country for sale, it is illegal.
Although Bai Yu and his group are currently in international waters, which is a lawless zone where the laws of other countries do not apply, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of other countries.
However, for Bai Yu and his crew, their main purpose in fishing for tuna was to make money, not to eat it themselves.
If they can't make money from tuna because of their size not meeting regulations, then they might as well not fish for tuna at all.
After all, when it comes to eating tuna, Bai Yu isn't really interested; he doesn't like sashimi.
In the following days of fishing, Bai Yu and his team would strictly measure every tuna they caught, and only those that met the standards would be kept.
For those with unclear sizes and uncertain compliance, Bai Yu and his team would first bring them to the deck for measurement. If they passed the measurement, they would be killed; if they did not, they would be released.
Whether these tuna can survive after leaving the seawater and then returning to the ocean is none of Bai Yu's business.
If they survive, they're lucky; if they don't, they won't be wasted—they'll sink to the bottom and become food for other fish.
Five days later, Bai Yu and his crew returned to Rio on their yacht. They resupplyed there and sold off the tarpon they had caught earlier.
The number of tarpon they had caught before wasn't a huge amount, but it wasn't a small amount either—it weighed over 10,000 jin (approximately 5,000 kg).
The catch was indeed quite large, but the selling price wasn't very high.
A giant tilapia weighing over 10,000 jin (5,000 kg) only sold for a little over 100,000 RMB. It's worth mentioning that the scales peeled off these giant tilapia alone sold for tens of thousands of RMB.
The fish scales are worth almost a third of the value of these bighead carp, but the weight inside is several times greater.
The scales of a giant tilapia weighing over 10,000 kilograms are less than a fraction of the weight of the tilapia itself.
This might also be related to the fact that the fish scales Bai Yu and his group sell are relatively large. After all, most of the fish scales are peeled off from the bodies of large silver carp weighing hundreds of kilograms, so the selling price is naturally much higher.
In the end, Bai Yu and his crew recouped their costs from the past few days of sailing by selling tarpon and fish scales. They filled the yacht's fuel tank with 180,000 RMB and then set sail with a lot of supplies.
Their next destination will be Great Britain, one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, where they will sell tuna.
Despite the decline of the former British Empire and the loss of its former glory, it remains a developed country.
Regardless of whether their citizens are happy or not, or whether their domestic inflation is high or low, their per capita income is still higher than ours.
Even if they work as waiters or dishwashers in restaurants, they can earn several thousand pounds a month, which is a five-figure sum in RMB.
What? You're saying their prices are high? The price of ordinary vegetables is several times higher than ours?
The question is whether anyone will believe what you're saying. In any case, those bigwigs won't believe it; they think China is a very happy country.
Anyway, Bai Yu didn't care about the actual situation in Great Britain. He only knew one thing: he could really make money selling tuna in Great Britain.
They only need to sail from Brazil to Great Britain, and the same size tuna can increase in economic value by at least half, selling for 15,000 instead of 10,000.
Because Britain has a temperate climate, and although it has oceans and a well-developed fishery, tuna is still a rare commodity there.
If they want to eat tuna, they either have to go out to sea to catch it themselves, or they have to import it. No wonder the price is high.
However, to be fair, although the tuna is expensive here, the quality of the cod and salmon is really good.
This is a geographical advantage. The location of Great Britain produces these two types of seafood, especially cod. The catch of one family alone could feed the whole of Europe.
However, I recently heard that Britain has had some unpleasantness with the EU over this fishing issue.
Upon hearing this news, Bai Yu went over immediately. "Don't let a little cod ruin our brotherhood. Let's not fish for cod. Let's eat some tuna to cheer ourselves up."
Of course, Bai Yu and his crew didn't sail directly from Brazil to Great Britain.
Now that they knew the waters near Daying were rich in resources, Bai Yu naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to catch some fish here before heading out.
Since selling tuna is the same as selling other types of fish, it's not a bad idea to buy some cod on the side, so that we can make more money.
After that, Bai Yu and his group traveled by boat, fishing for eight hours, then fishing for six hours, and then resting for ten hours.
The entire plan was clearly laid out, and there was absolutely no issue of fatigued driving or excessive leisure activities.
It took them twelve days to travel from Brazil to Great Britain, with all these stops and starts.
Bai Yu originally planned to travel for half a month, but things didn't go according to plan, and they arrived at their destination three days ahead of schedule.
The main reason is that Bai Yu and his group have been quite lucky along the way, especially as they get closer to Europe, where the resources become more abundant.
Along their journey, they set crab traps, gillnets, and fished, and before they knew it, the cold storage on the yacht was full.
For Bai Yu and his crew, the only place on the yacht to store seafood was the cold storage. Once the cold storage was full, they would naturally have to go to Great Britain to sell their goods.
After Bai Yu and his crew docked at the port of Great Britain, a very magical scene unfolded at the port: a yacht flying a red flag was selling seafood at the docks of Great Britain.
You could say this yacht sells seafood, and it does sell seafood. At first, the cargo unloaded was all normal: tuna, marlin, various groupers, and large sea fish that the British side needed.
But what's with all this salmon and cod later on?
Didn't you know that these two types of sea fish are also a specialty of Great Britain and an important part of its fishing economy?
It feels like this: you're from another province, mining coal in Datong, Shanxi, and instead of selling the coal to other provinces, you end up selling it in Datong, competing with local coal mine owners for business.
What do you think this behavior qualifies as? Provocation?
At this moment, Bai Yu was doing just that. The yacht they brought this time had brought about seventy or eighty tons of various kinds of sea fish, and the entire cold storage was filled with sea fish.
The quantity of salmon and cod is around 50 tons, which is not a large amount, only about 100,000 jin (50,000 kg). However, his behavior was really quite insulting.
Especially considering that Britain has recently been embroiled in a war of words with the EU over the fishing industry, and then an Asian vessel comes along with these fish? And openly sells seafood at the docks?
Bai Yu's company also has partners in Daying and fishing rights there, and they have also paid membership fees.
They had imported some seafood from Great Britain before, including cod, but this time he came here specifically to buy cod.
When their partner first heard the news, he thought he had misheard. After confirming it, the other party was not prepared to accept the deal.
Despite the fact that Bai Yu's company has a partnership with the other party, the other party will not make much money from these cod in this transaction, and will also be ridiculed by their own competitors.
Without sufficient mutual benefit, they won't care whether the two parties are in a cooperative relationship or whether they can help each other.
The reason they ultimately agreed was because the other party could make money from the tuna; Bai Yu and his group had brought far too many tuna and sailfish.
Aside from the fifty tons of cod and salmon, there are forty tons of other large fish left, including about two hundred tuna alone. Even if each tuna only earns a few hundred pounds, it's enough for the partner to make a fortune.
Of the catch from this boatload, the white fisherman kept only two, which were the two largest Atlantic bluefin tuna!
It's not that he doesn't want to sell it, it's just that it's already been reserved by someone else...
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