After seeing the crew on deck lower the trawl net, he and Wang Hai returned to the captain's cabin.
There are still so many things that Baiyu wants to know and is interested in about working at sea.
"Uncle, did you have the crew lower the trawl net because you spotted a school of fish? How big is that school of fish?"
According to Bai Yu, fishing for seafood in the ocean requires using a fish finder to locate schools of fish before commencing any fishing operations.
But in fact, the opposite is true.
"Spotting a school of fish? Who told you there was a school of fish? In our fishing operations, it's not just about spotting a school of fish before setting the trawl net. Basically, as long as the fishing boat is far enough from the coastline, the trawl net can be set."
If, as you say, we wait until we spot the fish before casting our nets, then it will be too late.
Once the fish finder spots the fish, we can simply adjust the boat's direction, take the trawl net, and charge straight at the school of fish. Why go through the trouble of setting the net first?
According to my uncle's explanation, although the ocean is rich in resources, the number of fish is not very large.
At least not to the point of being ubiquitous, and each fishing boat spends most of its time at sea searching for and catching fish.
If we follow Bai Yu's idea, does that mean we shouldn't use nets while searching for fish?
The answer is, of course, no. On the contrary, except when the fishing boat stops, the trawl nets are always in the sea, driven by the movement of the fishing boats to catch fish in the ocean.
The fish caught may be solitary fish living alone, or they may live in small groups; both are targets of trawling.
There are two methods of trawling. One is bottom trawling, which involves trawlers searching along the seabed in a carpet-like manner to catch a large variety of seafood.
For example, crabs, lobsters, scallops, and some sea fish that feed on these crustaceans.
However, this fishing method damages the marine ecosystem, so it is generally not recommended to use this method, or it should only be used in areas where this method is permitted.
In contrast, the Yuxue trawler's main target is to catch marine fish in the sea, whether in the upper, middle, or lower layers of the ocean.
However, they certainly won't fish on the ground; they'll always fish some distance from the seabed.
According to my uncle, when no fish are found, fishing by blind fishing involves hauling in the net every two to four hours.
The specific time required depends on the resource conditions of the sea area where the fishing boat is located. If the resources are good, less time will be needed; if the resources are poor, more time will be needed.
The Yuxue fishing boat sets two nets at the same time and hauls them in every two to four hours, which maximizes the catch.
After all, while one trawl net is being retrieved, the other is still out at sea.
Once one trawl net is finished, the next one can be processed immediately, and so on, one after another.
Bai Yu hadn't been chatting in the captain's cabin for long when a bell rang, and Bai Yu, Wang Hai, and Liu Tianyu walked out of the captain's cabin and headed towards the second-floor restaurant.
This bell is the sound of mealtime. There are fixed times for meals on the fishing boat every day. When it is busy, the crew members are divided into three shifts, and they eat four meals a day, one meal every six hours.
When we're not busy, we still serve meals every six hours, but instead of four meals a day, we serve three.
Bai Yu was filled with anticipation for his first day at sea on his own fishing boat, and for his first dinner on the boat.
To create a better memory, Bai Yu got his dinner at the cafeteria and went to the second-floor deck, facing the setting sun, to eat his meal.
Even in tropical waters, it gets dark very early in February. It's only six o'clock, and the sun is already almost completely setting, so the lighting equipment on the fishing boats is turned on.
Tonight's dinner was particularly lavish, after all, it was the first day at sea, and the fishing boat was at its most well-stocked. For just one dinner, the chef prepared six dishes and a soup.
Four meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a fish ball soup.
For sailors who work at sea, good food is essential.
After all, going to sea is risky, and most of the crew members do physical labor. Under such circumstances, if you don't provide your brothers with some good food, how can you expect them to be happy at work? Are you suggesting you rely on high wages?
Furthermore, would a company that skimps on employee meals possibly pay its employees a high salary?
The answer is, of course, no.
Fortunately, Bai Yu is not that kind of person. He is very generous when it comes to meals for his employees.
On each voyage, he budgeted 60,000 yuan for the food of all the crew members, based on a standard of 2,000 yuan per day for 30 days.
Two thousand yuan a day, what kind of standard is that? That's fifty yuan a day for food per person. It's no exaggeration to say that this standard is higher than the general naval standard.
What if we don't finish the supplies we bought for 60,000 yuan?
What else could they do? All forty crew members on the ship divided the leftovers together and took them home to cook and eat.
Bai Yu doesn't have the habit of wasting food, nor does he freeze the ingredients to eat on his next fishing trip.
We'll buy more next time we go out to sea. The point is to ensure that the crew members eat fresh ingredients and receive the best treatment.
And you know what? Just by offering different treatment compared to other fishing boat companies, most of the crew members developed a sense of belonging to their company after only two voyages.
This can be seen from the other party's positive attitude at work.
At this moment, Bai Yu was sitting in the rest area on the second deck, munching on a large chicken leg and eating braised pork ribs, enjoying his meal immensely.
After dinner, the sky over the sea darkened, and they were about to begin their work on the deck under the lights.
Around 8 p.m., the crew on deck started the winch and began to retrieve the No. 1 trawl net.
After hearing the commotion, Bai Yu led Wang Hai down from the second deck, each carrying a large cargo basket, ready to help pick up the fallen fish.
Currently, this is the only job that suits the two brothers well. It won't bother the other crew members and can also give them something to do.
As the winch retracted the line round and round, it quickly brought back all the ropes binding the trawl net, and a section of the trawl net's head landed on the deck.
For Bai Yu and his companion, who witnessed the entire net-closing process, this scene was incredibly moving.
Keep in mind that the ropes binding the trawl net were thicker than Bai Yu's arm, and it wasn't just one rope, but multiple ropes binding the trawl net.
As the trawl net was loaded onto the ship, other crew members immediately stepped forward and straightened out that section of the net.
The trawl net at the head of the net was completely empty; there were no fish caught.
After all, they haven't found any fish yet, so it's obviously unrealistic to fill the entire fishing net, which is dozens of meters long, in one go.
However, the other crew members on the fishing boat had obviously anticipated this situation and quickly completed the preliminary work, tidying up the net head.
As the winch continued to operate, soon trawls loaded with fish were brought aboard, and among these catches, the most eye-catching were a large number of mackerel.
They probably encountered a school of mackerel while the fishing boat was sailing. There was a huge pile of mackerel at the head of the net, and they were all very plump and round.
After this section of the trawl net was loaded onto the ship, the winch pulling the net also stopped.
Then two more crew members came over, carrying grappling hooks, at the end of which was connected to the ship's crane.
For such large trawl nets, it's impossible to operate them manually; only large equipment like cranes can handle them.
Even if there are no fish in the trawl net, the weight of a large trawl net that is tens of meters long is still quite staggering.
As the two crew members secured the hooks to the trawl net, another crew member started the crane next to it, hauling up the remaining 30-meter-long fishing net, laden with fish.
It was just caught like that?
Bai Yu already had a certain understanding of his family's fishing boat, after all, he had visited the shipyard many times during the boat's construction.
Zhang, the salesman at the shipyard, also explained to him what the facilities on the fishing boat were for.
However, Bai Yu could only imagine how these facilities worked in her mind before, but she had never seen them with her own eyes.
Now he stood on the deck of the fishing boat, watching the trawl net, laden with fish and about thirty meters long, being hoisted up. The shock he felt was unimaginable.
Normally, seeing a crane lift a fish that is two or three meters long is already quite impressive, but this one is more than ten times the size.
Just thinking about the few people standing on the deck, including Bai Yu and Wang Hai, they all seemed so small in the face of this trawl net.
The trawl net was then hoisted to the top of a deck by the crane operator.
This deck is different from the others; it can be opened, and underneath is a two-meter by two-meter grid-like skylight.
This is the location of the fish unloading port. Simply place the trawl full of fish above the fish unloading port, and then open the knot at the end of the trawl. The caught fish can then be transported through this fish unloading port to the sorting plant inside the deck.
As the stern of the trawl net was opened, the catch was released continuously. Most of the fish slid into the deck through the gaps in the skylight and were then handed over to the crew inside the cabin for sorting and processing.
However, not all fish can be lowered through the fish unloading opening, as the opening has a limited size and can only accommodate fish up to 30 centimeters in length.
This 30 centimeters can be either the length or the width; as long as it can slide into the cabin through the gap, it's manageable.
However, some of the larger fish, or those that happen to be lying horizontally in the gap, need to be handled by the crew on deck.
For example, Bai Yu and Wang Hai were each dragging a basket, picking up the fish that had slipped to the side on the deck.
"Brother Yu, Brother Yu, look how fat this red snapper is! Such a fat red snapper would be absolutely delicious braised."
"Ah Hai, you're wrong about that. Live red sea bream is the best material for sashimi. Look at this red sea bream, it's still jumping around. It's absolutely perfect for sashimi."
"Brother Yu, don't you not eat sashimi? If you don't eat raw fish, then let's eat braised fish."
Bai Yu and Wang Hai were picking up their catch on the deck, making comments about it as they went.
For example, the red snapper they were holding was huge; the two of them each had a red snapper weighing over ten kilograms, close to twenty kilograms.
These were the fish they had collected over half a day, and they had specially selected the large red sea bream. Based on the quality of these two red sea bream, if they were sold alive in the market, they could sell for more than a thousand yuan each, and a hundred yuan per kilogram would be no problem at all.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai then exchanged a glance. Neither of them said anything, but they both understood each other's meaning.
Then the two of them immediately carried their baskets full of fish and headed towards the kitchen on the second floor.
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