After Bai Yu and his companion took the crabs and lobsters to the kitchen and told Uncle Li, they returned to the deck.
What they didn't expect was that the Bai brothers, who were originally planning to retrieve the second crab trap, were surprised when the crew started the winch on the deck and retrieved all the crab traps.
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What does that mean? By simply turning the winch, all 49 crab traps were retrieved?
What kind of fools were those two brothers who went through all that trouble to finally pull up a crab trap? Didn't they look like idiots?
Fortunately, no one had paid attention to the two brothers' situation before, so no one noticed their silly behavior.
However, after seeing the other crew members collect the crab traps, he and Wang Hai immediately went over and helped clean the fish from the traps.
To be honest, fifty crab traps yielded a really large amount of seafood. On average, each crab trap yielded about forty pounds, so fifty traps would bring in about a ton of seafood.
Although the quantity may not seem large, the value of these harvests is not low. Lobsters can sell for 100 yuan each, mantis shrimp for 60 or 70 yuan, mud crabs for about the same price, and even the cheapest swimming crabs can sell for 30 or 40 yuan.
So overall, all these gains added together have a total value of over 100,000 yuan, which can be considered as extra money I just earned for the company during my rest time.
That's right, it's extra money the company earns. The crew members fish to earn extra money for themselves, but the crab traps they set while fishing are extra money the company earns.
After collecting all the crab traps, they didn't rest. Instead, they put frozen bait in the traps again and released them back into the sea to begin the second round of fishing.
With the crab traps cleaned up, the crew could finally go have breakfast.
Seafood porridge is served with a mixed platter of braised sole, halibut, turbot, and other seafood.
The breakfast was so light that Bai Yu and Wang Hai said they weren't satisfied at all. They only ate two large bowls of seafood porridge, a large crab, and a turbot, and that was their breakfast.
Then the two brothers went back to their room to get their fishing rods and got ready to start fishing.
Bai Yu originally didn't plan to bring a fishing rod on this trip. He was just there to experience life as a crew member and take some videos at sea to gather some footage.
Bai Yu has been at sea for eight days now. On the first day of his voyage, he posted a leave notice on his account, saying that he was going to be a fisherman and that he would post some old videos for his fans to see.
However, on the day they set sail, just as Bai Yu and his uncle were about to get in the car and go to the dock, Liu Tianyu asked the two brothers why they didn't bring fishing rods, saying that if the fishing boat stopped at sea, they could be given fishing time.
That's why Bai Yu and Wang Hai brought their fishing rods up, and then waited until the eighth day, when they finally got a rare day off.
Regarding the crew's fishing, Yuxue Shipping Company not only agrees to the crew fishing, but also provides them with bait. Whatever bait they need, as long as it is available on board, the crew can choose whatever they want.
Take pig liver, for example. Every time he goes out to sea, Uncle Li prepares a lot of pig offal, originally intending to make braised dishes for the crew on the ship.
But everything changed after Brother Huang caught a tuna with pig liver. No matter how much fish entrails Uncle Li prepared, most of them ended up being used by the crew for fishing.
You asked what kind of fish a tuna is?
You might not know what tuna is, but you've definitely heard of it by another name: tuna, also known as gold tuna!
At the time, I don't know what Brother Huang was thinking. He took a piece of pork liver weighing about half a pound from the kitchen, put it on the fishing hook, and waited for about twenty minutes. Just when he thought the pork liver was about to lose its flavor from being soaked in seawater, he actually caught a fish.
Moreover, it was a very large fish. When the catch was finally dragged to the surface, it turned out to be a yellowfin tuna weighing 180 pounds.
After reflecting on his past fishing experiences, Bai Yu decided not to use pig offal as bait, but instead took out a box of mackerel from the freezer.
Mackerel was one of their catches over the past few days, and it's also one of the best baits for catching big fish.
A box of mackerel weighs about 20 kilograms, and if you count by the number of fish, there are about 40 or 50. I believe that a box of frozen bait should be enough for the two Bai brothers to use.
Bai Yu then took a fishing rod, and Wang Hai carried a box of mackerel; the two of them began searching for a fishing spot on the deck.
They can no longer go to the stern, which they used to love. Unlike other boats, the widest part of a fishing boat is actually the deck at the stern.
For the other crew members on board, this was the most open space, making it the perfect spot for fishing.
Before Bai Yu and his companion even reached the deck, the spots at the stern had already been claimed by the other crew members, leaving no space for them to fish.
So if Bai Yu and his crew wanted to fish, they could only go to the bow of the boat, where the space was not as open as at the stern, and there were not many crew members fishing there.
The two brothers then decided to fish at the bow of the boat. They stood about two meters apart, took out their fishing rods, baited their hooks, and began to cast their lines.
The fishing boat is currently anchored in the area where the two seas in the southeast meet, where the water depth is about 150 meters.
At this depth alone, it's possible there are big fish, but that's not what the Bai brothers are after.
Before they went fishing on deck, they first went to the captain's cabin to check the fish finder. After confirming there were no large fish within a two- or three-nautical-mile radius, they...
Their target was not the seabed, but the middle and lower reaches of the ocean, at depths of 70 to 100 meters, where fishery resources are abundant.
After the two brothers cast their lines, all that was left was to wait for their fish to bite.
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