After an unknown amount of time, Bai Yu and Wang Hai stumbled out of the crew quarters, still feeling groggy from sleeping for so long.
If they weren't hungry, the two brothers felt they could have slept a little longer.
When the two brothers reached the second deck to look down, they witnessed a scene that shocked them.
On the first deck, nearly twenty crew members were gathered, each dragging a seafood basket behind them, cleaning up the harvest on the deck.
On the deck, there was a thick layer of fish, almost up to the crew's calves, which greatly affected their movement, making it almost impossible for them to walk.
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"Brother Fisherman, are we still asleep? I feel like we've stumbled into a seafood processing plant. Why is there so much fish on the deck?"
Looking at the situation on the deck, Wang Hai asked Bai Yu beside him with a bewildered expression.
"Hmm, it's not that they're not fully awake. I can see what's going on here too. But what happened? Could it be that we slept for too long?"
That doesn't make sense. Only six hours have passed, so how could the situation on the ship have changed so much?
"Damn, my uncle and cousin have gone down to help. Ah Hai, let's hurry down too."
Before Bai Yu could figure out what was going on, he saw his uncle and Liu Tianyu. The two of them were dressed the same as the other crew members and were cleaning the catch on the deck with seafood baskets.
Bai Yu then led Wang Hai down to the first deck, where they put on wading pants in the storage room, took out a seafood basket, and prepared to do their part on the deck.
"Uncle, cousin, what happened? Why are you dumping all the fish on the deck? And shouldn't you and cousin be in the captain's cabin steering the boat right now? What are you two doing on the deck?"
Bai Yu took the seafood basket and came to her uncle's side. While picking up the fish caught on the deck, she chatted with her uncle.
"Hey, it's because there were too many fish, and the sorting plant inside the ship couldn't keep up, so they dumped the catch on the deck."
However, it's not a big problem; it's just the catch from this one net. Once the fish on the deck are cleared away, the rest of the catch can be netted and the fish can be unloaded.
As for the departure time, we've changed it. Now, First Mate Wang is on duty from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and my shift is from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM the next day.
With his uncle's explanation, Bai Yu finally understood the current situation of the fishing boat.
During the six-plus hours that Bai Yu slept, the Yu Xue fishing boat had already hauled in four trawls. Except for the first trawl, which used a large trawl net and took longer,...
The next three rounds used slightly smaller trawl nets, which greatly shortened the fishing time. In just four hours, they completed the three rounds of trawl harvest.
This has led to the current situation where the efficiency of the sorting plant inside the ship's hold is far behind the speed of trawling.
There was nothing we could do; the catch from this net was a rather mixed bag.
In addition to the ribbonfish and four types of shrimp that appeared at the beginning, the area's abundant resources attracted more and more predators.
Then, when the crew at the sorting plant were sorting the catch, it became even more complicated, as there were many different kinds of fish waiting for them to clean.
In addition, there are so many shrimp and ribbonfish. Because these creatures are not very big, each net can catch a huge number of fish, to an alarming degree.
Take the current situation on the deck, for example. A whole net full of fish has been dumped onto the deck, waiting for the crew to clean it up.
Looking at the spoils on the deck, Bai Yu was quite troubled, as there were simply too many.
He held a black tiger prawn in his left hand and a large ribbonfish in his right, then casually tossed the ribbonfish behind him and began cleaning the black tiger prawn.
Although East China Sea ribbonfish is very valuable, it depends on what you compare it to. Compared to black tiger shrimp, ribbonfish is nothing.
Take the black tiger prawn that Bai Yu is holding now, for example. It's as thick as an adult's forearm, and just this one weighs about three or four ounces. Three or four of them would make up a pound of black tiger prawns.
As for the price, selling it for one or two hundred yuan per kilogram is like child's play. High-end hotels will take as many black tiger prawns of this size as they want.
If Bai Yu can bring these black tiger prawns back, it will be a huge income, so let's put the ribbonfish aside for now; the black tiger prawns are the most important thing.
In addition to black tiger prawns, mantis shrimp are also quite valuable. A pound of mantis shrimp with about 12 or 13 pieces can sell for nearly 100 yuan.
Therefore, the primary goal now is to clear out these two types of catch, and then move on to the ribbonfish and prawns.
As for other predators, such as barracuda, bullhead trevally, and grouper, they are ranked a little further down the list.
Soon, Bai Yu had cleaned out a large basket of black tiger prawns, and Wang Hai had filled a large basket with mantis shrimp. The two of them dragged their respective harvests toward the freezer.
The fastest way to process these shrimp is to freeze them without ice, so as to bring out their highest value.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai woke up at 2 PM. They originally went to the second deck to find something to eat at the restaurant, but instead of finding anything to eat, they ended up working on the first deck.
And they worked until 6 p.m., which was already dinnertime, before they went to the restaurant in shifts to eat dinner.
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