While the other crew members were still working on deck, the two Bai brothers carried their baskets to the galley.
To be honest, given their work ethic, it's already quite good that they don't cause trouble for others on the deck.
After all, who runs away halfway through their work, especially running straight to the kitchen? What's wrong? Did you just finish dinner and are you hungry again?
However, this can't be blamed on Bai Yu and Wang Hai, since it was their first time going out to sea on a fishing boat, and also their first time being crew members.
In addition, they have another identity: one is a company shareholder, and the other is the company owner. Even if they do nothing on the fishing boat, no one will say anything.
Soon, the Bai brothers arrived at the kitchen with their fish baskets, where the three chefs were cleaning up.
"Uncle Li, look what we caught in this net! So many red sea bream, the quality is really good."
As soon as Bai Yu arrived in the kitchen, he called out to Uncle Li, the person in charge of the kitchen.
This person was introduced by Bai's father; he is Bai's junior apprentice. The two of them learned cooking from the same master. The other two are apprentices of this Uncle Li.
So when Bai Yu entered the kitchen, it was perfectly reasonable for him to call the other person Uncle Li, since the other person really was his uncle.
"Wow, these red sea bream are really good. Putting everything else aside, just the fact that these fish are big and fresh makes them much better than most red sea bream on the market."
"Absolutely, they're all freshly caught from the sea. Uncle Li, how do you think we should cook these red snapper to make them taste good? Should we braise them or make them into sashimi?"
Bai Yu brought these fish to the kitchen, his main purpose was definitely to eat them; otherwise, he wouldn't have come to the kitchen, but would have put the fish into the freezer.
"Xiaoyu, we just finished dinner. If we cook these red sea bream now, we won't have any room to eat anymore."
"Uncle Li, we're not eating now. We're having a late-night snack at midnight, right? How about we cook these red snapper then, in two ways: braised and sashimi?"
"Sure, I'll make it if you want to eat it, but you won't need that many. Just keep four of the big ones, and send the rest to the fish hold."
After talking with Uncle Li, Bai Yu left four red snapper for the kitchen, weighing about 60 pounds, while the rest were sent to the inner cabin.
However, before these red sea bream are sent to the freezer, there is one more step that needs to be done: bleeding them and removing their gills and internal organs.
When the Bai brothers arrived at the freezer with their fish baskets, everything was still calm and there was no sign of them getting busy.
This puzzled Bai Yu greatly. The first deck was already unloading fish into the unloading hatch, so why was there no movement at all in the freezer compartment? Where did all the fish that were put into the unloading hatch go?
After handing the catch to the crew member in charge of managing the refrigerated hold, the two brothers went to the internal sorting plant for a look around.
Meanwhile, the scene inside the factory was quite different. While everyone was busy unloading cargo on the deck, in the sorting plant inside, although everyone was working, no one seemed particularly busy.
At this time, there were four crew members in the sorting plant, sitting at their workstations on the four sorting lines, sorting the fish that were being transported by the lines into different categories.
According to the different species of fish, they were packed into different boxes. After a box was full, it was placed on the shelf next to it. Later, other crew members would come and send all the goods to the refrigerated compartment for storage.
Some people may ask, how do we ensure that all the fish caught are valuable, and what should we do with some worthless fish or fish fry?
This problem needs to be prevented at its source, starting with controlling the mesh size of the trawl net.
The trawl nets that Bai Yu and his team used this time were two large trawl nets. The mesh size of these fishing nets is very large, basically between five and six fingers.
With such large mesh, it's basically impossible to catch sea fish weighing less than half a pound. They can escape through the mesh. And the fish that can't escape are basically not fish fry.
Looking at the workflow of these employees, Bai Yu was completely at a loss for words. He could only say that with the advancement of technology, fishing boats are now equipped with assembly lines.
Or is it because technology has advanced so much that forklifts can now run inside fishing boats?
That's right, transporting the boxes full of fish wasn't done entirely by manpower. Instead, crew members drove over with forklifts, removed the boxes from the shelves, and put them into the freezer.
In the past, this would have been something Bai Yu would never have dared to dream of; the inside of the fishing boat could have been used as a sports car.
No wonder his fishing boat, Yuxue, is so tall; from the bottom of the boat to the highest point, it is nearly thirty meters high.
The cabin is so spacious because the fishing boat is tall enough to provide ample room for installing these mechanized devices.
After visiting the sorting plant, Bai Yu and Wang Hai went to the first deck, where they helped the crew pick up their catch.
After all the fish caught from the No. 1 fishing net had been cleaned, and the other crew members were preparing to retrieve the No. 2 fishing net, Bai Yu returned to the captain's cabin.
After this trial, Bai Yu found that it didn't matter much whether the two of them were on the deck or not. As long as no fish were found, the six crew members on the deck could handle the situation perfectly well.
Moreover, they only need to work for eight hours before they can rest, and another group of crew members will come to take over their shift.
Rather than doing menial tasks on deck that were optional, Bai Yu preferred to stay in the captain's cabin and learn how to sail from her uncle.
As the owner of Yuxue Shipping Company, Bai Yu really hopes that one day in the future he can also drive a fishing boat with a crew to sail on the sea and catch the treasures of nature.
It's fair to say that marine fish are nature's property.
As time passed, under his uncle's guidance, Bai Yu now stood at the helm, taking on the role of a helmsman and controlling the direction of the fishing boat.
At that moment, Bai Yu focused his mind on the system panel, glanced at his luck value, and then looked at the search function.
However, before using the search function, Bai Yu had one more question to ask her uncle:
"Uncle, what kinds of fish do you think we can encounter in the South China Sea? Which fish are more valuable?"
"What? You said a school of fish is valuable? Little fisherman, don't ask others this kind of question in the future. Your question is outrageous. For us fishing boats, it's lucky if we can find a school of fish, no matter what kind it is. And now you're asking which school of fish is valuable?"
What about decades ago, before marine resources were damaged? Back then, it's said that even large yellow croakers could be caught by the boatload.
As for now, a school of mackerel, skipjack tuna, or even filefish would be fine, as long as it's a school of fish.
When asked about Bai Yu's question, the eldest uncle looked helpless.
Just as my uncle said, due to overfishing in the past, marine fishery resources have been severely damaged. Even though they have recovered to a considerable extent, they are still not comparable to their peak period.
After hearing his uncle mention several schools of fish, Bai Yu silently complained to himself, "What is my uncle talking about? Only one type of fish is slightly more expensive, and that is Spanish mackerel."
In that case, Bai Yu prepared to search for schools of mackerel.
There's nothing we can do about it; it's the most valuable thing about it.
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