To be fair, although Bai Yu and his crew didn't encounter many other ships on the high seas, this still gave them some opportunities.
That means there are no fishing boats to compete with them, and they can roam freely across the entire ocean, going wherever they want.
To be honest, Bai Yu and his crew spent twenty days traveling in the southeastern seas, during which time they encountered far more warships, coast guard vessels, and other ships than fishing boats.
Although fishing boats cannot go to sea for various reasons, the coast guard and navy still need to conduct necessary patrols for the security of the country's maritime areas.
By the twenty-second day, the Yuxue ship had already hauled over a thousand tons of cargo, and they were preparing to set sail for their return journey.
When Bai Yu and his group began their return journey, they had already arrived in the northern waters of Zhoushan, which is the outer perimeter of the largest fishing port in China and the area that handles the most fishery resources every year.
To get back to Sanya Port by sea from here, which is where Bai Yu and his group started, is a long way off; it would take at least several days by boat.
On the way back, the Yuxue fishing boat had already hauled in its trawl nets and was focused on sailing back to its hometown.
It's not that they don't want to continue fishing for seafood to make money, but mainly that there's not much space left on the fishing boats; their current carrying capacity has already exceeded one thousand tons.
If the net breaks during a single haul, catching tens or even hundreds of tons of fish, and the freezer can't hold them all, then all that fish will be wasted.
As someone who received a good education from a young age, Bai Yu knew very well that waste was shameful.
In the past, our fishery resources were depleted because of this wasteful fishing practices.
So on their way back, Bai Yu and his group didn't do any fishing. Instead, they sped off towards their hometown, creating a spectacular sight.
It took them about fifty hours, or more than two days, to reach the coast of Sanya, and then they headed towards the county's pier.
The day before, when the fishing vessel Yuxue entered the South China Sea, Bai Yu made a satellite phone call to his father, showed him the situation on board, and explained it to him.
The main purpose was to get Bai's father to help him find buyers. There were just too many goods on this ship, and one company couldn't handle them all. So it would be best to have Bai's father contact several buyers in advance.
As the fishing boats approached the nearshore waters, the Yuxue fishing boat, guided by dock staff, slowly drew near the dock and moored at the designated berth.
Before Bai Yu and his group could even disembark, several workers in protective suits appeared on the dock at their berth, waiting with relevant equipment.
As for the handover work, Bai Yu doesn't need to worry about that; that's something the captain of the Yu Xue ship, who is also the eldest uncle, needs to do.
The first thing is the nautical log, which needs to record their route at sea, the places they visited, and whether they came into contact with any other people.
Previously, none of these were necessary, but with the outbreak of the pandemic, some reporting procedures that were not required before are now required.
If you've been to other places, whether within China or abroad, then quarantine is definitely unavoidable.
The relevant filings were completed quickly, and then staff members registered Bai Yu and his group, and all necessary checks were performed.
After finding no further problems, the other party agreed to the uncle's request to unload the goods.
They even went out to sea to fish during the pandemic; wasn't that just because they wanted to catch more seafood and make more money?
If they catch fish and are not allowed to unload them at the dock, that would be ridiculous. What would be the point of them going out to sea then?
Then, Bai's father came over with a few people. Although these people were not wearing protective suits, they were all wearing pockets and medical N95 masks.
These items may be scarce resources elsewhere, but in Sanya, or rather, in Hainan Province, the quantity of these resources is not small, and they are quite easy to purchase.
After all, with Bai Yu's interference before the Lunar New Year, several major factories in Hainan Province that manufacture protective clothing and masks purchased a large amount of raw materials during the outbreak and then frantically produced various supplies.
So other regions may lack medical supplies, but Hai Province alone does not, and even has surplus supplies to support other places.
Most of the people that Bai's father brought were managers of several seafood processing plants in Sanya.
Led by Liu Tianyu, the group then boarded the Yuxue fishing boat to check on their catch.
As for Bai Yu himself, he took his father and Uncle Sun onto the fishing boat and took them to another place.
The fishing boat Yuxue has three refrigerated compartments, and it's impossible to put all of its catch of more than a thousand tons of fish into one compartment.
The place Liu Tianyu is taking the processing plant workers to now is a freezer containing ordinary fish, while the freezer Bai Yu is taking Bai's father and Uncle Sun to is a freezer containing good stuff.
"Xiaoyu, where are you taking your dad and me? Shouldn't we be going with the people from the processing plant? It's not really appropriate for you to openly take us through the back door."
Uncle Sun followed Bai Yu, turning left and right inside the cabin, very curious about where they were going.
“Uncle Sun, your status is different. We’re all family here. I’ll leave the best things for you, and no one can find fault with that.”
After turning left and right, Bai Yu led Bai's father and Uncle Sun to a cryogenic chamber.
He then gave a military overcoat to Bai's father and Sun's uncle, put one on himself, and then opened the cabin door and went inside.
As the hatch opened, just like in a science fiction movie, a plume of white smoke billowed out of the hatch, carrying with it a strong, pungent smell of the sea.
The white smoke is formed by the contact between the cold air inside the hatch and the warm air outside. It's not high-tech and has no side effects, so feel free to smell it.
Seeing Bai Yu walk in first, Bai's father and Uncle Sun followed closely behind.
"Dad, Uncle Sun, come over here quickly! Take a look at the good stuff we caught this time. What do you think? Is there anything your hotel needs?"
At Bai Yu's call, the three of them appeared in front of a row of shelves.
Bai Yu took a box down from above. When the box was opened, it was full of black tiger prawns. Each one was about the size of an adult's arm, thirty or forty centimeters long, and weighed more than half a pound.
The box in Bai Yu's hand contained ten black tiger prawns of this size, which the crew had specially selected when sorting the prawns.
If three or four black tiger prawns per pound are already considered top-grade, then the box of black tiger prawns that Bai Yu is taking out now, with each prawn weighing more than half a pound and about six or seven ounces, is the best of the best.
Besides this size, Bai Yu and his team even had an even larger size, with a single black tiger prawn weighing over a pound.
However, this size of black tiger prawn is extremely rare, and it was placed after the half-pound size, so Bai Yu showed Uncle Sun and Bai's father the half-pound size.
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