It took Bai Yu and the others almost an hour to clear out all ten crab traps.
The main problem is that taking the crabs out of the crab traps and then sorting them out is quite time-consuming, especially since they have to make sure that there isn't a single non-compliant crab in the traps.
Whether it's king crab or snow crab, not a single one can be substandard.
Otherwise, if the staff of the company were to find out this during a random inspection, the fines alone would be enough to bankrupt them.
Especially since Bai Yu and his crew aren't on the same boat as Da E. Although he obtained a special fishing permit, the relevant authorities won't just look at a permit and then ignore them.
On the contrary, they become even more rigorous in their checks when they see their Chinese faces.
This is not an exaggeration at all; it's a fact. Not all people from all countries are very friendly to foreigners; this is not an international norm.
Therefore, when Bai Yu and his group do something, they strive to do it to the extreme, trying their best not to cross anyone's red line, and they absolutely will not cross it.
After collecting all the crab traps, they will have to collect the gillnet next.
Bai Yu and the others were quite looking forward to this barbed net, hoping it would give them a pleasant surprise.
Their demands weren't actually that high; they would be quite content as long as the gillnet could catch a few more cod.
As for other catches, they don't insist on them.
Anyway, they figured it out from those longline lines: the fish they could catch in this area would most likely be cod, and there were just too many of those.
On just the longline that Wang Hai and his team collected, with over three hundred hooks, they caught more than seventy cod of various sizes.
The cod on this single rope weighed over a thousand pounds. In the end, Wang Hai had to use a longline to pull it up.
It was only after inspecting the situation on the longline that Bai Yu felt content as long as the gillnet could catch more cod.
After all, you can't catch anything else, so you might as well get more cod.
The gillnet used by Bai Yu and his team was 200 meters long, which is considered a medium-sized gillnet.
Moreover, when setting the gillnet, the white fishermen followed the direction of the ocean current. As long as there are fish in the sea area they are in, they will inevitably move with the ocean current.
Once they come to the surface of the sea, or swim to the upper waters to forage, there is a very high probability that they will be caught in the gillnets.
As Bai Yu tied the gillnet's tow rope to the winch, they then pulled back the gillnet, along with the other two longline lines and several crab traps belonging to the staff.
They have to collect everything at once, otherwise they only have one winch on their ship, but there's just too much stuff waiting to be retrieved. If they collect it one by one, who knows how long it will take.
As the winch started, the gillnet, longline, and crab trap were gradually pulled back.
Soon, Lu Sheng and the others got busy. To be precise, they had been quite busy all along. When the winch was reeling in the line, half of the two longline had already been pulled back. Now they were just continuing their previous work.
Looking at the fish that had been caught, besides cod, there were only a few herring left, the kind used to make canned herring.
After waiting for a long time, new fish finally came aboard. Bai Yu immediately became interested and came over to observe the herring that had been caught.
Well, the herring that was caught wasn't very big. It was only about 30 centimeters long and weighed at most about a pound.
Judging from its appearance, this creature has a bluish tinge to its color and a rather slender body. If you don't look closely, you might even mistake it for a grass carp.
This thing really does look a lot like a grass carp.
"This is herring? It doesn't look particularly special. And it looks a lot like a grass carp. Just by looking at it, this kind of fish shouldn't taste bad. I don't know why people make herring into canned herring!"
Bai Yu looked at the herring that Lu Sheng had taken off, his tone full of confusion; he genuinely didn't know why.
The infamous canned herring is incredibly lethal, and it's an area-of-effect (AoE) attack that affects both allies and enemies.
"Brother Yu, you don't understand this. Maybe foreigners just like this kind of food. What we can't accept, they consider to be delicacies. There's nothing you can do about it."
And I heard that this canned herring isn't even the weirdest thing. I've heard there's something called pickled auk, which is even weirder than that. I doubt many people in our family could accept it.
Lu Sheng, who was standing nearby, chimed in and mentioned a bizarre food he had heard of.
"Pickled auk? I think I've heard of that. I think some internet celebrity tried it."
"I don't know about that, Brother Yu. Your fishing nets have been put on board. You should go get to work. Let's talk later."
"Okay, it seems our trip will take us through the area where pickled puffins are produced. I'll take you there to broaden your horizons."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he ran towards the location of the gillnet.
The yacht's deck wasn't actually very wide, and Bai Yu ran over in just a few steps. When he arrived, the gillnets had just been loaded onto the boat.
It was on this very gillnet that Bai Yu had just boarded the boat that he immediately spotted a large fish—a cod that was tightly entangled in the gillnet.
"Good heavens, they've given me a real shock right off the bat? This cod must weigh forty or fifty pounds, but the net is all tangled up. It might be a bit difficult to untangle!"
Although the first catch was a large cod, Bai Yu was not happy at all.
Just as he himself said, the cod was entangled so tightly, and also because it was so big, it must have struggled frantically after getting caught in the gillnet.
The result is what we see now: this guy is wrapped in three or four layers of fishing net, and Bai Yu and the others are going to get what's coming to them.
"Hey, Brother Yu, we might have to pick up the net later. I have a feeling this guy might not come out so easily."
Li Shuang also sighed as she looked at the cod, her words filled with helplessness.
The gillnet that Bai Yu and his team are using now is not actually their first gillnet; they had three gillnets before that.
However, in the end, some of the fish were just too troublesome, getting tangled in the fishing net all over themselves, so the only solution was to cut the line and get the fish out.
Then the gillnets were cut with hole after hole until the entire net was ruined and could no longer be used.
Looking at the current state of this gillnet, it's not far from being cut down. The only question is what will happen to the gillnet after it's cut.
If the situation isn't too bad, then this gillnet can still be used for a while. If not, then we'll have to replace it with another gillnet.
Anyway, they have prepared quite a lot of gillnets. As long as the value of the final catch exceeds the value of the gillnets, then everything is acceptable.
Bai Yu and Li Shuang then watched as the cod were gradually brought up, including some large cod weighing twenty or thirty pounds, each one having had very close contact with the gillnet.
Seeing so many cod on the gillnet, Bai Yu and Li Shuang felt utterly hopeless.
This gillnet is beyond saving!
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