Even after the coast guard ships arrived, No. 5 and No. 6 acted as if they hadn't seen anything and continued cleaning up their catch.
However, they did increase their speed considerably.
After all, they can keep the catch, but the fishing net still needs to be handed over to the coast guard, along with some of the catch.
This isn't about bribing the coast guard; it's about submitting evidence to the coast guard that Filipino monkeys are illegally fishing on our side. The fishing nets are the tools, and the catch is the stolen goods.
Even when counting the catch, the crew found a Napoleon wrasse among a pile of black tiger prawns. This guy looked really peculiar, with what looked like a big bump on his head.
But don't let its strange appearance fool you. As the saying goes, the stranger it looks, the faster it gets judged. This Napoleon wrasse is a protected fish species and an internationally protected marine animal.
The reason this thing is protected is because it's so delicious. It sells for a very high price on the market, costing hundreds or even thousands of yuan per kilogram.
The discovery of this Napoleon wrasse gave the coast guard another excuse to claim that the two fishing boats were specifically there to poach Napoleon wrasse in the South China Sea.
If this reason is proven true, then both fishing boats and their crews are finished; at the very least, they will have to go to court.
It might even drag their country into a storm of criticism internationally. At the very least, those marine animal protection organizations won't miss this opportunity; they'll seize any chance to attack them relentlessly.
Their fishing boats are still catching the endangered Napoleon wrasse, and they're even illegally crossing into another country's territorial waters to poach it. Isn't that poaching? It's absolutely despicable.
While the fish were being counted on the fifth and sixth, Bai Yu followed his uncle and others to the coast guard patrol boat and explained what had happened.
As for the two fishing boats belonging to the Philippine monkeys, after the coast guard arrived, they obediently stopped on the sea and were surrounded by numerous domestic fishing boats.
It wasn't until it was completely dark that No. 5 and No. 6 finally cleaned the fish out of the nets, and then handed the nets, along with the grouper and wrasse, over to the coast guard.
Besides the Napoleon wrasse, the crew also found several red grouper in the fishing net. These are also a protected species in China and cannot be caught at will.
Now that these things have been found in the fishing nets of the Filipino monkeys, they're doomed.
After the handover was completed, Bai Yu and the others immediately sailed away in their respective fishing boats. What happened next was no longer their concern, and they went about their own business.
As for visiting the Coast Guard ships?
There's no need for that. We visited the Coast Guard's ships a few years ago, and the Coast Guard hasn't had any new equipment in service in recent years, so there's nothing worth visiting.
Besides, Bai Yu has been to naval bases and boarded the Type 055 destroyer. What's so interesting about small coast guard ships? They're all things that the navy has phased out.
It can be said that he has visited all of the navy's equipment, except for the aircraft carrier White Fish, which he has not visited, including the Black Fish.
As for aircraft carriers, that's coming soon. It's said that our country's third domestically developed aircraft carrier is about to be launched, and Bai Yu will definitely go and see it then.
Over the next few days, Bai Yu and his group wandered around the Spratly Islands, heading towards the Hawaiian Islands.
Although the route isn't straight and is a bit roundabout, it doesn't matter to the Yuxue, which is eager to find the Philippine monkey boats and start their attack. A slightly roundabout route is fine.
Anyway, the Nansha Islands are rich in resources, so they can fish and search at the same time.
For example, on the morning of the 15th, Bai Yu had just finished his shift change with his uncle and the others when he opened his system panel, entered the search function, and directly typed "South China Sea shrimp" into the search bar.
As the most valuable species of prawn and also the largest individual prawn, this prawn swarm that Bai Yu found cost him a full 85 points of luck.
This is the first time Bai Yu has used up so many luck points to search for a type of seafood, so the final harvest should be quite good.
As Bai Yu entered his luck value into the search box, the small radar started spinning. A few seconds later, a small green dot appeared twenty nautical miles directly in front of their fishing boat.
Directly ahead? That means Bai Yu and the others don't need to adjust their direction at all; they can just keep going forward. In about half an hour, they should be able to reach the prawn swarm.
After all, it wasn't just their fishing boats that were moving; the prawn swarm was also moving, and under Brother Tong's guidance, the prawns were moving in both directions.
However, when the Yuxue arrived close to the shrimp swarm, the scene before them made everyone present very unhappy.
"It's the Filipinos again? Do these guys really think the South China Sea is their own territory? They're never going to stop coming here?"
The eldest uncle was furious when he saw the Philippine monkey boat that appeared in front of him, and he started cursing.
"Wait, Uncle, look what they're catching. It looks like shrimp again."
"Uncle, those monkeys are something else! Don't let their fishing boat fool you, their shrimp-hunting skills are amazing. They've found another shrimp shoal!"
At this moment, the Yu Xue Hao and the Fei Houzi's boat were very close, and Bai Yu could just see the piles of seafood on the other boat.
Those are all prawns! They're all giant prawns from the South China Sea that Bai Yu just caught!
"Indeed, these monkeys are quite skilled at fishing, but even if they are skilled, they can't fish here. They're catching our own stuff!"
Xiao Yu, get ready to turn on the water gun. I'll yell at them first, then you can shoot, okay?
The uncle also saw the catch on the other fishing boat, and he was very angry. After all, if it weren't for these monkeys, the catch should have been theirs.
What they need to do now is to drive the other party away first, and then they can fish here themselves.
There's a proper way to shoo someone away; you can't just start spraying them with water. While there's nothing wrong with doing that, our country is known for its etiquette, and doing it that way would be a bit rude.
So before they could take action, they had to make a public announcement via radio or loudspeaker on the ship, asking the other party to leave on their own. If the other party did not leave, then they would take action.
As for what you say, whether it's Mandarin or a dialect, and whether the other person can understand it, that's not something your uncles should worry about.
Then the uncle shouted something to the monkey in Hainan dialect. Whether the monkey understood it or not, even Bai Yu couldn't understand what the uncle was saying.
After shouting several times, the eldest uncle gave Bai Hao a wink, and the latter understood and turned on the high-pressure water gun, shooting it at Fei Houzi.
Meanwhile, the eldest uncle took out his satellite phone and first called Uncle Wang and the others to share their current coordinates. Then he called the coast guard to explain the situation they were in.
The reason I called Uncle Wang and the others wasn't to ask them to gang up on the Filipino monkeys. There was no need for that. This time, they only encountered one fishing boat, and the only other vessel around was our own, the Yuxue. We couldn't stop them even if we wanted to.
The reason they are called Uncle Wang and his group is because the detector showed that there were a lot of shrimp in the sea area where they were located, and they were probably all giant South China Sea shrimp.
My uncle told Uncle Wang and the others to come and catch shrimp, because there were so many shrimp that they couldn't catch them all with just one fishing boat.
As the saying goes, "Don't let the good stuff go to outsiders," so naturally, this kind of good thing should be shared with our own fishing boats.
As Bai Yu turned on the high-pressure water gun, he also aimed it at the Philippine monkeys' fishing boat, and he even maliciously directed the water stream at their pile of fish.
The Filipino monkeys' fishing boat wasn't very big, only about 30 or 40 meters long. They didn't have a sorting line inside their boat; all the fish they caught had to be sorted on the deck.
Then the prawns were saved. A jet of water from Bai Yu washed away the prawns that had been piled up like a small mountain on the deck.
Some of the shrimp were carried back to the sea by the current. As for how many of these shrimp were still alive and how many were already dead, that remains to be seen.
Bai Yu wasn't quite sure about this, but according to Bai Yu, whether these shrimp were alive or dead, as long as they could stay in the South China Sea and not be taken away by the monkeys, it would be a profit for him.
As for the other crew members, after hearing their uncle's shout, they focused their attention on the Yuxue, and the moment the water cannons were turned on, they ran back into the cabin.
Then their captain immediately steered the boat to leave, as for the catch on deck?
Then they could only leave it to fate. In any case, with the enemy's water cannons running non-stop, no crew member would be willing to risk their lives to go up on deck to clean up the spoils.
After all, their wages are only so-so, there's no need for them to risk their lives for money.
After seeing that the other party was about to leave, the eldest uncle also sailed his fishing boat after them for a distance, driving them far away, before turning back again.
It's not that they don't want to continue the chase, but if they continue, they'll drive away from the location of the shrimp shoal, and then they won't know where to look for the shrimp shoal again.
Moreover, they couldn't force the other fishing boat to stop, so they might as well go back to catching shrimp and make money as soon as possible.
So, between bullying the monkeys and catching prawns, Uncle wholeheartedly chose to catch prawns. Making money was more important, after all, it wasn't just about his salary, but the salaries, bonuses, and year-end bonuses of everyone on the ship.
Besides, we can bully the monkeys anytime, as long as we encounter Philippine ships in our territorial waters, we can take them down. But we can't encounter swarms of prawns in the South China Sea anytime.
Just as Bai Yu and his gang were bullying the Filipino monkey boats, a video on our video website was going viral at an incredibly fast pace.
The video was posted by our Coast Guard's official account, which reported the incident to the entire internet: two Philippine fishing boats illegally crossed the border to fish for animals protected in my country and internationally. They were caught red-handed by our fishermen, and the facts were clear.
The solution for these two illegal vessels is to detain them along with their crew for further processing.
What's next? How should it be handled?
What else can be done? Let the other party's parents come forward and talk things over. Apologize if they should, and compensate if they should.
If you don't apologize or compensate, then you'll have to go to jail. But it seems that even if you apologize and compensate, you'll still have to go to jail, only for a shorter time.
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