As time passed by, the seventh day quickly arrived, and the Bai brothers had been at sea for a week.
During this entire period, the fishing boats never stopped for a moment; they were constantly moving.
The same applies to the crew members on board. As long as the fishing boat keeps moving, these employees naturally cannot stop either, but work along with the movement of the fishing boat.
During this period, whenever the luck value was updated and there were no fish near the fishing boat, Bai Yu would immediately use the exploration function to consume all the luck value and search for fish in the sea.
After fishing in one school of fish a day, the Yuxue fishing boat had a very high catch. According to incomplete statistics, they encountered no fewer than ten schools of fish of various sizes during this week.
Most of them were found by white fishermen, and a small portion were encountered by the fishing boats themselves.
As for the catch, it will be no less than 500 tons. For a fishing boat with a total carrying capacity of 1,300 tons, there is still more than half of the space waiting to be filled with the catch.
As for the 500 tons of fish, according to Brother Huang's estimate, it may be worth no less than nine million, or even more than ten million.
After all, a catch of 500 tons of fish is a million kilograms. If the price of this catch exceeds ten yuan per kilogram, it can exceed ten million yuan.
Of the 500 tons of fish caught, the cheapest was naturally skipjack tuna, which is really worthless, with a unit price of less than ten yuan.
Besides, the other fish catches are all priced at over ten yuan per kilogram. For example, ribbonfish can sell for twenty or thirty yuan per kilogram, and a ton can fetch a high price of forty or fifty thousand yuan.
This is only because these ribbonfish have yellow eyes, making them a relatively inexpensive variety. If they were black-eyed ribbonfish, the price would be even higher.
Putting aside the value of the catch, as midnight passed, marking their eighth day at sea, the fishing boat Yuxue slowly came to a stop.
Bai Yu was aware of this: it was time for a break.
For crew members working three shifts on fishing boats, although they have a lot of rest time, the intensity of their work is also very high.
After working continuously for a week, the crew members were exhausted and could now stop the ship for a day or two to rest.
Moreover, the reason they were able to rest this time was also related to the amount of fish they caught in the previous week.
The catch of more than 500 tons of fish in just one week is a very good result, and giving the crew a ten-year rest is not a big problem.
After all, for a large fishing boat, due to its tonnage, the fuel consumption in the fuel tank will be enormous every time it stops and starts again.
Under normal circumstances, fishing boats operating at sea rarely stop. Even when the crew has worked to their limit, they are unlikely to stop and will continue to sail out to find schools of fish.
Then, after the crew had rested, they immediately returned to work.
However, the Yuxue was different. For the crew of the Yuxue, every time they went to sea, the captain would set aside a few days for the crew to rest and relax, and also to earn some extra money.
As for how to earn this extra money?
On the vast ocean, the extra money you can earn is naturally related to sea fish, and the best way to do that is fishing.
However, the moment the fishing boat stopped, the uncle did not let the crew fish. Instead, he had them bring out all the crab traps from the storage room.
It's getting late. While midnight is a great time for fishing, it's also a great time to set crab traps.
So after the fishing boat came to a stop, the uncle first had the crew take out all the crab traps, put some frozen fish in them, and then put them into the sea on the right side of the fishing boat.
As for the left side of the fishing boat, that's reserved for the crew to fish. They can fish for as long as they want, as long as they pay attention to safety and avoid accidents.
You ask who gets the catch?
Needless to say, whoever catches it keeps it. Otherwise, how could it be said that it allows the crew to earn extra money?
This is also one of the benefits of the Yuxue fishing boat. If the crew members are lucky enough, they might be able to earn as much as a month's salary from fishing all night.
The moment the fishing boat stopped, Bai Yu and Wang Hai came up to the deck and helped the crew set down the crab traps.
However, after setting the cage, the two of them did not go out to fish with fishing rods, but instead went to the restaurant with their uncle, first mate and others.
As a new crew member, Bai Yu came to the restaurant mainly to join in the fun and freeload, while his uncle and first mate discussed their upcoming work arrangements.
After a week of sailing, they have now arrived at the junction of the two seas in the southeast, and they have disagreements about where to go next.
The eldest uncle advocated sailing the fishing boat away from the southeastern seas to the Pacific Ocean for fishing operations, where the fishery resources are also very abundant.
The first mate, however, advocated for operations in the East China Sea, which is a temperate sea. In February, the temperature in the East China Sea is relatively low compared to that in the South China Sea.
During this season, the East China Sea gathers many kinds of migratory sea fish, especially East China Sea eels and small white shrimp, which are rare and precious.
Then, as the eldest uncle and the first mate were discussing, they suddenly turned their attention to Bai Yu, who was eating. This gave Bai Yu goosebumps!
"Hey, Uncle Wang, why are you two staring at me? You can talk your own thing. I'm just a freeloader, staring at me won't help."
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