Chen Hong has been considering that her fishing area has now expanded into the economic zone, and she no longer dares to fish in the nearshore waters.
My own fishing boat takes nearly five hours to go to the economic zone. I fish from dawn till dusk every day, and my daily income is only a little over 100,000 yuan.
I'm busy every day, and half of my time is wasted on the round trip. I should probably get a better fishing boat.
But the thought of spending a lot of money to buy a fishing boat and only fishing in one's own country's waters makes one feel aggrieved; one should go to the high seas and compete with fishing boats from other countries for resources.
But the thought of going out to international waters alone from an economic zone always makes me feel uneasy.
Chen Hong was certain that she was frightened by the high seas murder case that happened in her previous life. However, it was indeed too dangerous for her to go out to sea alone. Maybe she should just stay in the exclusive economic zone for now.
I'll consider getting a better boat and hiring two people to help when the kids are older. For now, I'll just keep it the way it is. But it's not easy to buy a fishing boat you like; I heard you have to place an order well in advance to get it.
Now that you have time, you should go to the shipyard to take a look and learn about the current equipment of fishing boats, so that you won't be completely clueless when you want to buy one.
She also needs to search for information online regularly and learn more about the advanced knowledge of modern fishing boats. Chen Hong knows how fast our country's science and technology will develop in the next ten years or so, and if she doesn't keep learning, she will soon fall behind others.
Chen Hong calculated that she currently had over 6 million yuan, of which she had already invested 5 million yuan in the stock market, leaving her with over 1 million yuan remaining. She had originally planned to pay off her mortgage with ICBC in Shanghai by March or April after the Lunar New Year.
However, if I want to buy a boat, I can wait until the next year or two to sell the stocks and then pay off the loan, so there won't be any problem with cash flow. Right now, the monthly mortgage payment of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan is not a burden for me.
I can earn more than 2 million yuan a month from fishing now. I'll see how it goes. Maybe when I have more cash on hand, I'll have the opportunity to buy a courtyard house in Beijing!
I used to read period novels on Tomato, and almost every protagonist in those novels would go to Beijing to buy several courtyard houses.
If I could buy a set myself, and open the door to find: my left neighbor is the female protagonist of a novel from a certain era, my right neighbor is the male protagonist of a time-travel novel, and my front neighbor is a couple who are reborn together, the male and female protagonists, XXX and XXX. That would be an absolutely hilarious scene!
Chen Hong couldn't help but burst into laughter at the thought of it. After laughing for a while, she sighed.
The idea is wonderful, but for me now, tens of millions is still quite expensive. Every penny I have is earned by selling fish one by one. I won't be like the heroine in the novel who discovers a lot of treasures and can sell any antique for hundreds of millions.
But my life is already much better than in my previous life, and one should be content with what one has. Even if I were given a courtyard house for free now, I wouldn't have time to live in it, so I'd just let it go to waste.
That day, Chen Hong was pulling in her net near Fairy Island when she discovered a large school of mackerel. It was already December, the peak season for mackerel.
In their area, mackerel is a must-have in the New Year's gifts. Chen Hong was very happy to see such a large school of mackerel today. Although the price is not too high now, the market demand is very large, and they are snapped up as soon as they are brought ashore.
This net yielded over 1,700 catties of fish, each weighing over two catties, with the largest weighing as much as thirty catties. Their bodies were round and plump, like small cannonballs, and they looked very appealing. Regardless of their price, it was at least another bumper harvest.
Chen Hong's fishing boat can now retrieve its nets much faster than before. She installed a single-wheel net retrieval machine at the shipyard, and had a simplified fish-scraping frame modified in front of the machine.
This frame, laid horizontally about 1.5 meters wide, has a row of 15-centimeter-high rubber scrapers fixed to it. When the net-collecting machine retrieves the net, the net, along with the fish, is first scraped across the fish-removing scraper frame. The fish on the net are then scraped off by the rubber scrapers and fall into the large breeding tanks below the frame.
Over 90% of the fish can be scraped off, with only a very few that are tightly burrowed into the net requiring manual removal. Chen Hong's main job now is to adjust the angle of the fishing net, keep an eye on any fish that haven't been scraped off by the scraper, and manually remove them as needed.
This greatly reduced her workload and significantly increased the speed of hauling in the nets and cleaning the fish. The fish-cleaning net frame is also movable; after use, it can be easily moved to the side of the boat without taking up much space. It's simple and easy to use, costing Chen Hong only a little over a hundred yuan in material and processing fees. It's incredibly convenient and hassle-free to use.
In less than an hour, she had hauled all six nets onto the boat, and the catch filled four large aquaculture tanks. After tidying up the nets and setting them aside, Chen Hong began to process the fish in the tanks. She stored the more expensive fish in her spatial storage, threw the common mackerel into the refrigerated compartment, and tossed the pregnant ones back into the sea.
Along with the fish caught in the net were some octopus, grouper, sea bass, lobster, crab, and mantis shrimp. The variety was quite mixed; it wasn't all just mackerel. After sorting through them, Chen Hong checked her phone. It was already 3 PM; she could only haul in one more net before heading back to port.
Chen Hong was navigating her fishing boat along the route home. After half an hour, she spotted a small school of yellow croakers. Chen Hong quickly changed to a smaller mesh net and cast another haul.
The net brought up over 800 jin (approximately 400 kg) of small yellow croakers. These fish don't grow very big; the largest is only about 1.5 jin (approximately 0.75 kg), and the vast majority are around 0.5 jin (approximately 0.25 kg). Even so, Chen Hong released over 100 jin (approximately 50 kg) of smaller fish weighing less than 3 liang (approximately 150 grams).
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