They also harvested over 20 kilograms of sea cucumbers, but found no abalone or geoduck clams. They only caught a dozen or so lobsters and crabs, but there was a lot of trash on the seabed.
It seems this place is suitable for diving. The seabed resources have been completely plundered, leaving only a lot of garbage in the ocean.
Chen Hong had no choice but to empty a large water tank and diligently collect the trash on the seabed. The trash here was incredibly varied, including beer bottles, empty cans, beverage bottles, mineral water bottles, discarded fishing nets, and plastic and woven bags of various sizes and colors.
Chen Hong also found seven or eight fishing rods, all broken in two, with only one intact, which was also unusable. There were countless fishing lines and hooks, but fortunately the hooks had mostly degraded, otherwise she would have definitely pricked her feet.
What's baffling is that Chen Hong also found a lot of condoms there. It's really strange; who is this person? Didn't they come to the sea to fish and have fun? Why are they doing this at sea? Are the waves helping them or something?
Judging by the number of condoms, there are quite a few people doing this! It seems that not many of those people who sail around the sea on yachts are decent people! They're just here for a quickie at sea!
But you have to clean up the mess yourself. You threw all that mess into the sea and left like a big shot. How many years will it take for this sea area to recover?
As Chen Hong picked up the phones, she muttered to herself. She found three more phones in a coral reef. They were all big brands. She wondered if they would still work after being waterlogged.
Chen Hong became even more serious; the terrain of this reef was complex. Like a scavenger, she used a hook to search the seabed. Useless trash was thrown directly into the large water tank, while useful iron items were tossed into a bamboo basket, to be sold as scrap metal later.
Chen Hong found two more women's handbags and three necklaces here. She didn't find rings or bracelets, or maybe she did, but they were too small to be found if buried in the sand.
Chen Hong decided to go home and order a metal detector online so she could look for treasure while scavenging for trash. What if she found one? Maybe fate would reward her again. She should keep going, shouldn't she?
She secretly fantasized that even a dream might come true. While working, Chen Hong entertained herself in her mind, and it took her quite some time to collect most of the trash in this area of the sea.
Once on the ship, when I went to the space to change clothes and take a shower, I realized something incredible. In just two hours, I had unknowingly collected over 400 pounds of garbage, including more than 150 pounds of scrap copper and iron.
Looking at this huge pile of stuff, Chen Hong felt no sense of accomplishment whatsoever; instead, she was extremely annoyed. How many people built this? No wonder there are hardly any fish or shrimp left on the seabed!
It would be annoying if someone's house became a garbage dump, but the aquatic animals couldn't resist and had no choice but to move.
Angry, Chen Hong lost all interest in tidying up and set sail, leaving the desolate sea area that no one had ever visited.
In the afternoon, Chen Hong strolled around and found another school of fish, casting her net. The catch was quite good, bringing in over 1300 jin (650 kg) of fish. Apart from a few grouper, croaker, and red snapper, the rest were golden pomfret, red snapper, and sea bream.
Fortunately, the fishing net Chen Hong had custom-made had large mesh, so the fish caught in it weren't small. If she had used a small-mesh net like other fishermen, she would have only pulled up small fish, and Chen Hong would have gone crazy just trying to cut them up.
This kept Chen Hong quite busy. Fishing with a net yielded more fish and faster than fishing with a rod, but it was also very tiring, especially for Chen Hong at this age.
Even in her past life, when Chen Hong was young and capable, she couldn't have done this job. Looking at the more than 300 pounds of dead fish in the hold, Chen Hong shook her head. If only a few had died, they could have fetched a lot more money!
Chen Hong has never sold dead fish before. This is the drawback of using a seine net; once the fish are squeezed and pressed in the net, some fish are bound to die.
Around five o'clock, Chen Hong set off in his boat to collect crab traps. He spotted another boat in the distance, about to approach the buoys on the sea. It was clearly trying to steal the traps, so Chen Hong accelerated and drove straight towards it.
He even used a loudspeaker to shout: "The fishing boats ahead, leave immediately! That's not your cage, you've made a mistake! If you don't leave, you'll collide with our boats!"
Hearing the shouts, the people on the boat knew the owner of the cage had arrived. They had failed to steal anything and had been caught red-handed. They quickly turned around and sailed to the side, where they saw Chen Hong's boat approaching.
The man with the fishing rod on the boat was a young man in his twenties. Seeing that Chen Hong's boat only had one woman on it, he arrogantly said, "What are you shouting for? You just mistook it for one of our crab traps! How dare you ram my boat?"
"You misjudged? Good thing you misjudged, so it won't be a good show if a fight breaks out. Young man, judging from your accent, you're from Jiaodong, right? Which village are you from?"
"I'm from Lantau Village, what are you going to do about it?"
"Nothing much, it's such a coincidence that we met at sea, let's chat. Since we're from the same hometown, let me give you some advice: if you're going to make a living at sea, be honest and upright, and if you can't see the situation clearly, don't try to take anything."
If you run into someone tough, you might get beaten up, lose face, and have nowhere to seek justice. Wouldn't that interfere with making money? Don't you think so?
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