Chapter 203 Deep Sea Tuna
The King Kong Ring is mainly used to deal with large fish that need to swim continuously to absorb oxygen, and its main target is tuna.
This thing is a steel ring with a buckle. When you circle the fishing line and release it, the ring will automatically sink along the fishing line to the head of the fish that has bitten the hook, clamp the fish head to restrict the opening and closing of the gills, and thus prevent the fish from breathing.
This makes it difficult for the fish to breathe and obtain oxygen, leading to slow suffocation and death, which can effectively reduce the difficulty of fishing for big fish.
Of course, if this thing is used in the future, you must first know what fish you are fishing for, in case it is a shark or other protected fish.
If you accidentally kill someone, then congratulations, the state will provide you with a free single room and free food and accommodation.
But now there is no protection for animals at all, so there is no need to be afraid of going in when using a King Kong collar.
Compared to his previous life, Zhang Ze is now more of a fisherman rather than a fisherman who enjoys fishing.
His priority is making money from fishing, and entertainment comes second.
Therefore, he will definitely use any method that can help him fish.
However, he only needs to use the King Kong Ring secretly, there is no need to popularize it.
Moreover, fishermen now mainly use net fishing, trawling and longline methods. Even if they know how to use the diamond ring, they will not care about it because the efficiency is too low.
At this time, the length of the fishing line still outside the fishing reel is about two hundred meters. The fish is more tired than him and can no longer pull the fishing reel to unload its force.
Even if Zhang Ze let go of the crank, it would not move anymore.
So he pulled the big fish to the side of the boat relatively easily over the next two hundred meters.
Seeing the big tuna swimming beside the boat, Zhang Ze was a little surprised but not that surprised.
Because the speed at which the fishing line was released at the beginning had already told him what kind of fish he would catch.
Each type of fish will have a different reaction to the fishing rod after being hooked, and an experienced angler can basically guess it.
Taking the fishing rod off the base, Zhang Ze pulled the tuna to the stern of the boat, and then looked for an opportunity to touch the fish.
Tuna is much more restless than other fish. Even if it has no strength left, it will still try to swim.
After all, not moving is chronic suicide, and swimming is ingrained in its bones.
Zhang Ze tried hard to pull it closer to the stern, and it took him three tries before he successfully put it into the space.
"Phew~ That's really troublesome. Next time I'll just kill him directly."
Sitting down on the deck, Zhang Ze, who was exhausted, breathed a sigh of relief and then checked the space.
[Successfully caught a yellowfin tuna, weighing 356.13 catties, experience +100. ]
"Fuck, it's over 350 kilograms. No wonder it's so hard to catch. Also, do you have so much experience with tuna?"
One hundred experience points, wouldn't it be ten thousand points if a king fish came? Compared with other fish, the probability of tuna producing a king fish is obviously much higher.
However, due to the huge base of tuna, Zhang Ze's chance of encountering the king of fish still depends on luck.
In addition, he is more concerned about the price than the fish king or something.
People in Nanguang and nearby areas eat sashimi. When people in China ate sashimi, there was no such thing as a happy life. It can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty! So although the price of tuna is not high, there is still a market for it.
Unfortunately, the purchase price of yellowfin tuna at the fishery station is 2.8 yuan, which is not as high as the price of ordinary sea bream. Zhang Ze's fish only cost about 100 yuan.
It took him nearly three hours to earn a hundred dollars, which was just average efficiency for him.
If you are lucky enough, you can earn this much by catching a few high-priced groupers, and it's easy.
However, if tuna is transported to Xiaori, the price can be raised ten or even dozens of times. Although it was the 1980s, the cold chain technology ensured the freshness of tuna without any problems.
Unfortunately, Zhang Ze is not a professional tuna catcher, so there is no point in exporting them if the quantity is small.
Those who specialize in tuna hunting need the cooperation of several or even dozens of ships to attract the tuna schools, then use fishing nets to block the space where they can escape, and finally catch them all in one net.
The amount of tuna that can be caught in a single fishing trip is extremely exaggerated, with thousands or even tens of thousands of tons being caught.
Therefore, bluefin tuna, which was once used as cat food, has been included in the protection list in just a few decades. No matter how many there are, they can't withstand such fishing! Looking at the time, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. Zhang Ze, who was sweating all over, decided to take a break and continue when it was cooler in the evening.
So he went to the tool shed and got a thick stick, a hammer, a long nail and a fish knife.
He wanted to process the tuna while he was still dirty, so as to avoid getting dirty again later.
With a sudden thought, the yellowfin tuna that had just been caught appeared at the door of the cold storage compartment.
As soon as the tuna appeared, it started swinging its tail wildly, like a small electric motor.
This fish cannot be held down by one person, especially after it enters the space and regains its vitality.
So the thick wooden stick that Zhang Ze took out came in handy. He came to the tuna with its mouth wide open, raised the thick wooden stick and hit the fish's head twice.
This thick wooden stick is a weapon specially prepared by Zhang Ze. There are javelins, sledgehammers and other weapons in the tool room.
However, no matter how hard a tuna's head is, it is not as hard as a sledgehammer, so it is very suitable to knock it unconscious with a thick wooden stick.
Just two hits and the tuna started twitching.
Then Zhang Ze took the long nail and hammer, aimed at its forehead and hit it twice, driving the long nail completely in.
It looks cruel, but it is actually a way to kill the tuna quickly and reduce its pain.
Being a fisherman is actually no different from a butcher who kills pigs. Every year, countless marine creatures die at their hands, but this is how fishermen survive.
Tuna had a lot of blood, so Zhang Ze put the water pipe into the fish's mouth and flushed the fish's tail for most of the day before the blood stopped flowing out.
At the same time, he had already hollowed out the internal organs. Fortunately, the internal organs of tuna did not account for a large proportion. If it was the same as that of shark, he would have suffered a great loss.
Using a crane, the tuna, weighing just over 300 kilograms, was hoisted into the cold storage compartment for freezing. Then Zhang Ze returned to his room to take a shower and rest.
After a short nap, he woke up when it was already dark. By the time he fed Xiao Hei dinner and came out, the sun had already set.
The originally scorching sea surface has cooled down, and the sea breeze is very refreshing.
The temperature difference between day and night in coastal areas is not that big, but it is different in the open sea. If you wear short sleeves during the day, you usually have to put on a thin jacket at night.
Especially on rainy days, the temperature will drop a lot in an instant.
Zhang Ze is fine. He is young and hot-tempered, and is afraid of heat but not cold.
Start the fishing boat and find a place to lower the longline first.
After the longline was put out, Zhang Ze looked at the time. It was a little after seven twenty. He could go and collect the longline a little after ten o'clock.
The longline can be retrieved after about four hours of being let out, especially if the bait is ordinary bait.
If the time is too long, a certain proportion of the fish will die. The time interval between the time Zhang Ze let down the first longline and the last one was about one hour, so it was just right to collect them after ten o'clock.
After putting out the longline, he sailed to a relatively shallow area with a water depth of about 40 meters, above a coral reef.
Without an electric reel, Zhang Ze would basically not choose to fish for deep-sea fish as it is time-consuming and inefficient.
There are many coral reefs near Dongsha, and the fishing results in these places are no worse than those in deep-sea fishing.
I made a string of hooks, then hung five baits on them and threw them into the water. After some operation, the hooks and baits stayed at a depth of 35 meters.
After waiting for a while, the fishing rod bent down and a fish took the bait. It didn't look small.
Zhang Ze hurriedly stabbed the fish, but when he saw that the fishing reel handle was barely turning, he roughly knew the size of the fish.
So he took the fishing rod down, placed it against his stomach and began to reel in the line.
I save my energy in the afternoon because I have to go fishing in the evening.
But now he can only fish until ten o'clock, which means he only has two and a half hours. There is no need for Zhang Ze to conserve his energy and strength. He has to fish quickly. The more efficient he is, the more money he can earn.
He pulled and re-pulled, and even though the fish was quite strong, it still only took him five or six minutes to hook it up.
A fish about sixty to seventy centimeters long appeared on the water surface. Zhang Ze picked up the scoop net and scooped the fish up.
But after seeing the appearance of the fish clearly, he was stunned. This was a fish he didn't recognize.
However, even though he has been fishing for decades, there are so many marine creatures, and he has not been to the South China Sea many times, so it is normal that he does not recognize some of them.
So he reached out and touched the fish, then put it into the space.
[Successfully caught a shortfin pomfret, weighing 17.66 catties, experience +12. ]
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"Oh my god, it's so important?"
A fish that is only 73 centimeters long actually weighs 17 and a half kilograms, which is not light.
However, Zhang Ze had never heard of the name Shortfin Toothless Pomfret. It was indeed an unfamiliar fish.
Moreover, he had never seen this name in the market, so it was hard to say the price.
This fish can only be put aside for now. If he catches another one, he can taste it himself and set a rough price based on the quality of the fish.
After a portion of the bait was eaten, Zhang Ze replaced it and continued fishing.
There are five hooks, so don’t fish one by one every time!
But in the next two times, Zhang Ze caught a stone bream weighing more than three kilograms and a blue snapper weighing more than five kilograms respectively.
He knew that this was because the density of coral fish was not as high as that of deep-sea fish.
It is actually very simple to solve this situation. He took out the bait he bought from the fisherman yesterday and threw a small basket into the water to make a nest.
These baits are kept in a cold storage compartment and are frozen. When they fall into the sea, the ice on the surface of the baits melts quickly.
The effect of baiting was not so quick. After Zhang Ze caught three more fish, the situation began to change.
This time, after the fishing rod shook slightly, he waited for a while as usual.
Sure enough, after more than ten seconds, the fishing rod began to shake violently again, which meant that at least two fish were hooked.
Zhang Ze no longer hesitated and quickly turned the fishing rod to pull up the fish from the bottom of the water.
It took about a minute and a series of baits appeared on the water surface.
What surprised Zhang Ze was that he caught a total of four fish this time, which were constantly moving their bodies restlessly.
This is also normal. The shaking of the fishing rod means that there are fish on the hook, but if you catch a few more fish, the fishing rod will still shake in the same way, and you really can't guess how many fish you have caught.
These four fish are not very big, they are two rock snappers, a parrotfish and a yellow chicken, each weighing about one or two kilograms.
This time I caught more fish, but the overall weight was average, and it felt similar to the previous time when I caught one fish at a time.
But this was only the first cast, and Zhang Ze decided to continue to see the situation.
If all he attracts are small fish like this, he might as well just go for the big fish.
Then, this is what happened next.
Either you catch a fish weighing more than five kilograms, or you catch several small fish weighing one or two kilograms.
Basically, if you catch a bigger fish, other fish will not rush to eat the bait.
Even though ordinary bait has a 30% chance of catching fish, this probability is still a bit low, which makes Zhang Ze speechless.
Fortunately, he could catch a grouper after two or three casts, so he could continue fishing patiently.
The time soon came to ten o'clock. Zhang Ze looked at his watch and found that the time was up, so he quickly put away the fishing rod and started the boat to reel in the longline.
Still following my habit, I started by collecting longlines from deep sea fishing.
While starting the boat, he also took a look at his evening's harvest.
There are red snappers, rock bream, black bream, parrotfish and various groupers. The species are very diverse, and we even caught two big flower dragons.
The total weight is more than 370 kilograms, which is incomparable to last night's yellow croaker fishing. However, the total value of these seafood today should be higher because one third of them are grouper.
That's the benefit of fishing on the coral reefs, there are enough groupers.
Fifteen minutes later, Zhang Ze arrived at the two farthest long ropes.
The water here is more than 400 meters deep, and longline fishing can only be done at a depth of 200 meters.
Zhang Ze placed the longline here because he happened to find a large area of red in the middle of the water layer.
He suspected that these were tuna. If they were red tuna or yellow tuna, they would also be OK. If he was unlucky, they could be bluefin tuna. However, bluefin tuna would not go to such a deep place.
Zhang Ze pulled up the float, then turned on the winch and tied the rope on it.
The winch turned slowly, but when the rope was tightened it suddenly stopped, and then the speed of rotation slowed down significantly.
Zhang Ze was surprised, and then overjoyed. This was the result of catching a lot of big fish!
Because the fish is too heavy, it is so difficult for the winch to turn.
After waiting for a while, the main line of the longline slowly emerged from the water, followed by the first sub-line.
Zhang Ze had already put on gloves. As soon as he touched it, the heavy weight made him realize that he would definitely have a big harvest this time.
I quickly pulled the sub-line. Perhaps because the fish was hooked, there was basically no struggle at the bottom of the water.
Zhang Ze was not surprised by this. If they were really tuna, they would need to swim to get oxygen.
After being hooked, they cannot swim and will naturally suffocate to death.
At this moment, Zhang Ze only hoped that he had arrived earlier so that there were still a large number of tunas alive.
Soon, a bluefin tuna appeared before his eyes.
Albacore tuna are not that big, probably only about 70 or 80 kilograms, so he was able to pull it up quickly.
Zhang Ze reached out and touched the fish, but the fish disappeared in a flash.
His eyes lit up. He had thought the fish was dead because it was barely moving. But he found it was still breathing. Didn't that mean there were still a lot of tunas alive on the longline?
Zhang Ze quickly increased the speed of pulling the wire and took a look at the space.
[Successfully caught a bluefin tuna, weighing 76.22 catties, experience +60. ]
(End of this chapter)
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