Chapter 204 The Space is Full
Wow, the experience points are a little higher than that of yellowfin tuna, not bad.
At present, it seems that this batch of fish should be albacore tuna.
The first one weighs 76 kilograms, and the ones after that should be between 70 and 80 kilograms.
Except for very large ones, most tuna move in groups.
Secondly, small ones will not move with large groups, but only tunas of the same size will gather together.
Therefore, when going out to sea to fish for tuna, in most cases, the tunas caught in each net are basically the same.
Although albacore tuna has a higher experience value than yellowfin tuna, its actual price in the market is not higher, and it also sells for only 0.28 yuan.
The price differentiation will be gradually improved in the future. At present, the fat content is not considered in China, and the price is fixed and unified.
The winch continued to turn, and there were a series of empty hooks. But when Zhang Ze saw some of the hooks were straightened and the baits disappeared, his heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, some damaged fish hooks appeared one after another. It was obvious that these fish hooks were fine for dealing with ordinary fish, but they were not good enough for dealing with tuna.
Eleven empty hooks were collected, three of which were broken, and another three were missing bait, obviously having been eaten.
"It's a bit of a loss. I don't know how much I can catch with these 1,000 hooks!"
When Zhang Ze saw this situation, he knew that the longline, which could usually catch at least two hundred fish, would probably catch much less fish today than usual.
If it was only half less, he could still accept it. A fish weighing about 75 kilograms would be worth 20 yuan on average, which was not a small amount.
After two more hooks were empty, Zhang Ze pulled up the sub-line again and felt the weight at the bottom of the water. A look of joy of harvest appeared on his face, and the second tuna was caught.
After a while, it turned out to be another albacore tuna. It looked bigger than the previous one, so Zhang Ze quickly put it into the space.
We are lucky for now, this one is alive and weighs 82 kilograms.
He was right to come early today to collect the longlines. Judging from the condition of these tunas, they would definitely be gone in half an hour or even ten minutes.
Time passed slowly, and the first longline was finally collected.
When Zhang Ze was reeling in the longline, he cut off the broken fish hooks with scissors and threw them into a small bucket nearby, and then dealt with them when he returned to the shore.
After all, it is metal material, and if you accumulate enough of it, you can exchange it for some maltose.
"Eighty-eight, this is an auspicious number." Zhang Ze couldn't be more satisfied with this number.
The total weight is over 6,800 kilograms, which can be sold for about 1,900 yuan. Together with the yellowfin tuna, it is exactly 2,000 yuan.
Normally, you can’t earn that much from just one longline. If you’re unlucky, you can only earn that much from six longlines combined.
Zhang Ze did not waste time and hurried to retrieve the other longline. He did not know what happened to the second longline, but hoped that the hooked tuna could hold on a little longer.
Because eleven of the eighty-eight albacore tunas died and could not be stored in the space, Zhang Ze simply bled them and threw them into the cold storage compartment. In fact, there were only seventy-seven albacore tunas in his space.
After so much time has passed, it is estimated that more tuna on the second longline have died.
The actual situation was pretty much as he expected. When the second longline was pulled up, a total of ninety-one fish were harvested.
Unfortunately, forty-seven of them died from lack of oxygen.
In other words, there are 121 albacore tunas weighing 70 to 80 kilograms in Zhang Ze's space.
This is the first time it has been filled since the space was expanded.
After receiving this batch of tuna, the space was successfully upgraded to level 28. The 280 cubic space looks very large, but in fact, it is a cube with a side length of only a little over 6.5 meters.
There were a lot of seafood in there that Zhang Ze hadn’t sold, and he had been keeping them for the right opportunity to ship them out.
Now there are 121 albacore tunas about 1.2 meters long, occupying more than half of the space. Doesn't it look full at first glance?
In other words, the spatial conditions are special, and the tuna can survive even if they don't swim, otherwise this batch of tuna cannot be put in.
It’s a pity that fifty-eight albacore tunas died, that’s three thousand five hundred experience points!
"Lulal ...
"I feel so good every day, la la la la"
Singing his own modified version of "I Love Fishing", Zhang Ze deftly processed the internal organs of each tuna and drained the blood.
Not counting the eleven that were dealt with before, the forty-seven ships on the deck are still a huge project.
However, the tuna must be bled immediately after it is caught, otherwise the quality of the meat will be seriously affected.
The last four longlines are all used to catch coral fish and deep-sea fish. Some of them may die later, but fortunately the impact is not significant.
By one o'clock in the morning, Zhang Ze had finally processed the batch of fish.
He stood up and stretched, and suddenly there was a crackling sound on his body.
"Finally it's done. I was exhausted. If the space wasn't convenient to use, I would have hired a few people to work as boatmen."
There are gains and losses. Space provides great convenience, so for other inconvenient things, you can only do them slowly by yourself. Fortunately, overall, space provides more convenience.
After being delayed for so long, Zhang Ze twisted his waist, then hurried to start the boat and collect the remaining longline.
He would probably have to work all night. There were 121 albacore tunas in the space, and he had no intention of keeping any of them.
It is not safe to take the fish out one by one from the space during the day. If he is busy and absorbed in the work, it will be troublesome if a boat passes by and sees them. At that time, he may have only one choice, which is to kill the witness to silence him.
Therefore, many shameful things really have to be done at night.
Moreover, the temperature is high during the day, and after processing a tuna, he has to put it into the cold storage immediately, so the tuna will be exposed to the high temperature and will spoil and stink prematurely.
The temperature is low at night, so they can come in batches, which naturally makes them much more efficient.
By three o'clock, all four longlines had been collected.
The catch was not a surprise, just like usual. "Alas, I caught too many fish and was busy slaughtering them. I never thought that there would be a day when I would get tired of killing fish!"
The sky had turned white without him noticing. When he saw the last ten albacore tunas, Zhang Ze finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally over.
This was the first time he got tired of killing fish, and he felt annoyed at the sight of tuna.
Think about the past when you could be happy for most of the day if you caught a yellowfin tuna weighing 20 or 30 kilograms.
After the last ten fish were processed, Zhang Ze opened the cold storage compartment again.
The refrigerated compartment is only slightly smaller than the space and is rectangular.
It was really stuffed with tuna, a total of 179 of them, almost stacked to the door.
After stuffing the last ten fish in, Zhang Ze closed the door and clapped his hands.
When I stood up and looked at the sea, I found that some triangular dorsal fins had appeared on the sea surface at some point and were swimming around the fishing boat.
It was a little unexpected. I didn't expect so many sharks to come.
But it's normal to think about it. It's not surprising that the blood and internal organs of 179 tuna can attract them.
But Zhang Zeke was not interested in fishing for sharks at this moment. He was very sleepy, so he went to the cockpit to start the Duoyu, sailed back for an hour, and left that sea area.
Although it was still some distance from Dongsha Island, who knew if he would happen to encounter some messy patrol boat while he was sleeping, so it would be safer to leave.
An hour later, Zhang Ze stopped the boat on the open sea, dropped the anchor, turned off the engine, and then went to make breakfast.
After eating breakfast and feeding Xiao Hei, Zhang Ze carried it to the cabin door.
"You are comfortable and have slept peacefully all night. Watch the boat for me, master, I am going to sleep."
Patting the dog's head, Zhang Ze didn't care whether it understood or not. After yawning, he went back to his room to take a shower and sleep.
Zhang Ze slept until one o'clock in the afternoon. When he woke up naturally, he was full of energy. After lunch, he hurriedly sailed back.
It would probably take some time to sell so much tuna, so he should go back early and finish the work as soon as possible. Who knows, he might be able to go back to the city at night.
However, after driving for more than half an hour, a large number of seabirds flying on the sea on the left side in front caught his attention.
Zhang Ze quickly turned the steering wheel, adjusted the angle, and started driving towards where the seabirds were flying.
At sea, when encountering a large number of seabirds, no fisherman or angler will turn a blind eye.
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It would be fine if it was just a seabird passing by, but the bird stayed in an area, which clearly told him that there were schools of fish where the seabirds were.
In this situation, he has to go even if the fish tank is full, after all, his space is cleared!
As the fishing boat approached, the water area finally appeared in Zhang Ze's sight.
From time to time, sea water splashed on the water surface, obviously caused by some big fish.
At this moment, a big fish suddenly rushed out of the sea and bit a seabird that didn't have time to take off.
The seabird flapped its wings and struggled hard, but the next moment it was dragged into the water by the big fish and disappeared.
The nearby seabirds were so frightened that they flapped their wings hard and flew into the air to avoid becoming the next unlucky one.
"Tsk tsk tsk, this Niugang snail is really ferocious!"
I have always heard that Niugang horse mackerel will eat seabirds, but this is the first time Zhang Ze has seen this scene. He was unlucky in his previous life and had never seen such a wonderful scene in real life. He had only seen it on online videos.
The seabird just now was not small, and I could swallow it in one gulp. The bullhead mackerel must have weighed at least 50 kilograms.
When they got closer, Zhang Ze stopped the boat.
He didn't get too close, for fear that bird shit would rain from the sky.
As for the small number of seabirds that were tired of flying and stopped on the boat to rest, he was too lazy to care about them.
He locked Xiao Hei in the cabin to prevent him from coming out and being bullied by these ferocious seabirds.
Mainly, there are not only smaller seagulls here, but also some much larger frigatebirds.
The wingspan of these birds can reach more than two meters. Xiao Hei is still a puppy, how can he possibly be their opponent?
Zhang Ze came to the boat and threw some bait into the water. Soon a few fish came over. Their silvery-white bodies looked very much like silver pomfret.
"Could it be a group of silver pomfret?" Because of the sea water, Zhang Ze couldn't take a closer look, it was a little blurry, so he was not sure.
But no matter whether it is true or not, there are a lot of fish here, so he must catch them until the school disperses, otherwise it would be a waste of this opportunity.
Although he dislikes the trouble of sorting the fish, Zhang Ze will never miss it if he sees a school of fish.
He set down two fishing nets nearby, took out the bait and scattered it on the two fishing nets.
Then he sailed away from here, took out his fishing rod and started fishing nearby.
Zhang Ze took the fishing rod, without tying a lead weight or a float, and only hung an ordinary bait on it. Then he lifted the fishing rod and put the bait into the water and swung it back and forth a few times.
In an instant, four or five fish swam over from the blue-green sea in front. They were the fish he had seen before and suspected to be silver pomfret.
They don't swim very fast, but there are no other large fish competing with them for bait.
Zhang Ze's trick is called waiting for fish while bait is being fed. He just swiped the bait twice, imitating the small fish swimming in the water, and a fish was immediately hooked.
He watched the fish bite the hook, and almost the moment the fish bit the hook, he immediately picked up the fishing rod.
A silvery-white fish that looked like a silver pomfret but was even stranger was lifted into the air, struggling constantly while swinging its tail.
"What kind of fish is this?" Zhang Ze was surprised. He didn't expect it was not a silver pomfret, and he didn't even know what kind of fish it was.
The angle of the fishing rod was too high, and the fish was automatically brought to him due to inertia.
I took a closer look at the fish. It looked similar to a pomfret, but its length and height were almost the same.
From its appearance, Zhang Ze suspected that it was a kind of mackerel, and it looked somewhat familiar to him.
Then he reached out and touched it, and the lively little fish was taken into the space.
[Successfully caught a shortnose silk scad, weighing 0.78 catties, experience +11. ]
Short-nosed trevally?
Zhang Ze was very surprised. He naturally knew about the shortnose silk trevally. There was indeed a chance to encounter it near Dongsha. He had caught a few of them in his previous life.
However, he was fishing for an adult fish, which looked quite different from this young fish. No wonder he felt it looked familiar.
At that time, the fish he caught were all about 70 to 80 centimeters long and weighed more than 10 to 20 kilograms.
He thought it was some kind of marine fish that had grown this big, but he never thought it was a juvenile fish.
If it's young fish, then that's not interesting. Zhang Ze doesn't like to attack minors.
So he put away his fishing rod and quickly took the boat to collect the two fishing nets.
It's no problem to catch a few to try, but with these two nets, a lot of fish died.
Just as the net was set up, a large number of short-nosed silk trevally fry were caught, along with other large fish.
These fish that prey on the shortnose trevally were unlucky and ended up becoming his prey.
After Zhang Ze poured all the fish onto the deck, he went over and quickly put the fish into the space.
The fishing net had just been put down and the fish inside were still alive and kicking.
Among the large fish there were two bull bream, three big red snappers and several red snappers, which really attracted all kinds of predators.
Zhang Ze did not release the more than 100 short-snout silk trevally in the space immediately, but instead pulled up the second net, which also caught the same number of fish.
It’s only been about ten minutes since we put these two nets down, and the huge catch has a lot to do with the bait we just threw.
After collecting the fish in the net into the space, Zhang Ze went back to fishing.
But this time I adjusted the fishing rod to be harder and replaced it with a big fish hook.
There are many big fish here, which should not be missed.
(End of this chapter)
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