The night was deep.
Wu An turned on all the lights on the boat, illuminating the surroundings brightly.
We arrived at the area for longline fishing.
Wu An hooked up the float and began to reel in the line.
Old Fu stopped the boat.
He leaned to the side, closed his eyes, and began to rest.
Three people are enough to hook them.
Aqing clasped her hands together: "Hopefully there will be good goods."
Seeing this, Mei Wu followed suit.
Whether it works or not, the sentiment is definitely there.
The longline was pulled up quickly; the first few hooks were empty, and then the longline began to shake violently.
Ah Qing excitedly shouted, "Brother, we have some!"
As the seafood was brought ashore, Ah Qing held up a flashlight and shouted, "It's an eel!"
The moray eel struggled fiercely.
The hooks around the eel were all tangled up, and Mei Wu said with some frustration, "It seems we can't use longline fishing now."
Wu An smiled and said, "I wasn't planning on playing any more anyway."
"Take it."
"Aqing, be careful."
Aqing responded, untied the eel, quickly threw it into the bucket, and exclaimed happily, "Goodness, it must weigh at least six or seven pounds!"
Wu An nodded, agreeing that this eel could fetch at least three or four hundred yuan.
Oil eel, also known as sand eel or seven-star eel, is highly nutritious and is therefore called "soft gold of the sea," especially suitable for children.
Because it only has one main bone and no messy little thorns, it tastes great when steamed.
The last few hooks are still empty.
Aqing was getting anxious and said, "Brother, it seems like longline fishing isn't working."
"The harvest is getting smaller each time."
Wu An nodded and said, "That's perfectly normal, what's there to say?"
A 1,000-meter longline fishing only adds 20 points to your luck value, while both bottom traps and gillnets add much more luck value than longline fishing.
In comparison, such a catch is perfectly normal for longline fishing.
The reason he hasn't given up longline fishing yet is mainly because it can occasionally bring surprises.
but.
Once the trawlers arrive, longline fishing, including gillnetting, will likely have to be abandoned.
after all.
Trawl nets are one of the most powerful methods of operation.
They traveled to and from the sea, and occasionally they would encounter trawlers hauling in their nets. They would look at them from afar with binoculars, watching as a large clump of trawl nets was pulled out of the sea.
It was bulging and full; Old Fu said that one net could catch at least a thousand catties.
Wu An thought to himself, even if they were worthless, he could still make ten thousand yuan from this net.
Ordinary people can do this.
Wouldn't he become even richer with that cheating?
A trawl takes only a few hours to complete, and with non-stop work all day, a single trip can last for several days. Wu An figured that by using a trawler to go out to sea, he could earn at least several hundred thousand yuan in one trip!
Yes.
Wu An is now somewhat dissatisfied with the current speed at which he can earn tens of thousands of yuan per trip at sea. He feels it's a bit slow and laborious.
Longline fishing may seem simple to operate, but every hook needs to be baited. With 500 hooks, go ahead and bait them; you'll be guaranteed to hook one without making a sound.
This trip was a bit better; I had my sister-in-law set up the longline fishing at home beforehand.
But I can't keep bothering my sister-in-law.
Besides, his sister-in-law doesn't want wages. If he pays her, she'll be unhappy; if he doesn't pay her, he'll feel uneasy.
He was thinking that once the trawlers arrived, he would try to abandon other fishing methods.
But then another problem arose.
Old Fu made it clear to him that trawl operations were not so easy, and that the few of them alone would definitely not be able to keep up, not to mention anything else.
Once the catch of thousands of kilograms of fish is brought up, it must be sorted and processed immediately.
at the same time.
We still need to continue our offline work.
Old Fu has to sail the boat and can't help.
There were only three of them, and they were a little nervous about splitting it up to use.
Wu An was also troubled.
It's not easy to find people; we have to find trustworthy ones. He asked Old Fu and Mei Wu to help him search, and he's also planning to discuss it with Old Man Kong to find some reliable people in the village.
Just as I was thinking about something, I heard Aqing shouting, and the winch also made a creaking sound.
Wu An looked at the water.
Goodness.
The sea was splashing violently.
He asked, "What is it?"
Mei Wu, holding a light stick, said, "It looks like an oil eel, but it's also quite big."
Ah Qing exclaimed, "That's a giant eel!"
He reached out and grabbed it.
Wu An shouted, "Be careful!"
The winch is very powerful.
The three of them were quite surprised to see the large eel that had been pulled onto the deck. This eel looked at least twice the size of the previous one. Ah Qing couldn't help but gesture, "It looks bigger than me."
"I crown it the King of Oil Eels."
"Brother, we'll definitely get a good price for it."
Wu An nodded with a smile.
Aqing and Meiwu worked together to carefully stuff the large eel into the net basket. These things are very resilient; once they're thrown into the live fish container, they don't need to be cared for.
The next dozen or so hooks went unhooked.
Wu An smiled and said, "Don't rush."
"Those two eels we just caught can fetch a good price. At least we'll break even on the cost of the longline fishing and our manpower. We'll definitely make a profit."
Hearing Wu An say that, A Qing immediately felt much more relaxed.
He has a simple mind.
I'm happy when things go well, and upset when things don't go well.
Having such a lively character on the boat made it much more interesting. Otherwise, Old Fu was not talkative, and Mei Wu was also not talkative, so Wu An would find it boring.
After about a hundred hooks, I caught another eel, which was quite big and weighed about seven or eight pounds.
Wu An felt it shouldn't be like that.
Oil eel is alright, but it definitely won't consume that much luck.
As expected.
In the last thirty or so hooks, a red spot emerged from the water, making Aqing so happy that she twisted her waist and spontaneously picked a random dance. It wasn't cringeworthy; it was purely non-mainstream.
Wu An seemed quite amused. After all the longline fishing was done, he even taught A Qing how to do the "driving test" (or "driving course").
Aqing learned it and immediately became obsessed.
Mei Wu came over and said, "There are twelve oil eels in total, and one red-spotted eel."
"Shall we go collect the sticky nets?"
Wu An glanced at the system; the luck value for sticking to the net had been almost completely depleted, with only a few exceptions having 1 point of luck value remaining. He said, "Call Old Fu to get up."
"Let's try to finish collecting the nets before dawn."
Mei Wu went to see Old Fu.
Old Fu groggily opened his eyes and asked, "Did you finish the longline fishing? How was the catch?"
Mei Wu shook his head and said, "It's pretty average."
Old Fu nodded and was just about to start the fishing boat when the lights came on. He suddenly leaned forward and stared wide-eyed at the sea not far from the bow.
"There are schools of fish!"
"Didn't you guys notice?"
"Look at what the sea looks like now, it's boiling over."
Old Fu shouted.
Mei Wu also noticed and said, "Wu An and A Qing were singing and dancing in the back, making a lot of noise, so I didn't notice them."
He went to call Wu An and A Qing.
Wu An took a look.
Goodness.
Around the lights, fish swarmed in large numbers, jumping up and down like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
"The fish doesn't look very big."
"No matter what kind of fish it is, as long as you can catch it, you can sell it for money."
"Take the throwing net."
"Get to work, get to work!"
"Aren't you going to collect the sticky nets?"
"Why would you want to collect them? Encountering schools of fish is a gift from the Goddess Mazu. If you don't collect them, aren't you afraid of displeasing her?"
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