The thing Old Fu was most worried about did not happen.
Nowadays, most fishermen who go out to sea are honest and law-abiding, and their goal is to make money. The saying "murderers and arsonists wear golden belts, while those who repair roads leave no trace" is no longer popular.
He started cursing because Wu An had kept him at sea for half a day, wasting his time and a lot of money on fuel, which made him angry and embarrassed.
He just wanted to vent, but ended up getting a real tongue-lashing from Aqing.
But it was just a war of words.
Although following Wu An to find a hideout was not a very ethical thing to do, they did not take any more extreme actions.
Seeing the last yacht stop and begin work, Wu An smiled and took the megaphone from A Qing's hand, saying, "Alright, we're far enough away that they can't hear us if we keep yelling."
By the time we arrived at Twin Islands, it was already quite bright, close to 9 o'clock.
If they weren't out having fun at sea, they could have arrived here before eight o'clock to start their work. But the time wasn't wasted; the biggest gain was that they didn't let anyone catch up.
Anyway, I can afford to lose some money on gas.
Wu An said he was going to sail the boat, but Lao Fu and A Qing both asked him to come and collect the nets.
They said he had good luck.
Wu An struggled for a moment, saying that everyone was the same, the sticky net that boosted luck value didn't recognize people, but A Qing wouldn't listen and brought up the things that had happened before.
Wu An realized he couldn't slack off and had no choice but to go and collect the nets.
Hook up the netting and hang it on the winch.
Press the run button.
The winch creaked and groaned as it began operation.
"Brother, out of the water... Huh... Why is it this thing?" Ah Qing was initially quite happy, but when he saw that the net was full of sardines, his smile vanished.
This thing isn't worth much.
Sardines are caught in very dense schools, so they are usually caught in large quantities by deep-sea fishing vessels, and they can only be caught in coastal waters during the hot summer season.
But Aqing disliked this thing.
Since the fishing season has opened, this is one of the most common commercial fish, so the price is naturally very cheap. To put it bluntly, sardines are not even worth as much as the tail of a yellowtail, not to mention that they caught a lot of large yellow croakers with gillnets yesterday.
The higher Aqing's expectations were, the more disappointed she became.
Old Fu said with a smile, "As long as there's a gain, it's not a bad thing."
If you're going to use a net, you have to be prepared that you won't be able to pull it in, or that you'll pull it in empty-handed. The sardines are so densely packed that their migration in the ocean is like a storm.
As expected.
As he spoke, the net he pulled up was laden with sardines.
Densely packed.
Luckily, they were close together, and the sardines hanging on the net were relatively large, so it didn't feel like much. But if the distance were greater, it would trigger trypophobia.
Wu An untied one, held it in his hand for a moment, and said, "Old Fu, such a big sardine is quite rare, isn't it?"
Old Fu nodded.
Sardines are small, silvery, slender fish, ranging in length from about 15 to 30 centimeters.
The sardine in Wu An's hand was about forty centimeters long and probably weighed about a pound. It was considered a big sardine, and there were quite a few sardines of this length on the net.
It should fetch a good price.
It usually sells for around fourteen yuan per jin, but now it's selling for seventeen or eighteen yuan.
That's not bad either.
Wu An thought it was a good idea; as long as the volume increased, it could generate a considerable amount of money.
Seeing Aqing carelessly dissecting the fish, Wu An kicked him and said, "Get to work properly and stop swearing."
Ah Qing grunted twice, and her hands and feet immediately became much more nimble.
Old Fu laughed and said, "Ah Qing, don't be discouraged. Sardine schools are at the bottom of the marine food chain, and they usually attract a lot of big fish."
"Maybe if we're lucky, we can catch a few big fish in the net."
Aqing's eyes lit up: "A large yellow croaker?"
Old Fu didn't say a word.
He thought to himself that he also wished he could encounter a school of large yellow croakers this time, but how could he be so lucky? Once the school of fish passed by, it was basically over.
Large yellow croakers aren't something you can just come across easily, so he figured there wouldn't be any on this trip.
He might say something unpleasant, so it's better to keep quiet and get to work.
Wu An didn't say anything. Fish cutting is a technical job, and there aren't many tools available on the boat. He planned to get some when he got back.
We'll buy as many items as the ship can hold.
When the time comes, the rain will fall on the same day and be collected the next day. Once collected, it will not be untied; it will be taken directly back to the dock to be untied by the helpers.
Anyway, they're already famous.
We're not hiding it anymore.
To put it another way, I'm not pretending anymore, I'm laying my cards on the table.
I was just lucky.
Isn't that infuriating?
Perhaps due to the impact of the sardine swarms, apart from sardines, there were hardly any other fish in the nets, and even shrimp and crabs were scarce.
This also reduced the difficulty of their work; they only needed to remove the sardines from the net, throw them into the basket, and finally send them to the reservoir.
One hundred meters.
Two hundred meters.
Three hundred meters.
Then, the float disappeared.
"Gantamu, has someone stolen our nets again?" Aqing panicked when he couldn't find the float.
Wu An frowned as he scanned the sea, but found nothing.
Old Fu climbed to the highest point and looked through binoculars. After a while, he said, "I think I've spotted it, but I'm not sure. It's about a nautical mile away from here."
Wu An immediately said, "Never mind whether it is true or not, let's set sail and go take a look."
The fishing boat started.
As they got closer, Wu An could see the buoy with the naked eye, even without binoculars. It was very conspicuous. When they got even closer, A Qing excitedly shouted, "Brother, it's our buoy!"
"Damn it, who did this? How did they throw our nets here?"
"Could it be..."
Wu An shook his head: "Don't overthink it. It was probably hit by a school of fish or swept over by an undercurrent."
"Let's salvage it first and take a look."
Raise the buoy.
Winch operation.
When the net came out of the water, Wu An's expression changed. It was so tangled that it was unrecognizable. There were some sardines hanging on it, but the number was significantly less than that of a normal net.
Old Fu keenly sensed: "Something's not right. The winch is under heavy load; there might be a large shipment."
The winch is very effective.
As the net continued to emerge from the water, a large object surfaced and was dragged onto the deck. Old Fu said with a smile, "It's Big Eye, just like the ones we caught with the net before."
Wu An smiled and nodded. That's not bad. The price of 120 yuan per catty for bigeye tuna seems reasonable, but a bigeye tuna weighs at least 100 catties, so one fish would cost at least five figures.
This one fish is more expensive than all the sardines caught in a 100-meter-long gillnet, not to mention that two bigeye tuna were caught at once.
Ah Qing circled around the two bigeye tuna and said, "These two bigeye tuna are quite big. Standing next to them, I look like a little brother."
Wu An smiled, let him hold the phone, and squatted down to take a picture together.
Old Fu quickly found the last hundred meters of the net. It seemed that the missing net had been taken away by the bigeye tuna hunting sardines.
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