Wu An said, "When you get back this time, you can arrange a meeting."
"Job benefits and such are negotiable."
"Actually, technology is secondary; the main thing is whether the person is capable."
It's about technology.
It's best to understand, but it's okay if you don't; you can learn it later.
If time permits, he could even hire someone to provide training.
Fan Dali nodded and said, "Okay, I'll contact you when I get back."
"He is a very honest person."
"He's the kind of person you can't get a word out of even if you hit him three times."
Wu An smiled and said, "Okay."
"Hey mechanic, shouldn't we get this ship serviced too?"
Fan Dali scratched his head: "I don't really know either."
Wu An entered the cockpit.
Old Fu smiled and said, "The boat has already been serviced once, and it should be serviced again on this trip back."
Fu Yongning said, "There's no need to be so frequent."
It's not like a deep-sea fishing boat that needs maintenance every time it goes out to sea. Each trip only lasts three to five days. In his opinion, frequent maintenance is just a waste of money and a pointless hassle.
Old Fu said, "A new ship needs frequent maintenance to reduce the need for repairs later."
Wu An nodded and said, "Old Fu is right, better safe than sorry."
"This is different at sea than on land."
"It's good to take good care of it. We're not short of money. Old Fu, from now on, I'll leave everything to you."
Old Fu nodded.
After chatting for a while, Wu An opened the system; the luck value for trawling was almost depleted.
Not bad.
He called for the net to be set up.
The water depth never exceeded forty meters, and Lao Fu said the fishing boat was basically sailing parallel to the coastline.
Wu An didn't think it was a big deal.
Whether it's a black cat or a white cat, any cat that can catch mice is a good cat.
Similarly, as long as you can catch fish, it doesn't matter what sea area it is in.
The sun is setting.
The sea breeze became calmer, but without the direct sunlight, it felt noticeably colder on the skin.
Everyone was dressed neatly, in overalls, rain boots, gloves, and fully equipped.
Everyone performed their duties, and as the winch operated, everyone watched intently. First, the water distribution plate was pulled up, then the fishing net, and Fu Yongning whistled.
Whistles sounded incessantly on deck.
As the bulging nets surfaced, the fishing boat tilted slightly, and everyone's eyes lit up.
"It looks pretty good."
"It must weigh around three or four thousand jin."
"It's rare to see such a catch in just one hour in the nearshore waters."
"May Goddess Mazu bless us with a bountiful catch of fish."
"The catch! The catch!"
Everyone started shouting, one after another.
Fu Yongning wasn't very excited. He looked at Wu An and said, "A'an, go and pull it."
"You're very lucky."
"If we were to haul it away, I reckon half of it would be garbage."
He wasn't joking when he said this; in fact, it was a very conservative estimate.
During the trial voyage of the new ship, the first net pulled up a lot of garbage. The reason for this was that they were in near-shore waters at the time, which is about the same depth as now.
This is also why Lao Fu and his team are reluctant to operate in this deep water. In recent years, the situation of marine debris has become increasingly serious. It is no exaggeration to say that half of what is hauled up is garbage.
This situation has not improved much in the future, not because the quality of the people is getting worse, but because the country has not paid attention to this issue.
In fact, the government had been paying attention to this issue and trying to find solutions much earlier.
But there's nothing we can do.
The ocean belongs to the whole world; it's not something that can be controlled by one person, one region, or even one country simply by paying attention to garbage pollution.
Some countries really treat the ocean like a garbage dump, throwing and dumping anything into it!
There's no need to name names here.
Wu An nodded: "Then I'll go."
The crane arm swayed slightly as it slowly lifted the net bags to the sorting area.
Wu An stepped forward.
Pull the rope hard.
When Wu An saw the fallen seafood, his eyes widened in surprise.
How could it be this thing?
Everyone else gasped, their scalps tingling from the sheer number of tiny fish in the net.
"It's anchovies."
"It's quite big too."
"Not bad, not bad."
Fu Yongning squatted down and said with a smile.
Aqing frowned: "This is big?"
"At most, it's only about one or two ounces."
"I don't like to eat it, it has too many bones."
Wu An's deepest impression of anchovies was the canned fish, and he asked, "Can they be sold for ten yuan a pound now?"
Fu Yongning said, "It's pretty much the same."
Wu An smiled and said, "That's not bad either. At least there was no trash in this net. We caught about 2,000 catties of anchovies, so we made quite a bit of money from this net."
Hearing him say that, everyone's faces lit up with a smile.
Fu Yongning asked, "Shall we set off a second net?"
Wu An nodded.
It will be dark soon, so there's no need to go to other sea areas to work.
Anchovies it is.
You only have a few hundred points of luck left, once you've used them all up, that's it.
Everyone cast the second net first, then sat down to start sorting the catch.
Fu Yongning looked at the situation and realized that there was no need to classify such small fish by size.
Anchovies belong to both marine and freshwater fish, and are migratory fish that move between fresh and brackish water.
Every spring, they migrate to the estuaries of rivers to spawn. The young fish grow to a certain size in the brackish water before swimming into the sea in groups.
In addition, their trawl nets have relatively large mesh, allowing even smaller anchovies to escape.
Those that can be sold online are basically the larger anchovies, and Fu Yongning said that their prices are definitely higher than those of ordinary anchovies.
Everyone was working quite enthusiastically, and besides anchovies, there were also some other bottom-dwelling fish that were more expensive.
"Brother, look, I found a really big anchovy, it must weigh two or three ounces." Ah Qing proudly held up a fish and showed it off.
Wu An smiled and nodded.
That's pretty good.
Ah Qing has always had a knack for finding good deals.
Fu Yongning glanced at it and his eyes widened in surprise: "Holy crap, it's a knife fish!"
"This isn't an anchovy, it's a ribbonfish!"
He shouted excitedly.
Aqing looked at it: "Knife fish?"
"Isn't this just a large anchovy?"
Fu Yongning said, "Yes, it looks like a large anchovy, but anchovies can't grow that big."
"This is a sea knife fish."
Aqing asked, "What's the difference?"
Fu Yongning laughed and said, "Anchovies cost more than ten yuan per catty, while sea knife fish cost several hundred yuan per catty."
Aqing was stunned.
Everyone looked up at the knife fish in Aqing's hand!
Wu An also looked surprised: "They look about the same, so why is there such a big price difference?"
Fu Yongning said, "That's right."
The scientific name of the knife fish is *Coilia ectenes*, and the scientific name of the anchovy is *Coilia esculenta*. As you can tell from their scientific names, they belong to the same family.
Similarly, they are also migratory fish.
Mei Wu also found a knife fish and excitedly shouted, "I found one too!"
Fan Dali and Fan Xiaozhu also made discoveries one after another.
Wu An also became interested and squatted down to pick through the fish. Before long, he actually found a knife fish, which was lying in the pile of fish and looked much longer than anchovies.
He reached out and pulled.
It didn't come out.
As you move the pile of fish around with your hands, a turtle's head comes into view.
"Brother Turtle?"
Wu An was stunned for a moment, then stared at Turtle Brother with wide eyes: "It really is you!"
Turtle Brother's mouth started moving as he quickly chewed and swallowed the knife fish. Wu An let go, both amused and exasperated: "Eat slowly, I won't fight you for it."
"Come aboard my ship, it's like having a buffet."
Eat as much as you want, no limit.
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