space fisherman

Chapter 172
The reason why Ye Yuan doesn't like to eat yellow pollock is because its meat is thicker and has a grassy smell.

This has also led to yellow pollock being a fish with a relatively low price in the seafood markets of Blue Star countries.

At first, the crew were very happy to catch so many pollacks, but when Ye Yuan told the price of the fish, everyone became discouraged.

After eating for 2 days, all the crew members have had enough. Since this fish is very cheap, Ye Yuan feels that they will occupy some space in the cold storage.

In the end, Bao Chunyu from the Northeast came up with a solution.

It is to make these yellow pollock into dried pollack, which is not only easier to store, but also does not occupy the space of the cold storage.

It is very simple to make dried pollack, just take out the internal organs and throw them away (no one on the boat eats them), and then hang them on the boat to dry.

The dried pollack is very chewy and is a very good appetizer.

Because there were more yellow pollock caught in three consecutive nets, the crew filled the whole boat.

Now the entire "Yushui" is full of fishy smell, but for the crew who fish all year round, it is not a big deal.

Ye Yuan is not in the mood to continue blowing the sea breeze on the deck, because what is rushing towards him is no longer refreshing, but full of fishy smell.

After several days of sailing, the fishing boat has come to the Pacific Ocean. Because the weather has been good recently, the dried pollack on the boat has not had the same strong smell as before.

After smelling the fishy smell for a few days, Ye Yuan really regretted listening to Bao Chunyu's suggestion, it would be better to just return these pollacks to the sea.

That day, Ye Yuan was lying on his own hammock on the deck, when he heard Ma Hua's startled voice sounded behind him

"Boss! Look! There are so many seabirds!"

Ye Yuan heard Ma Hua's call, turned around and looked over, and saw thousands of seabirds hunting around the sea in the distance.

Ye Yuan was also shocked by the scene in front of him. Ye Yuan had also seen this kind of phenomenon in books, but when he really witnessed it, the scene was still very shocking.

Fingertips of dense seabirds are entrenched on the sea surface. From time to time, seabirds swoop down to the sea surface. When each swooping seabird flies back into the air again, it will hold a small fish in its mouth.

You don't need to look at Ye Yuan to know that there must be a large school of fish ahead, otherwise there wouldn't be so many seabirds gathered here.

Ye Yuan heard from an old man in the village that if you don't know how to find schools of fish in the sea, then look for groups of seabirds on the surface of the sea, as long as there are groups of seabirds, there must be schools of fish.

Ye Yuan sensed the release directly, he wanted to know how big the fish school was, and could gather so many seabirds here.

When Ye Yuan's perception saw the situation under the sea, he couldn't help but be shocked by the scene he saw.

On the bottom of the sea not far in front of the "Royal Water", a large fish school is gathering, and the fish school is mainly sardines.

The shoal of fish is gathering more and more like a whirlwind on the bottom of the sea. This shoal of fish is hard to describe in terms of quantity. It is densely packed with sardines, and just below this huge shoal of sardines, there are densely packed tuna. Seeing this, Ye Yuan suddenly Understood.

These sardines were chased to the surface of the sea by tuna, and the schools of sardines are still gathering.

This sardine school can be said to be under attack from the front and back, with thousands of seabirds hunting on it, and the dense tuna below hunting them.

Even so, the sardine school has not seen a decrease, which is enough to show how amazing the number of this sardine school is.

Ye Yuan, who originally wanted to order a trawling net, suddenly stopped ordering. He thought of a better way to catch tuna than trawling nets, that is, book fishing.

Bendiao is a foreign word from the Japanese country, which refers to the fishing method with only a single fishing rod and a single hook, and is extended to the meaning of "breaking one by one".

First of all, if you are fishing, you need to catch some bait fish (usually sardines, mackerel and herring) in advance and put them in the boat for temporary storage.

Then the experienced captain will judge the approximate orientation of the tuna and bonito shoals based on the activities of seabirds (the gathering of seabirds indicates that there may be schools of tuna chasing fish) and fish finders.

After the fishing boat reaches the corresponding sea area, it starts fishing.

The crew first throws a small amount of sardine bait to attract schools of skipjack and tuna and draw them closer to the boat.

At the same time, a large amount of seawater will be pumped and thrown to the sea surface. The purpose of this is to create the illusion of "sardines getting together" and the seawater "boiling".

This can definitely touch the excitement of skipjack and tuna hunting, and the school of skipjack and tuna will be extremely excited.

Once the tuna or skipjack gather, the fishermen on the boat will quickly throw the hooks into the sea!

Tunas prey quickly, and they bite the hook in a hurry when they can’t tell whether it’s a sardine or a hook. Once the tuna bites the hook, the fisherman quickly pulls the fish up and throws the fish to the deck behind him by inertia.

A special fishhook is used for this fishing, and the hook is like an L shape, not a U shape commonly used.

And the hook handle is heavy. The "L" shaped fishhook has no barbs, so that when the fish caught by the fisherman throws the fish to the highest point by inertia, it will easily fall off the hook and fall on the deck, and then the next fish can be caught. fish.

Because the tuna gathering is based on the number of sardines to determine the length of time, fishermen must use all their strength and go all out to fish with their poles.

The main reason why Ye Yuan wanted to use a book to fish instead of trawling was because of the special breathing method of tuna.

Tuna need to swim back and forth endlessly, so that the water flow hits the gills to obtain fresh oxygen. If the tuna is caught with a trawling net, it will cause the tuna to be unable to continue swimming, and will soon suffocate to death.

Moreover, the fish are greatly stimulated during the fishing process, so the color and freshness of the fish meat decrease rapidly.

The skipjack and tuna caught by Ipbon Fishing are of good quality, bright and bright.

At the same time, this fishing method has a single fishing target and is quite friendly to marine resources. The disadvantage is that it is very costly to fish, and people with poor waists cannot engage in this work.

Ye Yuan had already prepared the hooks and rods needed for fishing, but because he hadn't encountered a large school of tuna in the past few times, he didn't take them out.

This time the opportunity is very good. Generally speaking, I have to create the illusion of sardine schools to attract tuna, but the time for tuna schools to gather around the fishing boat is limited, and not many tuna can be caught.

But this time Ye Yuan and the others are different, they are real, they met a super large sardine school, now Ye Yuan is not worried about the time the tuna will be around the boat, but how long the crew can last.

Ye Yuan called 3 crew members, several people came to the tool room, took 11 fishing rods specially used for fishing, and came to the deck, each crew member had a fishing rod. At first, many crew members didn't know why Ye Yuan Send them fishing rods.

(End of this chapter)