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Chapter 525 Attracting Dolphins and Repelling Schools of Fish
"It's no wonder that the shark just now one at a time, one at a time, the joy of eating is turning into sorrow."

"Hmm... hey hey... look..."

"What?" Ye Yaodong was reeling up the cable, and raised his head when he heard the voice.

I saw the group of dolphins that had just rounded up the sharks surfaced again, but most of them were still far away and scattered in all directions.

At this moment, the three or four dolphins in the east are jumping out of the water one after another, doing forward rolls in the air.

The surrounding dolphins immediately swam towards the east from all directions, and as the dolphins swam, the waves rolled into several wavy lines.

Ye Yaodong felt that the dolphins rolling to the east at the beginning should have been calling their companions just now, but they didn't know what they were going to do, so they should gather together and leave, after all, they lived in groups.

But when they merged, they could hear the dolphins' "squeaks" intermittently, and a group of dolphins slowly started swimming from east to west.

"Are they playing? Put the hooks away first, this is serious business." Ye Yaodong took a glance and felt that these dolphins were playing. Dolphins are marine creatures that love to play.

"No, didn't you see them form a circle?" Father Ye reminded him, "Look carefully, there seems to be fish churning in that circle, and those dolphins are driving the fish away."

"what?"

Ye Yaodong took a closer look at this time, indeed, those dolphins were in an oval shape, surrounded by the side, and small fish jumped out of the water from time to time in the circle inside.

It turned out that the dolphins that just swam over there in all directions were to go and intercept the school of fish.

He suddenly said excitedly: "Oh! Let me just say, this dolphin can help fishermen drive fish away."

"Repelling is driving, but it's one thing to drive them by themselves, and another thing to help fishermen drive them away. Don't confuse them."

Father Ye still doesn't believe that dolphins can help fishermen drive fish away.

"You still don't believe me, hey? I swam far away... It's a pity that the rope in my hand is only half-retracted, and I'm still retrieving it. Otherwise, we can just follow up. There must be something to catch behind the dolphins. .”

Dolphins have the ability to detect and navigate by ultrasound.

I heard that foreign fishermen first look for dolphins when fishing for tuna in the ocean.Because dolphins are often accompanied by tuna, it is easy to find tuna with dolphins as "guide". 90% of the tuna caught by the tuna fleet of country M is guided by dolphins.

Father Ye glanced at him, "There is not enough time, and the sun will go down in three hours. If you run with it, you will probably go back in vain. This bigger boat will float on the sea for a few days. They might actually be able to keep coming across schools of fish in their wake.”

"That's right, alas, the ducks that reach their mouths will fly away. Take up the line, at least there will be a wave of fish passing by. In case there are empty hooks, you can hang a few more. Although it is cheap, the quantity can be more. of."

"Well, this school of fish is not very big. It is estimated that a lot of them have been wiped out by sharks. With so many dolphins surrounding them, they must be wiped out after swimming around them for a long time. Let’s put away these longlines. The rope was pulled up just now, and a series of harvests look good.”

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong took a look at the aftermath of the rolling waves in the distance, and continued to draw his thread.

Most of the fish hanging on these row hooks today are mackerel, and there are many other fish, but the proportion of the number is not as large as that of mackerel, and most of them are about one catty. Many, but very few empty ticks.

He guessed that without these mackerel passing by, the longline fishing harvest today would be dismal.

It took him more than an hour to collect all the threads, and there were 8 more baskets of fish, and the father and son returned home reluctantly satisfied.

It's just that when they sailed back to the shore, the waves rolled behind them, and the people on the shore were in an uproar, shouting excitedly that there were schools of fish.

"Look, there are schools of fish..."

"What a big group..."

"There are several big ones beside..."

"Hurry up, hurry up, everyone, get on the boat and catch up..."

The father and son were planning to pack up their things and carry them off the boat, but when they heard the excited voices of the people on the shore, they looked behind them and saw the waves rolling on the sea and the dolphins jumping non-stop.

Only then did I realize that there was a group of dolphins behind me, and the school of fish driven inside seemed to have grown a lot.

Just as they were jumping on the surrounding sea for a while, and when they were about to turn around and run out, Ye Yaodong directly sailed to follow them without hesitation, and several fishing boats returning to the port had already seen them and rowed towards them.

There were some boats that had docked on the shore, and they wanted to try to see if they could get a share of the pie, so they also rowed past.

Fortunately, these dolphins are not fast enough to drive the school of fish. Some small wooden boats have already caught up with the school of fish because they are approaching, and spread out their fishing nets for casting.

Ye Yaodong's boat also approached quickly, and then stopped not far from them. Father Ye was holding a hand throwing net, and was always ready to cast the net.

However, these dolphins are moving to drive the school of fish, and they are also separated by a distance. After casting one net, the next net may have to be chased by the boat again.

Seeing that his father was impatient to cast a net out, Ye Yaodong ignored him, picked up two sticks that were always on the boat with his hands and feet, and then kept patting the water surface with the sticks.

Father Ye was busy collecting the net, so he didn't pay attention to his actions.

After pulling a net of fish to the side of the boat, I realized why he didn't come to help, and turned around to see his strange behavior.

"What are you doing? It's the business to fish now. What are you doing with a stick at this time?"

"I'm attracting dolphins. You collect your net. After you collect the net later, use two sticks to help hit the water surface."

It is said that hitting the water with a wooden stick can attract dolphins, because the sound of the wooden stick hitting the water is very similar to the sound made by a fish that dolphins like to eat most.

This was told to him by a shipmate who lived by the sea in his previous life.

Father Ye was stunned, just like him hitting the water with a wooden stick, the dolphins came over?
"Are you kidding me? Hitting the water with a stick attracts dolphins?"

Father Ye was very skeptical, but felt that the third child would not do such a stupid thing.

"Not sure, give it a try. Anyway, you pull your net, and I will do mine without delay. What if it is possible?"

Anyway, it was a waste of effort to cast a net, so he tried to see if it worked?If it doesn't matter, just sail to catch up later, anyway, if he is in front of his father, he will lose face, lose face and lose face.

If it works, you might be able to use it when you encounter groups of dolphins in the future.

Most of the sea is currently filled with small wooden boats, only one other one is equipped with a power plant like them, and it is also parked there to cast a net, but because the fish school is moving, it seems that they do not catch a lot of goods.

Ye Yaodong tapped for a while, watching the dolphins swim farther and farther, thinking that either they were too far away, the dolphins didn't hear them, or they had done a futile effort. Seeing his father put away the net, he felt a little sore in his wrist.

"Look, are you messing around?" Father Ye had a clear expression on his face, but he didn't laugh at him.

"Business is foolishness, this has to be tried, failure is success damn it, only failure can learn a lesson..."

"Don't be silly, hurry up and catch up with the boat..."

Just when he stopped his arm to put away the wooden stick, he saw a dolphin turned around at the end of the very edge, and it swam forward for a short distance.

Ye Yaodong suddenly got excited, and said excitedly: "Here we come, we finally turned our heads...Father, you can also try hitting with two wooden sticks together, maybe the sound I made is too small, and their The sonar system has not received it for half a day."

Father Ye had just confirmed that he was doing useless work there, but now he was a little skeptical. Seeing a dolphin swimming towards here, thinking of trusting him for once, he also picked up the short stick on the boat and beat it frequently. water surface.

This time the clattering noise became louder, and the dolphin swam closer. It immediately rolled over the water and called for friends with its loud dolphin voice.

The dolphins that were chasing ahead heard its call, and stopped moving one after another. After a while, the dolphins jumped up in place, and then began to emit their sound waves.

When the school of fish heard the sound of "creaking", they all frightened and gathered together, not daring to act rashly.

Father Ye stared dumbfounded at the dolphin that circled in a big circle in front of him, then turned his head and kept bouncing forward, and couldn't help but look at Ye Yaodong.

"It really works???"

Ye Yaodong grinned, also very happy, "We'll see later, I haven't swum over yet, so I'll just try casually."

The dolphins are also very willful when they drive the fish. They can go wherever they want. When they hear the sound of clattering, the dolphins immediately drive the fish over.

The boats chasing the school of fish on the sea saw the dolphins driving the school of fish to turn around.

When they saw that they were surrounded by a big boat, everyone was a little confused.

The father and son didn't care about other fishing boats coming over, and when the dolphins drove the fish to their surroundings, they quickly took the hand-made net and cast a net on the fish.

The heavy net was full, and the dragging father and son both grinned and their arms were swollen with veins. This net was much more than the one that Father Ye cast just now.

The surrounding fishing boats didn't bother to ask them how they attracted the fish, so they hurried over and took the opportunity to cast their nets.

It is rare for them to stay here at this moment and not swim any more. Everyone has started the mode of big fish and special fish.

Those who see have a share.

The sea does not belong to anyone, and most of the boats around are from their village, Ye Yaodong can only try to catch as many as possible.

However, as the boats on the shore also rowed over, the number of fish in the water also decreased a lot, and it didn't take long for more monks and less meat.

(End of this chapter)