Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 954: Things People at Sea Have Seen Too Many Times

"Yo!"

"That's exactly what happened!"

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"It's impossible to just find a place and build an artificial island or reef."

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"Where the tides or ocean currents gather is the best place to build artificial islands and reefs."

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Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayong were not well educated, but they had been fishing at sea all their lives, so they knew what was going on after Zhao Dahai told them.

"Zhao Dahai."

"What you said makes a lot of sense. As long as they find the direction of the tides and water in the sea, or the location of the small ocean currents you mentioned, they will definitely have a chance to catch a lot of fish."

"But I've never heard of this matter before."

"Can we find it?"

Lei Dayou frowned, his eyebrows were knitted tightly, what Zhao Dahai said made a lot of sense, as long as you find such a place, you can find the route where the fish gather along the ocean current to the artificial islands and reefs, and you can catch a lot of fish by waiting or following the clues. But the problem is that these people have been fishing for so many years, and have never heard of such a thing. I don’t know if there are really small ocean currents or sea currents converging here on the artificial islands and reefs.

"Correct!"

"I haven't heard of such a thing."

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"The old fishermen in the village probably never mentioned this. If they did, we would definitely know about it."

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Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin were very excited when they first heard Zhao Dahai mention this. They thought that as long as they found a place like this, they would be able to catch a lot of fish. However, when they heard Zhao Dahai say this, they found that this was not easy. They had grown up in a fishing village and had always gone out to sea to fish. They had never heard of such a thing.

"Not many people know about this, especially fishermen. They hardly care about it. Even if they have heard about it, they don't take it seriously."

Zhao Dahai was not surprised at all whether Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da had heard of this matter. This matter had nothing to do with ordinary people going out to sea. People going out to sea were busy every day, so who would care about something that had nothing to do with them.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayong thought about it and nodded. It was indeed the case. Not to mention whether there were currents on the seabed of the artificial islands and reefs, they almost ignored and didn't care about anything about the artificial islands and reefs before following Zhao Dahai to fish. One reason was that their fishing boats were relatively small, and the second was that the artificial islands and reefs were not suitable for fishing. They almost never came here to fish. Even if someone mentioned the artificial islands and reefs, they would not take it to heart. In addition, the people they usually interacted with were almost the same fishermen, and none of them would care about the artificial islands and reefs.

"Just because we don't know about this doesn't mean others don't know."

"Uncle Shizhu, just because people your age don't know doesn't mean that older people, like Second Grandpa Zhaoshi or Grandpa Shi Guangming, don't know or haven't heard of it."

"We are not going to fish now, so why don't we take a break and drive the speedboat around to try our luck and find the fish? It's a good thing we can't find it, it doesn't matter."

"Tomorrow we won't go fishing. One reason is to get a good night's sleep, and the other is to ask my second grandfather Zhao Shi and my grandfather Shi Guangming if they have heard of such a thing. We don't need a very specific place or direction. As long as we have a general place or direction, spend some time and burn 8,000 yuan of gasoline and look for it carefully, there is still a great chance of finding it."

Zhao Dahai has been thinking about this matter for the past few days. It is absolutely impossible that he picked a place randomly without any reason. The most likely possibility is that there is a small current on the seabed of this area. He and his people, including Zhong Shizhu, have never heard of it, but his second grandfather Zhao Shi or Shi Wenming is very likely to have heard of it.

"Correct!"

"We have to ask carefully when we get back this time."

"If you can really find a place like this, you'll have a chance to catch big fish, and you'll have a chance to catch a lot of fish."

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"what!"

"Uncle Zhao and the others must have known about this."

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"I've eaten more salt than we've eaten rice. I'm not kidding."

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Zhao Dahai saw that they had rested enough, so he drove the speedboat away from the artificial island and headed straight for the foam area of ​​the island, where Ding Dawen's large fishing boat was waiting.

2 p.m.

The sun was high in the sky and it was very hot.

Ding Dawen squinted his eyes and looked at the foam area of ​​the island reef not far away. The entire sea surface was motionless like a mirror.

"Hey!"

"Second Grandpa!"

"The tides have been a little bit off lately."

Ding Dawen looked at Zhao Shi who was standing next to him, smoking a hookah intermittently. Zhao Dahai, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Da and a few others had gone out to sea to fish in the early morning. It was six in the morning when he arrived here, and it was not long after dawn. Recently, he had been waiting for Zhao Dahai to come back from fishing at sea. He had already found out that the tide would start around seven to eight o'clock, but there was no big tide in the whole morning. There were only seven or eight large and small foam areas. More than thirty speedboats crowded around these foam areas to fish for sea bass, and each speedboat did not catch many fish.

"Ok!"

"The tides and currents here are really not normal during this period. There are not many fish to catch, and almost no speedboats coming here are making any money."

"Ding Dawen."

"This is what normally happens to people who go out to sea."

"Sometimes I can catch fish, sometimes I can catch fish, sometimes I can even catch a lot of fish, but most of the time I don't catch that many fish, and I can't make much money. It's good enough to fill my stomach."

Zhao Shi has been fishing at sea all his life, and he has no idea how many times he has seen or encountered such things. This is actually the truest side of people who go out to sea to fish or people who fish, and it is also the thing they least want to encounter.

"There's nothing we can do about it."

"How can we eat meat every day?"

Shi Guangming shook his head. He had been at sea for decades and had seen countless things like this. There was not much one could do when facing the sea.

"correct!"

"Zhao Dahai seems to have caught fewer fish in the last few trips out to sea?"

Shi Guangming patted his forehead.

"Yes!"

"The number of fish caught in the sea has obviously decreased in recent days."

Zhao Shi frowned.

During this time, Shi Guangming and I have been staying on the sea ship. In fact, Ding Dawen has long been able to work on his own, and the two of them have nothing to do, so they will go out to sea together every now and then.

What Shi Guangming said was a fact. The number of fish caught during the recent trips out to sea for blasting was relatively small.

“It’s almost half.”

Ding Dawen, look at Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming looking at him. This time he wants to see how many fewer fish Zhao Dahai has caught recently. He handles all the fish that come back from every trip to the sea and knows the number very well.

"No way? So many are missing?"

Shi Guangming was shocked. Zhao Dahai had indeed caught fewer fish recently, and he could tell with his eyes this time, but he didn't expect that there would be so many fewer fish all of a sudden. "Hmm!"

“It’s true that so much is missing!”

Ding Dawen nodded very affirmatively.

"What the hell!"

"Could it be that something happened in the sea recently? Why are there so few fish all of a sudden?"

Shi Guangming couldn't help but curse a few words.

All of them make a living by fishing in the sea, or by taking others out to sea to fish to make money.

There are no fish in the sea, and the impact is really huge.

The tides and currents in the island and reef foam area are very poor, so not many fish are caught. This is understandable and may be temporary.

The artificial islands and reefs are relatively far away, and if there are no fish, it means that there will be fewer fish, shrimps and crabs in a large area of ​​sea.

If the number of fish caught by a top fishing expert like Zhao Dahai is decreasing, then it definitely means that there are really no fish in the sea.

"Shi Guangming."

"What's the point of being so angry? Do you think the fish in the sea will suddenly increase because of your anger?"

"Isn't it always like this at some point every year? Or is it something like this that happens every few years?"

Zhao Shi was very helpless, but very calm. He had seen too many things like this during his decades at sea.

"There are not many fish in the sea right now, which has a big impact on ordinary speedboats going out to sea, but it has almost no impact on your business for deep-sea fishing boats."

"What are you worried about?"

"For Zhao Dahai, the number of fish he caught has indeed decreased, but it's not just him who has caught less fish. The number of fish caught or caught by all those who go out to sea has decreased."

“The prices of fish, shrimp and crabs will definitely go up.”

"Don't think that you will catch less fish, but in fact, the money you earn will not be less, at least not much less."

"We've all made a lot of money, so what do we have to worry about?"

"Can you control what people all over the world eat?"

Zhao Shi was not polite at all and kept saying one sentence after another.

"Hey!"

"Old man Zhao."

"Why do I feel that what you said makes a lot of sense?"

Shi Guangming was stunned and had no way to refute what Zhao Shi said.

There are no fish on the nearby sea, and the general fishing boats or speedboats going out to sea for fishing are greatly affected.

However, the impact on deep-sea fishing boats or anglers will not be particularly significant.

To put it more directly, even if people who go fishing in the sea are affected, the deep-sea fishing boats will not be affected much.

There are no fish in places like the open sea and the inland sea, so people who make a living by fishing would like to try going to farther places to see if there are any fish to catch.

The business of sea fishing boats will not be affected in this situation, but may even be better. Sea fishing boats that collect fishing fees will definitely make a profit, but the people who pay to go out to sea for fishing may not be sure.

Will Zhao Dahai be affected?

Not only will you not be affected, you will even be able to earn more.

If there are fewer fish, shrimps and crabs in the market, the prices will rise, and they will rise very high.

Originally a fish could be sold for a hundred yuan, but now it can be sold for two hundred or even three hundred yuan.

Zhao Dahai reduced his fishing by half, but instead of making less money, he may have made more.

The only thing Zhao Dahai is catching now is fewer fish instead of catching no fish. And the fact that he is catching fewer fish is only relative to the number of fish he caught before, not that the number is really less.

In a normal two-day and one-night period, Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu could catch 6,000 to 8,000 kilograms of fish, and even more than 10,000 kilograms of various fish in a good time. But now he could only catch 3,000 kilograms of fish.

But now the price of 3,000 kilograms of fish in the market is equivalent to the price of 10,000 kilograms of fish in a month.

How could Zhao Dahai be affected?
If being able to make more money can be considered an impact, everyone hopes for this to happen.

Shi Guangming thought about it over and over again, but really couldn't imagine what impact it would have on himself and Zhao Dahai.

"Old man Shi."

"There's no need to worry about things like this. We're old now, so we can just leave these things to Zhao Dahai or Shi Jiehua and Shi Zhong to handle."

"Another thing you should not forget is that your family, Zhao Dahai, and even Zhong Shizhu have all made a lot of money in the past period of time."

"Even if there aren't many fish to catch for now, everyone is still living a happy life."

"When there are fish, fish more and make more money. When there are really no fish, just rest more."

Zhao Shi looked at the foam area of ​​the island reef not far away.

It's really not that I have no conscience. I feel that the fish other people catch or the few fish they catch have nothing to do with me. It's not my business. Besides, this happens very often.

You've seen this happen a lot in your life, and you won't take it to heart anymore.

"Yo!"

"Zhao Dahai's speedboat is back!"

"Wait and see how many fish we caught this time."

Shi Guangming was smoking a hookah and saw a speedboat approaching quickly in the distance.

"Row!"

"Look at how many fish Zhao Dahai caught this time. I guess it won't be too many, but there will definitely be fish."

"But then again, maybe Zhao Dahai is already thinking about how to catch more fish."

"Let's ask about this later."

Zhao Shi looked at the speedboat approaching and planned to talk to Zhao Dahai about this matter later to see if he had any ideas.

"Yo!"

"Old man Zhao."

"Didn't you just say that there is no way to solve this problem? Why did you change your mind in the blink of an eye and think about figuring out with Zhao Dahai how to catch more fish?"

Shi Guangming was stunned for a moment, because what Zhao Shi said now was different from what he said just now.

(End of this chapter)