Reborn as a Sea King in Tokyo Fishing Village

Chapter 16 This is picking up money directly

The saury in the live water tank were running around in a panic as if something had happened.

It looked glittering, just like silver piled up in a ship's cabin, emitting the luster of money.

Ji Chang felt that he was not catching fish, but picking up money.

Take the small amount of saury caught in the net and throw it into the live water tank, and at the same time tidy up your own fishing net and straighten it out.

When fishing, taking fish from the fishing net is a very time-consuming task, and usually requires several fishermen to work together.

Therefore, in order to prevent the net from getting stuck, small fishing boats like Ji Chang will not use fishing nets with large mesh.

The fishing nets commonly used by Ji are very fine nets, commonly known as family-destroying nets.

This is a net commonly used in offshore fishing and small fishing boats, not only to prevent the net from getting stuck, but also to catch more fish.

After sorting out the fishing nets, Ji Chang drove the fishing boat to catch up with the school of fish because they were not scared away.

To these schools of fish, the noise made by Ji Chang was very small and did not threaten the safety of the entire school of fish.

After slowly approaching, Ji Chang successfully cast out another net.

This net was thrown to the edge of the school of fish and was inferior to the previous one.

Even so, Ji Chang still caught more than 100 kilograms of saury.

This time the school of fish obviously sensed the crisis and dived directly.

With the naked eye, it is no longer possible to determine the location of fish schools from changes in the water surface color.

However, this has no effect on Ji Chang.

He is the King of the Sea and possesses extraordinary perception abilities. He can even sense schools of fish diving into deep water.

Quickly pull back a net of fish and pour all the fish into the live water tank.

Ji Chang found that this fishing boat was still too small and could not carry too many live fish.

Picking up a bucket, Ji Chang scooped some sea water and poured it into the live water tank.

There is not enough water inside, and even with an oxygenator, a large number of saury will be killed.

Although there are still people who buy dead fish, the price of live fish is slightly higher than that of dead ones.

Now is the season for catching saury, and many fishing boats go out to sea to catch saury.

Saury is a cold-water oceanic migratory fish that is mainly distributed in the waters off Hokkaido, Japan and the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It is not distributed in China.

This fish likes to live in groups and often lives in waters with a temperature of 15-18℃. It mainly feeds on copepods, crustaceans, cephalopods and fish eggs.

Because saury has an obvious diurnal vertical movement phenomenon, it moves in the water layer about 15m above the sea surface during the day and floats to the surface of the water at night.

In addition, saury has a strong tendency to attract light, so fishing for saury is usually done at night.

It is quite rare to see saury floating to the surface during the day, and it is very likely that they are being chased by some big fish.

In Japan, saury is inexpensive and of high quality, and is a very popular food among the Japanese people. It is also a classic food in Japanese sushi restaurants.

Saury can prevent high blood pressure, improve brain power, improve anemia, enhance vision and delay aging.

Although the fat is thick, it is good cholesterol and will not make people overweight.

Moreover, saury is cheap, so there is a huge market demand for it.

Sensing the situation in the sea, Ji Chang began to look for the location of the fish.

At the same time, he did not give up observing the situation on the sea with his naked eyes.

Perception + vision allow Ji Chang to find fish far beyond the current sonic fish finder.

Yes, Japan now has fish finders.

A man named Kiyotaka Furuno converted a military acoustic depth sounder into a prototype fish finder.

And in April 1947, Furuno conducted its first sea test at Goto Beach in Nagasaki Prefecture.

In May 1949, Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. took the initiative to assist the "worst fishing vessel" at Iwaseura Fishing Port in the Goto Islands by carrying out a practical publicity campaign equipped with a fish school detector.

As a result, the fishing boat with the worst fishing performance in the local area actually jumped to the top of the fishing port in terms of fishing volume after 20 days of work, and maintained this honor for 3 consecutive months. This success shocked all local fishermen. No publicity could compare to the real economic benefits, and they rushed to buy fish detectors.

This new instrument not only became a hot topic in the Japanese fishing community, but also quickly became an indispensable equipment for all Japanese fishing boats.

Furuno Electric Industry became famous for its fish detector and changed its name to Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.

Since then, Furuno's fish detector has continued to be improved, from identifying "whether there is a school of fish" to identifying "the depth and distance of the school of fish."

Nowadays, the latest fish finders are not only lighter, but can even identify the type and size of fish, and can also simultaneously image the seabed conditions and display them on an LCD screen.

However, in the 50s, fish finders were expensive and in short supply.

In Hokkaido, only some large fishing boats are equipped with this type of fish finder.

Ordinary people or ordinary boats don’t have fish finders.

Ji Chang's perception ability saved him the expense of buying a fish finder.

His perception ability is much more powerful than the current fish finder. He can sense the size and shape of the fish just like an X-ray.

Ji Chang can roughly tell what kind of fish it is by its appearance.

Especially squid, lobster, crab, abalone and other fish with distinct appearance are very easy to distinguish.

These are things that current fish finders cannot do.

At the same time, current fish finders cannot accurately determine the location of fish schools, and cannot determine whether the nets you cast have caught fish.

Moreover, the fish finder can only detect vertically under the fishing boat, with a maximum range of forty-five degrees.

Ji Chang's perception ability is centered around him and can sense everything around him, which is far better than a fish finder.

Through his extraordinary perception ability, Ji Chang quickly discovered the location of the school of saury.

They did dive to the bottom, about twenty meters from the sea surface.

"It seems that the range of perception has been improved again today. It feels great."

Ji Chang felt the scope expanding and couldn't help feeling happy.

Because it proves his judgment once again, his perception ability will indeed become stronger the more he uses it.

With this ability, he is a human fish finder, and one that can continue to evolve.

Ji Chang stopped the fishing boat at a suitable location, picked up the fishing net and threw it towards the location where the fish were.

The fishing net sank quickly and moved towards the school of fish.

After waiting for a while, Ji Chang began to close the net.

On the way back, saury kept rushing out of the water.

Ji Chang knew that the network was broken.

There must have been a hole in his fishing net, causing the saury in the net to rush out through the hole.

This situation is very common, after all, network breaches happen all the time.

When he pulled the fishing net out of the water, Ji Chang saw that there was a big hole in his fishing net.

At least half of the fish in it ran away, leaving less than 100 kilograms of saury.

The nets are dragged directly onto the boat and the fish are dumped into the live water tank.

Although there was still a net, the school of fish had already dived to a position that Ji Chang could not perceive.

Ji Chang took some fish off the net and threw them into the live water tank, ending the day's fishing work.

Speaking of which, I was extremely lucky this afternoon.

Not everyone is lucky enough to catch so many saury in the coastal area.

After tidying up the fishing nets, Ji Chang started the fishing boat and prepared to return to the fishing port.

He was very curious about how many hundred kilograms of fish he had caught today and how much he could sell them for.

(End of this chapter)