Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982

  Chapter 525 Attracting Dolphins and Repelling Schools of Fish

   "No wonder that shark just now one at a time, one at a time, the joy of eating is turning into sorrow."

   "Um... hey hey... look..."

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

  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 continuously, doing forward rolls in the air.

  The surrounding dolphins immediately swam eastward from all directions. 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.

  Just after they merged, they heard the "squeak" sound from the dolphins intermittently, and a group of dolphins slowly started swimming from east to west again.

   "They are playing, right? Put away the hooks first, and then look at it. This is a serious matter." Ye Yaodong glanced at it, 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."

"ah?"

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

  It turns out that the dolphins that just swam over there in all directions were going to catch fish.

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

   "Driving is driving, but it is one thing for them to drive themselves, and it is 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, huh? We swam far away... It's a pity that the rope in our hand is only half-retracted, and we are still retrieving it. Otherwise, we can just follow up. There must be something to catch behind the dolphins. "

  Dolphins have the ability of ultrasonic detection and navigation.

  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, right? Don't think about it, you will come across them when you have the opportunity, let's get rid of them first. Let’s put away these longlines. The rope was pulled up just now, and a series of harvests look good.”

"Um."

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

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 harvest of longline fishing today would also be dismal.

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

  Just waited for them to sail back, and when they just touched the shore, there were waves rolling behind them, churning and sweeping, 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 and saw the waves 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 jumped on the surrounding sea surface for a while, and were about to turn around and run out, Ye Yaodong directly sailed to follow them without hesitation. Several fishing boats returning to the port had already seen them and rowed towards them.

  There are some boats that have already docked on the shore, and they also want to try to see if they can get a share of the pie, so they also rowed past.

   Fortunately, these dolphins are not driving the fish fast. Some small wooden boats have already caught up with the fish because they are approaching, and they spread their fishing nets to cast them.

  Ye Yaodong's boat also approached quickly, and then stopped not far from them. Father Ye was holding a hand-throwing net in his hand, 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 one net is cast, the next net may have to be chased by the boat again.

  Ye Yaodong saw that his father was impatient to cast a net out, so he ignored him, and quickly picked up two sticks that were always on the boat, 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 time to fish quickly. 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."

  I heard 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 in a daze. Just like him hitting the water surface 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 may be able to use it when you encounter a group of dolphins in the future.

  At present, most of the sea is full of small wooden boats. There is only another one with a power plant like them, which also stops there and casts nets. However, because the fish schools are moving, it seems that they do not catch many goods by casting nets.

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

   "Look, are you busy?" Father Ye looked clear, but he didn't laugh at him.

   "If you are busy, you will be busy. You have to try. Failure is success, and you can learn from failure..."

   "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and catch up with the boat..."

  Just when he stopped his arm to put away the wooden stick, he saw a dolphin at the end of the very edge turned around 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. The Nasystem 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.

  The clattering noise became louder now, and the dolphin swam closer. It immediately rolled over the water, calling for friends with its loud dolphin voice.

  The dolphins driving ahead heard its call, and stopped moving forward 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 "Zhi Zhi Zhi", they were also frightened and gathered together, not daring to act rashly.

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

   "Does it really work???"

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

  Dolphins are also very capricious when driving fish. They can go wherever they want. When they hear the sound of rattling, the dolphins immediately drive the fish over.

  The boats chasing the school of fish on the sea, watching the dolphins driving the school of fish to turn around, were also stunned, and hurriedly turned around and chased after them.

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

  Both father and son ignored other fishing boats, and when the dolphins drove the school of fish to their surroundings, they quickly took the handmade net and cast a net at the school of 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 even care about how they attracted the fish, so they hurried over and took the opportunity to cast their nets.

   It’s 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.

  Whoever sees has 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 fish in the water also decreased a lot, and it didn't take long for more monks and less meat.

  (end of this chapter)