Chapter 37 The First Fish Catch (Please Read On)

Uncle San's fishing boat is a single trawler. When casting the net, the operation is still a bit complicated and dangerous, and it requires the cooperation of acquaintances.

And newbies like Li Duoyu are forbidden to go to the stern of the boat where the net is cast. It is a high-risk area. If you walk around, you will be entangled by the net rope and dragged down. It is no joke.

Although Li Duoyu often did the job of casting the trawler in his previous life, in this era, Li Duoyu is just a rookie who has never fished before in everyone's impression.

It is impossible to let him participate in the work of casting the net.

When preparing to cast the net.

Uncle San is responsible for driving the boat, the eldest uncle stands at the stern and is responsible for casting the net, while the cousin and the second uncle stand on both sides of the stern, where there are two large curved net boards.

The entire bottom trawl net is composed of a net bag for fish and crabs, a buoy, a weighted sinker, a net board and a pull rope.

The net board is the most core component of the trawl net.

Once this thing enters the seabed.

It will automatically open the mouth of the trawl net to both sides.

Prevent the net ropes from getting tangled together.

After my uncle threw all the net bags into the sea, the remaining fishing nets kept going into the sea due to the pulling force of the sea water, just like noodles.

My uncle's main responsibility is to prevent these "noodles" from getting tangled together. After the floats and sinkers of the trawl net are all in the sea, my cousin and second uncle must hang the rope buckles on the net boards on both sides of the stern in advance.

If this step is not done.

It is estimated that the person who forgot to hang the rope buckle will have to go down as a "water ghost" to fish the net.

After the net board goes down,

the bottom trawl net is almost placed.

At this time, everyone can relax, take a rest, and take a pee.

Because the next step is the captain's business.

The captain must pull the trawl net in a certain direction for two or three hours based on his own experience.

And at this stage.

What everyone fears most is that the trawl net gets caught on the reef or is cut by other things.

Once the trawl net gets stuck or torn, all the crew members will probably have to mend the net on the boat all day. If the damage is too serious, they will have to return.

When the uncle and his friends went to rest.

Li Duoyu stood on the deck and looked at the two tugboats, one large and one small, not far away. Judging from the distance they kept, they should be twin tugboats.

The two boats pulled a net together, so that the trawl net could be spread wide and more seafood could be caught. A boat with twin trawl nets like this would require more crew members, more than 20 people on the two boats together, otherwise they would not be able to pick up the cargo after loading.

The fishing boat kept going east for about two hours, and the sunlight turned yellow, and the third uncle also planned to pull up the net before the sun went down.

So the speed of the fishing boat began to slow down.

The third uncle didn't even need to notify, and all the crew members who felt the fishing boat slowed down went out of the cabin and returned to their posts.

As the trawl net was retrieved.

The net bag at the stern gradually emerged from the water.

Li Duoyu also took a closer look. The net bag was very large, and the fish catch was at least half a ton.

But the fish catch was very mixed, and it felt like there was everything.

After seeing this net bag, the uncle who was closest couldn't help but curse: "Damn it, it's a bunch of mess again."

Everyone shook their heads and sighed.

For them, the more diverse the seafood caught, the better. If it was more diverse, it would not only be time-consuming and laborious to pick, but also difficult to sell.

Then, the net bag was untied.

Thousands of kilograms of seafood covered half of the deck. Live crabs were running everywhere, hundreds of oil eels and seven-star eels were running around like snakes, and there were all kinds of sea fish.

Li Duoyu found that there were not many swimming crabs in the trawl net, most of them were red-spotted round-toed crabs, which are called red-spotted crabs locally.

Not all crabs are delicious, and this red-spotted crab is one of them. It doesn't taste fresh, and the meat is not sweet. The only thing that has economic value is its crab legs, which will be used to make drunken crab claws.

In this era, if you catch this kind of crab, you can't even sell it at the price of miscellaneous fish. You either take it to make crab sauce for others or shovel it back into the sea.

In addition to the red crab, the largest output should be the half-side fish, that is, the flatfish. There are many varieties of this fish, including flounder, flatfish, and sole.

In addition to this fish, there are also many boss fish, that is, skates. When you see it in the aquarium, you will often feel that it is smiling at you.

The biggest problem with boss fish is that it is not resistant to storage. Fresh boss fish will emit a smell similar to ammonia after being stored for a long time. Generally, no one eats it in this era.

In addition to this, there are also many peeling fish. It can be said that this net almost gathers the most difficult fish species to sell at the moment, and it is a net that loses money.

And the ones with a little economic value are the nine-segment shrimps and cuttlefish scattered in the fish school.

There is a nine-segment shrimp at Li Duoyu's feet, which is much longer than his palm. This thing is definitely a hot commodity in the future. It starts at at least two hundred per catty, and it is often out of stock.

Uncle San, the boat driver, came down from the captain's room and saw these seafood. His face was very dark. For him, this net of fish was a definite loss.

Because it was the first net, according to local customs, it could not be thrown into the sea, but had to be pulled to the shore to sell. If it was shoveled away, it was said that it would bring bad luck for a year.

"Pack it up, pack it up, pull it to the shore to see if anyone wants it. If not, give it away."

Then.

Everyone started to pick and choose fish. The same kind of fish had to be put in the same basket. At this time, the high boots Zhou Xiaoying gave him came in handy.

When picking fish, if you don’t have this thing, if you are bitten by those eels, you will suffer, and many sea fish have thorns.

The tail of the boss fish is highly poisonous.

There is also a thorn on the head of the skinned fish. After all, everyone makes a living in the sea, and more or less they all carry some "self-defense weapons".

The uncle sitting next to Li Duoyu taught him while picking up fish:

"Duoyu, you must not grab the tail of that boss fish. If you get stung, it will hurt your legs. "

"When catching this big shrimp, don't grab the shrimp head, there is also a big thorn there."

"And when catching cuttlefish, don't point it at people, otherwise..."

Before the uncle finished speaking, he was splashed with cuttlefish ink by the cousin opposite him, and his whole face was black. He wiped his eyes with his clothes.

As a result, his clothes were also black.

The uncle couldn't help but cursed: "Li Qiusheng, are you a fool? You have been out to sea for so many years, and you still use your cuttlefish mouth to spray people."

"Send some, I didn't mean it."

"Then let me give you a sip too."

Seeing this scene, everyone laughed, and soon with the cooperation of a group of people, thousands of kilograms of seafood were picked up, and then everyone fetched water together to wash the seafood.

Then put them into the cabin.

In this era, most fishing boats do not have cold storage and ice. If they are not returning to the port immediately, they must sprinkle coarse salt on these seafood to prevent them from rotting.

And this kind of fish sprinkled with coarse salt, after landing, generally cannot be sold at a high price, and most of them will be bought and dried into fish in the end.

After picking the fish.

The group of people who cast the net at the beginning will leave, and as for cleaning the deck, it will naturally be the turn of newcomers like Li Duoyu.

Uncle San's fishing boat does not have a water gun.

If you want to clean it, you can only keep carrying buckets to fetch water in the sea, and then flush the deck bucket by bucket.