Starting to go to the sea: I really didn’t want to be a sea king

At 11 noon, the fishing boat arrived at the second treasure chest refresh point, which was one of the only few silver treasure chests.

The refresh point is located above a trench. According to the detection results of the sonar, the water depth is about 95 meters.

In the Wanwan Strait with an average water depth of 60 meters, it is already very deep.

Controlling the fishing boat at half speed, Chu Yang opened the treasure chest.

[Silver treasure chest has been opened, reward: random refresh of marine economic creatures (rare), capture time limit: 300 minutes. ]

A light band extends more than 300 meters from northwest to southeast along the direction of the trench.

Given a 5-hour capture time limit, and an unlimited number of marine economic creatures, is it a school of fish? Shrimp school? Or a school of crabs?

Chu Yang thought about it, the direction of the light band is basically the same as the extension direction of the trench, he feels that the possibility of shrimp and crab schools is higher.

Of course, there is also the possibility of bottom-dwelling fish schools.

Just as Chu Yang was thinking, Sun Qingjun asked:

"Ayang, are we going to cast the net here? I'm afraid our trolling line is not enough."

The trolling line is the rope for trolling the fishing net. Both sides are connected to the net line, and the other end is connected to the winch on the boat. The length of the trolling line is 30 to 50 times the length of the net.

For example, on Minquanyu 1688, Chu Yang and his team chose a 3-meter net, and the trolling line is generally between 100 and 150 meters.

It sounds like this length is enough for bottom trolling, but it should be noted that the fishing net is actually lying in the water. A 100-meter trolling line can only catch fish at a depth of 10 to 30 meters at normal trawling speed.

To troll the deep sea below 90 meters, the trolling line must be at least 400 meters, and it is not enough to release all the cables on the winch.

"No, this time we will put down the cages first and move all the crab cages on the boat out." Chu Yang decided and shouted loudly.

There was no other way. After breakfast, the sea blew up with a wind of level 2 or 3. If I didn't shout loudly, no one could hear me clearly.

On land, this level of wind can't even blow away the underwear on the clothes rack, but on the vast and boundless sea, it can make the waves surge and cause the fishing boats more than ten meters long to have obvious bumps and shakes.

If the wind is stronger, reaching level 4 or 5, it can raise huge waves of more than 2 meters, and ordinary fishing boats can only return.

However, according to the weather forecast, there will be no winds exceeding level 3 in the next week, so there is no need to worry too much.

Unless there is an extreme strong convection at sea...

At Chu Yang's order, Sun Qingjun directed the fishermen to start moving crab cages and buoys out.

In fact, deep-sea crab cages are similar to freshwater crab cages, generally round or square, but the cage nets are larger and stronger.

The crab cages on the Chuyang ship are square cages with a size of 120*80*60, which are considered small among the sea fishing cages. After all, Minquanyu 1688 mainly relies on trawling operations, and the crab cages are just incidental.

Like those professional ocean-going crab fishing boats that catch prince crabs and brown crabs, they all use large cages over 1.5 meters.

The most exaggerated are the crab cages used to catch Alaskan king crabs in the Bering Strait. They are directly welded with steel bars, and the cage nets are woven with steel wire ropes. Each crab cage weighs hundreds of kilograms. When the cage is placed, a crew member will be taken away as bait if you are not careful.

King crab cage

In addition, the environment is harsh, the temperature is low, and the king crab is lethal. Therefore, according to statistics from an unknown and unauthoritative organization that the author has not found, almost one out of every seven people who go to Alaska to catch king crabs will die, so Alaskan crab fishermen are also known as the most risky profession in the world, with a mortality rate exceeding that of gunpowder carvers.

Of course, the risk is high and the return is high. A trip with the boat can earn at least hundreds of thousands of yuan. If you are a little luckier and get two large cages of king crabs, it can be hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Chu Yang was very excited when he thought about it. He must go and see it when he has the chance.

Here, Sun Qingjun, Sun Qinglei, Sun Qingyun and Zhang Hongtao are already filling the crab cages with bait. Chu Yang also pulled a small stool and sat down to help.

There is a plastic can in the middle of the cage net of each crab cage. The can is for bait. Sun Qingjun took out the miscellaneous fish caught by trawl nets before and used it as bait.

Chu Yang cut two palm-sized mackerels into six pieces with two knives, stuffed them into the plastic cans with intestines and internal organs, and then tied a 100-meter-long thin cable to the rope buckle in the middle of the cage top. The other end of the cable was connected to a red plastic buoy, and the crab cage was completed.

When the cage is lifted, you only need to hook the buoy with the anchor hook and take the cage back to the boat along the cable.

There were only 15 crab cages on the boat. Chu Yang had just finished with two, and the rest had been taken care of by Sun Qingjun and his team.

"Ayang, shall we start putting down the crab cages now?" Zhang HongTao asked excitedly.

He hadn't played this thing before. It was his first time, so he hoped to get something out of it.

"Okay, let's do it."

There was no trick to putting crab cages down. Just keep the boat speed and walk along the trench, drop a cage every 20 meters, and make sure the buoys don't fall off.

After putting 15 crab cages down, Chu Yang didn't dare to go too far, so he stopped the boat in a shallow sea not far away, and then started to trawling.

After all, this was on the sea, and who knew if there would be any bad boats passing by that would steal their crab cages after seeing the buoys.

"Raise the net!"

Half an hour later, Chu Yang shouted loudly at the door of the cockpit.

With the roar of the winch, the net bag was pulled out of the water again.

"Alas~"

Facing the shriveled net bag, Sun Qingjun couldn't help but sigh.

Sun Qinglei and Sun Qingyun didn't look very good either. This net was considered useless.

Even Chu Yang felt a little disappointed. Although he had been prepared, he still couldn't accept the empty net.

But he couldn't show it. He clapped his hands and smiled at everyone:

"It's okay, let's have lunch first, and then we'll have another net after lunch."

"Eat, eat!" Zhang Hongtao clapped his hands and echoed.

The braised chicken for lunch, two chickens totaled 8 pounds, plus potatoes, carrots, onions, and bell peppers, filled a stainless steel basin.

Each crew member held a large stainless steel flat bowl, filled with half a bowl of rice, and then poured two large spoonfuls of braised chicken on it.

The thick chicken soup seeped into the rice, and with the stewed carrots and potatoes that were almost melted, it was so fragrant that it was almost intoxicating.

He drank two bowls of beer in a row, and continued to work after eating.

When the second net was pulled up, we finally saw the harvest.

Crash!

As Chu Yang pulled the rope at the bottom of the net, the fish fell onto the deck like dumplings.

Most of the fish in this net were milky white, scaleless, and had sharp teeth and a big mouth.

Chu Yang picked up a fish from his feet and put it in his palm. After observing it for a few seconds, he curled his lips.

"It's a dragon head fish."

Dragon head fish, nine belly fish, tender fish meat, no bones, the key is cheap, the author likes to eat it very much

This kind of fish has meat but no bones, the individual is average, the taste is okay, but it can't be sold at a high price.

Sun Qingjun patted his shoulder with a smile and comforted him: "Not bad, finally there are two or three hundred kilograms, one thousand yuan."

Two or three hundred kilograms is only more than one thousand yuan, one kilogram is only five or six yuan, and it is still caught at sea.

Yes, the price of this fish is so cheap!