Carry an aquarium with you

Chapter 188 The Blue Crab Quota Fishing Ends
According to the property of binding crab cages to automatically attract crabs, after planning, Qin Feng found that he only needed to put in [-] crab cages.

So he picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Melton, prepare [-] baits. Let's put [-] crab cages to test the water today."

On a crabbing boat, no matter how experienced a crabman is, he can't question the captain's decision. Melton didn't make any sense, and directly led the others to release the crab pots.

Just when the crane had just hoisted the crab cage and Paul was about to hang the bait in, a big wave suddenly hit the left side of the Dongfang Dragon.

"Get down, get down! Get down!" Qin Feng quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted!

But the big wave hit too fast and rushed to the deck immediately.

Several boatmen were caught off guard and were directly knocked to the ground by the waves, but the rope on the crane was not tightened, and the crab pot hit the ground with a slap.

This time, Qin Feng's cold sweat broke out immediately, and he shouted: "Xie Te, is anyone injured, answer quickly!"

Fortunately, the boatmen got up immediately, and Paul, who was lying on the ground, was also pulled up by Melton.He looked at the crab cage only [-] centimeters away from him, and felt very lucky.

"Oh my god! I almost saw you~"

Seeing this, Qin Feng also heaved a sigh of relief, and then wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, damn it, he almost scared him to death.

This will, and let him know that the dangers in the Bering Sea are everywhere and require constant attention.

Therefore, it took them six hours to release the [-] crab pots, and the work efficiency was much slower than that in the southeast waters of Alaska.

In fact, it is only the beginning of October, and the environment in the Bering Sea is not yet at its worst.When it enters November and December, then the crabbers will really make money with their lives.

Let the boatmen go back to rest and refresh themselves. As soon as Qin Feng was about to go back to the bedroom, he saw that there were three missing crab cage buoys on the screen.

This made him very helpless. He could find his crab cage in the vast sea because of the positioning system installed in the buoy.

But his batch of crab cages were all second-hand. At the beginning, he had no money and could only buy these cheap ones. Now the chances of problems are higher. This is the third time he uses them, and three of the positioning systems in the buoys are directly broken.

It was not damaged before, probably because the wind and waves over there are relatively small, and it will not be able to withstand the toss when it comes to the Bering Sea.

But now that I have money, I have to replace them all with new ones when I go back.

The price of a new buoy with a positioning system reaches [-] greenbacks, which is one of the reasons why crab pots are so expensive.

Fortunately, the route of the crab cages that Qin Feng put down this time is a curved line. As long as he follows this line, it is easy to find the three crab cages. With the image of the bottom of the water, he can also roughly feel a certain direction, so The crab cage can still be retrieved.

If it is released irregularly, it will be difficult to find these crab pots, and in the end it will be cheaper for other crabbing boats that happen to see.

Back in the bedroom, Qin Feng closed his eyes and began to check the condition of the crab cage.

Through the image, Qin Feng can see that the surrounding king crabs are slowly concentrating towards the position of the crab cage.

Blue crabs are a little smaller than red crabs, and those with a back shell width of fifteen centimeters can be put into the storage compartment, and those under fifteen centimeters must be released.

And these blue crabs are the goods he shipped back to China to trade with those hotels.

As for the red crabs that can grow up to [-] tons in his water tank, they will be sold slowly at ordinary times, so as to ensure that there will be fresh and live king crabs for sale in his shop most of the time.

The night passed, and when he woke up the next day, Qin Feng immediately observed the situation of the crab cage.

Among them, 63 crab pots were overloaded, and the remaining crab pots were more than half, which was a bumper harvest.

After Qin Feng had dinner and came to the cab, he found that another positioning system had broken down overnight.

This made him wonder if he had been tricked by someone. According to this momentum, after the end of the blue crab fishing this time, dozens of them might be damaged, right?
Forget it, let Qin Lei buy two hundred positioning buoys first!
So Qin Feng called him a satellite phone and asked him to arrange it, and he can just replace it when he goes back, which can save a lot of time.

The crab cages started to be salvaged. When the first cage of crabs slowly emerged from the water, the boatmen still shouted excitedly and celebrated.

The crabs in the first cage reached four-fifths of the crab cage, no less than when red crabs were caught before.

However, there are only 67 blue crabs that meet the fishing regulations, with an average weight of just ten catties, and none of them are particularly large.

It is normal for them to be smaller than red crabs, but the number is also small because Qin Feng did not screen out female crabs and male crabs.

This is because he considered that the crab group was small, and he couldn't bear to catch all the big male crabs at once.

The positioning system of the second crab cage was broken, and the boatmen were sorting the crabs. Qin Feng could only search for them slowly based on his memory and images under the water.

I kept observing the water surface with a telescope, and after searching for a while, I finally found a yellow buoy that fluctuated with the waves on the sea.

"Melton, the positioning system of this buoy is broken. After you salvage it, remember to put the broken buoy in the warehouse. Also, the crab cages are all packed, and I guess this is just a small crab group, and you will need to replace it later. place."

This is not good news. Melton and the other boatmen were stunned for a moment, and the excitement of the harvest was slightly extinguished.

There was no accident in today's work. At ten o'clock in the evening, all the crab pots were salvaged, and the total harvest of blue crabs reached 24 tons.

The density of crabs under the water has become very sparse. Depending on the properties of the crab cages, it is estimated that about seven or eight tons of king crabs can be caught, but the efficiency is too low.

The boatmen went back to eat and rest, but Qin Feng had to go to the next place after eating.

The king squid has not been idle for a while, and the blue crab has not been found so far, but the crab group of the red-eyed pine leaf crab has found one.

Qin Feng first drove over to write down the coordinates, then took the map and looked at the nearest fishing ground.

Now all the crabbing boats are still working hard for the quota of red crabs. The fast ones may have already started to return to the port for delivery. At least there is still a time difference of more than one day, so no one will follow him when he comes to the crab group marked on the map. He grabs.

Now, the big tiger can also be used.

There is no camera behind the boat, so come to the crabbing location marked on the map.

Qin Feng released it, then let it bite a piece of rope on the crab cage in the aquarium, dived down to collect a king crab, so that he could turn on the image and let Qin Feng observe the situation at the bottom of the water.

After about a quarter of an hour, Duhu returned to the sea to take a breath, and then floated on the water behind the boat waiting for instructions.

The crab cage in the aquarium has been placed in the crab group by it. After the king crab climbs in, it will continue to swim with the crab cage, so that Qin Feng can make a plan to release the crab cage.

After a while again, an image appeared in Qin Feng's mind. The blue crabs crawling on the reef in the image made him overjoyed. There are many crabs in places that have not been caught by anyone.

Then let Dug take the crab pots to roughly understand the situation within five nautical miles, and Qin Feng also set up a plan for releasing the crab pots this time.

There are a lot of small crabs in these five nautical miles, and if you cast correctly, you will have a good harvest. If you cast incorrectly, some of the crab pots will be empty.

But with the help of Duhu, Qin Feng can basically find the exact position, even if there is a deviation, it's okay, as long as most of the crab pots can be harvested.

Then he did not rest, took back the tiger, stood behind the boat and threw the blue crab in the crab cage back into the sea, and then took the crab cage back to the aquarium.

That's when I called all the boatmen and started putting in the crab pots.

This time, 170 crab pots were to be placed, and it took twelve hours to finish.

Qin Feng hadn't slept for more than 24 hours, and he couldn't stand it anymore. He gave the king squid an order to come here to find crabs, and then stopped the boat and went back to the bedroom to sleep.

The Meteorological Bureau will send weather telegrams to all the crabbing boats every day. There is no storm in the Arctic Circle these days, so the waves here are bigger than before, but Qin Feng dares to stop the boat directly to rest.

If there is bad weather, the boat cannot stop, and the captain must keep the bow fish and waves vertical at all times.

If the boat is stopped, the crabbing boat is likely to be overturned by the waves.

There are very few shipwrecks in the Bering Sea, but Qin Feng learned from Aldrich that there have been several shipwrecks before.

It was a sudden breakdown of the crabbing boat that caused the boat to stop, and it just happened to encounter bad weather, so the boat was overturned directly, and almost no one on board survived.

I don't know how long it took, but Qin Feng woke up from hunger.Looking at the time, only seven hours had passed.

He got up to wash up, then went to the kitchen to get something to eat.

The boatmen are already up. They will be playing cards in the lounge. It seems that they have some money in their pockets and want to find a chance to spend it.

Qin Feng didn't bother them, but came to the cab, looked at the coordinates of the crab cage on the screen, and found that two more positioning buoys were broken.

"Ugh"

He sighed helplessly, and then lay on the small bed to observe the condition of the crab cage.

I was drowsy before, so I didn't check the image, but after looking at it now, I found the problem.

Eleven of the crab cages were empty, and even with Dumb's help, he still couldn't find the right place.

There are also 32 crab pots where the harvest is very average, and there are only a dozen or so blue crabs that meet the specifications.

The rest are passable, and you can see the king crabs rushing over from all around. It seems that the crab pots can be kept for a while.

After sleeping in a daze for several hours, and waking up again, Qin Feng finally regained his spirit.

Although the boatmen played cards, they were in good condition, so after eating and digesting the meeting, they started working directly to salvage this batch of crab pots.

Through the image observation, some king crabs have been added to the crab cages that still had space before. This time the harvest should be good.

The first crab cage still has king crabs, and the boatmen's enthusiasm for work can be increased only when there is harvest.

This time, 42 tons of king crabs were caught, plus the previous 24 tons, a total of 66 tons, still short of the quota of 150 tons.

Fifty crab pots were thrown in place, and the others were put away, and Qin Feng went to the next fishing spot.

At this time, Aldrich and Sigel, who originally made Qin Feng think that they should come to Bering Sea quickly, were delayed for two days because of one person.

The huge crab group before was enough for the two of them to catch the full quota, but when they were preparing to salvage the crab pots for the second time, they met Anderson who happened to come here.

Anderson shared a crab group with Keith before, but when they salvaged, the other party returned with a full load, but he had two or three kittens.

This made Anderson think that Keith was playing him, so he picked up the wireless phone and greeted the other family hundreds of times.

No one is really good-natured as a crab boat captain, and even the helpful Sickert has a grumpy side, and Keith tells Anderson to fuck off right away.

Anderson left cursing and decided to find the crabs by himself, although he didn't have much confidence.

But then, he unexpectedly came to the crabbing place on Sickert and Aldrich's side.

Seeing that each cage of the Northwest and the White Wind was full of harvest, he was jealous and red-eyed, and he also wanted to share a share.

Anderson has a small structure and lacks great wisdom, but he still has small cleverness.

He contacted Sickert, pretended to be pitiful, and admitted his previous mistakes.

After all, Sickert was still thinking about the old love, thought twice, and explained the situation to Aldridge.

Aldrich would naturally give Sigel face, so he agreed to Anderson's crabbing here.

But although the crab population is huge, it cannot withstand the fishing of so many crab boats!

In the end, both the Northwest and the White Wind were more than 50 tons short of the quota, but Anderson caught more than [-] tons of king crabs.

After confirming that there were not many king crabs at the bottom of the water, he left directly to look for the next group of crabs.

This time his luck was very good, and he encountered a good number of crabs.

The Northwest and White Wind quotas are not full, so they can only continue to look for the next location.

But this time it was the Northwest's turn to encounter the Legendary. Seeing that Anderson had found a good crab group, Sickert contacted him, wanting to say that he would leave after catching his quota.

But in the end, exactly the same thing happened before, and Anderson refused to call.

This made Sickert very angry. He didn't expect that something like the farmer and the snake happened to him.

There is a rule in the crabbing circle in Alaska, whoever finds the crab group first, then the crab group will belong to the other party.

Although many people will not abide by this agreement, old captains like Sickert will still abide by it.

Seeing that Anderson ignored him, he had no choice but to leave, which wasted a lot of time.

When Sigel and Aldridge arrived in the Bering Sea, Qin Feng had already caught 170 tons of blue crabs, and after catching another 44 tons, he could return to the port for delivery.

It is worth mentioning that after eleven of the positioning buoys were broken, they were not broken again.

This is good news for Qin Feng, so he won't be dragged back by the matter of the buoy, causing him to put the crab pot in consideration of whether the buoy is broken or not.

"Qin, how much have you caught now?" Sicker asked.

Aldrich also joined this contact channel, curious about Qin Feng's current gains.

"I've caught 170 tons of blue crabs now, and I'm still 44 tons away from returning to Hong Kong for delivery." Qin Feng replied, and then said strangely, "You guys came two days later than I expected, Did something happen?"

Sickert sighed and explained what happened after he met Anderson.

"." Qin Feng was speechless, well, foreigners also have kind people.

He is now putting in the last batch of crab pots. The size of the crab group here is not bad. If the crab pots are kept longer, the number of blue crabs caught may exceed 44 tons.

But at this moment, the king squid who had already started looking for red-eyed pine leaf crabs encountered a group of blue crabs.

Just as Sickert and Aldridge were about to leave to look for the crab group, he sensed the exact location of the king squid and confirmed the location on the navigation.

So he said to them: "Captain Sigel, Captain Aldrich, maybe you can take a look at the waters twenty nautical miles northwest. I put a test cage there before and found that there are also crabs over there."

"However, all my crab pots are here, and the size of the crab group here is not small, so there is no past."

The two captains expressed their gratitude after hearing the words, and then drove the crab boat over.

Qin Feng waited for a whole day for the last batch of crab cages before preparing to salvage them.

But today's time has come to October NO.15. At night, the moon in the sky is round and big.

All the captains felt a little bit in their hearts, feeling that the work tonight would be very difficult.

The actual situation was exactly as they expected. Affected by the tide, the wind and waves tonight were particularly huge, with waves several meters high rushing onto the deck frequently.

If you zoom out the camera, you can see that the Oriental Dragon has just crossed a wave at the bow, and immediately faced another huge wave before the stern passed.

The entire hull was constantly ups and downs with the waves, and Qin Feng standing in the cab felt like he was on a pirate ship, even feeling the centrifugal force.

As soon as the boatmen came to the deck, their clothes were wet by the sea water.

The amazing thing is that they not only stood firmly on the deck, but Paul even did a backflip.

Seeing this scene, Qin Feng, who was hesitant to rest overnight and wait for the tide to pass, suddenly changed his mind. Since the boatman is so enthusiastic, he can't be cowardly!

"Everyone, let's start preparations. I hope we can catch enough crab pots and return to Hong Kong for delivery. At that time, the green tickets will be put into your pockets."

"Haha, when this crab fishing season is over, I will definitely find a girl with a big butt to reward me." Paul laughed out loud.

"My daughter has wanted a new mobile phone for a long time. This time I will fulfill her wish. She should give me a warm hug." Melton also laughed.

The bumper harvest of the Dongfang Julong made every boatman imagine a happy life for the next year.

The two crab catchers introduced by Sigel are reluctant to leave even if they drive them away. After all, Qin Feng is very good at finding crab groups, and he also rented a lot of quotas, which made them earn more than before in this crab fishing season. More than two years.

Qin Feng knew how many crabs there were in the crab pots. Sure enough, when all the crab pots were salvaged at three o'clock the next day, all the quotas for blue crabs had been caught, and there should be more than one or two tons. This does not affect.

Back at the Dutch Harbor Wharf, this time Qin Feng met a lot of crab boats who came to deliver the goods, but they delivered red crabs, while he delivered blue crabs.

Qin Lei was already getting ready here, calling the staff to start moving the goods, just like last time, with a local inspector watching over him.

His main responsibility is to monitor the quantity and whether the crabs meet the specifications.

Crawlers face hefty fines if a certain number of king crabs are found out of specification.

(End of this chapter)