Carry an aquarium with you

Chapter 189 A Huge Storm Arrives
This settlement took 36 hours. Due to the large number, the crushed and lame blue crabs reached [-] tons.

The blue crabs caught this time were 25.6 tons more than the quota. After the [-] tons of blue crabs were sold, an additional [-]% tax had to be submitted.

According to Qin Feng's quota, if it exceeds the quota by five tons, not only will it have to pay additional taxes, but it will also have to face a certain fine.

The price of blue crabs is 0.6 yuan cheaper than that of red crabs, so the price of this transaction is 7.2 yuan per catty.

This time, I counted 1.5 tons of dead crabs at a price of 16800 yuan per catty, a total of [-].

The 7.2 tons of blue crabs are also counted separately, the price is 17280 yuan per catty, a total of 4423.68, and 12856.32 taxes need to be paid, so the income is only [-] yuan.

There are more than 200 tons of blue crabs left, of which 20 tons are rented, and [-]% of the rent needs to be paid.

The total price of 1404 tons is 110 million yuan. After paying the rent, there is still 28 million yuan left, and the rent is [-] green notes.

Others earned nearly 30 green notes while lying down. It can only be said that the quota is rare, otherwise the rent would not be so high.

For blue crabs, Qin Feng was going to ship some back to sell by himself. He called home first and asked about the number of king crabs that had already been ordered.

I learned from Li Xinyue that the number of reservations should have been saturated. At present, no one has come to make reservations for five days. The total reservations for king crabs are more than four tons, and the number of Songba crabs is more, reaching six tons.

So Qin Feng thought for a while, and decided to sell another [-] tons of the remaining blue crabs, and asked for a fraction of the [-] tons by himself, and asked Qin Lei to help transport them back. Among them, the blue crabs with insufficient vitality were made into ultra-low temperature frozen crab.

So this time the total income was more than 2602 million green notes, and each boatman received a salary of 8 yuan.

After deducting wages, Qin Feng's personal income is nearly 200 million. Adding the previous income, this income has reached more than 340 million green notes.

However, Qin Feng spent 20 green notes on the positioning buoy here. It can only be said that fishing king crabs is indeed profitable, but the cost is also high.

Qin Feng still obtained ten tons of emperor crabs secretly by relying on the aquarium, and the cost problem was solved after growing to twenty tons.

Like many crabbing captains here, they don't have so much capital to buy a boat, so they can only cooperate with crabbing companies.Every crab fishing season catches hundreds of tons of crabs, but I can only get a small part of the commission, and the total income is only a few percentage points higher than that of the crabbers.

All the positioning buoys had been replaced, supplies and oil had been replenished, and without any delay, Qin Feng set out to catch pine leaf crabs.

The king squid found several groups of Matsuba crabs before, but some of them were too small, so Qin Feng only wrote down two coordinates.

But the crabs can move, and they may have gone to other places in the past few days, because to release Duhu is to look for the crabs nearby, and if you find one, grab one and bring Qin Feng there.

But to his surprise, Duo ran to the bow of the boat with a pine leaf crab in his mouth only ten nautical miles away, which not only attracted his attention, but even the boatmen who were preparing bait on the deck also found it .

"Hey, buddy, have you come to grab crabs with us?" Paul laughed and came to the side of the boat to greet Dumb.

"This is the red-eyed pine leaf crab, right? It's quite big. Did it catch it from the bottom of the water here?" Melton showed a thoughtful look.

Catching 410 tons of Matsuba crabs is a huge challenge, and any place where there are crabs should not miss it.

Just as he was about to give Qin Feng an opinion on putting test cages here, Qin Feng's voice sounded from the deck: "Everyone prepare the bait, I decided to put a hundred crab cages here."

This time, Qin Feng didn't use the crab cage to check how many crabs there were at the bottom. Since Duo brought up a crab, it meant that the crabs at the bottom were not small.

Generally, the captain will go to the Bering Sea to catch pine leaf crabs. No one would have thought that the crabs could run so close to the port, and it feels a little dark under the lights.

After the crab cage was put down, not long after, an image appeared in Qin Feng's mind.

When he saw the crab swarm below, he raised his brows. When one crab cage was put down, more than 20 Matsuba crabs were killed immediately. This density seems a bit exaggerated, right?

It is not surprising that there will be crab swarms near the coast, but it is a bit strange to have such a high density of crab swarms.

But when he was about to continue releasing the second crab cage, an urgent telegram let Qin Feng understand the reason why the crabs ran to the outside.

The Arctic Circle is about to generate a huge storm that will affect the entire Bering Sea area. Pine leaf crabs and king crabs like to live in cold water, but the temperature is above 1.4 degrees Celsius.

The generation of storms causes the temperature to drop, and the water temperature will naturally drop, which causes the crabs that originally lived around the Bering Sea to move collectively to warmer waters.

"It's hard to handle now!" Qin Feng looked solemn.

The next [-] tons of pine leaf crabs will take a lot of time to catch. He originally planned to end the fishing season in October.

After all, the colder the weather, the worse the working environment on the sea, and his wife is pregnant and waiting for him at home, so he doesn't want to stay in the beautiful country for too long.

That's why he didn't care about other people's surprises, and kept letting the king squid find crab resources to speed up his fishing progress.

But he didn't expect that God made a joke with him at this time, and a huge arctic storm came.

Qin Feng suddenly changed his mind and decided to go to the Bering Sea to catch the two pine leaf crabs before the storm was formed.

After the storm is fully formed, he will come back to pick up the batch of Matsuba crabs.

The coast here is close, so you can dock at any time if you encounter strong winds and waves to ensure the safety of yourself and others.

"Attention everyone, the weather telegram has just been sent, and the Bering Sea is about to usher in the first arctic storm of the year, so I decided to go to the Bering Sea first to catch a batch of pine leaf crabs before the storm comes, and we will come back to catch these after the storm is formed. A batch of crabs, so prepare two hundred baits."

After speaking, he asked the boatman to fish up the crab pot again, and then sailed to the Bering Sea, preparing to put a hundred crab pots in the two crab groups.

The boatmen had no objection and started busy with their work.

But even if they have objections, there is nothing they can do, after all, everything on the ship is decided by the captain.

Six hours later, Qin Feng arrived at the first target location and found the location of the crab group with the help of Duhu.

Maybe it's the calm before the storm, but today's waves are not as big as usual.

It took only four hours for one hundred crab cages to be placed, and then Qin Feng sailed to another location. Currently, the king squid is following the crab group here, so it is very convenient to find.

One hundred crab cages were thrown in again, but everyone still didn't have much time to rest.

Because Qin Feng had already driven back and came to the first position where the crab cage was placed, it has been eight hours since the first crab cage was placed.

It stands to reason that it will take more than [-] hours to catch them, but the crab pots have the property of attracting crabs, so a large number of Matsuba crabs have been caught in just eight hours.

When Qin Feng ordered them to start salvaging crab pots, both Melton and Paul frowned.

They felt that Qin Feng was in a bit of a hurry. The soaking time of the crab cage was too short. Even if they found a group of crabs, they probably didn't have time to climb in many of them.

But thinking about the bumper harvest every time before, and there were very few empty cages, they couldn't offer any advice, so they could only follow suit first.

But when the first crab pot was pulled up, all the boatmen were a little incredulous.

They reckoned that they might catch pine leaf crabs, but they didn't expect so many. Two-thirds of a cage was full of crabs.

The red-eyed pine leaf crab is much smaller than the red and blue king crab, but it is about the same size as the golden king crab. The width of the back shell of twelve centimeters meets the specification.

So if these two-thirds are king crabs, then it is estimated that there are only about [-] that meet the specifications, but the number of Matsuba crabs may reach [-].

Melton and Paul dumped the crabs on the sorting table, and threw the crab pots directly into the water according to Qin Feng's instructions.

The other four began to quickly sort the crabs, picking out the gray-eyed pine leaf crabs and female crabs and releasing them, and pushing those that met the specifications into the cargo hold.

Matsuba crabs are actually divided into gray-eyed and red-eyed Matsuba crabs. The red-eyed Matsuba crabs are larger than the gray-eyed Matsuba crabs and weigh twice as much.

In the 60s, the red-eyed pine leaf crab, which was juicy and juicy, was the first to impress the hearts of the locals.

Then, after decades of fishing, the production of red-eyed pine leaf crabs dropped sharply, so people focused on gray-eyed pine leaf crabs.

However, after more than [-] years of fishing restrictions, the number of red-eyed pine leaf crabs began to pick up, so Qin Feng was able to obtain so many quotas this year.

In addition, the fishing season for gray-eyed pine leaf crabs starts from November to March next year. Qin Feng does not want to stay here for too long, so he has no intention of continuing to catch gray-eyed pine leaf crabs.

Anyway, after taking it back, the prices of these two crabs are the same, both at 61 jin.

Of course, under normal circumstances, red-eyed pine leaf crabs are more expensive, because they are generally larger than gray-eyed crabs, and the bigger the crab, the more expensive it is.

The first crab cage was sorted, and 170 crabs met the specifications, with an average weight of more than three catties.

The total weight of a cage is about the same as when catching blue crabs before, which is okay.

When all the 23 crab pots were salvaged, a total of [-] tons of red-eyed pine leaf crabs were harvested.

Qin Feng looked at the crabs under the water and found that the density had become much thinner, but when he came back from the other side, he estimated that he could still catch about [-] tons.

Now that I have been working continuously for 23 hours, the wind and waves on the sea have not become bigger, but have become weirdly smaller.

Qin Feng understood that this was the calm before the storm, so he asked the boatmen to go back to eat and rest, and he lay down on the small bed in the cab to sleep.

Although the boat stopped, it did not turn off, and he was ready to get up when the storm came.

Fortunately, after waking up, although the wind and waves began to grow, it was not yet the time for the storm to really form.

Qin Feng woke up the boatmen and asked them to get ready. After eating, he took a look at the condition of the crab cages on both sides.

In the past ten hours here, the crabs in the crab cage have reached half again, which is a little less than before, but they can still be salvaged.

But the other side is the real bumper harvest, perhaps due to the nearly 24 hours of storage, more than 70 crab pots have reached the point of overload.

It is estimated that there are at least 300 Matsuba crabs that meet the specifications.

Qin Feng decided to go there first to collect the crab pots. When the crab pots were all packed in the past, the storm still came, and all the crabbing boats would start to face the bad weather.

After the salvage this time, he did not ask the boatmen to put down the crab pots, but set them up and left to salvage the remaining one hundred crab pots, and then returned to the crab group not far from the port.

Continuously advancing against the waves of five or six meters, water has already formed on the deck, and countless drains quickly drain the water on the deck.

The boatmen are now recharging their energy in the room, ready to meet the next real challenge.

But Qin Feng's challenge has already begun. He is very focused, observing the direction of the wind and waves at any time, ensuring that the bow of the boat is always facing the direction of the wind and waves.

When the boat is traveling in the smooth waves, it is not as ordinary people think, it is pushed by the waves, which not only speeds up but also reduces fuel consumption.

But the actual situation is that the ship's steering system is easily affected by the thrust of the wind and waves in the stomach, causing problems such as rudder running and left and right yaw.

If you are not careful, you will push the boat under the dangerous wind and waves.

In this way, the ship will appear in parallel with the waves and sea wind, causing a large heel of the ship, and then the ship will capsize and people will die.

Therefore, in the stormy waters of the Bering Sea, all captains sail against the waves.

Experienced old captains will slightly adjust the angle and sail against the waves.

After all, if it is against the waves, the bow of the ship will always be against the waves, the pressure is very high, and it is more likely to cause damage to the ship's structure.

At present, Qin Feng's driving skills still need to be improved. He knows that he should drive at a slant, but sometimes the angle is not so good, and he still faces the waves head-on.

Fortunately, the Dongfang Dragon is big enough, and the waves are not more than ten meters high, so there will be no problems for the time being.

On the way of Qin Feng's voyage, the sea patrol team suddenly sent a distress telegram. A small 18-meter crabbing boat was overturned by the waves, and he hoped that the nearby crabbing boats could come to rescue him.

"." Qin Feng was speechless, who gave them the courage to drive a small 18-meter crab boat to work in the Bering Sea in this weather?
But under normal circumstances, these boats should go to the waters off the southeast coast of Alaska to fish for king crabs. Why did they come here?
Isn't this rushing to court death?

Now that the boat is overturned, it is estimated that the rescue team has lost all the people in the past!
Looking at the coordinates, I didn't expect to be quite close to him.

Forget it, let's go there, what if someone survives until his arrival?
Recall the big tiger who was looking for crabs in the sea, let him follow his boat, and maybe he will need his help later.

Half an hour later, Qin Feng came to the emergency position and saw a crab boat that had almost sunk into the water.

There were two people in the water next to the boat, with swimming rings on their bodies, and a thick rope tied to them. It is estimated that the other end was on the sunken ship, so they were not pushed away by the waves.

But both of them were motionless, just floating.

After half an hour, if I didn’t drown, I probably would have been frozen to death. Today’s temperature has reached minus 2 or [-] degrees. Under normal circumstances, a person may go into shock within [-] minutes after falling into the water.

Qin Feng sighed softly, and at the same time he drove the boat close to him, he asked Du Hu to bring the man over.

The boatmen on the deck were discussing how to save people, but they did not expect a killer whale to help them solve this problem.

Seeing the killer whale dragging the man over with the lifebuoy in its mouth, Melton recovered from his astonishment, quickly picked up the hoisting rope, wrapped the man's body and pulled him up.

The second person did the same, but both had stopped breathing, and Melton and Paul were giving first aid, making a last-ditch effort.

Qin Feng's heart is very complicated, with all kinds of thoughts.Some lamented the fragility of human life, and some lamented that these people even gave up their lives for money.

But he immediately picked up the wireless phone and contacted the Coast Guard, saying that he had rescued two people, but at present the life and death of the two people is unknown.

Although it is certain that the two of them are cold, but there is still some leeway for talking, the death notice does not belong to him.

Soon, the helicopter of the sea patrol came here and took the two away.

There were also other rescue ships coming to search and rescue the "people" who did not escape from the sunken ship.

Qin Feng saw that he had nothing to do here, so he turned the bow of the boat and drove towards his one hundred crab pots.

The occurrence of this incident made the boatmen become very silent. Even Paul, who was in charge of the atmosphere, shook his head from time to time, lamenting the danger of the crabbing work, and even the big tiger's act of saving people was ignored by them.

No matter what happens to other people's ships, their work needs to continue.

The storm has come, and the deck is full of water, which brings great inconvenience to the work.

Occasionally the waves would come up to the deck and knock the boatmen over, even if they were ready.

After working in this working environment for fifteen hours, Qin Feng was finally relieved when the last crab pot was collected.

The decision to fish before the storm appeared to be correct, with 23 tons in the first catch, 35 tons in the second, and [-] tons in the third.

At present, a total of 77 tons have been caught, and nearly one-fifth of the quota has been completed. If this progress continues, Qin Feng will be able to end the king crab fishing season this time before November.

　Thanks for the 5000 reward from the professional magic repairer, and thanks to Fang Xueqiang for the 1666 reward.

　　I don’t know if it’s too late to add updates at night, and it’s too late to add updates tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)