Lu Ming

Chapter 267 Fishing
The fishery company’s sales conditions for motor-sail fishing boats are as follows: First, the buyer must be a national of the country with a shaved head and a certificate. payment.

After the rare small capitalists like Yu Chengde have made enough down payment, they can board the ship.Fortunately, for people like them, buying boats and going fishing in partnership is the daily life of coastal fishermen, so everyone has no scruples—they are all solid men with fishy hands and calluses, and they can do things after a drink. It's settled.

However, the situation after boarding the ship is not optimistic: now it is equivalent to the shareholders spending a lot of money to hire the original captain, engineers and other technicians to work for them.

In this process, shareholders need to take over the ship with their own people as soon as possible.Only in this way can the high labor cost be reduced and the loan can be paid off as soon as possible.

You must know that in order to transfer all the precious technical workers back to other jobs as soon as possible, the fishing company has added a "technical tap fee" to these workers.If Yu Chengde and the others want to make money, they must quickly master the technology and snatch the profits back from the company.

Yu Chengde is currently working hard to operate the stupid, black and thick winch under the gantry crane of the Fat Head Fish.

To be honest, from the moment he saw the gas "ice cellar" on board, he was deeply fascinated by this mysterious power.

Yu Chengde, who has been catching fish for half his life, would never have imagined that there would be such tricks on the fishing boat: Although he is from the south, he still understands the reason why fish is not easy to rot in cold weather.

After that, when he boarded the boat, just like Grandma Liu, his world view of fishing was subverted: the weird black box that can talk between the two boats, the glass plate that can see the fish schools on the bottom of the sea, and the person who goes to the sea by himself to deploy iron nets. The winches, those rattling iron mechanisms in the engine room
The five large and small shareholders, together with the twenty or so nephews and subordinates they brought on board, were all numb at this moment, at a loss, not knowing what to do.

So they can only learn from the most basic place step by step.

Nephew Yu Chushui was sent to the engine room, and the others learned from the simplest netting and pulling
There are two types of netting: purse seine and trawl net.

Purse seines are the easiest way to catch shallow schools of fish.While casting the net, the boat circles around the school of fish, and soon there will be a spectacular sight of the school of fish leaping and leaping on the sea.

Trawling is a little more complicated.

The trawling net of later generations is a terrifying existence.One or two ships dragged large nets behind them, sweeping out all the marine life and environment in the middle and lower layers. The seabed ecology was completely destroyed, and the coastal fish catch of various countries dropped sharply, and they moved to the deep sea one after another.

However, once the environment is destroyed, it cannot be repaired.Why do Bangziguo often arrest rabbit fishermen?Because there are no fish along the coast, the seabed is full of broken nylon rope nets and lifeless wasteland, and all creatures are scraped away by forklift-like trawls.

The trawler that appeared in the 17th century had a different style.

In later generations, the steel plate thickness of ordinary fishing boats is about 2 centimeters.However, the efficiency of wooden sailboats in the 17th century was far behind at the same tonnage-to achieve the same structural strength, very thick wood must be used.Generally speaking, this number will not be lower than 10-15 cm.

You know, the thickness of the double-layer oak hull of the British Royal Navy's "Victory" is an abnormal 46 cm
Thickness means heaviness and bulkiness. What a 2cm steel plate can do, the fishing boat needs to increase its own weight by at least 5 times to barely meet the requirements.

The bulky structure greatly limited the power and functionality of a wooden ship like the Fathead Fish.You must know that the most common 240-ton trawler in later generations can carry 98.3 tons of fish (including ice).And how much fish can be carried by the fat head fish with a displacement of 400 tons? 85 tons.

Yes, the displacement has increased by more than 100 tons, but the payload has dropped instead.There are pots of inefficient, bulky gas power systems, of clumsy timber from planks to beams, of stiff sails and hawsers.

In this case, the power system, which is already a bit powerless, cannot drag a large wire fishing net. The heavy fishing net and the fish inside, not to mention the bottom layer, will take a lot of effort to catch the middle layer fish.

Today is the first trawling operation since Yu Chengde and the others boarded the ship 10 days ago. Before that, they used simple seines.As the captain who was watching the instruments in the cabin gave an order through the tweeter, Yu Chengde and his group who were waiting on the deck quickly started to get busy.

Yu Chengde's task today is to start the winch.As the winch driven by the motor started to work slowly, the pulleys on the gantry crane also began to rotate, and the trawl net behind the Fathead Fish began to be slowly pulled to the stern. At the same time, the engine room also received instructions, and the speed of the ship began to decrease.

20 minutes later, the large steel wire net bag, which is much smaller than the trawl nets of later generations, was towed up from the iron slide at the stern.

Seeing the struggling and jumping fish in the fishing net, all the sailors jumped on them at this moment: the hardest work began.

Yu Chengde and the others wanted to throw the small fish and sharks back into the sea first in the shortest possible time.The small fish here refers to fish shorter than the elbow—anything below 40 centimeters is counted.

Evolution over hundreds of millions of years has resulted in fishes in all layers of the ocean under different pressures.In history, it was not until the large-scale use of nylon by humans in the 20th century that fish in the middle and lower layers of the ocean were really caught in large quantities.

And in the plane of Transcendence, because of the electric motor and steel wire mesh, the mesopelagic fish in the Taiwan Strait have been hunted for the first time in hundreds of millions of years.

Although the mesh of the wire mesh has expanded to a situation beyond the imagination of fishermen of later generations, there are still many "small fish" trapped in the net, and it is all by manpower at this time.

Yu Chengde and the others not only have to throw out the small fish, but also deal with the big fish.Thick arms, thick thighs, and thick waists. The quality of fish that has never been caught in ancient times is too high. All kinds of thick snapper, yellow croaker, and Pacific salmon are filled with fishing nets, including tuna. Deep-layer fish species are often fished up by the way.

These big fish, which are no smaller than fishermen, will be disemboweled soon and beheaded by the way. When fishery resources are too abundant, fishermen will naturally improve the quality of their products, thereby reducing the cost of sailing.

A large number of high-quality pre-processed fresh fish were stacked into the gas cold storage, while the stern of the fishing boat kept flowing into the sea with blood, internal organs and fish heads.The bloody feast even created a trace on the ocean surface, attracting countless fish and seabirds. Ever since, the grinning fishermen were full of bird feces after they had harvested a lot.

(End of this chapter)