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Chapter 102 Fish Finder Improvement (Part )

At the fish market in Jinshan, Wang Jiankun witnessed what wild growth means.

Almost every captain carries a gun with him, and the crew members who accompany them ashore to sell the fish will also carry weapons. The same goes for the fishmongers who purchase fish at the fish market. If they have a stall, they will also have a few guns and some knives. For mobile buyers who do not have stalls, as long as the purchase volume is relatively large, they are almost always accompanied by several people, and all of them carry weapons.

Liao Jun was no stranger to this scene. He helped transport goods at the fish market and had a tricycle.

Therefore, he is very familiar with some of the fishing boat bosses who often come to sell goods, and several of the fishmongers he buys from are his regular customers and often help with transportation.

With his introduction, Wang Jiankun got to know several fishing boat bosses, but they were all very cautious and were not very enthusiastic about Wang Jiankun's suggestion to let them see the sonar fish finder. They just said that their financial resources were limited and they were afraid they could not afford such advanced equipment.

Wang Jiankun asked one of the captains, "Captain Zheng, my sonar fish finder is very easy to use and costs only 1 yuan. Logically, you can sell about 2 seafood every day, so you can buy one in less than a month. How can you not afford it?"

Wang Jiankun didn’t know how much imported fish finders cost on the market, so he initially set a price of 1 yuan based on the sales of several ships he saw.

"Boss Wang, to be honest, we have to pay part of the money for this boat to the team as the contract fee. I also have two crew members to pay wages for. We have to refuel and add ice every time we go out to sea, which all costs money. So even though we sold it for more than 2 yuan this time, it may not be the case next time. Moreover, if the sea waves are strong, we cannot go out to sea and can only rely on our savings. Therefore, we really cannot afford the 200 yuan sonar fish finder." Captain Zheng said.

Wang Jiankun did not consider what Captain Zheng said, and then learned from him that most of the motor boats that can go out to sea for fishing are contracted or rented from the original fishery production teams.

A small number of families with financial resources would pay to buy it, but most are still paying for renting the boat or preparing money for contracting.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some people who are good at sea transportation can afford to pay the contract fee or buy the rented boat if they catch a large number of valuable fish during the fishing season.

According to him, a new fishing boat of about 16 meters in length with a diesel engine and a net-lift costs about 2500 to 3000 yuan, and they have only been under the contract for more than two years, so it is really difficult to pay an extra 2 yuan to install a fish finder. In addition, there are a lot of fish in Zhoushan fishing grounds, but they cannot be sold at a high price, so in the past year they have started to save some valuable fish, shrimps and crabs to sell here.

After communicating with Captain Zheng, Wang Jiankun gained a general understanding of the current economic situation of people fishing along the coast and the general situation of fishing boats.

Generally speaking, those who dare to go out to sea are still in the stage of primitive accumulation of capital. Only a small number of people, for some reason, have begun to take a step forward and start making money for themselves and buying their own ships.

After talking with Captain Zheng, he gave him a 10-yuan foreign exchange coupon, saying that it was the fee for the information he provided. Captain Zheng was naturally very happy and told him that he would come to Jinshan often to sell seafood, and that he could find him again if he wanted to know anything about the situation at sea in the future.

Wang Jiankun naturally agreed and said that he might set up a stall to buy seafood here in the future, and they would have frequent dealings then.

Leaving the street where fish were bought and sold, Wang Jiankun brought Liao Jun and Ding Shengli to the pier where the fishing boats were docked.

This pier is quite large and long, half of it is made of stone and half of it is made of wood, so I asked, "Why is the end of this pier made of wood? Was it like this before?"

"That's not the case. Since last year, more and more fishing boats have come here. Then there was a fight over a docking issue, and several people died. Later, the government stepped in to build that wooden dock. From now on, fishing boats that want to dock here must pay at least one week's management fee first, otherwise they will not be allowed to dock."

"Since then, things have become more standardized. Many fishing boats pay monthly, and the wharf management office will arrange berths based on first come, first served. Those that haven't paid can only anchor outside and find a small boat to transfer. It is said that the management fee is going to increase again, but the fishmongers here buy at a higher price, so more and more boats are willing to come here to sell seafood."

"You guys are pretty good at doing business here. You know that the scarcer the resources, the more expensive they are. I wonder if you can extend that wooden dock a bit longer?"

"Hey, those guys would rather have fewer or fewer berths. Anyway, there are more and more ships coming, so they can raise the price of berths and save a lot of management trouble. So it's impossible for them to extend the pier. Look, they collected so much money, and some of the wood used in the pier built last year has started to rot and no one has repaired it."

Wang Jiankun walked back and forth at the dock twice, scanning all the docked ships in his mind to provide some materials for future manufacturing of fishing boats.

Currently, most of the fishing boats that come to dock here are about 16 meters long, and there are only three that are longer, about 3 meters. According to Liao Jun, those three were bought with joint funds from a large family. Because the boats are larger, they can go to farther and deeper seas to fish, so they earn much more than these small fishing boats.

Wang Jiankun also took a special look at the images projected by the three large ships and found that the only equipment on their ships was an additional maritime radio station and a shortwave radio. The other equipment was similar to that of the small boats, except that the diesel engine had a slightly higher power.

Wang Jiankun has no plans to contact this kind of powerful person for the time being, because he won't be able to come often in the future, and if he cooperates with him he will be at a complete disadvantage. It would be better to find someone like Captain Zheng, who would be more likely to win.

After looking at the fishing boats, Wang Jiankun asked Liao Jun to introduce the seafood that is sold at a high price here.

"Boss Wang, the fish that people in Shanghai like more are cuttlefish (squid), hairtail, large and small yellow croaker, grouper and other types of grouper. Small blue dragon and large swimming crabs are also popular."

"However, cuttlefish, hairtail, and yellow croaker all have their own seasons. It is difficult to catch them after the season has passed. Fortunately, the seasons of these fish are not concentrated in one place, but are distributed in four seasons, so there are fish that are easier to sell all year round."

"Will the purchase price be very low during the flood season?"

"It is lower, but the ones sent here are all of excellent quality and very fresh, so it is not that much lower. The fish market near Zhoushan is much lower. According to the captains, the price of each fish there will drop by half or even only one-third during the flood season. The price of fish of poor quality will even drop by one-fifth, and you have to beg the fishmongers to buy it."

“Is there anyone who goes there every day to collect fish and sells them here?”

"Yes, but it doesn't make much sense. There are fishing boats here that will keep the good ones for sale. Moreover, they have to select them after collecting them, and it takes half a day to transport them here. Many boats are reluctant to put ice in the fish, so they are almost stale when they are sold to Zhoushan Fish Market. If they select them there, the quality will be worse, after all, they will go bad faster after being turned over." "Only in winter will some fishmongers go there to collect the hairtail and then transport them here, after all, the ice melts slowly in winter."

After listening to this, Wang Jiankun thought that he could set up a fish stall in Jinshan to specialize in collecting fish of better quality, and then sell them to inland areas with higher quality. After all, there are still some people who have become rich first who like more high-end things.

Then we will open a fishery company in Zhoushan, which not only catches fish but also purchases and processes seafood. After classification, it will be transported to major cities along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River by fast refrigerated transport ships for sale. If the business develops well in the future, we will sell it to BJ, Tianjin and other places.

That same day, Wang Jiankun reached an agreement with Liao Jun and hired him as the person in charge of the Sihai Fisheries Jinshan purchasing point. He first rented a house here as a purchasing point, and then found a way to buy a piece of land, about 2 acres, to build a small seafood processing workshop and storage workshop.

He can recruit three more assistants in the future to help him manage the processing plant and warehouse.

In the initial stage, his salary will be calculated at 120 yuan per month. When the processing plant and warehouse are built in the future, his ability will be judged. The more things he is responsible for, the higher his position and salary will naturally be.

The next day, Liao Jun rented a house more than 20 meters away from the pier. After Wang Jiankun took a look at it, he asked him to find someone to renovate it and pay the landlord an extra amount of renovation fee. The main task was to enlarge the entrance and replace the internal lines with the wires brought by Wang Jiankun.

Because Wang Jiankun made a large freezer and prepared to put it at this purchasing point, the collected goods would be stored in the freezer after simple processing, and then wait for Wang Huawei to transport them away.

While Liao Jun was busy renovating the house, Wang Jiankun did not let Ding Shengli sit idle. He asked him to contact the driver of the transportation company and ask him to help drive a refrigerated truck. From then on, he would go to Jinshan every morning to transport a truck of frozen seafood to the Shilipu Wharf.

At the same time, Ding Shengli and several of his good friends were asked to learn to drive trucks as soon as possible. They will be needed for transportation in the future, so they are currently looking for temporary drivers.

Ding Shengli and his friends were naturally very happy. With the help of Wang Jiankun's foreign exchange coupons, they quickly found people who were willing to teach them how to drive. After all, Wang Jiankun only required them to learn how to drive, not the complicated knowledge of car repair.

He himself was not idle either. After a few days of contact with Captain Zheng, Wang Jiankun drove a 16-meter-long fishing boat and followed Captain Zheng's boat to Zhoushan to fish.

According to Captain Zheng, every time the net is cast, nearly a thousand kilograms of fish are caught, but there are many small fish and fish that cannot be sold at a high price, so more than half of them will be thrown away.

So Wang Jiankun decided to go fishing at sea himself, and then optimize the function of the fish finder. He would make continuous modifications while fishing, striving to enable the fish finder to distinguish the general situation of fish on the seabed and improve fishing efficiency.

This is theoretically possible because the size, shape, swimming habits and depth of each seabed creature are different, and Wang Jiankun has super powers to help him. As long as the performance of the sonar and the signal processor are improved to a certain level, he can determine the approximate types of seafood on the seabed.

In the early morning of June 6, Wang Jiankun and Liao Jun found an old fisherman driving a brand new fishing boat and followed Captain Zheng's boat to Zhoushan fishing ground.

After passing the mouth of Qiantang River, we arrived near Zhoushan Islands and followed Captain Zheng to a town to refuel with diesel and ice.

When the boat was docked to add ice and diesel, Captain Zheng said, "Boss Wang, this is late spring and early summer. The yellow croaker season is not long over, and the yellow croaker and squid seasons are about to arrive. Therefore, the catch during this period will be more mixed. Except for hairtail, which is almost impossible to catch, there are more or less of the other species."

"It's okay. I came out just to see what the top three fishing grounds in the world are like. I can report to the company only after I have seen the fishing myself." Wang Jiankun replied to Captain Zheng.

In fact, it is better if the fish are mixed. This will make it more convenient for Wang Jiankun to test and improve the sonar fish finder. Maybe he can encounter different schools of fish and quickly modify the sonar fish finder.

After adding ice and diesel, Captain Zheng took Wang Jiankun to the waters near Qushan Island. This island is located right in the middle of the Qiantang River's horn-shaped mouth. After fishing, the routes to Shanghai Jinshan and Zhoushan Shenjiamen are similar. If the fish caught are of good quality, they will go to Shanghai Jinshan to sell them. If the quality is average, they will go to Shenjiamen.

Qushan Island is a large island in the East China Sea. According to Captain Zheng, there are many families living on the island, most of whom are fishermen, and a small number of them are farmers on the island.

After Captain Zheng and Wang Jiankun's ship passed Qushan Island, they began to trawle near Shangsanxing Island.

Captain Zheng told Wang Jiankun's boat not to be behind or in front of his boat, and to be at least 1 nautical mile away from it, because the trawl net would be hundreds of meters long, and the boat would have to keep moving after the net was cast, and would temporarily change direction when it saw a school of fish, so the two ships could not be too close, especially in the front and back directions, as the propellers might get tangled in the fishing net if they were too close.

Of course Wang Jiankun did as he was told and kept the boat about 1 nautical mile away from Captain Zheng's boat. The old fisherman who came with him asked him if he wanted to cast the net now, but Wang Jiankun told him not to be anxious and to wait until he used the equipment on the boat to make a decision.

The old fisherman was an honest and hardworking person. Wang Jiankun asked him to wait by the fishing net and not walk around, so he could be ready to cast the net at any time.

Wang Jiankun turned on the sonar fish finder and used his superpowers to check the situation on the seabed.

In his mind, the situation on the seabed was clearly visible, and all the sea creatures, big and small, were projected in. However, Wang Jiankun didn't know much about marine life. He had only eaten large yellow croaker and hairtail before, and he had only seen some others at the Jinshan Fish Market. He had some understanding of their general size, so he couldn't tell what kind they were.

However, considering the fishing season here, Wang Jiankun decided to mainly provide sonar fish finders to detect those marine fish that will appear during the fishing season or those with relatively high economic value, such as grouper, small blue dragon, swimming crab, etc., and there is no need to spend computing power to detect others.

After driving about 2 nautical miles, a large school of fish appeared in my mind. Judging from the size and elemental composition, it was a bit similar to the recorded information of yellow croaker. So I decided to catch some and have a look. At the same time, I also saved the information recorded by the fish finder. After catching them and confirming whether they were yellow croaker or some other fish, I would use it as basic data for upgrading.

(End of this chapter)