Chapter 353: Late night visitor

After dinner, the Vladimir was still brightly lit.
Everyone did not rest directly, but was busy supplying the Vladimir. Xiao Peng didn't even book a hotel for everyone, so he let everyone stay on the boat. Yang Mengkai's idea of ​​foreign meat was completely shattered.
But what he is doing now is also related to foreign characters, he is moving onions.
Xiao Peng was in a good mood and stayed in the cabin to scan Twitter. It's okay to interact with friends from the Star Stripe Kingdom.
Well, not so much interaction, it is better to say that Xiao Peng unilaterally sends out delicious food and greedy crowds yelling.
When Xiao Peng was able to play hard, someone knocked on the door: "Come in!"
Wang Hu opened the door and came in: "Boss, someone is looking for you." Xiao Peng took a look, who was not Maxim who followed him?
"Maxim, why are you here, please sit down, please sit down, don't you know what to do with me?" Xiao Peng greeted.
Maxim first looked around, then sat down: "Captain Xiao, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I really don't believe that the cabin of a fishing boat can be as comfortable as you."
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "It's not just my cabin. Although the crew cabin is a bit smaller, I promise it is absolutely comfortable. You can visit it."
Maxim smiled and shook his head: "I believe what Captain Xiao said. You are so good to the crew."
Xiao Peng did not deny: "Going offshore is a very sinful thing in itself. With so many crew members following me to beg for a living, I don’t want them to suffer from me. It’s okay to live comfortably. I don’t know if Maxim, you visit late at night. What is it?"
When Maxim was about to speak, someone knocked on the door: "Please come in."
It was Wang Hu who came in: "Boss, someone is looking for you again."
This time, Wang Hu came in with two people, Nelson and Sean. They entered the cabin and glared at each other. They just wanted to talk to Xiao Peng when they saw that Maxim was also here. It's all right now. The three of you start to look at me and I look at you. The atmosphere is very delicate for a while.
Maxim snorted coldly: "What are you doing here?"
Nelson and Sean said in unison: "Same purpose with you." Then the three of them started looking at me and you.
Xiao Peng was amused, but he asked, "Don't you know what the three big night guys have to do with me?"
But the three of you look at me and I look at you, without talking first. Xiao Peng shook his head: "If the three of you have nothing to do, please come back. I want to rest soon."
Long Maxim took a breath: "Well, Captain Xiao, if you guessed correctly, the purpose of the three of us is the same, it's for your tuna."
Xiao Peng said: "You have seen it too. I am now making supplies and preparing to return to China. I can sell the fish myself, right?"
Maxim said, "Captain Xiao, I have been in Petropavlovsk Port for nearly 30 years. This is the first time I saw you today. This shows that you are coming from the south. If I didn’t Guessed wrong, there are only two possibilities. The first is that you want to have fun in Kamchatka. After all, the tourist resources here are so good. The second is that you are going to the Bering Sea. But if you insist on going back to China Isn’t that a pity?"
"You're right." Xiao Peng did not deny: "I originally planned to really want to have fun, not only to play Kamchatka, but also to go to the Bering Sea, but this is not the reason for me to sell the fish cheaply. You also know that it’s not always this kind of good luck to catch a big guy like this? So I’d rather run a bit more and earn more. Where can I play if I have money?"
Maxim nodded: "Captain Xiao is right, but a Chinese friend of mine once told me that an inch of time and an inch of gold are difficult to buy an inch of time. If you come here next time, your mentality must be the same. Isn't it the same time?"
"I would rather suffer with my mentality than my wallet." Xiao Peng looked like a miser at this time. To friends, Xiao Peng feels that it doesn't matter if you have more money or less, but you are not relatives to me, why should I make you cheaper?
Maxim glanced at Nelson and Sean: "Our Golden Pepper Fish Fishery Company is willing to pay a high price for this fish."
"What is the high price?" Xiao Peng asked.
Maxim thought for a while: "75 dollars per pound!"
Xiao Peng calculated in his heart, um, this is about to catch up with the retail price. The price of bluefin tuna in the market is about 600 to 121 catties. Of course, this also depends on the size and quality of the fish.
Before Xiao Peng spoke, Nelson said directly: "We are willing to pay seventy-six dollars!"
Sean was not to be outdone: "Seventy-seven dollars."
The three of them were completely torn apart, and raised their prices to each other. The price would soon be one hundred dollars per pound. In the beginning, the three people slowly bid for one dollar and one dollar, but later they became red eyes.
"I'm paying two hundred dollars!" Nelson suddenly doubled the price!
"Are you crazy?" Sean and Maxim shouted at Nelson in unison. Sean stared at Nelson and said, "The fish that was first shot this year for the Chinese New Year is only more than one hundred dollars a pound! The price will be lost! You are not afraid of old Wharton jumping from the bed with a cane and breaking your leg?" The old Wharton he said was the founder of Wharton Fisheries.
Nelson smiled, and smiled at the two of them slightly: "You just treat me as a lunatic. What I want to say is there is still bidding? If not, this fish is mine."
Xiao En and Maxim shook their heads, and after saying goodbye to Xiao Peng, they swearing and left.
Seeing the two walking by, Nelson smiled and asked, "I wonder if Captain Xiao is satisfied with the price?"
Xiao Peng cast a doubt on his face: "It should be said that I am too satisfied. Even if I can get Tsukiji at this price, I will be very satisfied, but I don't understand, Mr. Nelson, why did you buy it at such a high price. What about this fish? To be honest, you guys are willing to pay one hundred dollars. I believe that, two hundred I am a little surprised. After all, this is an ordinary Class A fish, isn’t it?
The Japanese people have eaten fish by eating fish. The Japanese people have 2% of the world’s population, but consume 10% of the world’s fishery consumption. It can be seen that they can eat more fish, especially tuna. The meat is the most delicious, and which piece of meat is the most expensive. It is clearly distinguished, and according to the different fat content, the level of tuna is very detailed. A-grade tuna meat is actually ordinary tuna, and the upper one is S-grade. SS level, SSS level.
As for the tuna below Class B, almost all tuna is problematic.
There are only two possibilities for the appearance of Grade B: The first one is improper storage. The myoglobin in the fish pigment will be oxidized to become oxidized myoglobin, and the color will become bright red and brown. The taste and commodity value will be greatly increased. Decline, of course, this is difficult to occur, after all, the current cold storage technology is no longer advanced.
The second reason is that the bleeding is not timely. Compared with other fish, tuna is larger, more athletic, and has a higher blood temperature. If caught, it will struggle hard and the body core temperature will rise rapidly. If you don’t bleed them quickly, the sourness of the meat will increase in the light ones, and the meat will be discolored in the heavy ones. Especially if the blood vessels near the spine rupture and blood enters the muscle tissues, thrombotic plaques will form and the fish will become fishy. It is sour, which seriously affects their taste. Prices are also severely affected.
Of the three mainstream catching methods, only tuna fishing is the best way to maintain the meat quality of the tuna. After catching the tuna, it is killed directly, keeping the fish meat limit to the maximum.
As for longline fishing and purse seine fishing, the fish will die for a long time before being harvested, which will affect the quality of the fish. Especially longline fishing. Although longline fishing is the most common method of tuna fishing in the U.S., because longline fishing tackle stretches for tens of kilometers, it is impossible to receive the goods immediately after being put down. Generally, it will be put in the sea for a few days, so It is possible that the fish has been dead for several days, and the quality is naturally affected.
Although purse seine is better than longline fishing, the catch of tuna struggling in the fishing net can also seriously affect the quality of the fish. Moreover, purse seine is not a short-term job. It is impossible to close the net directly like Xiao Peng.
To put it aside, the Japanese people attribute the decrease in the number of tuna to the purse seine by foreign fishing boats, and say that the number of tuna decreased because of the purse seine. As everyone knows, if there is no trade, there is no killing, and 90% of the bluefin tuna in the world has entered the belly of the Japanese.
Hearing Xiao Peng’s question, Nelson smiled slightly and replied:
I’ve heard a Chinese proverb that I like very much. It’s like that, give it a try, the bike becomes a motorcycle. I want to give it a try too."
"Then your risk seems to be really big. The price you gave me has caught up with the auction price." Regarding the price of tuna, it's actually really messy. There was once a 222 kg bluefin tuna that sold as much as 180 The sky-high price of ten thousand meters of gold. It counts up to 7,200 meters of gold a pound, but this price has a lot of moisture.
At that time, the Japanese government promoted more people to join the tuna fishing industry through such sky-high tuna auctions.
But after all, most of the tuna transaction prices are tens of thousands of dollars. Compared with the inflated prices, it is a blow to the enthusiasm of practitioners and affects the Japanese cuisine industry. For this reason, the Japanese government had to come forward to carry out price control and prohibit the situation of sky-high auctions.
In any case, Xiao Peng's bluefin tuna, even if it weighs 800 pounds, can sell for $16, far exceeding the market price and almost at the auction price.
Nelson sighed: "Captain Xiao, you are right. The risk is not small, but I have to fight hard now."
"I would like to hear the details." Xiao Peng handed Nelson a cigarette and lit one himself.