Chapter 1054: Seine fishing

"Xiao, what are you doing?" Doyle looked at Xiao Peng's actions with a dazed expression.
At this time, Xiao Peng was squatting on the deck to sort a rope. He hung a heavy object at the end of the rope, but he linked a thin rope to the front end of the rope with a buoy hung on it.
Xiao Peng explained: "Make a manual probe." After he finished speaking, he threw the rope into the sea, looking at the buoy and his pocket watch.
"Okay, let's take it!" Xiao Peng calculated for a while and directed the man to put the rope away, and then returned to the cockpit, looking at the chart while calculating what.
Doyle was very puzzled: "Xiao, why on earth are you?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "You rely too much on instruments for fishing. This is the fishing experience from the East. I am calculating the speed of underwater ocean currents. I know that you have data on instruments here, but it is worse than this method. Good calculation of the width, speed and direction of ocean currents. This is the experience of the old Chinese fishermen."
Doyle and Xiao Peng asked about the calculation method and asked, "Xiao, you haven't changed positions for so long? There is no school of fish here!"
Xiao Peng smiled and pointed to the chart: "According to my calculations, there is no better location in the waters around here than here. Just take it as you are fishing and wait slowly! What sonar is on your boat? Do beam fishing use sonar or multi-beam fishing or electronic scanning sonar?"
Doyle replied: "Multi-beam electronic scanning sonar combined with multi-beam and electronic scanning. This is the deep sea area, and the detection position is probably two kilometers."
Xiao Peng said: "All the fish trap lights on the boat are turned on!"
"Open now?" Doyle was taken aback.
"Go! Doyle, you let me drive the light boat three kilometers upwind. I want you to come back and you come back again." Xiao Peng commanded.
Doyle manipulated the dashboard and turned on the fish trap light. He asked his son-in-law Charlton to turn on the light to the designated position according to Xiao Peng’s request. After about an hour, Xiao Peng picked up the intercom: "Charles, use Drive back slowly at eight knots. Doyle, find someone to drive the trawler under my command."
After hearing this, Doyle widened his eyes and looked at the sonar: "Xiao, this sonar hasn't been shown yet, how do you know there are fish?"
Xiao Peng explained: "This kind of surface seine is called catching'floating water' in China. Look along the moonlight, what is there? Boobies! What does the boobies mean? There are fish!"
Doyle blinked and took the binoculars and looked at it for a long time: "Xiao, your eyes are really good! I didn't even see it, but there are not many boobies."
"In the big night, whoever comes out to hunt except the starving boobies?" Xiao Peng said.
"There are fish!" Doyle looked excited when he saw the sonar, and saw a pattern of red and yellow displayed on the sonar watch: "This school of fish doesn't seem to be many!"
"That hasn't come yet, how deep is your fishing net? Can twenty fathoms?" Xiao Peng asked.
Doyle replied: "It's definitely not enough. The limit is 13 fathoms. It's best to keep it within ten fathoms. After all, I am a small fishing boat."
Xiao Peng thought for a moment: "Doyle, let Charles increase the speed to 15 knots, bring the fish into the shallow water, and then the trawler is ready to go to sea at any time."
Doyle frowned and said, "The school of fish hasn't come here yet."
"Listen to me." Xiao Peng said lightly.
Doyle gritted his teeth and shouted outside: "Hall, get ready!"
Xiao Peng waited for a while and waved to Doyle: "Get off the net!"
The small boat at the stern of the'Reindeer' ran out, and the captain was there to report at any time: "The fourth ring, the fifth ring, and the sixth ring..." Xiao Peng drove the'Reindeer' back. Going slowly in the direction, and the trawler just besieged the fishing net in a circle. After the trawler approached the ‘Reindeer’, it tied a rope with a hook and then went outside to tighten the rope.
Xiao Peng commanded: "Take the bottom rope!"
This kind of purse seine is formed into a cylindrical shape in the sea, and the bottom rope is to gather the bottom of the fishing net, so that if there is fish in the fishing net, it cannot run.
Doyle and the fisherman on the boat looked at the water with nervous expressions, wondering if there was any fish. After the net is off, the sonar can't see the situation in the fishing net. Purse seine boats like this are used to catch fish on the surface. If they don’t touch the fish on the surface, it is a zero-harvest net.
"There are fish!" Charlton on the illuminated boat shouted.
Everyone on the fishing boat became excited when they heard the word ‘there are fish’. As the fishing nets tightened, some fish had already jumped out of the water, crackling.
Doyle shouted excitedly! "Hurry up and close the net!"
The winch and crane made a "creak" sound, and Doyle looked excited: "It's done! It's done! It's mackerel!"
The price of mackerel is three times that of herring! Fishing for mackerel is of course the most cost-effective.
As the fishing nets slowly tightened, they received the side of the boat. The people on the fishing boat looked excited.
"Why don't they drag the net up?" Nikita asked.
Xiao Peng laughed ‘pouch’ after hearing this: "Take it away? How could there be such a big crane on a boat like this?"
"Then how did they get the fish back? Just drag the fish back by the boat?" Nikita frowned.
Doyle explained Nikita’s doubts with his actions. He saw the fisherman carrying something like an exhaust pipe and threw it into the water. After hearing only the rumbling sound, he pulled out the sea with the fish. The rear of the exhaust pipe is a net, the sea water is discharged back into the sea, and the fish enters the cabin.
"There is a water pump. Just pump the fish out." Xiao Peng said.
"It's so convenient, so what did you do without this pump?" Nikita asked.
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Manpower fishing! There are no winches or other things for fishing. They were all made by hand by the fishermen. Did you see the big dip net? That is to deal with emergencies. If the water pump fails, the fishermen will have to use the dip net to fish, and one net can catch 500 pounds! Two or three fishermen operate together, and these fish will be caught in a few hours."
"So hard?" Nikita pouted.
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "No one has ever said that fishing is not a hard work. What time is it? At one o'clock in the morning, everyone in this boat is busy here. What is it for? Not just to make money. Huh?"
"Oh, oh, oh! Xiao, you are too amazing!" Doyle rushed into the cockpit: "220,000 pounds of mackerel! God! I just let go of 20,000 pounds of mackerel. I'm so distressed! How did you do it?"
For these fishermen, fishing more is really not a good thing. If you can't sell it, you will be fined if you are caught, so the extra share will be returned to the sea.
Xiao Peng said triumphantly: "I said, you rely too much on technology. We Chinese fishermen pay attention to watching the sky, the sea, and the tide. You can't catch fish without science and technology, but what about China? It’s the events of the last 20 to 30 years. Even today, most fishing boats still don’t even have a sonar for detecting fish. They rely on experience. I really recommend that you all go to China to learn fishing techniques. Your level of technology here is high. But for traditional fishery operations like purse seine fishing and gillnet fishing, I still recommend that you go to China to study, it will be beneficial."
At this time, a voice came from the intercom: "Doyle! Doyle! Are you there? I'm Kurt!"
Doyle picked up the intercom: "Kurt, what's the matter?"
Kurt said on the intercom: "There are large herrings in the Chlorella Shoal. I just caught 115,000 pounds. The ration is full. Your boat is big. Come and fish for herrings!"
After hearing this, Doyle said: "Kurt, thank you so much! If I had been a few hours earlier, I would definitely have defected to you, but I don't need it now."
"Why?" Kurt asked.
Doyle said: "Just a few minutes ago, I just put back 20,000 pounds of mackerel in the sea! Over 20,000 pounds of ration!"
"What?" Kurt asked, "How big a school of fish did you bump into? Where are you? Is it too late for me? Faco, mackerel is much more expensive than herring!"
Doyle smiled bitterly: "I don't know."
Kurt was anxious: "Doyle, why are you doing this? You just threw 20,000 pounds of fish. Now tell me you don't know how big the fish school is? You can't be so selfish, okay? I have herring here and let me know. Well! If I remember correctly, your mackerel ration is 200,000 pounds, right?"
Doyle explained: "I really don't know. To tell you the truth, Xiao is on my boat. Xiao commanded this net to catch. Xiao's fishing technique is really amazing. I only saw schools of fish on the sonar. Approaching, he commanded the net before the fish came close. I couldn’t understand what happened. The net was full of fish. Xiao’s fishing skills were really amazing! You weren’t talking about it at the time. Did Xiao rely on technology to fish on a good boat? This is really not the case! Xiao's fishing skills are beyond my imagination! The skills he showed completely shocked me!"
Kurt said quickly: "Help me ask about Xiao Na's fish school."
Doyle looked at Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng said, "Ask him about his current coordinates."
After Doyle told Kurt’s coordinates to Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng calculated on the paper and picked up the walkie-talkie: "Kurt, you already have more than 110,000 pounds of herring on board, can you still hold mackerel? ?"
Kurt said: "I also have a small cabin on board, which can hold about 30,000 pounds of space."
"That's OK, I'll give you a coordinate. As long as you can get to that point at a speed of twelve knots or more, a school of mackerel will arrive in four hours, but it's not a big school, at most 50,000. You look like a pound, it depends on your ability to get it online," Xiao Peng said lightly.
There was silence on the walkie-talkie for a while: "Xiao, you can count the time when the fish arrives? Damn, are you the child of Poseidon? I swear to God, if I really see it at that coordinate in four hours There is a school of mackerel, from now on I will put your picture and God’s picture together and hang it in the cockpit for offering!"