Chapter 300 New Ship No. 1

Chapter 300 New Ship No. 1

Chapter 300 New Ship First Net

In the early morning of the next day, the three brothers went out with the breakfast prepared by Zhou Ruonan's sister-in-law, and met Li's father and Wang Xincheng at the stone bridge head, and went to the waterway to start the boat together.

Li Changle gave the fishing boat number issued by the Fisheries Administration to Lao Zhang, and asked them to spray the fishing boat number on the black hull when they came back from testing the boat.

The name of the boat was written in bright red paint on the black hull, and the part below the waterline was painted with a bright red paint containing copper oxide and other ingredients.

This paint can repel or kill organisms attached to the bottom of the ship and can effectively prevent the attachment of marine organisms.

After Li Changle and Lao Zhang set off the firecrackers, Li's father, with trembling hands, held the incense sticks and thousand candles as he lit the incense sticks and thousand candles at the bow and stern of the boat one after another. After muttering a prayer, everyone got on board and prepared to set off.

Brother Li, who was a veteran, sat on the steering wheel and started the fishing boat out of the dock. "Ah Le, where are we going to work?"

"Go towards Huzi Island and take a walk in the sea further away."

"okay!"

Brother Li increased the horsepower and the boat quickly arrived at the Shatou Village Pier. It docked to pick up Chen Yongwei who was waiting on the shore to buy ice cubes and slowly sailed away from the pier.

There were quite a few fishing boats going out to sea at this time. Father Li stood on the tall bow, looking at the familiar figures on the fishing boats below, and the boatmen who turned their heads to look at the big boats with envy, and excitedly patted Li Changle and his brothers a few times.

"Good boy, you are all great, more capable than your father!"

Li Changle and his brothers looked at each other happily and said, "Dad, we will test a large boat of more than 30 meters next year. Just wait, we will buy a bigger fishing boat in the future."

"Okay, okay, Dad will wait for you to buy a bigger fishing boat." Father Li cheered excitedly.

The wind and waves today are much stronger than yesterday. Li Changle and his companions are very satisfied with the weather. After all, when testing the boat, there should be some wind and waves to test the quality of the fishing boat itself.

Brother Li took the technician sent by Lao Zhang and asked him about some problems he had encountered on large ships before. He also asked Acheng to help write down the solutions the technician said.

Father Li walked around the boat excitedly, while Li Changle and Chen Yongwei watched Brother Li operate in the cab.

The big ship soon arrived at the waters of Huzi Island. Brother Li slowed down the boat and directed several people to lower the trawl net. Li Changle and several others went to the deck, activated the slide and began to lower the net. The long trawl net was easily lowered into the water through the slide.

Li Changle gestured to Brother Li, and he drove the fishing boat at a constant speed towards the waters in front of Huzi Island.

I was testing the boat today and didn't bring any longline fishing lines. I had to try out the traps from Chuiyuan Island and then go to the dock to collect them after I get back from the boat testing.

After the trawl net was lowered, it took two or three hours to collect it. Since everyone had nothing to do, they simply went to the cabin to sleep.

When we entered the lounge, we found that the iron beds fixed on the deck were bare, without even bedding or straw mats. Several people lay directly on the bed. It was hot, but we didn't feel cold lying like this.

The fishing boat sailed out of the waters of Huzi Island. It was still dark outside and nothing could be seen. The wind and waves in the open sea were much greater than those near the coast, and the large ship began to shake.

The Li Changle brothers and Chen Yongwei were still sleeping soundly. Wang Xincheng grabbed the bedpost and felt a little nauseous.

Father Li noticed his abnormality and took out a green orange from his pocket, broke it open and handed it to him, "Relax, smell the orange peel and you will feel better."

He had picked the oranges on the mountain yesterday, worried that Li Changle would not be able to adapt to the high seas for the first time. But he had no idea that the guy was sleeping like a pig and had no reaction at all.

Father Li thought that Li Changle had been working for more than two months and had already adapted to the wind and waves.

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Wang Xincheng took the orange and placed it under his nose, sniffing the fresh and slightly sour scent of the green orange, and felt his churning stomach feel a little better.

"This wave is nothing. When the wind and waves are strong, the waves are higher than the bow of the ship, and people can't stand steadily on the deck."

"The small wooden boat I used to work on was only operating in the Yantoushan area and had never been to the open sea."

"Take it slow, you'll get used to it over time." Father Li comforted softly.

At this time, a sharp whistle was sounded outside. Father Li hurriedly woke up Li Changle and others, and everyone walked out of the cabin to start raising the first net.

At this time, at the end of the sea and the sky, the sun jumped out of the sea like a big egg yolk.

The fishing net slowly rose through the drum at the stern of the boat with the "clicking" sound of the net lifting machine. Brother Li and Chen Yongwei came forward, tied the mouth of the net bag tightly with a cable, and hung it on the crane arm.

Several pairs of eyes watched as the bulging net bag was dragged up from the tail slide little by little and pulled onto the deck by the crane.

"Wow, so many fish!" Wang Xincheng exclaimed.

"Kill the armor, the net is broken!" Chen Yongwei shouted excitedly, "This must be more than a thousand pounds, right? It's only been less than two hours!"

Father Li nodded in surprise, "The catch in the open sea is indeed much greater than that in the coastal waters."

Brother Li smiled and said, "Dad, we haven't even reached the open sea yet! If we drag it in the open sea for two or three hours, we will get at least two or three hundred dan of fish."

Father Li felt that fishing this way was really fun. In the past, when he rowed out to sea, he could only catch a few hundred kilograms of fish a day if he was lucky. He was so happy that his mouth was crooked with smiles.

It’s not like now, when you wake up from a nap in the cabin, you may catch thousands of kilograms of fish, and going out to sea to fish is like playing.

Money is still the best. It is better wherever you spend it. No wonder everyone wants to make a lot of money.

"Untie the fishing ropes and see if you've caught any big catches?"

Li Changle strode forward, and Li's father followed. Just as the father and son were about to pull out the fishing rope at the bottom of the net bag, they suddenly found that there was a hole in the mesh at the bottom of the net bag, and two sharp beaks longer than spears were still swinging back and forth.

"Fuck~" Li Changle was quick to pull Father Li away and yelled at Chen Yongwei, "Awei, get the rope quickly. There are two sharp beaks in the net bag."

"Sailfish or swordfish?" Brother Li ran towards the two excitedly.

"It looks like a swordfish!"

Wang Xincheng and Chen Yongwei excitedly came over with fishing ropes and saw that there were indeed two sharp beaks swaying left and right at the bottom of the net bag.

If the fish body had not been squeezed by the catch in the net bag, it would have broken through the fishing net and come out long ago. Several people looked around but could not find the fish head, nor could they see clearly how long the fish body was.

But from its thick and long upper jaw, it can be seen that this fish is much larger than the swordfish they have caught before.

If no measures are taken in advance, after the net bag is released, even the deck will be pierced by it, and people on the scene may be injured.

Until then, we still don’t know who the prey will be?

Father Li took the fishing rope and tied the long upper jaw of the swordfish. Li Changle tied up the other one. Second brother Li pulled over the crane arm and hung the fishing rope on it before untying the net bag.

Fish of all sizes swarmed out of the net bag.

As the catch came out, the big one was at least 1.67 meters long, and the small one was 1.23 meters long. The swordfish swung its body violently, and the fishing net was rolled up and lifted up by the crane.

"Run faster, or the whole village will be in trouble if its tail sweeps you!"

"Speak properly!" Father Li slapped Li Changle and said to Brother Li, "It was the same on the ship before. You told everything to others?"

Brother Li laughed, "What does your third monkey look like? Don't you know it?"

Li Changle smiled at Father Li and said, "Dad, I was just joking. It's okay."

Father Li glared at him in disapproval, "You are the captain of the ship now, be more careful next time."

"Don't worry, I'll be careful next time."

The crane arm swayed left and right due to the vigorous swinging of the fish's body.

Several people stood in the corner, watching from afar the big fish that was still struggling after its upper jaw was tied, and were afraid of being hit by the swinging fish body.

Wang Xincheng excitedly pulled Li Changle and said, "Uncle Le, this fish must be about 100 to 200 kilograms, right?"

"The big one might be around 170 or 180, and the small one might be around 120 or 130."

Countless fish, shrimps and crabs formed a thick layer on the deck. Everyone was very happy with the harvest from the first net of the new ship.

The largest proportion of the fish caught in this net are still Spanish mackerel and bluefin bream, and there are also many mantis shrimps. The most valuable fish are the two big ones, which should be able to sell for two or three hundred yuan.

The fish and shrimp that were not crushed to death were still alive and kicking. The men waited until the big fish on the crane arm stopped struggling before lowering the arm. They picked up sticks and hit the fish's head twice before dragging it aside to drain the blood.

"First, lower the trawl net into the water, then sort the fish."

After everyone put the trawl net into the water, Brother Li started the fishing boat and moved forward slowly, and several people began to sort the fish.

Li Changle caught a mackerel weighing more than ten kilograms. The guy still had a small fish in his mouth. He was still hunting before he was caught in the net, but now he has become someone else's food.

On the deck, eels were twisting and turning around like snakes. The big ones were scooped up with a scoop net and put into the live tank, while the small ones were hit a few times with wooden sticks by Li Erge and Wang Xincheng, and then thrown into plastic buckets.

The live fish are caught, deflated and put into the live tank, the dead ones are picked up and put into plastic buckets and rubber buckets, and the crabs are tied up, classified and put into bamboo baskets.

"Brother, look!" Chen Yongwei held up a golden yellow croaker and looked at Li Changle in surprise.

"This yellow croaker must weigh about five or six kilograms!" Li Changle was also happy after seeing it. Apart from picking up a yellow croaker weighing several kilograms when trawling the sea, this was the first time he caught such a big one while trawling.

"Yes." Father Li took a look happily and replied affirmatively, "The big yellow croaker caught at night is still the best looking. No wonder people in the past called it gold bars and yellow croaker."

Wang Xincheng came forward and looked at the big yellow croaker with curiosity, "It's as beautiful as gold."

"It's useless as it looks good. It's not as valuable as this one!" Father Li grabbed a red-spotted grouper weighing four or five kilograms and briskly took it to Second Brother Li to bleed. The smile on his face never faded.

Li Changle dug out another yellow croaker weighing about two kilograms. Thinking that one less yellow croaker this big would be, he sighed and put the fish into the bucket.

The yellow croakers they caught during this period were not sold, but all killed and dried.

There are about 40 to 50 kilograms of yellow croaker jerky weighing more than one catty and less than two catties, and more than 100 kilograms of less than one catty, and a lot of fish maw is also dried in the sun.

We caught a lot of rice fish weighing less than two kilograms that day and dried them and made fish maw.

After working for more than an hour, they finally sorted all the fish on the deck and put them into buckets and bamboo baskets.

(End of this chapter)