"Accelerate production, ensure quality and quantity! Striving to obtain greater benefits during the strategic opportunity period and inject more nutrients into the growth of the Republic!" When boarding a refrigerated ship heading south, Zhang Yun, deputy general manager of Nanhai Fisheries Company, still had the mind of the bosses' powerful speeches at the previous company meeting.

"The Dutch West India Company came to order a large number of salted fish. I heard that the New England fishing boats exported to them had disappeared. This is both a good thing and a pressure for us." Zhang Yun sighed. The total fishery production of the East Coast (excluding the South Railway Company and the whale meat) last year was only only more than 5,000 tons, and it was still insufficient for self-use, let alone put forward the issue. To resolve this contradiction, we can only increase the output, and there is no second way to go.

Fortunately, this year, Nanhai Fisheries Company launched two new whaling ships, 4 cod fishing boats, 4 squid fishing boats, two offshore trawlers and a processing/transportation ship. The launch of these ships should more or less allow the company's fishing output to reach a new peak. After joining this batch of new ships, the total tonnage of the fishing boats (including processing boats) of Nanhai Fisheries Company reached 26,100 tons, and the number of employees reached 1,267. It is a veritable trust enterprise in the East Coast fishing industry.

According to regulations, each of these fishing boats is twice as capable. After long-term training, more than 1,500 skilled sailors can be trained for the country every year. Some of these people have entered the inland transport company, some have entered the South China Sea transport company, some have entered the navy, some have entered the immigration fleet exclusive to the Ministry of Immigration, and of course some have been digested by the Nanhai Fisheries Company. In short, the contribution to the national shipping industry is still quite large.

For example, the refrigerated ship that Zhang Yun is now on is newly launched this year, and his sailors have also been trained before. This sailboat with a tonnage of only 300 tons has a uniquely designed large refrigerator room that can refrigerate more than 160 rushes seafood. However, since the production of the east coast is not high enough, and the refrigeration machine is still a new thing, the refrigeration cost is relatively high. Generally speaking, this kind of ship will not be used for non-long-distance transportation.

However, nowadays, if you want to export seafood, meat and other goods to Dutch Brazil (the Dutch West African colonies are transported by the South African River and Hong Kong), you have to use refrigerated boats. Otherwise, even the salted fish will deteriorate to a certain extent when passing by the equator, which obviously makes customers unacceptable. Fortunately, the Dutch are willing to pay a freight of 50 rupees per raster for this, and it is more than enough to recover the cost. Therefore, the South China Sea Transportation Company has ordered several refrigerated boats, intending to show its strength and transport the meat and fish from the east coast to a distance for sale.

The refrigerated ship docked at Yancheng Port’s exclusive fishing dock at around 10 a.m. At this time, in addition to the Nanhai Transportation Company and the Nanhai Fishing Company’s ships, there were seven or eight large and small Garen sailboats. These ships seemed to have undergone simple repairs and renovations, and their appearance was different from before. However, in the eyes of a sailor like Zhang Yun, you can tell at a glance that these were foreign merchant ships privateed by the navy.

It seems that in a secluded corner in Yancheng Harbor, another stolen goods sales conference is being held!

Two offshore trawlers newly joined the South China Sea Fisheries Company in the harbor are undergoing final preparations before sailing. This kind of sail trawler fishing boat, which is not very common on the east coast, uses steam power to lift anchors and pull winches, making the net faster and more convenient. This obviously creates conditions for the fishing boat to use longer ropes and larger trawlers.

Among the only sail-powered trawlers in the Blackwater area on the east coast, a truss trawler that originated from Europe at that time. The advantage of this trawler is that its shape on the seabed is not affected by the speed of the ship, which is more important for sail-powered fishing boats. However, its net truss is only about ten meters long, and the size of the trawler is strictly limited, so the efficiency is relatively low.

If the Blackshui area was not close to the world's largest fishing ground and there were many shrimps and crabs on the coast of Sakhalin Island, their trawlers would have been a waste of time, and it would be much better to modify it to chase and capture the middle and upper-level fish during the fishing season.

The newly designed offshore trawler fishing boat on the east coast uses steam sail hybrid power, and the mesh has also been innovative. This time, it uses a mesh-type trawler. This time, the trawler is fixed with a large mesh at both ends of the net port, and a row of floats on the upper edge of the net keeps the net port open. Under the stable drag force of the fishing boat, the mesh plate moves to both sides to make the net port wide. Theoretically, the size of this trawler only depends on the power of the fishing boat, that is, the greater the power of the fishing boat, the greater the trawler can be made and the higher the fishing efficiency.

It is worth mentioning that Europe has actually had the prototype of this concept of web-type trawl, but due to various reasons, their innovations have not been recognized by fishermen, so this trawl system has gradually disappeared. However, after a Scotsman who immigrated to the East Coast provided this trawl system that he had seen when he was a child, the Nanhai Fisheries Company attached great importance to it and immediately organized a special person to conduct research and development, and finally finalized it, and then applied for a patent in the name of the company.

The newly designed patented fishing net uses sisal fibers produced by many sisal plantations in Xinhua. The fibers are very hard and flexible, and are also resistant to seawater corrosion. They are a very good industrial and fishery fibers, and are also one of the important export commodities in Xinhua today.

After lunch at the Yancheng Port Company branch, Zhang Yun met several captains, encouraged them, then boarded a processing boat, and went out to sea to fish with several fishing boats. The fishing grounds they fished were still located in the southeastern sea of ​​Yancheng Port, where the resources of smooth and hake are relatively rich. The main target of this kind of trawler fish from the east coast is the bottom-floor cod fishes in the sea, such as pollock, hake, etc.

These cods live in cold waters at the bottom and live in clusters. Originally, people on the east coast used cod fishing boats to carry out fishing and fishing, which was relatively inefficient. With these trawlers this time, I believe that the cod production in the east coast will definitely have a peak in growth in a short period of time.

In fact, this is true. After a few days of going to sea, perhaps the new fishing boat was indeed more powerful, or perhaps because Zhang Yun, the leader of the company who was investigating the ship, supervised the formation next to him, the two trawlers quickly found a place with rich cod resources and captured a large number of pollock, the most common cod fish in the east coast.

The caught fish were quickly sent to the processing ship where Zhang Yun was located. The new processing ship with a tonnage of more than 500 tons also has a refrigerator on the new water. The refrigerator has several freezers to refrigerate at the same time. After processing, the caught fish was sent into a freezer tank filled with ice salt water. After the fish were frozen, the cold salt water was removed. Such fish could be left in the refrigerator for a long time without worrying about deterioration, which undoubtedly greatly extended the time for fishing boats to operate at sea and improved work efficiency.

When there was no refrigerated processing boat before, every time people on the East Coast caught fish, they could only process them quickly, mainly fish skins, and the intestines contained a large amount of bacteria. As long as the temperature was above zero degrees, the bacteria would reproduce quickly. For example, the cod caught by people on the East Coast would rot for three or four days at 5 days. If cod was processed (cut off the internal organs and dried), due to the few bacteria, it could still be eaten at room temperature for many weeks. This is the difference.

When I went to the fishing ground to catch fish, the freezing temperature of the refrigerated processing boat was set to zero. The reason for this temperature was set because the Nanhai Fisheries Company had conducted an experiment: fresh cod can be left at zero for at least 16 days before it deteriorated. In such a long time, it was enough for the refrigerated processing boat to send the caught fish to Yancheng Port (storage in an underground ice cellar) and go back and forth two or three times. Therefore, in order to save costs, the refrigerated processing boats that go out will save the captured seafood at zero.

Zhang Yun stayed on the refrigerated processing boat for a week. Six or seven cod fishing boats nearby, squid fishing boats and two offshore trawlers delivered more than 70 tons of seafood to the boat, most of which were pollock and Argentine smooth fish. At the same time, there were also some rare hakes, slam cod, various plaids, pom family and long pom family fish. This made Zhang Yun happy to see the few fish that were small in number, but the price on the east coast was really expensive. Many rich people were stingy to buy them for a large price to eat, and the market prospects were very bright.

"The fish sold to the Dutch are mostly pollock and smooth fish. But probably those people are only willing to ask for cod, but they don't want smooth fish. It's really... tsk tsk." Zhang Yun looked at the cod in the warehouse and began to think about the business story in his mind: "I don't know if the Netherlands will ask us to export fishing catches to them. It is probably very likely. They are blocked by the British, so they can't ask us to buy meat and fish, and they have to deliver goods to their doorsteps. From another perspective, it's not a bad thing, because under the stimulation of strong external demand, the State Council should approve the company's request to further expand the scale of the fishing fleet, which is a great thing for cultivating the number of sailors or from the perspective of increasing fishing production. Our country should build a country by sailing, and the basis of building a country by sailing is to expand the scale of the fishing fleet. After all, the fishing industry is the cradle and foundation of all navigation industries..."

"Strive to double the size of fishing fleets and whaling fleets next year, and the size of the South China Sea Transportation Company's ocean-going fleet is likely to be expanded, this is really a period of strategic opportunity. Without the suffering of the Dutch, how could the spring of my country's shipping and fishing industry be ushered in?" Zhang Yun thought.

It is worth mentioning that Europe has actually had the prototype of this concept of web-type trawl, but due to various reasons, their innovations have not been recognized by fishermen, so this trawl system has gradually disappeared. However, after a Scotsman who immigrated to the East Coast provided this trawl system that he had seen when he was a child, the Nanhai Fisheries Company attached great importance to it and immediately organized a special person to conduct research and development, and finally finalized it, and then applied for a patent in the name of the company.

The newly designed patented fishing net uses sisal fibers produced by many sisal plantations in Xinhua. The fibers are very hard and flexible, and are also resistant to seawater corrosion. They are a very good industrial and fishery fibers, and are also one of the important export commodities in Xinhua today.

After lunch at the Yancheng Port Company branch, Zhang Yun met several captains, encouraged them, then boarded a processing boat, and went out to sea to fish with several fishing boats. The fishing grounds they fished were still located in the southeastern sea of ​​Yancheng Port, where the resources of smooth and hake are relatively rich. The main target of this kind of trawler fish from the east coast is the bottom-floor cod fishes in the sea, such as pollock, hake, etc.

These cods live in cold waters at the bottom and live in clusters. Originally, people on the east coast used cod fishing boats to carry out fishing and fishing, which was relatively inefficient. With these trawlers this time, I believe that the cod production in the east coast will definitely have a peak in growth in a short period of time.

In fact, this is true. After a few days of going to sea, perhaps the new fishing boat was indeed more powerful, or perhaps because Zhang Yun, the leader of the company who was investigating the ship, supervised the formation next to him, the two trawlers quickly found a place with rich cod resources and captured a large number of pollock, the most common cod fish in the east coast.

The caught fish were quickly sent to the processing ship where Zhang Yun was located. The new processing ship with a tonnage of more than 500 tons also has a refrigerator on the new water. The refrigerator has several freezers to refrigerate at the same time. After processing, the caught fish was sent into a freezer tank filled with ice salt water. After the fish were frozen, the cold salt water was removed. Such fish could be left in the refrigerator for a long time without worrying about deterioration, which undoubtedly greatly extended the time for fishing boats to operate at sea and improved work efficiency.

When there was no refrigerated processing boat before, every time people on the East Coast caught fish, they could only process them quickly, mainly fish skins, and the intestines contained a large amount of bacteria. As long as the temperature was above zero degrees, the bacteria would reproduce quickly. For example, the cod caught by people on the East Coast would rot for three or four days at 5 days. If cod was processed (cut off the internal organs and dried), due to the few bacteria, it could still be eaten at room temperature for many weeks. This is the difference. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!