The boatmen on the side were itching to hear it, and those who had their turn could not wait to put their equipment on themselves.
"It's our turn... We just go into the water to see what's under the water..."
"Take it off faster, take your time, I'm still waiting to get into the water..."
"Why are you so anxious? There are many more to come, and they all need to be collected, right?"
Ye Yaodong affirmed: "They all have to be collected. Let's collect them all together. We don't have to wait until evening."
Just now, I was thinking that half a day has passed, and there are schools of fish below. I will try to collect one to see the situation. The next step is to be determined.
Now it seems that 90% of the hooks are full. If there is anything unsatisfactory, I will definitely collect it quickly without waiting for it to get dark in the evening.
The hook-biting rate is so high, so picking it up early can avoid leaving it too long and causing the hook to run away.
"Be careful when you collect them. Wear gloves. Others also have two pairs of pliers on their hands to avoid being bitten."
"No, this fish will die as soon as it comes out of the water."
"It's not that absolute."
If you pick it up quickly, the activity will be very strong, and some may not have time to expose themselves. If you rush to get started at this time, you may make a temporary counterattack and be bitten by its sharp teeth.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, there are so many. There are five or six hanging on one fishing line. How could one line catch so many in the past? It's good if one can be caught on one fishing line. There are also a lot of empty hooks."
"This basket is almost full again..."
"Place them neatly and don't damage the appearance..." Ye Yaodong warned.
"I know, we are all arranged neatly, and the quilts are not folded so neatly..."
"Sailu, are you still folding a quilt? I've probably never folded a quilt in my life..."
"Then I'll sort it out neatly. Whether to eat meat or soup tomorrow depends on these hairtail fish."
Ye Yaodong smiled and cooperated with them, "We will continue to eat meat tomorrow. We have a good harvest today. We will buy another 10 kilograms of meat tomorrow."
"Okay, haha... I can have meat to eat again..."
"Everyone, do your best. Adong said that he will buy another 10 kilograms of meat tomorrow and continue to eat meat..."
Everyone is very enthusiastic, not just because they can eat better with extra meals, but mainly because after so many years of being a fisherman, I have never seen longline fishing be so fun, and the delivery rate is so high. This is also a good harvest.
joy.
When one main line is finished collecting, others are there carrying the baskets and estimating the weight.
There are 500 hooks in one main line, 90% of them are loaded, some can even load two, and some even have three hooks connected end to end.
Everyone held the baskets in their hands and estimated that seven or eight baskets together weighed six to seven hundred kilograms. The main reason was that these hairtails were all very big, and there were no small ones. Each one was nearly one meter.
The meat is so thick that it weighs more than a kilogram in your hand.
A whole basket was brought out, all about the same size and sparkling.
In addition, there is a small half basket that is not in that good condition, mainly because the tails are bitten, and there are some 30 or 40 pieces. Although the price is a little discounted, they can still be sold for a lot of money.
Ye Yaodong thought that when the time came, he would carry this basket back and give it to others, and there would be no need to sell it. The people who came out were all from the village and they all knew each other. They had to keep some for themselves, and the daily meal consumption of No. 30 was also
Huge.
"There wasn't enough ice to bring out kelp today. I didn't know we could catch so much. Let's save some time when we carry it to the fish warehouse and lay it out."
"I know, I went back in a few hours anyway, so it must be fresh enough."
"Um."
"Bring the basket over here and put it away again..."
They also hooked the second line and pulled it up. Everyone immediately divided the work and cooperated. Some moved the things on the deck to the fish warehouse, and some rolled up their sleeves and followed to collect the fish.
Ye Yaodong turned around and walked to the other side of the ship, watching Aguang and the others receiving the goods on the other side.
Everyone on the boat opposite was also filled with joyful smiles. Who cared about the scattered jellyfish floating on the sea at this time? All attention was on the hairtail fish. Various discussions and discussions came over and everyone knew that everyone was very excited.
"Dongzi, do you want to collect them all?"
"Yes, collect them all. There are so many hairtails hanging on one line. If you don't collect them now, why keep them? Some of them have escaped the hook. If you collect them earlier, you will save them from being escaped."
"We also need to catch them all. There are too many. I didn't expect them to be so easy to catch."
"What we do is called precise casting. We throw them into the fish pile, but we can't catch them casually? Are you also collecting the second line? How many pounds did the front line collect?"
"About six to seven hundred pounds. Some of them have surface bites. What about you?"
"Absolutely."
Aguang shouted again with regret on his face: "It's a pity. We bought less materials yesterday and made less fishing lines, only half of yours. When I finish collecting these, I will go back in advance to buy more materials in the evening."
Keep doing more and come back tomorrow.”
"Okay, the number of jellyfish floating up today is obviously too much, so I probably won't be able to do it for two days before I have to stop."
"Let's see."
Ye Yaodong looked at their fishing process and saw that the hook rate was the same. A whole main line was pulled up, and the hooks on the bottom fishing line were all shiny hairtails. There were very few empty hooks. Everyone was smiling.
He watched for a while and then returned to his place to see everyone receiving the goods. People on his ship also gathered around to watch and chat.
He didn't know when his father would come back from trawling. If he came back, he would have to ask his father to buy more materials. It would be worthwhile to spend more money while he could catch some fish in these two days.
The income is much higher than the expenditure.
Nowadays, one longline fishing costs six to seven hundred kilograms, and 10 longlines cost six to seven thousand kilograms. If you pay 30 to 40 cents per kilogram, it will cost you more than two thousand yuan, plus sea urchin!
Sea urchins can also be sold for about 5,000 kilograms, and can also be sold for thousands of pieces.
Make a lot of money!
It’s better not to come during the jellyfish flood season, right?
Ye Yaodong did some calculations, and his heart was filled with excitement. It was so profitable. Before he came here, he had imagined that he could earn so much in a day, but he only imagined that he could earn it from jellyfish. Unexpectedly, the jellyfish had already made money before he saw it.
So much.
"Ah Dong, did you ask how much hairtail fish costs yesterday?"
"It just depends on the size. It should be bigger, thicker, and more than three hairs. But it didn't specifically say whether it's a mesh belt or a fishing belt, and my dad didn't ask clearly. When I go to the shore to sell goods later, don't sell everything first.
Get the goods out, move a basket and ask for a price first."
The boatman next to him interjected, "It must be more than three cents. In the past, larger fishing tapes could be sold for so much. Today, our fishing tape is in complete condition and big, so it will definitely sell for more money."
"Yes, you can definitely get them for 40 or 50 cents. Big fishing belts are very expensive. Don't let the locals cheat you."
"Ask more..."
"Can this line be finished?"
"Not yet. There are a lot of fish on the hook. I need to collect them slower, not that fast. It will take more than two or three hours to collect them all. Moreover, some buoys float a little further, so I have to wait for them under the water.
When we come up, drive the boat over to collect it."
Ye Yaodong nodded, he knew this, "Wait until the next wave of them comes down and move to another position, and also change the position to salvage sea urchins."
"By the way, I picked up the jellyfish from the sea. After a while, I saw dozens of them floating up. Our boat couldn't move in front of us. They were all picked up by Lao Pei. We will have to pick them up later."
"Yes, we can't give them all the advantage..."
"Let's go cook something to eat first. We won't go back at noon. Fortunately, we have a little supply of everything on board. We'll continue working when we're full."
He didn't bring out all the boatmen today, he only brought half of them and left half to look after the house. His father also brought two with him when he went out to sea to trawl at night. He really didn't need so many people to do the work.
Maybe you can bring two small boats out tomorrow to pick up jellyfish here, which will save the people on their boats from distracting themselves from fishing. No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat. If you sweep up all these bits and pieces, you can sell dozens of them.
Everyone on the boat was collecting hairtail fish in an orderly manner, but the surprise at the beginning was no longer there, and it became calm. Occasionally, they would ooh and ahhhh when they saw two or three fish connected head to tail.
The people fishing for sea urchins below were also taking turns, and after all the turns, their longline had only collected half.
When it was his and Aguang's turn, they also went into the water and took a look at the special sight of the longline being hooked in the water.
He was obviously floating in the trench, using his iron claws to collect the sea urchins and letting them fall into the net bag, but suddenly the white ribbon not far below started to tumble and float.
A series of sparkling hairtails rose into the sky directly near them, one long strip, one large piece, neat and orderly.
Although they were not beside them, they could still see the tail of the hairtail waving in the water until it became farther and farther away and could no longer be seen.
They kept watching until it disappeared, then resumed hunting for sea urchins.
During this period, there were also a few small fish swimming by them. Sometimes the two of them were very handy and would reach out and rub each other when they saw it, causing the fish to dodge immediately in panic.
There was a jellyfish that rose up from under Ye Yaodong. When he saw it, he moved to the side to avoid it, and then he used his iron claw to poke its big umbrella, but it reacted immediately and took one step first.
It jumped to the side, then retracted its umbrella and sank under the trench.
Ye Yaodong was surprised to see the jellyfish that was about to float up, but actually sank to the bottom of the water because of his actions.
Although jellyfish have no eyes and ears, they cannot hear the sounds of enemies or see their bodies, but they can quickly avoid powerful enemies.
This is because there is a kind of small fish and shrimp that act as its "eyes and ears". They are called "jellyfish shrimp" and "jade pomfret".
They are very small and usually live around the mouth and wrists of jellyfish, using the jellyfish as a protective umbrella.
When enemies are approaching, these small fish and shrimps will immediately hide in the jellyfish's mouth and wrist like a clever ghost. When the jellyfish receives the "message", it immediately shrinks its umbrella and sinks into the sea water to avoid the danger.
Sure enough, I can't be rude, I lost one of them, and this one is still the boss.
He meowed down and saw that the jellyfish did not float back to the sea hook, but swung back and forth in the trench, and then floated far away from them.
This time, he stopped being coquettish and fished honestly. When jellyfish appeared next to him, he just stepped out of the way to let them rise smoothly to the sea surface.
Not to mention, the frequency of jellyfish floating up in the afternoon is much greater than in the morning.
After the two of them filled the net bag and floated it up, Pei's father had almost collected all the longlines, while he had only collected half of it.
A Guang had just climbed onto the deck. When he found out, he asked his father to go back first and ask more about the prices before selling. He stayed here to help with the fishing. At the same time, he also asked his father to buy more materials so that he could catch more tomorrow.
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"If we make more materials, we have to sail out the Harvest tomorrow. This ship has no fish warehouse, and the cargo is piled on the deck to dry. There is also some jellyfish cargo, plus there are several longlines recovered.
There is no room to put our feet on the basket, and we can't even turn around."
"Then bring out the Harvest. This boat can also be used to trawl nets."
"It's okay. Yesterday I thought like my in-laws and made a little more intensive work. I bought ten pieces of materials, but the hooks were piled on top of two. I bought a lot more hooks later, and there was a lot of rope left.
Just wait until I get back and add more hooks."
Ye Yaodong also interrupted and asked, "Uncle Pei has collected everything. Do you have an estimate of how much it weighs?"
"3,000 kilograms, right? They're all piled up on the deck. The sun is too hot. We don't have a fish warehouse here, and we don't have enough ice to buy them, so we have to send them back quickly."
"Then you go back first. I haven't collected all the goods here yet. I'll go back after I finish collecting them."
"Then I will go back to sell the goods first and inquire about the price in advance. Then I will just sell them directly when you return."
"Okay, I believe I can sell it for a good price."
"Then let's go back first."
In the past few days, they have been trawling there to sell goods, and the locals have noticed it, and they can even chat with them about the delivery status, and even tell them what the goods are and what the price is today.
After Pei's father sailed away, they were the only ones floating there. Ye Yaodong and A Guang also sat shirtless on the ground, watching the boatmen collect the hairtails one by one and arrange them neatly.
Arrange it in the basket.
"Dongzi, how many pounds have you collected?"
"Is it about the same as you? We collected it together at the same time. After you finish collecting it, we should be almost halfway."
"If I had known, I would have done more yesterday. I was thinking that if you have more people, you can do more quickly, and if we have fewer people, we can do less. Your quantity is twice that of mine, and you can collect six or seven thousand catties today.
Already?"
"There should be."
"Making a lot of money."
"It's the same for you. You're not making less money either. I'll give you two more days to make up for your spare time."
"Those people are complaining there, saying they're early..."
"Don't worry about them. I've already told you that you can choose not to follow them. You will be happy when you make money, and you will gossip when you don't."
"You said that your cousins ​​were abandoned on the coast and no one brought them here. Will this place be shaken up by then?"
"They don't dare."
Ye Yaodong is still confident. They cannot bear the anger of the villagers. If they really do such a stupid thing, they will be ostracized immediately and there will be no good fruits to eat when they go back.
"But probably we don't need to wait for them to shake this place out, the locals will find out. As long as we bring back a large number of goods for a few days, the locals will be watching, probably... maybe it won't take a few days?
We are already eye-catching enough."
"That's right. It's probably not their turn to be exposed. We are being followed by the locals. It looks like there will be a tough battle in a few days."
"Well, Chen Jiannian and the others will probably be here in just a day or two. The factory has started working today."
"I don't know how many people they have there."
"I don't know." Ye Yaodong shook his head, unable to guess.
Talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.
In the evening, after they finished harvesting the hairtails and headed back home as the sun was setting, they actually saw a large number of trawlers parked on the pier, at least twenty.
And the locals on the shore were talking a lot, saying that a large group of foreigners were coming.
When they docked and landed, some local fishermen pulled them and asked if their accomplices were here to catch jellyfish again.
Ye Yaodong always answered that he didn't know. The people he brought here had been here a few days ago, and he was definitely not fishing around the coast. They had all been fishing outside these days.
After saying that, he ignored the comments of the locals and went to find his father who was waiting on the shore first to find out which company he wanted to sell the hairtail to.
When Ye's father came back from trawling, he went around to the trench to take a look at the harvest. He originally wanted to wait and come back together, but Ye Yaodong asked him to come back first to sell the goods. At the same time, he also asked him to ask Pei's father to which family the hairtails were sold to.
, how much did it sell for.
So Father Ye is waiting here specifically to wait for them to come back and lead them to sell goods.
The ones that collect sea urchins and fish hairtails are really not the same ones.
However, after they first carried the sea urchin to the scale and then carried the hairtail ashore, the family that collected the sea urchin quickly stopped him and gave him the same price.
Ye Yaodong thought that he would not bother the two owners. Since he could give the same price, he sold them all to the same family.
Thanks to Pei's father, he came over in advance to negotiate the price. He just had to sell it at the ready price, which was 50 cents per pound.
These fishing straps are all beautiful and fresh, very big in size, and very even. Almost all of them are about one meter in length. None are particularly big, and none are particularly small. This is also the characteristic of fishing straps.
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It's not like a net belt, which can be dragged up in one net and come in different sizes.
This price is considered high. The people at the purchasing point also said that the prices were not so good in the past. They also saw that these were caught by fishing. They are big and beautiful. An ordinary mesh belt is only worth two or three dollars.
hair.
They were the first to weigh the sea urchins. Today's sea urchin harvest was a little more than yesterday because there were two more laborers.
Although we still finished the work at the same time and just shared the number of times of launching, the quantity still increased a bit, reaching 5,425 kilograms, and sold for a total of 1,085 yuan.
When the fishing tape was being weighed, the people at the outlet couldn't help but inquire, asking them where they caught these and how they caught so many? I had never seen a fishing boat catch so many at once.
It's simply unheard of and unseen.
Ye Yaodong also explained, saying that he encountered a large school of fish. Without the large school of fish, he would not have been able to catch such a large amount.
Everyone is a little doubtful. Unless they are dragged with a fishing net and caught in one catch, even if they encounter a school of fish, how many long lines must be used to catch so many, and there are really no other miscellaneous fish in this one.
When Father Pei was selling goods in the previous wave, the people around him were quite surprised. He came back with more quantity this time, and many people gathered around to watch the excitement during the weighing.
His batch of goods is much better than the pile of miscellaneous goods brought back by fishing boats like them.
In terms of quantity alone, the combined goods from several purchase points were not as much as what he had salvaged, because there were no big ships docking. After all, this was just a small town.
However, some people saw the messy long lines brought up by their boatmen and saw that there were hooks on each fishing line, which was contrary to common sense. They suddenly realized it and spread the word.
After the scale was weighed and all the money was settled, Ye Yaodong didn't care what others said.
After weighing his hairtail fish, they totaled 6,230 kilograms, and there were more than 400 kilograms that were damaged on the surface and not so beautiful. They were discounted by half, only 2.5 cents.
So he sold these hairtails alone for 6230×0.5+425×0.25=3221.25 yuan.
There were also scattered jellyfish that were caught and sold for 32.58, which was more than yesterday, and these were divided with A Guang's boat.
The jellyfish blood is taken back and cooked, and when it is dried and accumulated, it can be sold at a good price.
So in total, he earned 4,338 yuan, 8.3 cents today, and the actual cost of spending it was still low, and the labor force was even cheaper.
Ye Yaodong carried a large sum of money in his arms and walked out together surrounded by boatmen. They also left two baskets of hairtail with damaged skin and carried them back together.
The locals around him were all talking about how much he could sell such a large amount of goods, but he refused to respond. However, he could guess that it was a few thousand yuan. After all, the quantity was there, and the locals at the purchasing point would not hide it for him.
With.
He thought, fortunately, there were many of them, and they all basically gathered in the same area. There were 30 people living together in his place alone, and they were all surrounded by his own people. Those who had ideas had to think carefully.
It is better to go with more people tomorrow, and there will be more people selling goods when we come back. There is strength in numbers, which is still useful.
It wasn't until we walked out of the pier that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, no one rushed up to grab or start a fight, which scared me to death."
"At this time, local fishermen come back to sell their goods, and gangsters will only show up after hearing about it. It's not as mixed as in big towns. Bring more people out tomorrow."
"Yes, bring more people to support you at the dock. You should also have two guns hidden in the fish you want to keep."
"Don't be afraid, there are many of us and we don't live far away..."
Ye Yaodong comforted everyone who was frightened, "Don't worry too much. We have stayed in this town last year. Most people still know us and know that we have weapons in our hands and are not easy to mess with."
"That's true."
Ye Yaodong changed the subject and asked his father, "I saw that there were about 20 more trawlers on the pier today..."
"It was Chen Jiannian and the others who arrived. When I went back, I saw so many boats. Then I asked the people who stayed behind. Everyone said that they arrived at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Then they made temporary arrangements and asked for places to stay."
"I guess so, otherwise why would there suddenly be so many boats, and the locals would be talking about them too."
"He brought quite a lot of people over on this trip. He probably brought over all the people he knew well and could get to know around the corner. Counting hundreds of people."
"More than us."
"Including the boats, we have more than them."
"Have they all settled in?"
"I heard that the locals are raising prices, but they have no choice but to hold their noses and accept it, otherwise they will have no place to live. It's a little far away from us. The places they rented last year have been rented by people from our side this year.
Already."
"Oh, then be careful and settle in tomorrow. They will probably go to the trench tomorrow."
"Well, they all come from the same place, so everyone can catch their own fish. It's not the peak season yet, so the number is still scarce."
He changed the subject and asked: "You came back earlier and bought the materials for longline fishing?"
"Not much. There is not much in stock in this town. If I didn't tell you in advance, they didn't prepare more. Yesterday, our two families took turns to buy a batch. In the afternoon, Lao Pei replenished it. By the time I went there, there wasn't much left. At most, there wasn't much.
Just make two more.”
"Okay, let's make two more. Chen Jiannian and the others are here, and we probably won't be able to fish for two days."
"Fortunately, I came here a few days early."
They talked while walking, and after a while they returned to the rental house. Ye Yaodong asked everyone to take a shower first. After washing and eating, he also returned to the room, put the money sold today and yesterday's together and locked it in the lock box.
There was no place to hide in the rental house. It was someone else's house, so hiding the lockbox seemed more reliable. Anyway, he had to leave someone to guard it every day.
Father Ye followed the house and watched him hide the money before asking: "Do you have 5,000 yuan from the sales in the past two days?"
"Yes, just over 5,000. Let's see tomorrow and see if we can get 10,000 yuan together. I gave you the money I advanced yesterday, and I will also give you a piece of the money I advanced today."
"No need. I have the money from today's sale. I will buy it directly."
"That's fine. If there's any left, you don't have to give it to me. You can keep it for yourself. Are you going out to trawl the net tonight?"
"You can't just sit there. You don't need that many people over there. It's good to earn dozens of yuan just by going out."
"Then you come back early tomorrow afternoon, um... come back at noon, and then after I take back the longline tomorrow afternoon, I will sail back with Uncle Pei to sell it, and by the way, I can go and sell it before the bank gets off work.
Send the money back.”
"Okay, it's not safe to keep so much money around. It would be better to remit the money back as soon as possible."
"Um."
Father Ye said happily: "I've only earned 5,000 yuan in two days here. If I make more tomorrow, I can earn 10,000 yuan. It's really easy to earn. It seems that I can earn a lot of money this time. I will definitely earn more than last year."
Already."
"That's because with the bonus of these goods, it's not necessarily true for jellyfish alone. The boat Chen Jiannian brought this year is twice that of last year, and he doesn't know how many days he can catch it."
"If there are no more sea urchins to catch, you can still go into the water to catch sea urchins, and you won't have to worry about making money."
"Well, let's see."
He still remembers that there will be a strong typhoon this year, but he doesn't quite remember the month. There may be typhoons in their coastal areas in October. It's hard to say. If there is a typhoon, nothing can be done.
Chapter completed!