Ye Yaodong took advantage of Ye's father's break at home and went to sea with Uncle Zheng for two consecutive days at night before returning. He also mastered the skills of the radar network on the ship.

At the same time, other fishing boats also took a few people to learn from the sea during the two days of rest.

After everyone discussed it, we decided to take a short rest before heading out to sea together.

However, when he got up and opened the door and went out, he felt that there was something wrong with the wind today, as if it was a bit like a typhoon.

He asked casually and found out that there was really another typhoon. This morning, many fishing boats had returned to port to rest, and they could no longer go to sea as planned.

Ye Yaodong looked at the big sun in the sky again and had to give up. He had to wait for the typhoon to pass before he could go to sea.

Afraid that the typhoon would last for several days, he sent people out to cut firewood, bought some briquettes himself, and brought back more fruits, vegetables and meat.

However, he got up a little late. All the stalls at the entrance of the farmers' market in the morning market were cleared out, leaving only rotten vegetable leaves on the ground, not to mention meat, nothing left.

Usually when he goes to the market at 8 o'clock, there are still a lot of vegetables at the market, so he can pick whatever he wants. The vegetable farmers from the countryside basically don't sell out until noon.

It's really an exaggeration today.

He had to go back first and tell his father to get up early and buy more tomorrow.

This morning his father also went out to buy things as usual, but he felt that he needed to be more prepared in case of a typhoon, so he went out again.

On the road, he saw people gathering around to buy things. He wanted to go up there to see what was on sale and buy something he could eat.

It turned out that it was selling coarse salt, and it had been scraped off by the masses.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... It's so exaggerated, I even have to grab the salt..."

"Everything sells well during typhoon days..."

Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and took a look, and after clicking his tongue twice, he had no choice but to go back empty-handed.

The fishermen from other boats were playing cards in the open space in front of their houses when they had nothing to do. They were also talking about the typhoon and everyone was there to buy things.

What I would not be willing to buy at ordinary times would be willing to buy it even during a typhoon.

There was just a sign of it today, and even before it started to rain or wind, the food was being snatched away.

Everyone says that city people are afraid that they won’t be able to buy things if they have money.

This typhoon probably just passed by. The sun was shining brightly for four or five days in a row. Not to mention the rain, there was not even much wind. The traces of the typhoon can only be seen every evening when the sunset glows red on the horizon.

Ye Yaodong goes to the pier every day to check the wind and waves and the situation of fishing boats.

Basically, all the fishing boats have returned to the port. The pier is divided into areas, with tens of thousands of large and small fishing boats docked. It has been almost half a month since he came here. This is the first time he has seen so many boats and such an empty space.

pier.

Empty is only a relative term. In fact, people are still coming and going. Everyone is saying that the typhoon has passed, cheering and heading to Xiaoli. They will probably go to sea at night or early in the morning.

It's still only morning, and by noon, there will be loudspeakers on the pier announcing that the typhoon has passed.

The dock immediately came to life, and everyone was busy there refueling and adding ice, preparing to go to sea immediately.

Most of them are fishing boats from outside, and a day without going out is a day's loss.

After hearing the news, Ye Yaodong also joined everyone in queuing up for gas and ice.

He made a reservation to set off after dinner, just in time to avoid the peak hours of going out to sea in the afternoon, night, and early the next morning.

After refueling and adding ice in the afternoon, he saw chaos on the sea.

Most of the fishing boats immediately went out in a swarm. Thousands of fishing boats were moving. Collisions would inevitably occur. The order on the sea was disrupted. Several accidents occurred, and the whole sea was in chaos.

Just like there was a traffic jam on land, there was also a traffic jam on the sea and it was paralyzed for a long time.

He was thankful that he was not impatient.

This continued until it got dark, and the fishing boats on the sea left the port one after another, and order returned to the past.

While having dinner, he heard that there were many gunshots on the sea throughout the afternoon.

Father Ye and others, who had just returned from docking in the past few days, refreshed their understanding of the chaos at the dock and repositioned themselves.

However, no matter how they avoided it, there were still a lot of people when they set off, so they could only line up one after another and slowly drive away from the shore.

Fortunately, after the chaotic time in the afternoon, it only took a little longer, and a few fishing boats went out smoothly.

Ye Yaodong followed the Harvest in his fishing boat, as did several other boats.

Father Ye had already discussed with Father Pei that this time Father Ye would stay at home and let Ye Yaodong come out, and then Father Pei would drive the Harvest and take several other boats.

I’ll change Father Ye next time.

The two old men take turns, and one of them must be at sea, so that they can feel at ease. After all, they are in a strange place and unfamiliar waters.

After these few days, the two of them have more experience, so taking turns and going to sea are relatively safer.

Ye Yaodong also brought the big trawl net with him when he went to sea this time.

They will definitely not go back the same day they come out. If the harvest of the radar net is not satisfactory, they can still turn around and trawl the net, and they will not have to go back to the sea or have to return.

After all, it is true that it is not yet the flood season for hairtail fish, and it is still early.

While he was sailing at sea, the boatmen were also sorting out the fishing nets so that they could lay them directly when they arrived at the destination.

They had no experience in which area of ​​the sea had more fish, and there were no detectors on the boat. They could only drive out a little further along the location where Uncle Zheng and his fishing boat usually fished, but it was also within the offshore area.

Because generally hairtail fish live in water depths of 50 to 100 meters. Although they are not considered deep-sea fish, they still have some habits of deep-sea fish.

When the hairtail is quickly caught and landed, the external air pressure becomes smaller, but the internal pressure is still very high.

Extreme pressure differences will cause oxygen, nitrogen, etc. in the organs and tissues of the hairtail to be precipitated from the blood, blocking blood circulation and even causing the organs to burst, causing the hairtail to die (commonly known as "decompression sickness").

Therefore, you will see a lot of hairtail fish on the market with their internal organs exploded.

Several fishing boats kept moving forward, and the flashing lights of fishing boats could be seen everywhere along the way.

It wasn't until they saw a fishing boat nearby using a radar net to catch hairtail fish that they made a plan, separated, and fished in the nearby area first.

Thanks to the rich resources nearby, they could see fishing boats intermittently along the way, and multiple fishing boats in the same sea area did not affect the fishing.

Ye Yaodong found a good position, slowed down, and then notified the boatmen to lower the net.

They took turns learning from Chu Hai for half a month, and they all knew how to do it.

He also stood on the deck and watched the fishing net that had been arranged in advance. Under the weak orange light, it was released from the side of the ship, and the buoys and floats were released at the same time, so that the net gradually unfolded and sank to the predetermined depth.

There is a big iron cat at the bottom of the fishing net fixed on the seabed. One end is connected to the iron cat and the other end is connected to the fishing net. There is a 360-degree rotating component connected to it. There is also a float on it. The net gear will rotate according to the current.

After all the nets were lowered, Ye Yaodong returned to the cab and controlled the fishing boat to move slowly and steadily in a circular motion, simulating a radar scan.

The purpose of this is also to make the fishing net form a gradually expanding circular or spiral surrounding circle in the water, thereby driving and concentrating fish into the fishing net.

It is also called raising the sail and raising the net. After the water rises, the fish bags are collected and filled with fish, and then put back into the sea. When the tide is out, the net is raised again and the fish are filled, and then put back into the sea.

This cycle starts over and over again, with four tides in a day, rising and setting in the sun, and rising and setting in the night.

This fishing method is very rare, and the specific operation depends on the experience and technology of the fishermen. It can only be used specifically for hairtail, and only the hairtail with the thickest meat can be caught.

Moreover, the caught hairtails are basically small-eyed hairtails, which can also be called oily hairtails. They are fat, oily and tender, so they are a little more expensive than other hairtails.

The boatmen had just come out and it was not yet time to go to bed. They all stood on the deck curiously and chatted.

After this wave of workers arrived, they stayed on the shore with Ye Yaodong. Some of them only went to sea with the fresh harvest ship to collect a wave of goods, and they did not release the net for a long time.

Everyone was not sleepy at this time and watched and talked and laughed.

"You don't have to go too far here, there are a lot of goods just offshore..."

"There are a lot of ships, and they are all concentrated. We are in the same sea area, and we can't see a single ship at a glance. Here, they can see five or six light spots at a glance, and when they look again, there are five or six new ones...

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"Otherwise, how can we call it a fishing ground? I have never seen so many boats in my life..."

"That's true..."

“I don’t know how many hairtails I can harvest.”

"...A lot of little whitebait are jumping there...even the little fish seem to be more numerous than ours..."

Everyone also stretched their necks and looked out of the boat. Wherever the light on the boat shone, there were a bunch of silvery-white fish jumping there.

Ye Yaodong watched a group of people talking and laughing on the deck, while he only focused on driving the boat in a similar circular motion.

This time they went out to sea, it took them an hour to get down to the net, and it was only about two hours until the tide went out.

He waited until more than two hours later and felt based on experience that the tide was almost low before he notified everyone to set up the net.

Everyone also knew that the net should be raised and released when the tide ebbs and flows, so they all waited on the deck.

It just so happens that this net is put away, and those who should go to rest can go to rest.

Ye Yaodong stopped the rotation of the fishing boat, kept the position stable, and began to slowly lift the fishing net.

As the bottom of the net gradually rises, the fish in the fishing net fall into the fish collection bag and slowly float up from the bottom of the water.

"Oh...it's up...it's quite a lot. It's only been two hours and it's already weighing several thousand kilograms."

"They are all hairtails, and there are some small yellow croakers and miscellaneous fish. This net has four to five thousand kilograms, right?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I've watched it many times, and I find it beautiful every time..."
To be continued...