Chapter 1005 Humpback Whale

But when he returned to the cabin and lay down, he kept thinking about the previous incident when two ships collided and one of them sank while the other was saved.

He still remembered the coordinates of that sea area, but it was still far away from there now, so he closed his eyes with peace of mind.

If he had the opportunity to go nearby and have a look, he had been thinking about it at home for two days.

It is cold when entering the water in winter, but the temperature under the water is not very cold. The cold is only the moment you enter the water.

He is strong and young now. He is not an old man and can withstand the cold. It is okay to take a dip in the water on cold days occasionally.

He would definitely not give up without taking a look in the water. Although the cargo on the deck had floated away, there must still be some in the cabin. How could such a big ship not have better cargo in the cabin?

Even if it's not a better product, it's no worse than the canned fish piled on the deck outside. At least it should be similar to the ones on the deck. The inside of the cabin can't float away.

If it's also canned fish, that's not bad. A box salvaged will cost at least more than a hundred yuan. A few more cans of caviar will be a profit.

I don’t know if the Maritime Safety Administration sent anyone to salvage it after reporting it to Director Chen. Or they say they are wrangling and investigating, or they simply don’t pay attention to it and just skip it.

It's also possible that Director Chen didn't take it seriously, didn't report it, and just kept it for himself. This is not impossible.

It's hard to say anything without seeing it with my own eyes. Anyway, wait until he has had enough sleep to see which sea area the ship is sailing on and how far away the coordinates are. Then we'll see.

He had already moved the diving equipment to this boat anyway. What he bought with his own money could not be given cheaply to others. This thing has many uses.

Uncle Pei will most likely not run around, and his back and forth operations will usually be within the routes he is familiar with.

After thinking wildly for a while, he slowly fell asleep with the roaring in his ears.

Also because the sound of the machine was loud enough, the movements of the people around him could not be heard so clearly. He was just half asleep and half awake all the time.

When he woke up completely, there was no one on the bed around him. Probably because as the boss, no one except his father had the nerve to ask him to get up and work.

After putting on his sweater and pants, he opened the quilt, stretched out a lot, and twisted his hips twice before picking up the cotton-padded jacket that had been kicked to the end of the bed, put on his hat and went out to pee.

The bright sunshine made him unable to open his eyes. Except for his father, everyone was squatting on the deck sorting goods, looking at the sun hanging in the sky. It was not very late.

He dug into his pocket again, took out his watch and took a look. It was only half past eight.

"Is this the goods collected by No.1.com?"

"Yes, it was collected just half an hour ago."

“It looks like there aren’t many toad fish in this net, but there are quite a lot of toad fish.”

"I estimate that the flood season of toad fish is almost over, and the number will decrease day by day, and they will go to other places."

Ye Yaodong wore rain boots, fiddled around with his feet and kicked a bunch of them, but he didn't see anything beautiful, so his harvest was average.

He looked up into the distance again. The sky was blue and the sea was vast. Seabirds were flying in the air, swooping down from time to time to prey on the fish jumping on the sea. The sky was really high enough for birds to fly, and the sea was wide enough for fish to jump. .

"Where is this place?"

"I don't know. I've been floating on the sea, surrounded by water, and I don't know where I am."

"Ask your father. Your father should know. Ask us where we can tell the direction."

"oh."

He glanced at a small dot on the sea in the distance and walked towards the cockpit.

That was probably the Harvest. From a distance, it looked no bigger than his thumb. It would take about ten minutes to get closer to the two ships.

"father."

"Are you awake? Do you want me to watch you for a while?"

"Okay, where are we now? Which is the nearest town?"

"It's hard to tell the nearest town. You can only know it if you dock with a purpose. Otherwise, how can you know how far away the towns on land are from the sea?"

"Then let me put it another way, how far are we from the accident site of the two fishing boats that hit the rocks and collided a few days ago?"

"I didn't take note of the location."

"I remembered it." Ye Yaodong took out a small note and handed it to his father.

A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. No matter how good your brain is, it is not as good as writing it down. What's more, he doesn't take everything to heart and can forget it just by turning around.

"Why do you remember this? Are you going there again? Going into the water to fish out the machine?" Father Ye reacted instantly, because it had happened before.

"The machine is secondary. I want to go to the cabin of the sunken ship to see if there is any good cargo? The deck is full of cargo. It makes no sense that there isn't some in the cabin. I want to go and see if it is still there. Is there any good cargo? Some missed it."

"Still here?"

"I don't know. Who knows if they have investigated the case? I thought it had sunk to the bottom and ignored it. I don't know if it will be taken seriously, so I just wanted to go over there and take a look."

"That's fine, but we're not familiar with that area. There's a reef there, so we're a little worried. Don't let your boat hit the rocks if you get close."

"Let's follow the coordinates and stop early. At most, I can go into the water a few more times to explore the road. Pay more attention, and I shouldn't hit the rocks."

"Then let's take a look later, or wait until we return to see if it passes by. Otherwise, if you get into the water or catch a cold, you will have to stay on the ship for several days. People with severe symptoms will not be able to bear it. When we return, It’s okay, we’re done with the trawling business anyway.”

"That's okay, just keep an eye on it when you return."

"Have you eaten yet?"

"Oh, yes, I haven't eaten yet, so I'll go have breakfast first and then come over to take over for you. You guys can also go and take a nap."

Ye Yaodong slapped his forehead before he remembered that the meal at night was considered a supper, not breakfast. If his father hadn't told him, he wouldn't have felt hungry.

There was still a little porridge in the pot, probably for him, and the other pot was full of seafood, including fish, everything was steamed in one pot.

When he saw a small white seal, he reached out and grabbed one of its whiskers and pulled it out. He had a taste first and was not in a hurry to eat.

The meat is elastic and chewy, and it feels like chewing a piece of gum when you put it in your mouth. You can't help but want to bite a few more times and feel the pleasure of opening and closing your mouth. Seafood is eaten fresh, and it is authentic when it is caught and cooked fresh.

After he finished eating, he went to replace his father, and the workers on the deck also got up. The two of them followed his father back to the cabin to sleep, and the rest was done by the other two people who were in the same group with him, and they could almost finish it on the next net. Straighten it up before putting it away.

Ye Yaodong kept the fishing boat at a very close distance from the Harvest, and notified the two of them to prepare to set up the net until the time came.

What surprised him was that in the sight of their two boats, there was an extra fishing boat today, which was rare.

In the vast sea, it is not easy to encounter ships after traveling so far away. After all, it is the 1980s, the fishery is not developed, there are very few large ships, and the sea area is infinitely wide.

He didn't pay much attention to the new fishing boats that appeared. They were all passing by while working. He continued to stand on the helm and watched the two people below pulling the cables one by one.

However, they didn't know if the fishing boat that suddenly appeared on the route set in advance was really around them, and it actually drove in their direction, getting closer and closer.

As their fishing boat slowly moved forward to collect the net, the fishing boat gradually enlarged in his sight until it appeared around them.

At this time, Ye Yaodong also saw that the other party was collecting the goods. No, it should be said that he was collecting the rope.

"Oilfish? Are you fishing for hairtail?"

Within his line of sight, he saw two people standing on both sides of the other side of the ship, and then they took up the line there. A series of shining silver hairtails were pulled out of the water, and their slender bodies shone in the sunlight, reflecting the light. .

You can catch hairtail not only at night, but also during the day. Although it is phototactic, it hunts all day long throughout the year.

Hairtail fish likes warm water. During the day, they like to inhabit the shimmering sandy areas of the seabed. At dawn and dusk, they enter the middle and upper layers of the water body. They like to move vertically in groups, mainly preying on small fish.

As the fishing boat moved, the two boats got closer and closer. He also saw several fishing rods on the other boat. He didn't know if it was specifically for fishing hairtail, or if it was a fishing method like longline fishing. Catch big fish.

After all, small fish are really worthless these days, but big fish are still worth some money.

It takes several hours to drag a net. This kind of trolling in deeper waters can continuously load fish. If you are lucky, the fish you receive may be big fish of the same species.

It should be difficult to build a fish-tailing boat now. After all, you have to fish in a fishing ground with a lot of goods, and you also need an underwater fish detector. Nowadays, trawling is generally used to try your luck.

However, it was quite satisfying to see people catching hairtail one after another. It was a pity that he didn't bring a fishing rod, otherwise he could have asked his father to get up and start the boat, and he also imitated others' fishing.

When the fishing boat passed by them, a large bag of their fish was also collected, and he also turned his attention from the other party back to his own boat.

"Huh! There are also hairtails. There are hairtails around here today!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a large bag of goods was scattered directly on the deck. The hairtail fish that had just come out of the water were still shining with silver light, but they were still not as beautiful as the hairtail fish that came out of the water at night. They were caught that night. The hairtail fish is really like silk, very shiny, completely different from the fresh ones on the market.

Hairtail also dies immediately after it comes out of the water. After a while, it looks similar to what it looks like on the market, without the luster of being just caught.

Ye Yaodong looked down from the top and felt that there were still quite a lot of hairtail fish in the large pile of goods, but some were suppressed and only their heads or tails were exposed.

After watching the fishing nets being lowered again, the boat was moving farther and farther away. Thinking that there would be no big problem, he also went to the deck, fiddled with the fish pile, and took a look at the harvest of the net.

"There are a lot of shrimps in this net, both prawns and red shrimps, with a little less small shrimps."

"Yes, the harvest of this net is good, and there are a lot of hairtail fish. The price of hairtail fish is quite good."

Ye Yaodong fiddled with the goods and picked up a stick. It was more than half a meter long and the meat was very thick. It could indeed be sold at a good price.

"Hey, this one's head and tail are bitten together, so they're connected together."

He said with a smile: "I have seen people fishing for hairtail before. They caught one, and then another one was hung on the tail, connected head to tail. It is not like this one that got entangled in the fishing net."

"Isn't it just that if you catch one, the tail can be used as bait to catch another one? That's strange."

"Brother Dongdongdong! Where...where did you see...?"

"I saw it when I went fishing with a rich man."

"I understand...the town...boss..."

"Ah, yes, you are sorting the goods. I went to the cockpit to watch, so as not to make mistakes like others and hit the rocks and hit the ship."

The old boatman reacted immediately, "Bah, bah, bah, you can't say such unlucky things."

"Bah, bah, bah, good luck. Okay, I'm leaving."

According to what he had just fiddled with and visually inspected, the hairtail fish probably weighed about 1,000 kilograms, the two types of shrimps should also weigh three to four hundred kilograms, and other fish that could be sold for money could weigh a thousand kilograms. Small groceries should also account for About 1/3.

Thinking that the harvest from this net was good, he continued to work around and was not ready to leave this area.

The distance between the Harvest and him was still only about the size of a thumb, and sometimes it would disappear from sight, but it would reappear after a while, enlarged a little.

Anyway, the two ships kept their distance at all times, and just tried not to lose sight of each other for too long.

The warm sun shines in the sky, but it cannot shine in the cockpit, and there is no wind. He concentrates on his work steadily, only occasionally stepping out of the cockpit.

When he was halfway through sorting the goods on the deck, he noticed that the time had reached 12 o'clock without realizing it, so he shouted and asked Chen Shi to put down the rice and cook it first.

But at this moment, he heard a cry of surprise, and he quickly turned his head to look.

A very large fish jumped out of the water next to them and turned somersaults. He also saw it and was surprised.

"It's a humpback whale!"

In an instant, a huge spray of water surged and sprayed onto the deck. Because it was so close, the huge body hit the sea, causing the fish boat to shake.

"This, this, this, this... fish fish fish fish fish fish fish..." Chen Shi was stunned and stuttered even more when he came to his senses.

"It's a whale! A whale!"

"Spray, spray, spray...water!"

The fishing boat shook a little, which also woke up Ye's father and others. Originally, they could not sleep well in such harsh conditions on the boat.

They also quickly ran out of the cabin and onto the deck.

It happened that the very large humpback whale did not leave, and was driving right next to their fishing boat, exposing its huge body on its back.

"Oh my God, such a big fish?"

"There is such a big fish again..."

"Is it a whale?"

"It's a humpback whale!"

"Dongzi, hurry up, stay away."

"It's okay. This fish won't hurt anyone. Let's take a closer look here. It's okay."

It's rare to see it so close.