MMB Chapter 1331 Tuna
Chapter 1331 Tuna
Chapter 1331 Tuna
Ye Yaodong crossed his legs and lit a cigarette to refresh himself. Soon the enclosed space was filled with smoke, and he would open the window from time to time to let in some fresh air.
Feeling a little hungry, and seeing that everything was fine, he went downstairs to get some food.
There is food on the boat 24 hours a day, and at least there is always a pot of hot seafood and hot water.
He went downstairs and took a look around. He saw several workers talking while working there, and they all looked very energetic.
He joked, "It's so windy and you can still chat so enthusiastically. Your stomach must be filled with the wind."
"That's right. My throat is freezing."
"There's food and hot water in the pot, don't catch a cold."
"Okay, go eat when you're hungry."
With half the staff and twice the cargo, I don’t know if I can finish the job after the next round of harvest.
As Ye Yaodong went to get food, he thought to himself that he would have to pull up the net every three or four hours depending on the situation. He couldn't take so long anymore as he simply didn't have enough manpower to do the job.
He filled his aluminum lunch box with a bunch of seafood, and also planned to bring a thermos up with him so that he wouldn't have to keep pouring hot water back and forth.
Just as he turned around with the lunch box in his left hand and the thermos in his right hand, a yellow-green figure jumped out of the water and fell back into the water.
"What? A ghost-head knife?"
Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and watched a green figure on the water surface sinking to the bottom of the water.
While he was watching, two workers were carrying a basket of fish into the freezer and asked curiously beside him.
"What is a ghost-head knife?"
"I just saw something green jump across?"
"You are dazzled, why didn't I see it?"
"I did see some green. It's a bit creepy when you talk about it like that..." A boatman rubbed his arms in fear, then looked left and right.
The sea surface was pitch black all around. It would be fine if I just kept my head down and worked without staring at it and kept my mind clear.
I am afraid that when people have free time, they will look at the darkness and emptiness around the sea, their thoughts will become too active, and they will like to scare themselves.
Ye Yaodong glared at them and quickly spoke up to prevent others from being frightened and causing panic even though they were not the only ones involved.
"It's a swordfish. What are you thinking? You coward. Two grown men are actually scared."
"Is it a fish? I was shocked and thought it was something else. Then I heard something fishy in your words..."
"Your eggs, ghost, are fish."
"Are there any more green fish? There seemed to be a very long one just now."
The two of them calmed down after talking to each other.
"Of course, there are fish of all colors in the sea. It just depends on whether you can recognize them."
"Well, well, well...Brother Dong..."
"What?" Ye Yaodong looked in the direction the worker was pointing in confusion.
Suddenly, a hint of green appeared on the sea, floating with the wind and flowing in the same direction as their fishing boats, but at a much slower speed.
"Huh? Moved by the wind? Dead?"
"Brother Dong, is that the swordfish you just mentioned?"
"It's a little far away. I can only see a hint of green. It's not clear and I can't be sure. Let's pull it up and take a look. I'll go and drive the boat around and slowly approach it. You guys can use a hand-held net or a hand-cast net to see if you can catch it."
"Ok."
After Ye Yaodong finished giving the order, he took another look and then quickly went up to the wheelhouse with the things in his hands.
At this moment, there was a red dot on the display screen. He was pleasantly surprised and thought about moving towards the red dot temporarily as the school of fish was more important.
Anyway, that hint of yellow-green was very conspicuous in the dark night, and it was still floating on the sea. It looked like it had just died.
If it is a swordfish, the color will slowly fade after it dies, and I don’t know if I can catch it in time. If I can’t catch it in time, then I can only forget it.
The conspicuous yellow-green color is still easy to identify now, but after it fades and blends into the darkness, you won’t be able to see where it is drifting in the vast ocean.
Ye Yaodong prioritized the school of fish detected by the sonar, but the fishing boats were also slowly moving towards that direction, so they were on the way.
Since it was on the way, he looked at the display screen and moved towards the big yellow-green fish.
The two workers were already ready. When they got close, they threw out a hand-cast net and directly covered the yellow-green fish. At this time, the color had become much lighter, and only the yellow-green color was faintly visible.
The wind resistance is very strong and the fishing boat cannot stop because it has to continue working. If it stops, the fishing net will get stuck at the bottom and sink.
The two of them pulled hard, and after a while, they finally dragged the fishing net closer, ready to collect it.
Ye Yaodong couldn't go down for the time being as he detected a dense school of fish, so he sat in the cockpit and watched.
He didn't walk on until the red dot on the display faded, turned yellow and then green.
At this time, the knife fish had faded and no longer had the bright yellow color that they had seen at the beginning, so they were all a little uncertain.
He was muttering to himself while the stomach was cut open and the blood was drained.
"Is this the one? It wasn't this one just now. Did you catch the wrong one?"
"But when I threw it out just now, it still had a faint color. Did it change color when it came out of the water?"
"Who knows? It took a lot of effort to pull it up. It kept rolling in the sea. I don't know if I caught it by mistake."
Ye Yaodong said: "That's right, it's this one. This is the swordfish. When it's alive, its color is bright yellow-green or bright green. When it dies, the color will slowly fade and it won't look that good."
"No wonder. I thought it looked quite conspicuous from the front, but when I caught it, it was all black and gray, no different from an ordinary fish..."
"Oh my God, why are there so many little turtles..." The man who was killing and bleeding the fish exclaimed, and used the knife in his hand to fiddle with the little turtles wrapped in mucus.
"What little turtle..."
"Ouch, I fucked so much..."
"So many little turtles, they haven't been digested yet, and there's also a giant squid..."
Ye Yaodong also looked surprised. There are so many turtles in the stomach of this swordfish?
"Did it take over the turtle's nest?"
"Two, four, six, eight... thirty, thirty-two, damn, 32 little turtles, that's really too much, no wonder they choked to death."
"I'm not afraid of indigestion..."
"Choked to death?"
Ye Yaodong still didn't know how this swordfish died. It suddenly floated to the surface and he was a little confused.
I don’t know if it is the same figure that he saw flashing by?
The fish is estimated to be about 1 meters long and weighs about 3 to kilograms. It has a blunt and round head, a conical body, and a slender and forked tail.
This fish is not solitary, but lives in groups. It lives on the surface of the ocean, and the water depth generally does not exceed 40 meters.
It is a voracious eater and often hunts surface fish such as flying fish and sardines. It sometimes jumps out of the water to hunt. It is a companion fish of tuna and swordfish.
He had gone fishing a few years ago. He was lucky and he and his father encountered a sardine storm. The sardines were so overwhelming that they blocked out the sun. There were all kinds of deep-sea fish, big and small, eating and drinking there, and their fishing boats took the opportunity to go fishing there.
A worker nearby picked up the head of a red fish and showed it to Ye Yaodong.
"It's this fish. It got stuck in its throat. It must have died. Anyway, when we opened its belly just now, we took out the fish from its throat first."
Ye Yaodong's eyes widened. "Fuck, this is a lionfish, man, you must not get pricked by its spines. You didn't get pricked, did you?"
"No, I just cut it out with the tip of the knife, what's the matter?"
"The spines on its back are extremely poisonous, so you have to think twice before killing the fish."
As soon as these words were spoken, the worker who was holding the fish head in his hand was so scared that he immediately let go, and the fish fell directly onto the deck.
"Oh my god, I was so scared, I almost met the King of Hell."
"Next time, don't just catch fish you don't recognize."
"Fortunately, I didn't touch it just now..."
"Then this big fish must have been poisoned to death by it."
Lionfish are small, ornate marine fish with venomous spines on their backs. Their population is exploding every year due to their adaptability, ability to reproduce quickly, and venom.
Continuing to grow is also the reason why many fish have become extinct after the 21st century.
In the future, many submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles will be named after fish and marine life. This is a common practice among the navies of many countries.
For example, piranha, queenfish, sturgeon, and scorpionfish have been used to name submarines, while swordfish, manta ray, and knifefish have been used to name unmanned submersibles.
Later, the lionfish also joined this group and was used by the Pretty Ugly Army to name the next generation of small unmanned submarines.
Ye Yaodong picked it up casually.
Everyone around him was shouting at him to be careful and throw it away quickly.
He nodded and threw it back into the sea in a parabola. In fact, it can be eaten and is delicious. The only poisonous part is the spines on the back, and the meat is still quite delicious.
But apart from him, no one would dare to eat it, and he wasn't greedy for it, so he just threw it away.
Only pufferfish is yyds.
"As expected, the more beautiful something is, the more poisonous it is. This fish is bright red and pretty, and the spines on its back and fins are huge. I didn't expect it to be so poisonous. It could kill such a big fish."
"How much can this fish sell for?"
"If it's not worth the money, let everyone have a taste, hahaha..."
"This person who was poisoned should not be poisonous, right?"
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "I'm already thinking about eating it, why are you asking if it's expensive? It's good as long as it's not poisonous enough to kill you, and you can eat it after it's cooked, forget about it as sashimi."
"If you catch it alive, it will be delicious as sashimi, but this one was killed by poison after all. It is not poisonous if it is cooked, so you can eat it. But don't make it as sashimi. Life is more important, don't gamble."
"Forget it, I won't eat it..."
"coward……"
After Ye Yaodong cursed with a smile, he ignored them, let them handle it, and returned to the cockpit.
He didn't know the current price of this swordfish at first. Since he caught it once a few years ago, he knew that this fish was not valuable. It was purely beautiful and tasted good.
People who say it tastes bad actually don’t know how to eat it.
The meat of swordfish is not as delicious as the sea bass, yellow croaker, sea bream and other fish we usually eat, and it has relatively many bones. However, if you slice it, wrap it in breadcrumbs and fry it, it is very delicious, and it is also good as sashimi.
It doesn’t matter if there are no conditions on the boat. They can eat whatever they want. If they can’t finish it, just let them freeze it.
After taking it home, he asked Ah Qing to fry a pot of them. He guaranteed that each one would be so fragrant that you could swallow it with your tongue. If there was no breadcrumbs, you could just fry them directly with flour.
When he sat back in the cockpit, without the cold wind, he felt comfortable again.
If it weren't for curiosity, a knife fish wouldn't be worth his trip down there. He was simply amazed by the green figure he just encountered.
He was bored in the cockpit and wanted to go down for a walk and satisfy his curiosity.
The workers below were sorting the goods, bleeding the fish, and there were mountains of goods that had not yet been sorted.
He poured himself another cup of hot tea, and after drinking it in one gulp, he felt warm all over.
The seafood that was just packed up has not been touched yet, so it’s perfect for a midnight snack.
There was a piece of deep-sea red squid meat in it, which he cut off specially, otherwise the whole piece could be his meal for the whole day.
The meat is one centimeter thick, soft and bouncy, and freshly caught, so it's especially fresh. He can't wait to dry it out in the sun, tear it into pieces and eat it as a snack.
"We are short of two bottles of wine. What a pity..."
The fish tastes best when caught and eaten fresh on the boat. It would be even better if it were paired with wine. What a pity.
Ye Yaodong was eating while keeping his eyes on the screen and listening to the radio, so he was not bored anymore.
He had put down the net at around 12 o'clock, and he estimated that he would wait until around 4 o'clock to collect it. By the time he collected it, it would be daybreak, and it would be time for others to get up to take over the shift, so he would be able to take over the sorting work.
It was almost 2 o'clock now, and two more hours would be enough.
Drinking tea can also refresh him. He is not sleepy at all. He just feels bored. It is pitch black all around and there is nothing to see.
Of the two boats in the distance, only spots of light could be seen, and the hulls could not be clearly seen. Both were moving slowly, which meant everything was going smoothly.
There is no sound on the public channel either. If anything happens, they can also call him on the public channel.
Perhaps they had lost the mood to talk, as no one was talking so late at night. Or maybe it was the early morning and they had someone else driving the boat.
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that it was inappropriate to let Chen Shi drive the boat. After all, he not only had to communicate with the people on their boat, but also had to communicate with other ships.
Everyone on their boat was used to Chen Shi speaking slowly, but others were not used to it, so they had to change someone else.
Until his stuttering is cured, he can only work honestly.
Ye Yaodong began to think about the candidate in his mind again. After thinking about the people on the boat, he decided on a relative who was about 40 years old, who was also his cousin.
The son of his mother's cousin... a cousin is three thousand miles away...
The relationship is complicated, and it is quite complicated. His mother's aunt's daughter gave birth to a son...
It’s quite simple to say, we can just call them relatives anyway.
There are a lot of relatives like this. We don’t interact with each other normally, but when we become rich, we become very close to each other and treat each other like family.
Moreover, the older generation was more likely to have children. The slogan in the 1950s and 1960s was "strength in numbers."
The whole village is full of relatives in some way or another. His grandfather is an outsider. If he were a local, it would be even more serious, as all the people in the surrounding villages would be his relatives.
Now at least only half of the village are relatives in some indirect way.
Half of the people on the ship are young, in their 20s, and the rest are between 30 and 50 years old.
The young ones all call him "Big Brother" or "Brother Dong", and even those older than him now call him "Brother Dong".
He is only in his 40s or 50s, and the age difference is too big, so people are embarrassed to call him by his given name and still call him Adong.
Ye Yaodong felt that in a few years, when he was forty, people would call him Uncle Dong.
He wouldn't object if you called him boss.
He thought about it for a while, and when it was almost 4 o'clock, the goods below were still a little bit sorted, but he didn't care about it anymore, he had to get online.
By the time the net is pulled up, the sun will probably be rising.
"Get ready to close the net, close the net."
He stood on the wheelhouse with a loudspeaker and shouted, and the workers below immediately started moving.
When everyone was ready, he let them arrange the closing of the net themselves.
This is the third network.
Today is also the second day, the eighteenth day of the lunar calendar.
The workers below also had some experience and were carrying out the reclamation in an orderly manner.
He did not return to the cockpit, but stood on the deck and watched, wondering what this net would catch.
The first two nets were moving. The second net was closer to the destination and caught a lot of large and small red squids. He estimated that this net would probably be mostly squids, and there might be some swordfish.
After all, whether it is the moonfish, the swordfish, or the triggerfish, they all like to feed on squid.
He just wondered whether this net would catch any tuna.
Tuna is valuable, but it cannot be compared with swordfish and triggerfish, and these two fish are semi-raw fish of tuna.
Last night, because of the lighting, a bunch of triggerfish appeared beside the boat, and later he encountered a swordfish. He felt that there must be tuna in this sea area, but he just might be lucky enough to catch one. If he could catch one, it would all be worth it.
Ye Yaodong stood on the helm and looked towards the stern. In the fishing nets that were being pulled up bit by bit, he actually saw some brightly colored swordfish. This fish was very easy to identify, but he couldn't see the tuna carefully.
He was wrapped up tightly but didn't feel cold. He stood on the wheelhouse and watched patiently.
After all the fishing nets were collected and prepared to be hoisted, the sun climbed up from the horizon and dawn broke.
He asked them to go into the cabin and woke up the other workers. It was already past 5 o'clock and it was almost time to get up for their shift change. It was just in time for the goods to be collected and handed over to them.
I didn’t stay up too late last night. Those who stay up late have a hard time.
Now it’s time to hang up the fish bags, so I called that cousin up to teach me.
Everyone on his boat knows how to drive the boat and use most of the machinery and equipment for raising and lowering the net. At most, because the boat is large, the equipment in the cockpit is relatively sophisticated, and there are many control functions, so individual functions need to be taught and explained, and some guidance is required, which is a very simple thing.
Otherwise, there would not have been no need to teach yesterday and call people over now.
Now he can also watch from the side and accompany for an hour or so. After all the goods have been collected, he will go fishing again. When everything is in order, he can go to the back to sleep. If there is anything, just knock on the door and he will be able to come out immediately.
"Wahaha...tuna!"
The rising sun was red and the sky was misty, but the orange light shone into the fishing net, and he saw the tuna inside with his sharp eyes.
As he expected, based on his many years of fishing experience, if knifefish and triggerfish appear together, there must be tuna.
There are quite a few swordfish in this net, very conspicuous. Some are brightly colored, while others are a little dull, which means some have just died and some have been dead for a while.
Ye Yaodong reminded them with a loudspeaker, "The swordfish will be fresh and the tuna will be frozen. The other seafood will be as is."
"Okay!" Everyone responded in unison.
When a package of cargo was lowered, several tunas fell directly onto the deck due to their large size.
Ye Yaodong knew at first glance that this was a bigeye tuna.
The fish's body is gray and full of fat, with a short tail and a large head and eyes.
The ones that fell on the deck were about 1.5-2.0 meters long and weighed more than 200 kilograms, which was quite a lot.
There were also several trigger fish, but these fish were not as big as the bigeye tuna.
The back of the bigeye tuna's body is blue and green, and the sides and belly surface are silvery white. The meat is pink and a little soft.
The pectoral fin is long, with a prominent tip that extends below the second dorsal fin, which is also narrow and similar in height to the first.
The trigger fish can be identified at a glance. The easiest way to distinguish it is that there are 4-6 black longitudinal bands on the abdomen of the trigger fish.
The workers were also shouting that there was tuna in this net...
Everyone knows the value of this fish, but bigeye tuna is not as valuable as bluefin tuna, but it is definitely better than triggerfish and swordfish.
Ye Yaodong smiled and shouted with a loud speaker: "I'll kill a tuna sashimi later, as a snack."
"Good~"
"Cousin A Tie, come up here for a moment..."
"Hey……"
He called people up, and they were still confused.
When they found out that he would take over the position and work shifts with them, and that his salary would be increased by half, they were so happy that they couldn't believe it.
"Is it true?"
"Yeah, I can't stay up all night, come on, I'll teach you, you probably know how to do it anyway..."
"Yes, yes, yes. I know all of them. I have learned them before."
"Well, listen again."
"Okay, okay..." He was very happy. His salary was already high and now he could get another half of it. He made a lot of money.
It doesn't get any better than being able to sail easily from the cockpit without having to deal with the cold draft.
"Dongzi, you are so awesome, hahaha..."
"Okay, why are you praising me again all of a sudden?"
"I really think you are so capable."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Isn't this obvious to everyone? The whole village knows it."
"There's quite a lot of stuff on this network, probably about six or seven packages."
"It should be. Those tuna are quite substantial."
"Well, I'm sleeping in the cabin behind the cockpit anyway. If there's any accident or there's a problem with any instrument, and you can't see or understand it, call me immediately. Don't be afraid to disturb me."
"I see."
"Then you sit inside and get familiar with it. I'll go outside to take a look. After a few packages of goods are put away, I'll go and rest."
"it is good."