Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1266 One after another
Anyway, he will first advertise his fresh-catch boat.

He knew that the profits from shrimp fishing were huge. The resources in the fishery here were really rich. There were not only the four major economic fish, but also many other fishing seasons that changed throughout the year.

His fresh fish collection boat is docked at the dock except for collecting cargo every two days. It would be even better if he could get some more business.

He'll just try it out as it's a last resort. Anyway, it won't cost him anything and he won't lose anything. It's just a few words.

But he has just arrived, and if there is no ship to collect the fresh fish, or if it is unable to collect them, wouldn’t that be a perfect opportunity for him?
It would be best if there was a face-to-face meeting. He could just show his certificate as vice president of the Vancouver Fisheries Association to the other captains, which would make him more credible.

It just so happens that they are also from Vancouver, and he represents the official position, so he is naturally trustworthy.

Most fishing boats don't dare to look for unfamiliar fish collecting boats for fear of losing both people and money. He has an official certificate, which is his proof, and it is much better than looking for someone randomly outside.

During the flood season, their ship must be the same as his, not docking if possible, and continuing to salvage at sea will bring higher profits.

After getting the exact information, the fleet accelerated forward again.

When Ye Yaodong heard the VHF squeaking sound, he turned it off and watched the other party go away.

Then he walked out of the cabin and shouted to the people below: "Get ready to lower the net."

"Boss, are they getting closer to ask for directions?"

"Yes, a fleet from a small town in Vancouver came here to catch shrimp."

"Yeah, I saw a lot of fresh shrimps on the pier before the typhoon."

"There will be more in the future, and it's the flood season."

"It's so easy to make money here...fishing boats are coming here from everywhere..."

"After we get to the shore, let's go buy some fresh dried shrimps. We used to eat dried shrimps at home..."

Ye Yaodong did not respond. Seeing that the fishing net had been lowered, he returned to the cockpit to continue his boring work.

In the past few days, the daily catch of hairtail has been increasing, and their income has become more and more considerable.

Relatively speaking, the risk is also reduced because the number of hairtail is large, while the number of other fish has decreased as some have returned to the deep sea due to the cooler weather or some have not been active enough.

When his father came to take over the goods, he said that the time spent setting up the stall at the dock had been reduced, and he could sell out the goods early and go back home. After all, the hairtail were delivered directly to the factory.

Recently, the number of boats catching cutlassfish has increased, and the cargo has also increased. Relatively speaking, the quantity of other miscellaneous fish and shrimp has decreased, and the demand has exceeded the supply, so they naturally become easier to sell.

The weather turned cooler after the National Day, and they spent much longer time at sea. Ye Yaodong stayed at sea for 12 days before returning, and during that time he went on a freshwater ship to collect goods.

Half of the crew on their ship are makeshift people, some of whom are very young. They cannot handle staying at sea for too long, and 12 days is almost their limit.

The same was true for the other boats, they were all holding on, and when the announcement was made that they had returned, they were all cheering.

You have to make money, but you also need to rest.

He also thought that he should take advantage of this period of time to do more long-term fishing at sea as a way of training the crew.

Otherwise, when the transformation of his cargo ship is completed, he will not be at sea for a few days, but for several months.

If there were no typhoons or strong winds and waves, they would definitely not come back. Such a large ship is a powerful weapon for fishing at sea, and the profits every day are huge.

(My cousin has a fishing boat this big, he goes fishing in the waters around D. Two days ago, I heard him talking about it at dinner. He bought the boat second-hand for about 300 million yuan. There are no shareholders, he owns it alone.)
(He has 14 workers on his boat. Not to mention other expenses, the workers alone cost more than 8 yuan a month. He left on August 1 after the fishing moratorium ended, and only returned a few days before National Day because of a typhoon.)
(In two months, his boat sold over 100 million catches, and after deducting expenses, he probably earned another 100 million...)
(Aaaaah, I really make a lot of money.)
(But when they lose money, they lose a lot. The one who made money is my younger cousin, and another older cousin lost more than 100 million in two years.)
After the four boats decided to return, they chatted on the VHF and calculated the time to pull up the nets. Ye Yaodong expected to arrive at the port just after dark, which was still afternoon.

They were about to go back, so the boatmen perked up and started to distribute the cargo quickly.

Just when the fishing boat was halfway through the journey, Ye Yaodong saw dolphins and heard the loud dolphin sounds intermittently.

He quickly asked other people in the channel whether they had seen or heard the sermon.

By the way, I picked up the telescope and took a look. There were indeed several dolphins appearing above the water, and in front of them there were many small fish constantly jumping out of the water, and some seabirds were also flying over the sea.

At this time, he also heard the voice from the channel.

Ye Yaohua immediately said: "I saw it on my side, very close, it seems that many fish jumped out of the water..."

Zhou Da also said: "I also heard the sound of dolphins, but I couldn't see them clearly..."

Father Pei said, "Let's go to Ah Hua's place and have a look. There might be a school of fish there."

"Then let's all go over and take a look. Second brother also took a closer look. I saw it with a telescope. It should be a school of fish and a group of seabirds."

"it is good……"

All four boats were heading in the same direction, with the SF in front and the other fishing boats behind.

It was only a few hundred meters away, and in a moment several boats merged and sailed parallel to each other.

Ye Yaodong walked out and stood on the wheelhouse. He picked up the telescope and saw a fish jumping out of the water in front of him. It was a pike, also called blackfish, black mullet, a very common fish.

Every early winter, when the northeast monsoon starts, it is the time when it is fattest to lay eggs.

The dolphins seemed to be driving towards the nearby island.

"It looks like a school of mullets." Ye Yaohua said loudly at the other end.

The naked eye cannot see as well as his telescope, so Ye Yaodong added: "It is a group of dolphins, big and small, that are driving away the mullet. The big dolphins are watching, while the small dolphins are driving them away."

"It's not easy to catch here..."

"Yes, there is an island nearby. If we get too close, the fishing net will get stuck on the bottom."

"Forget fishing nets. Even fishing boats that are closer would be stranded."

"So what? I see that group of mullets is quite large, all black and white..."

"It's not easy to fish this way..."

Everyone discussed it.

Ye Yaodong pondered for a moment and said, "I have an idea. Let's work together and take out a fishing net. The boatmen all go into the water and stretch the fishing net as wide as possible. Then swim from the periphery to the island, and catch all the fish in one net."

He calculated that there were about twenty boatmen in total. Although the fishing net was heavy, it could be dragged with more people.

This is equivalent to artificial purse seine fishing.

"Don't trap the dolphins when you're encircling them. They are big, strong, and there are so many of them. Don't let them run away. If we don't hold on to the fishing nets, we'll lose everything and the fish will get away too."

"Also, one dolphin is fine, but if there is a group of them, they can be very aggressive. Tell the boatmen not to provoke that group of dolphins."

Ye Yaohua agreed: "What Dongzi said is fine... At most it will cost a little manpower. The fish school seems to be quite large. Anyway, we will return to the port soon, so we can rest when we go back."

Father Pei also said: "I think it's a good idea too. When we catch all the fish, we can sell them together and then divide the money from the fish."

Zhou Da then said: "I have no objection either."

"Okay, if you have no objection, then move closer, a little to the side, and I'll ask someone to take the fishing nets out of the warehouse and sort them out."

Fortunately, it is only mid-October now. Although the weather is getting cooler, it is not yet time to wear cotton-padded jackets. It is not that we cannot go into the water. In winter, it is freezing cold.

After Ye Yaodong gave instructions to the boatman, he drove the fishing boat and followed them to the edge of the country.

The dolphins also discovered the fishing boats, but they did not hide at all and were not afraid at all. Their voices became even louder, as if they wanted to drive them away.

After they docked the fishing boat, they asked the boatmen to come over, grab the mouth of the fishing net one by one, and then go into the water one by one, spread the fishing net and swam towards the school of fish.

Ye Yaodong also helped to throw the back section of the fishing net into the water on the boat, as well as the floats and sinkers, and watched everyone disperse to spread the fishing nets.

With the presence of the dolphins, the black mullets had no way to escape, and these dolphins were not very afraid of humans. When the boatmen got very close, they hesitated about how to drive the dolphins away.

They whispered to each other and slowly moved towards the group of dolphins and began to shout.

Those dolphins will still hide. When they see humans getting closer, they will quickly swim to the side with their cubs.

But there are still some dolphin pups that have not left. They are in the school of fish and are still excitedly driving the fish to shallow waters.

The boatmen could only drive the dolphins away from the periphery. The fishing net had been opened to its maximum, so they did not give up and gradually covered the school of fish.

The dolphins on the outermost edge of the sea also became anxious, calling out in loud dolphin sounds. The cubs inside seemed to have heard them and began to swim out as well, but the fishing net had already been opened, and swimming out would be a trap for them.

Veins bulged on the boatmen's arms. A large school of fish had fallen into the fishing nets. They were now slowly pulling the nets up from the sea to the shallows.

Ye Yaodong and his crew's boats had temporarily run aground on the edge of the island. People got off the boats and into the water, wading through the water and pulling a pile of bamboo baskets towards the shore.

"Wow, the whole net is full..."

"Fuck, they're all in the net."

"It succeeded, and it was a real slam dunk..."

"This net is full, how many tens of thousands of pounds must it be?"

"Hurry over there, I think they can't hold on any longer."

When the fishing net was opened to its maximum, all the fish rushed into the net and swam to the middle section of the net. Some even continued to swim towards the fish collecting bag.

The trawl nets they used were more than 300 meters long, and were stretched out by the black mullets hitting them left and right. Black mullets could be seen in every corner of the nets.

A whole long fishing net was also swaying on the sea.

This is truly a catch-all.

The boatmen also came ashore at this time and stood on the island, each of them pulling at a corner of the fishing net, and it looked like they were struggling.

There are at least tens of thousands of pounds of weight in the fishing net, which is the length of the fishing net. It can catch the fish from flying left and right, providing a buffer and reducing the force.

"Come on, it's too tiring. The fishing net is heavy, and there are so many fish..."

"Did you bring a scoop net? I need to be able to scoop it out bit by bit, otherwise I won't be able to collect it..."

Father Pei laughed and said, "They have caught them all. Wait for me to get the fishing net from the boat."

"What should we do with the several little dolphins in there? They are still bumping into each other."

Ye Yaodong said: "We'll fish it out and put it back into the sea. The dolphins nearby are watching it eagerly, waiting to attack."

"Then hurry up, catch a lot of fish, and return the dolphins to them." Ye Yaohua said.

Ye Yaodong added: "We have robbed their food and captured their cubs. This won't work. The dolphins will go crazy soon. Let's hurry up."

"We can only hold the fishing net in our hands, what should we do?"

"Catch it first?"

"Find a reef to tie it to..."

"Here, this reef is short. We can put the rope in and tie it around to secure it."

The boatmen discussed it among themselves and put the rope on the reef to secure the fishing net.

Then they all walked into the water excitedly, looking at the endless stream of fish in the fishing nets, and they all laughed their eyes off.

"That's fine, it's bad luck for those dolphins."

"Yes, we intercepted all their rations."

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "They should be training their cubs' fishing ability."

He knew it all because he saw the cubs taking the lead in surrounding the school of fish, while the big dolphins were just watching on the surface of the water.

Dolphin calves are too small and fish are too slippery, so they use a unique hunting method of stranding themselves, driving the fish into the shallows where they can be easily caught, and then swimming back to the sea with the help of the tide.

"You guys go in with the baskets to scoop the fish first, and I'll go to the boat to get the net and bring down some more baskets." After saying this, Ye Yaodong waded through the water and went back to the boat.

Everybody quickly started to move, all with smiles on their faces, very excited, it was the first time for them to pull tens of thousands of kilograms by manpower.

When he came back, there were dozens of full baskets piled on the beach. Everyone was busy loading and unloading, talking a lot, and was extremely excited.

"I can't finish it. Oh my god, I can't finish it..."

"This is too much. When the net was caught, it just felt like a large wave of fish rushed in. Now it's too much to take out."

"It's several hundred meters long and full of fish. Hurry up and catch them. Then go back."

Fortunately, they calculated the time to return. They thought it would be a good time to go ashore and sell goods as soon as it gets dark. It would be good if they could catch all the fish before dark.

Ye Yaodong distributed the fishing net he took from the boat to each of his people.

He also went into the water to help.

"Ah, there is a little dolphin..."

He looked over when he heard the shout, "Put it out first."

A group of dolphins on the sea were still watching anxiously because they hadn't seen the cub show up yet.

At this moment, someone just pulled a little dolphin out of the water from the fishing net, and the dolphins on the beach began to slap the water excitedly.

"Little Dolphin, do you want to stay?"

Ye Yaodong took the little dolphin out and stranded it in the water, saying, "Throw it back into the sea. There are enough fish. This is just a little dolphin. If you leave it here, the other dolphins will attack."

"Okay, put it back then."

He pushed the stranded dolphin into the sea, and it swam deeper and deeper until it disappeared in a short while. He just glanced at the dolphins that were still watching around him, and then continued to work.

After five or six little dolphins were caught from the fishing net and put back into the water, the other dolphins gradually left.

I guess he was cursing in his heart: Damn it! The kid worked hard for half a day to get his snacks, but they were snatched away by shameless humans…

The fishing nets were getting smaller and smaller, and the black mullets in them were being scooped out one by one, and everyone's baskets were no longer enough.

Only a small number of people can gradually pull the goods in the baskets onto the fishing boats and pour them on the deck first, otherwise there will be no containers to put them in.

Their fish warehouses have been full for a long time, and they will only plan to go back when the fish warehouses are full.

We can only pour it onto the deck now, and then when we go back and some of the goods are sold and the baskets are freed up, we can then load them up one basket at a time.

In autumn, they were so busy soaking in the water that they sweated all over.

After a long time, some of them could not even straighten their backs and had to support themselves with their hands, while others laughed at them, saying that their waists were no longer strong and were useless.

"The tide is coming in. Hang on, there's not much left. Once we salvage the last bit we can get back on the boat."

Ye Yaodong had been bending over to help move things around, and he felt sore in his back and neck. He looked around and found a piece of dry sand to sit down and rest.

The dry sands reflected colorful colors under the sunlight, felt fine and soft, and were mixed with some shellfish and coral fragments.

He clapped his hands to let the sand fall off, then looked around.

The surrounding reef walls were densely covered with various shellfish, which he noticed as soon as he came ashore, but business was more important. Those fish weighed at least tens of thousands of kilograms and were worth thousands of dollars.

But now as he was sitting to rest, he felt itchy to dig it up. It would be a shame not to dig it up. This was a gift from nature to mankind, a shellfish that could grow naturally. It would be unjust not to dig it up.

But he didn't have time to dig.

Everyone was busy fishing the fish in the nets, so he couldn't just sit there and pick up these things.

His eyes scanned the surrounding reefs like a radar, predicting that if he collected them, he could collect several sacks.

These things are really big, each one is huge in size. Probably no one has ever visited this island, after all, it is a bit far from the shore.

If the growth of various shellfish were not limited, it would be hard to imagine how big they would grow to be. Any single spicy snail would be almost as big as a baby's fist.

After watching for a while, he could no longer sit still, so he pulled a basket over and picked up the conches on top.

The densely packed shellfish here have to be pried off with sharp objects. Only conchs are relatively easy to break off, but if they are big, you have to twist them hard to take them off.

He was doing these things quietly here, and no one else saw it. It was not until he had dug a basket and pulled it over that others discovered it.

"Haha, why are you still picking snails?"

"Just sitting and resting. Did you feel like picking up something? Pick up a basket and take it home for dinner."

"Such a big conch can be sold for a lot of money."

"Keep them for yourself. It's hard to dig a big basket but you can't sell them for much. Today's catch can be sold for several thousand yuan. If the four boats share it, it will be a lot. Take these conches back and let everyone enjoy them."

“Haha, that’s fine too.”

"Only Adong is willing to spend money. He is rich and thinks that they can't sell for much. These can be sold for at least 10 or 20 yuan."

"It's getting dark now. When will this island be free? Come over and dig for it. It would be a pity if we don't dig. There are still a lot of treasures."

"Fuck... Look, look..."

Everyone heard someone's terrified voice, turned around and were instantly frightened and their scalps went numb.

I saw a large group of pink flesh worms crawling out of the water, crawling onto the beach, and still wriggling constantly. Just one look at them made my scalp tingle.

"Fuck..."

"My goosebumps..."

"What is this? What kind of bug is this? Why is it so scary? It's so terrible..."

"Oh my god, where do all these bugs come from? Ouch, my hair is standing on end, what should I do..."

"No, what is this? Why are there so many..."

“Is there going to be any problem with this island?”

Everyone was shocked and a little panicked. They looked terrified and stared at the water with wide eyes.

There were too many of them, crawling up in groups from the bottom of the water. Originally, only their heads popped up, but now they had crawled onto the beach in large groups. Everyone's face turned pale with fright.

Ye Yaodong quickly said, "Hey, hey, hey, don't be afraid. This is called sea sweet potato. It's edible and delicious. It just looks a little disgusting, just like a sandworm."

"No, the sandworms were caught one by one, unlike this one, which came up in a large group. I still don't recognize it. This one is too scary."

"You know this? What is this? It's so disgusting."

"This is too much. Too disgusting. Too scary. Oh my god. There are more than maggots in the toilet..."

"This looks more disgusting than sandworms, sea centipedes, and shipworms."

"no?"

Ye Yaodong squatted down and caught one and put it in the palm of his hand. The insect was still wriggling in his palm, and it was sticky. Everyone felt their scalps tingling after watching it for a while.

He even caught one to show everyone, "Isn't this the same as sandworms, sea centipedes, and shipworms? They're all just as disgusting."

"You also know that it's disgusting..."

"What should we do now? We haven't collected all the fishing nets yet..."

"You guys should move the baskets to the boat, move them to the boat, and those who should collect the fish should continue to collect the fish. If you are afraid of this, then I will catch it."

This is good stuff, but it looks a bit disgusting.

He actually got goosebumps all over the ground. It was okay if they were just a small amount and he wasn't scared, but if they covered the entire beach, who wouldn't feel their scalp tingling?

I guess if he didn't recognize what it was and didn't explain why, everyone would worry that there was something evil on this island and would have abandoned their nets and run into the sea and to the boat.

Now he has taken it upon himself and his hands are a little trembling. He just caught one and his hands are still sticky. It is really disgusting.

If there were only a few of them, it would be fine. But now there are so many of them, and they are still pouring in. I don’t know how many there are…

His scalp also felt numb.

But think about it, this thing is also a kind of sea cucumber, also called eggplant cucumber or sea eggplant, but its shape and color are very similar to sweet potato, and it keeps wriggling like a red meat worm and has mucus, which makes it disgusting.

"Brother Dong, I got you a basket... just take your time filling it..."

Ye Yaodong glanced at the ground with disdain and said, "Give me a pair of gloves."

I think it's okay to have a glove to isolate the mucus.