A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village

Chapter 174: Equatorial seas with dense schools of fish

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  Three or four days later, six ships came to the waters near the equator.

   The weather has been very hot since I came here.

   "As expected of the equator, there is almost no need to buy winter clothes when living here." Ami Inoue said with emotion.

   "It's so hot in winter now, wouldn't it be hot to death in summer?" Ishida Yu smacking his lips.

   Bathed in the sun, Minami Xiuyi smiled and said: "It's not good to live here, there is a lot of rain and the weather is hot, especially if girls live here all year round, it's not good for the skin."

   "The skin will be very dark and rough?" Inoue Ami subconsciously touched her cheek.

   "Well, yellow, black, yellow and black."

   "Then it's better to be in Hokkaido. You can also enjoy snow. People here probably have never seen snow in their life." Inoue Ami said.

"I am very sure of that."

   "Okay, don't talk nonsense, let's hurry up and find fish, I'm under a lot of pressure." Minano Xiuyi chuckled.

   "Boss, how come I don't see the pressure on your face, I only see you enjoying the sunshine here very much."

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   "Boss, did you say there are tuna schools here?" Tanimura Ueno asked with a puzzled face. In these years, humans have not yet understood the migration routes and places of tuna. Because with the current technology, it is impossible to install the kind of tracker on the tuna for tracking research. So many people don't know where the tuna migrate to and where they live in winter.

   Thorough research on tuna to understand that is also decades away. However, as a later generation, Minano Shuichi knew that in winter, tuna either went to the Atlantic Ocean to escape the winter, came near the equator, or went to the Indian Ocean.

   This is also the confidence that he can guarantee to catch 5,000 tons of tuna in two months. There are definitely many tuna schools here!

"certainly!"

   "Why?" Everyone was curious.

   "Because tuna also have to avoid winter, isn't this the best place for them to be so warm?" Minami Shuichi said lightly.

   "My God, boss, what you said really makes sense!"

   Since he came to the waters near the Pacific equator, Shuichi Minano's system has indicated that the school of fish has continued. There are tuna, and other fish. After all, tuna is not the only migratory fish. There are also other fish that migrate here to escape the winter!

   However, after coming here, Shuichi Minano clearly saw that there are a lot of tuna schools in this sea area, many are hiding in the deep sea to live, and many are feeding on the upper layers of the sea.

   "In winter, this place is indeed a paradise for tuna!" Minami Shuuichi sighed, tuna is also an animal that is afraid of cold.

   "Ding Dong...Due to the south, a school of yellowfin tuna was found 4 nautical miles away from the host. The coordinates of the fish school were 104.3 longitude and 29.2 latitude. The number was 2384!"

   "I didn't expect to encounter such a large school of tuna fish just when I came here!" Minami said in amazement after listening to the system's prompt. More than 2,000 tuna, definitely belong to a large school.

   "Tell all the fishing boats to follow our Junsu! I'll go sailing." Minano Hideyoshi turned around and walked towards the cockpit.

"Boss, shouldn't we set up longlines here to wait for the tuna schools to come to the door? It's a waste of time to randomly search for tuna schools. Even if we do, we have to use longlines to catch them." Ishida Yu looked puzzled. asked. Longline fishing is generally used to catch tuna, and tens of kilometers of longline are arranged to wait for passing tuna to bite.

   "No, no, fishing with longlines is too time-consuming. If you find a school of fish, just use trawling!" Nanye Xiu said.

   "Trawling?"

   "Yes, if the three large fishing boats Carol gave to trawling, the effect is absolutely good!" Nanye Xiu said. He vaguely remembered that in the 1960s, the US imperialists used trawl nets to catch bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly led to the extinction of Atlantic bluefin tuna! If it was longline fishing at that time, it is estimated that it would not have caused the tragedy of no bluefin tuna to be fished in later generations.

   But catching large schools of bluefin tuna requires large fishing boats, large super strong trawl nets. After all, bluefin tuna are so big that normal trawl nets don't work.

   There is a saying in later generations: Wherever the trawling passes, the big and small will kill!

  Trawling has serious damage to fishery resources. Now Minano Shuichi can't control that much anymore. If he doesn't do this, he will not be able to complete the task of 5,000 tons of tuna.

   "It seems to be very reasonable!" Ishida Yu scratched the back of his head in doubt.

The distance of   4 nautical miles, the fishing boat approached in a short time.

   Previously, when Hideyoshi Minano used the visual switch to view, he saw more than two thousand yellowfin tuna happily foraging in this sea area, because there are many small fish schools here.

  When the fishing boat approached, the sailors saw a shocking scene from a distance. The whole sea was churning, whether there were strips of tuna jumping out of the sea. A few meters underwater, the dense yellowfin tuna was chasing after the small fish.

  Originally, yellowfin tuna swims very fast, so at first glance, it looks like bullets swimming back and forth in the sea water.

   "Fish, fish!" Ishida was watching from the highest point of the fishing boat. When he found a huge school of tuna a few hundred meters ahead, he blushed and almost couldn't scream.

   "Big fish school! Boss, big fish school!" Ishida Yu shouted loudly on the observation deck.

   "Found a school of fish?"

   "What tuna school?"

   "Looks big, either yellowfin tuna or bigeye tuna, maybe even bluefin tuna!"

   At this time, Minami Shuuichi also handed over the boat to the old man Kimura, and ran out of the cab himself.

   "Tell other fishing boats to immediately drop the trawling net and prepare to jointly catch the tuna in this sea area!" Minano Shuichi said loudly.

   "Yes, boss!"

   Five fishing boats, one supply ship, the supply ship was watching from the periphery, and the five fishing boats threw a huge traw net and killed the tuna fish.

  The five fishing boats are lined up in the shape of a "one". It is estimated that if we act together at one time, we can catch the fish in this sea!

   All five fishing boats use large trawl nets! Minami Shuuichi deliberately adjusted the depth of the trawl to 500 meters to ensure that the tuna could not escape.

  The trawling net was quickly shrouded in the fish school under the drag of the fishing boat. At this time, the yellowfin tuna group that was jubilantly foraging for food didn't know that they had been remembered by the evil trawl nets one by one.

   Five fishing boats have entered the top of the school of fish, and the fishing boats are closely followed by underwater trawlers.

  The yellowfin tuna only realized the danger when the trawling net was pulled over and the yellowfin tuna was caught in it. They were trying to escape, but unfortunately they could not escape. The trawling traps them like a net.

   Huge tuna rammed around in the trawl net, and they wanted to get out of this cage. But this sturdy trawling net can't be pierced or broken at all, and they can only jump up and down anxiously waiting for the fate of judgment!

   After half an hour, the first trawl started to close.

  As the net was closed, the fierce tuna in the net were all jumping in the net. They find that the scope of activity is getting smaller and smaller, and the more anxious they are. But it's no use how anxious they are, waiting for them to be hoisted to the deck.

   As the first yellowfin tuna was hoisted onto the deck, all five fishing boats were busy. When the fish is caught, they must be bled, and the internal organs must be cleaned.

   All sailors are in full swing against the hot sun.

  Oda old man is still old and strong, and it is a fast and accurate way to deal with tuna! After a few knives, the tuna was processed, and the internal organs were processed by opening the belly while bleeding.

   After an hour, the fishing was over, and the fishing boats were busy processing tuna. This time, Minano Shuichi roughly calculated that he had caught more than 1,800 yellowfin tuna. Although he escaped nearly 600, he was also very satisfied.

"It seems that trawling is really good when it comes to big fish! No wonder the US Teijin almost caught all the bluefin tuna in the Atlantic after 20 years. The effect is really scary. Much better than longline fishing." Nanye Xiuyi thought secretly. The fishing characteristics of longline fishing are different. Longline fishing is a wait-and-see type of fishing, which is definitely better than trawling after more than 20 years. Because tuna dwindled after 20 years, the fish were not so easy to find. There are still more tuna now, so trawling is definitely the first choice when encountering a school of fish!

The work here has not been finished, and there are still some tuna left, so Minami Shuichi received a system prompt: "Ding Dong...Due to the west, a school of bigeye tuna was found 7 nautical miles away from the host! The coordinates of the fish school are longitude. 128.2, latitude 27.3. Number of fish 1582!"

   "My God, there are really many schools of fish here! As expected of the winter tuna gathering place in winter, I'm going to make a fortune, haha..." Minami Shuuichi wanted to laugh at the sky.

   He ordered the fishing boat to move towards this destination. During this period, he switched his vision to search the surrounding waters. He found that there were many scattered tuna in the coral reefs in many deep waters nearby. There are many other fish besides tuna. Even sailfish, swordfish, etc. have been seen. If he hadn't been busy catching tuna, he would have wanted to catch other fish as well.

  To be honest, in the 1950s, it was relatively rare to come here to fish from such a long distance. It is estimated that many large fishing teams will choose to fish in the depths of the Pacific Ocean in four or five years!

  The fishing continues, and this time everyone thinks their boss is amazing. It turns out that there are a lot of tuna fish here. Not in Hokkaido, but here! At first they thought their boss was going bankrupt. But looking at it now, it is the rhythm of continuing to make a fortune.

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