My Deep-sea Fishery

"Don't worry, Boss, I've already told everyone to give priority to the larger ones. I've seen all the sardines up to 30 centimeters in size, and I've kept them in a large tank." Chen Qingsheng replied road.

"By the way, Captain, do you want to send a batch of those of ordinary size? I remember that sardines can be sold at a higher price after being made into canned fish." Chen Qingsheng asked.

Xiang Yang shook his head, "It's not necessary, the price of canned fish is indeed a little higher than that of frozen fish, but the labor cost has actually gone up. I just cast a net and got a little bit more. Ten tons of sardines come up, and even if the two production lines on the ship process them day and night, it is difficult to process all the sardines into cans before going back.”

In fact, after sardines are processed into cans, they are not so easy to sell.

Fresh sardines are the best-selling and most valuable. They can be eaten in a variety of ways, such as braised in brown sauce, steamed, braised in oil, and sashimi.

Canned food, on the contrary, makes consumers feel that its nutrition has been lost.

The main reason why so many ocean-going fishers like to process sardines directly into canned and live fish balls and fish meal on board is that sardines are fat and fat, which can be used to extract high-quality fish oil. , its inedible parts can also be processed into the top bait or cat food, these are all money.

On Xiangyang's ocean-going processing mothership, although sardines can be processed into fish balls or canned food, there is no way to extract fish oil.

Without the profits of these two parts, Xiang Yang is no longer obsessed with processing.

The sardines that can be shipped back alive should be shipped back alive.

If you can't transport it back alive, freezing it is also a good choice.

After talking with Chen Qingsheng on the phone, Xiang Yang put away the walkie-talkie and continued to join the crowd cleaning up the sardines.

"Chirp—"

At this time, a loud eagle cry suddenly sounded in the sky.

The male tiger-headed sea eagle fluttered its wings and landed on the deck unsteadily.

I saw it combing its feathers elegantly, then moved its two long eagle claws, walked to the pile of sardines, stretched its head forward, and pecked a sardine, then raised its head, and swallowed it down.

"It's got a hair, it's been down for so long, and you haven't caught a single fish?" Fang Youqun happened to be next to this tiger-headed sea eagle. Said with a disgusted face.

Xiang Yang smiled, "Then you've wronged it, look at its chubby belly, it's clearly the person who came over for another meal after exercising."

Sure enough, after the tiger-headed sea eagle swallowed another small sardine, it stood on the deck with its head tilted and looked at the busy people, and stopped pecking at the sardines.

Xiang Yang waved the tiger-headed sea eagle aside, then threw a palm-sized sardine to it and let it play by itself, so as not to disturb the work of the crew.

It is actually more difficult to move 20-30 tons of fish than 20-30 tons of bricks.

At least the bricks are square, and with specific tools, they can generally be dozens of pieces at a time.

And sardines are not only slippery, but you can only catch one at a time.

The most important thing is that every time you grab a few strips, you have to apply them with crushed ice cubes.

A boat of people has been busy for several hours, all of them are sweating profusely, and all of them keep their mouths shut, never mentioning the matter of fishing another net.

Finally, as night fell, the sardines on the deck were cleaned up.

Xiang Yang shook his sore arms, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work today, Master Zhou, please make a note. After you go back, each person will be given a bonus of 2,000 yuan. People will get an extra five hundred."

Xiang Yang has never been a person who just talks but doesn't practice. Since he has made money, everyone has sweets to eat.

"Okay, today the crew of the engine crew really deserves to be commended. I didn't ask them to come to the deck to help. No one from the entire engine crew was left behind. They all went to the deck to help." Zhou Wang agreed with a smile.

The chief engineer does not need to participate in the work on the deck.

Even Xiang Yang never asked the engineers to participate in the work on the deck.

Therefore, the crew members on the deck had nothing to say about the fact that the chief engineer could get a bonus of 500 yuan more than them. This was their job in the first place, and others came to help.

Dissatisfied?

If you have the ability, you can also learn the technology yourself, and then apply to be transferred to the chief engineer.

Xiang Yang couldn't even ask for it.

Ordinary sailors, although a little tired, but with the salary offered by Xiang Yang, it is not impossible to recruit people.

But the people in the engineering team are different.

This is a talent, whichever ship he is on, he will be treated the best.

"Thank you, Captain." After receiving Xiang Yang's affirmation, the chief engineer also seemed very excited.

"Brother Yang, do we want to eat sardines tonight?" Fang Youqun asked at this time.

"Why, did you eat less before?" Xiang Yang asked with a smile.

"No, it's mainly because these things have made me tired all day. If I don't take two bites of them, I feel uncomfortable." Fang Youqun said.

The rest of the crew also nodded.

Xiang Yang also nodded, and said: "Don't worry, you will definitely be indispensable for this bumper sardine harvest. Now I will take a bath in the cabin and rest for a while. After we are done, we will have a sardine feast. When we go back, I'll give each of you ten canned sardines and two catties of sardine balls, and you can take them home so that you can taste them at home."

Not to mention canned sardines, which are very famous and sold well at home and abroad.

Although the reputation of canned sardines is not as good as that of fish balls, the price is much higher than that of fish balls. Generally, a string of three pieces of fish balls costs only two yuan.

And sardine balls cost about two yuan per piece, which is about three times the price of Nago fish balls.

Of course, this is not to say that sardine balls are better than nako balls.

Xiang Yang still thinks that Nage fish balls are the most delicious fish balls, and Nage fish is the most suitable sea fish for making fish balls.

The price of sardine balls is expensive, that is because the meat of sardines is more expensive than that of nago, and the price is determined by the raw materials.

Soon, the crew took a shower and returned to the deck again.

Xiang Yang asked people to set up six or seven barbecue grills on the deck, and then asked people to bring out more than a dozen boxes of beer from the warehouse to prepare a barbecue feast to celebrate today's bumper harvest.

After a tiring day, the crew sat in front of the grill one by one, chatting and roasting delicious sardines, and when they were tired from chatting, they raised their heads and drank a big cold beer, with smiles written all over their faces.