Golden Fishery

Vol 2 Chapter 1839: .Longline fishing

Purse seine fishing is a technical job. It cannot be deadlifted. The two fishing boats move slowly on the sea, gently controlling the fishing net to swing with the undercurrent, and delaying encirclement, waiting for Qin Shiou’s command.

Two old fishermen, Zach and Alder, are driving the fishing boat. They have made the right choice now. They use tacit cooperation to drive the fishing net to rotate, so that even if the fishing net cannot be enclosed, the school of fish in it will not escape.

Qin Shiou frowned and looked at the front thinking hard. Zhong Dajun didn’t dare to disturb him, so he asked Mao Weilong in a low voice, “What’s the matter? Do you know what to do now?”

Mao Weilong scratched his head and said, “I don’t understand, I’m a farmer, I only know a little about crops and livestock. I’m not sure about this sea matter.”

Hearing what the two said, Qin Shiou smiled back and said: “Okay, just ask me, I’m not in the college entrance examination, it doesn’t matter if I chat casually. There are two main ways to close the fence, one is to encircle and the other is It’s based on Zhang, so I have to think carefully about which method to use to close the net.”

In winter fishing, the main operation method is to stretch the net. According to the wind direction, flow direction and the movement of the fishing object, keep the net mouth to the direction of the fishing object, drag it slowly for half an hour, and keep the net fully equipped. Stretch out, enclose all the fish and close the net.

But now the wind direction and flow direction are not good for them to rewind their nets. This method cannot be used. Qin Shiou thought for a while and commanded the two fishing boats to use another operation method to fish. This would require more gasoline and manpower, but more Secure.

Qin Shiou continuously issued orders on the radio, and the next two ships once again appointed a main ship and a secondary ship, and the horsepower of the two ships was about the same. Zach’s ship has a wider bottom and stronger ability to resist waves, so his ship becomes the master ship, and Alder’s ship is more flexible. Made a deputy ship.

Zac gave an order, and the fishermen on the boat began to work together. They fixed their nets on the starboard deck, and someone watched them. If the fishing net is severely stretched and deformed, he has to relax the fishing net to prevent it from breaking.

At this time, the upper and lower lines of the seine are fully deployed, the right net wing is in front, the left net wing is behind, the main ship anchors and stops, and the auxiliary ship turns the starboard side facing the main ship, and then turns while closing the net.

Qin Shiou monitors the merging of fishing nets in the water through the consciousness of the sea god. When he reached the waters where the currents were relatively slow, he ordered the net to start.

At this time, the main ship and the auxiliary ship gradually approached, and the two ships met on the port side. After the auxiliary ship passed the tow, supporting and leading ships to the main ship, it adjusted its position and turned to retract the net wings on both sides together with the main ship.

There are winches on both ships, which rotate with the winches. The steel rope dragged the fishing net and began to gather.

The Melon Princess is far away. Mao Weilong and Zhong Dajun can’t see clearly what’s going on on the two ships, and they don’t understand why the surrounding fishermen have serious expressions.

Qin Shiou immediately explained to them that bluefin tuna is a big wild fish. They can grow up to three or four meters long because they are in the shape of a bomb. If they charge wildly, their impact is really similar to that of a bomb. If the net is not closed well, they may tear the net to pieces.

Zhong Dajun is unbelievable. He pointed to the fishing net and said, “Damn it. This fish is so powerful? I think the rope of the fishing net can be the thickness of my thumb, even a car can catch it, right?”

Qin Shiou said: “If it’s just one impact, then the fishing net is not afraid, but once the bluefin tuna goes crazy. They will continue to impact. When the impact is superimposed, the damage to the fishing net will be greater.”

In this case. There is no need to keep the net opening and flow in the same direction as the purse seine net. During the rewinding process, the two boats will drag the net along the current for a period of time. With the help of the tide, the nets are fully opened to increase the living space of the fish. The bluefin tuna felt panic.

The three boats took almost all the fishermen with them. More than 50 people participated in this fishing operation. Except for Zac and Alder who took five people to lower and rewind the net, the rest were all in melons. On the Princess.

They are fully equipped, just like warriors waiting to be killed. They gave an order and the whole army assaulted!

The order they are waiting for is to prepare for longline fishing.

When the two boats started to rewind their nets, they left this sea area along the ocean current, and there were some fish that slipped through the net around here. To catch these fish, we rely on longline fishing.

Qin Shiou waved, the fishermen sorted out the winding trunk line on the stern, and they started to work.

Longline fishing is the most important operation method in fishing tackle, with the widest distribution, the highest quantity and the highest output. This thing is to tie many equidistant branch lines on a trunk line with fishing hooks and bait at the end. Use float and sink devices to lay them on the surface, middle and bottom layer, and connect a series of hooks below to attract fishing. Get the bait.

The direction of the line is best to be cross-current or oblique current. Generally speaking, tuna like to feed in countercurrent, so that the line-up direction is perpendicular to the direction of the sea current, which can better attract the tuna.

Longline fishing is also a very manpower-testing method of fishing. A trunk line is often five or six kilometers long or even longer. For example, the trunk line on the Melon Princess is eight kilometers long, and there is a branch line ten meters apart. Connect the hook and bait on the branch line.

In other words, there are 800 branch lines on a main line, and two hooks before and after a branch line. A total of 1,600 hooks and bait are required. This workload is quite large!

But this work must be done on-site. It is impossible to hook up the line in advance. The eight-kilometer trunk line cannot be coiled at all. Once coiled together, the ropes will become entangled.

The Melon Princess is advancing at a constant speed of six knots. The fishermen are working fast at the stern, like a production line. The main line falls into the sea. The branch line must be hooked and bait before falling into the water, otherwise the resources of this rope will be wasted. .

In addition to fishing hooks and bait, there are people who are responsible for adding floating balls. There is about one branch line every ten meters, and two floating **** are added for every five branch lines to maintain buoyancy. And every time a float is installed twice, a pressure alarm is also installed.

This alarm is the most important. When the fish is hooked, they will pull the spur line to sink. The alarm will feel the pressure change and will flash a dazzling light so that the fisherman can catch the fish in time and catch them.

The tuna are fierce and sturdy, if they cannot be caught in time after they are hooked, these guys will find a way to escape. Even if they did not escape, they would struggle frantically to drive the main line to entangle. Once the hooks became entangled, it would add a lot of labor to the fishermen.

Twenty fishermen are divided into two groups. One group works and the other rests. They are like robotic arms on an assembly line. They skillfully and accurately hang hooks, bait, floats and alarms on the ropes.

(To be continued ^ )