The sticky web
When he pulled up to the water and saw the familiar huge white figure, his whole body felt bad and he couldn't help but curse.
"It's so easy to catch jellyfish, how can you actually catch jellyfish? I've been wasting my efforts for so long, it's so..."
He directly brought the thread to his mouth and bit it off with all his strength. He didn't want this branch line anymore. It was a waste of effort. It was useless...
Seeing how hard he was pulling it, Father Ye thought it was some big cargo. He excitedly leaned over to the side of the boat to take a look. He didn't expect it to be a jellyfish and was speechless.
"Maybe I was caught in your hook while I was swimming and couldn't get out."
"Bad luck! Dad, come and sail the boat. I'll put the net down. After putting the net down, we'll cook noodles."
"Um."
The two types of fishing nets are complementary to each other, but they only require a little manpower. At this time, turbines have not yet become popular, and most of them rely on manpower. In fact, people like him can only be called small boats, and only a few ships are equipped with some simple equipment.
After putting down the fishing net, Ye Yaodong started arranging to cook rice noodles again. He was already hungry from the rice noodles he had eaten in the early morning.
When I finished hauling the net, I originally wanted to cook a few shrimps and shrimps to fill my stomach. Who knew that I encountered an oarfish and was delayed, and I forgot about it. By the time I finished harvesting the rock longline, it was already noon, and he was already early.
I was so hungry that my chest pressed against my back.
The same rice noodle soup as in the morning was made, but with a few more Pipi shrimps and the freshly caught shrimps, it was even more delicious.
The soup in the pot kept rolling. The father and son each held a bowl, scooped out rice noodles with chopsticks, and after finishing one bowl, filled another bowl.
"Remember to pull out two stalks of celery tomorrow. Add celery to make it more fragrant."
"Well, I forgot about it this morning. I chopped a cabbage, broke off a few pieces, washed it and left in a hurry."
Ye Yaodong finished the rice noodles in the bowl and drank all the soup before adding another bowl of soup. The wind was strong on the sea, so drinking soup could warm the body and should not be wasted.
Father Ye did the same. He poured all the remaining soup and ingredients in the pot into the bowl, and started eating slowly.
Before the weather wasn't cold, it didn't matter if you had cold meals. But now that it's cold, cold meals and dishes are especially hard to swallow. A mouthful of hot noodle soup can warm up your whole body immediately.
After filling his stomach, Ye Yaodong added water to the pot. He could drink hot water at any time when he was thirsty.
Then he continued to work tirelessly at a constant speed on the sea.
Two nets were hauled in one afternoon, and all they caught were toads. The following longlines also caught mostly black mullet, and a small half of groceries.
Maybe it’s because they haven’t moved their nests and are working in this sea area, and also because the fish have really been flooding in recently.
Although the fish were a little cheaper, the quantity was quite good. After the last longline hooks were retrieved, the entire boat was filled with bamboo baskets.
The ten bamboo baskets were used to hold the hook lines, and the remaining ten were all filled with toads and black mullet. One of the baskets was filled with miscellaneous fish. The father and son stacked the lines and fish on top of each other to avoid crowding on the boat.
Got to be full.
When the line was just reeled in and harvested, everything was crowded, and there was almost no place to stand. Only the oarfish near the edge of the boat still had room to stand.
After arranging everything, they drove the boat to the buoy where the sticky nets were placed. The sun was already setting, and they needed to retrieve the sticky nets as soon as possible.
In order to catch bottom fish in deep water, his sticky net is lowered very deep. This is also because there are rolling wheels to help collect the net, which saves effort.
After putting away the buoy, he pulled the sticky net and hung it on the roller. The fishing net was collected along the roller. However, the wind on the sea surface was a bit strong, and the scattered fishing nets were blown everywhere by the wind. Some of them were
Hanging on machine parts.
In order to quickly remove the fishing net, Ye Yaodong could only tear off the mesh wires and straighten out the fishing net before continuing.
He pulled the sticky web to make the rolling wheel rotate, and the sticky web was pulled up bit by bit as the wheel rotated.
Father Ye was standing behind him, ready to collect the goods in the sticky net he had pulled up.
The father and son divided the labor and cooperated, one collected the net and the other received the goods. As soon as the sticky net was rotated by the rolling wheel, Ye Yaodong saw a brightly colored sea red spot on the sticky net below.
"Fuck...red spots..."
Before he could finish marveling, he saw clearly how small the sea red spot was. As soon as he pulled the fishing net in his hand, the scroll wheel directly turned the sea red spot in front of him.
"Damn, what's the use of just a big slap?"
This fish is expensive, but it is too small, right? This one is probably only about three taels.
Seeing that the fish was still shaking and very alive, he hesitated and asked his father to get a hollow needle, prick its belly, and then threw it back into the sea and released it.
It is too small to be sold at a high price. If ordinary small fish are caught, it is a waste to catch such a small sea red spot. It is better to release it.
This sea red spot is a deep-sea fish. He had just punched a hole in its swim bladder to vent its air. Otherwise, even if it was released, it would not survive and its internal organs would explode and die.
Because deep-sea fish have always lived in a deep-sea environment where the water pressure is very high, they have already adapted to the deep-sea environment.
And when they are fished out, the environment they are in is simply unbearable, and the high pressure in their bodies will be out of balance with the outside air pressure.
If the air is not deflated in time, the fish will have many reactions due to the difference in air pressure between the body and the outside. For example, the eyes will protrude and enlarge, the fish gall will come out of the body, and some fish will even explode on the spot.
In fact, the method of pricking the fish bladder with a needle is used to preserve the freshness of fish.
Because ship technology was not developed at this time, it might take three to five days to return from a long sea trip. Therefore, deep-sea fish were deflated and stored on the ship, and the dying fish could survive for a few days.
If it is not deflated, the fish will explode and die soon after being fished out. Even if it does not explode, it will die because it cannot adapt to the water pressure on the boat.
Deflate the fish as soon as possible and the fish will not die so quickly.
The same principle applies to release. If fish that have adapted to the air pressure on the ship are thrown directly into the sea, the fish will also die because they cannot adapt to the air pressure in the sea water.
Poke a small hole in the fish and throw the fish into the sea. Although the fish will feel some pain, the hole can ensure that the air pressure inside and outside the body is consistent, so that it can survive after being returned to the sea.
For example, hairtail is a type of deep-sea fish. After landing on land, their bodies will also undergo such huge changes, so the hairtail we see in the market often has a bursting belly.
This is also the reason why we cannot see live hairtail.
After putting such a small sea red spot back into the sea, Ye Yaodong continued to turn the scroll wheel, only to see a series of toad fish coming up directly, as well as a bunch of messy aquatic plants...
"Damn, this one is big!"
Among the series of toad fish, I saw one that was particularly big. These fish were all stuck in the sticky net and could not move.
When the fishing net was transferred to Ye's father, Ye Yaodong also went over to help. It was difficult for the toad fish stuck in the sticky net to escape and difficult to remove.
Because of the pressure of the sea water, the toad fish collected have their mouths open.
These toad fish have huge mouths and are extremely ugly. The largest one is estimated to weigh over 20 kilograms.
After Father Ye caught it, he wondered for a while. All the baskets dragged by the trawl today weighed several kilograms, and he had never seen such a big one.
After removing all the toad fish, Ye Yaodong continued to pull the fishing net. With the help of the rolling wheel, the fishing net was quickly retracted. This was the most labor-saving fishing net he had ever collected.
He collected eight or nine toad fish in a row, ranging from seven to eight kilograms in size to one or two kilograms in small size. There were also two flounder in the middle. He closed the fishing net and had no time to distinguish whether the flounder was plaice or sole.
From the fishing net under the water, you can see the figures of fish being dragged up. As soon as Ye Yaodong collected a 3-pound flounder, he stretched his head to look at the sea surface.
As a result, I saw a colorful and quite large parrotfish in the sticky net, which was estimated to be thirty or forty centimeters long.
"Fuck...Dad, there is a parrotfish..."
"Oh? Parrot fish? I thought this sticky net could only stick to toad fish and flounder today."
Father Ye raised his head and was surprised for a moment, but he didn't stop. There was a toad fish weighing about one kilogram stuck in the fishing net in front of him and he couldn't take it out.
Anyway, the parrot fish will be pulled to him later.
"Maybe it rained deeper today."
Parrotfish are named for their brightly colored and parrot-like beaks, and are also known as "parrots of the sea".
Ye Yaodong happily continued to turn the wheel and pulled the parrot fish up. When the parrot fish entangled in the sticky net passed his hand, he saw a red thing in its mouth.
He paused for a moment in confusion, then reached out and pulled it out, only to find that it was a small piece of red coral, probably a little larger than the nail of his thumb.
The parrotfish is the strongest chewer in the world. Its teeth are composed of fluorapatite, one of the strongest biological minerals in the world. It basically eats a large amount of coral every day and then excretes white sand.
He was not surprised at all when he picked out red coral from its mouth.
Today's corals are not valuable, even red corals are not valuable. The small piece that is bitten off and stuck in the mouth can only be used to polish the surface of a ring, or to decorate a bracelet, but it is still picked up for free.
When it arrived, he put it in his pocket.
Although it is not valuable, the color is bright and beautiful, and it is very festive, and it will be valuable in the future. Such a small amount of red coral costs thousands of dollars.
He can save it to set a red coral ring for his wife. It will still look good when going out to show off, and I heard that wearing coral is good for your health.
You died early in your last life, and you have to live well in this life. If you have the opportunity, you can do more while it is worthless, and you can just keep it at home to see.
I’m greedy and my tooth hurts again. I’ll try hard to see if I can write another update. If I don’t force myself, I definitely won’t be able to write it.
Chapter completed!