The crew members did not realize how physically demanding cleaning the catch was. They thought that cleaning the catch on the deck was as easy as cleaning the classroom.
In fact, just by looking at the muscles on Chen Qingsheng's body, you can roughly understand how hard work it is to clean the catch. The iron-like muscles on his body are not the result of eating protein powder and exercising, but the result of real work.
Even Fang Youqun and his energetic young men from Yanlong Village felt exhausted after carrying and cleaning the catches several times in a row. The result was almost obvious when they asked Su Shiming and other students who had basically never done any physical work since childhood to clean the catches.
The fishing boat sailed for more than ten minutes.
"Chen Qingsheng." Xiang Yang shouted.
"Yes, Captain." Chen Qingsheng replied immediately.
"Cast the net here." Xiang Yang ordered.
"Yes, Captain." Chen Qingsheng immediately arranged the specific action plan. "Su Shiming, you go to operate the car. The rest of you follow me to the stern and stand in two rows."
Knowing that it was time to work, everyone immediately started to move.
Xia Pengjie followed behind Chen Qingsheng and asked in confusion, "Brother Sheng, it will take a while to reel in the net after we cast it, right? Do we have to stand here and wait?"
"Isn't it a sense of ritual?" someone underestimated.
Xiang Yang heard the man's underestimation, and he explained with a smile: "After all, the winch is a machine, and it is inevitable that it will malfunction. Letting you stand in two rows at the stern is not for the so-called sense of ceremony, but to be ready to respond to any malfunction that the winch may encounter during the unwinding process. Whether it is the desire to encounter the phenomenon of sticking to the net or the winch malfunctioning, we must respond to the emergency in the first time."
When everyone heard Xiang Yang's words, they immediately stopped talking, because most of them were from the engine room group, and the job of the engine room group was to maintain all the machinery and equipment on the fishing boat, which was supposed to be their job.
Xiang Yang looked at everything in front of him with a smile, and then ordered: "Go online."
"Captain," Su Shiming shouted, "There are five nets available, in three different sizes. Which one should we use?"
"This is a shallow sea, there are no big fish, let's use a small net." Xiang Yang said with a smile. In fact, he usually uses a fine net in the near sea, but firstly, this time Xiang Yang wanted to let these new crew members really see the whole process of fishing. Xiang Yang didn't care much about the amount of fish he caught. Secondly, this is still in the Qinglongwan Sea area after all, and Xiang Yang pays more attention to the marine ecological environment in the Qinglongwan Sea area than in other sea areas.
Of course, even in the shallow sea areas of other seas, Xiang Yang would not use dense mesh fishing nets. Fine mesh fishing nets are Xiang Yang's limit. When he is on the ocean-going fishing boat, Xiang Yang will not even use fine mesh fishing nets. The smallest net he will use is a small one.
Soon, the fishing net was loaded onto the winch.
Xiang Yang nodded slightly, indicating to Su Shiming that he could cast the net.
Su Shiming immediately pressed the switch on the winch.
The moment the switch on the winch was pressed, Su Shiming felt a little nervous. Although he had pressed similar winch switches countless times on the simulated fishing boat of the Maritime University, this was the first time he pressed the winch switch of a real fishing boat.
Fortunately, no accidents occurred.
The winch successfully sent the fishing net into the sea.
The fishing nets that were put into the sea automatically spread out under the influence of the tide, then sank to the bottom of the sea and were dragged behind the fishing boat like a parachute bag.
"Okay, the personnel on duty and Su Shiming will stay behind to guard, and the rest of the people will disband and rest for an hour. We will gather here after an hour." Chen Qingsheng shouted after watching the fishing net successfully launched into the water.
Chen Qingsheng's words made everyone a little confused. They knew who Su Shiming was, but who was the person on duty? Everyone stood there, neither guarding nor disbanding to rest.
Chen Qingsheng then slapped his head and grinned, "It's my fault for saying it so easily. I forgot that you haven't arranged the duty roster yet."
Xiang Yang was watching from the side and found it a little funny. It was obviously the first time for Chen Qingsheng to command a fishing boat to release the nets. How could he say something casually? He was clearly trying to find ways to tell these new crew members to make a rotation for themselves.
Xiang Yang saw through it but didn't say anything. It used to be a drift net fishing boat and Zhou Wang just had to watch the winch by himself.
But this will no longer be possible when switching to ocean-going fishing vessels. During the trawling process, the winch operator needs to leave one or two people from the engine room to deal with any sudden situation of the winch at any time.
Sure enough, the next moment Chen Qingsheng said, "I'll be the only one on guard this time. You guys should arrange a duty roster as soon as possible. The two engine crews will work in pairs. The pilot will not be on the engine crew's duty roster. Okay, everyone go back and have a rest."
Chen Qingsheng said he was a guard, but in fact, he only needed one person to stay at the stern to sweep and watch. He sat down where he was, lit a cigarette and smoked it leisurely.
Not many crew members actually went down to rest. Most of them followed Chen Qingsheng's example and found a random seat at the stern to sit down, staring at the sea.
"How many fish do you think we can catch with this net?"
"I don't know, but with such a big fishing net, there should be at least a thousand pounds of fish in one haul, right?"
"Seafood is not cheap. One net can hold thousands of pounds of seafood. Doesn't that mean the captain can earn at least tens of thousands of dollars for every catch?"
"hiss-"
Everyone was amazed.
Chen Qingsheng smiled contemptuously and said, "You are looking down on your captain too much. There are nearly a hundred mouths waiting for your captain to eat. If this net only brings in tens of thousands of dollars, minus the fuel costs, can you calculate whether the captain can afford to pay you?"
"Uh." Everyone looked at Chen Qingsheng blankly. Tens of thousands of dollars in one go was already an astronomical figure in their eyes. They didn't expect that this astronomical figure in their eyes would be so disdainful in Chen Qingsheng's eyes.
Chen Qingsheng was indeed dismissive. He said proudly, "This fishing boat is really unlucky if it can catch tens of thousands of dollars in one net. If it can catch more than a hundred thousand, it's considered average luck. It has to catch at least hundreds of thousands of meters to be considered good luck. It's not uncommon for it to catch millions in one net."
"hiss!"
There were sounds of people gasping for air all around.
"Brother Sheng, are you kidding?" someone asked in disbelief.
"Are you kidding?" Chen Qingsheng shook his head and said, "I'm really not kidding you. Remember..."
"Okay." Xiang Yang interrupted Chen Qingsheng with a smile and said, "Those are things of the past. We will have to wait and see what the catch will be in the future."
Xiang Yang's words seemed to interrupt Chen Qingsheng's bragging, but in fact they were tantamount to admitting that what Chen Qingsheng said was true.