"Hahaha." Xiang Yang laughed loudly upon hearing this. "How can a human be fussy about a bird? Besides, I gave it the chicken in the first place. What can it use to thank me?"
Fang Youqun gave Xiang Yang a thumbs up in admiration.
Xiang Yang turned and looked towards the south, waving his hand and saying, "Speed up."
The sea eagle was still chirping on the stern deck, but Xiang Yang was too lazy to pay attention to it. Chicken was a delicacy for sea eagles, but it was nothing to whales.
Of course, the main reason why Xiang Yang was too lazy to care about the sea eagle was that it was about to cheat.
Although Xiang Yang has a destination for his voyage today, he is not satisfied with sailing for so long only to harvest a few Christmas tree worms at the destination. The catch so far today is too little. There is a large area of sea to the south where the fish are very scattered, making fishing very difficult. If Xiang Yang does not stand on the deck and watch, he will miss even a large school of fish.
Zhou Wang stood beside Xiang Yang without knowing when. "Captain, the winch is ready and can lower the net at any time. Do you want to lower the net now?"
"Wait a little longer." Xiang Yang stared carefully at the bottom of the deck. Through the water surface, Xiang Yang could vaguely see only a few scattered sea fish on the seabed. Putting a net in such a place was a pure waste of fuel.
Zhou Wang nodded and started smoking a cigarette.
"Master Xu, the fishing boat is moving at full speed." Xiang Yang shouted into the intercom.
"receive!"
The fishing boat increased its pressure again, the sea water pushed to both sides of the boat, and the speed of the boat increased slowly.
The fishing boat sailed at full speed for nearly half an hour. The Steller's sea eagle stood on the stern deck and could hardly see the two humpback whales behind the fishing boat. It then tilted its head to look at the deck.
The chickens torn off by the Steller's sea eagles were still piled in a corner of the deck, and no one was so tactful as to sweep them away as if they were garbage.
The Steller's sea eagle tilted its head and looked on the deck for a while, then walked to the small pile of chicken with its feet turned outward, picked up a piece of chicken the size of two fingers, and walked towards Xiang Yang awkwardly.
"Captain, look." Zhou Wang pushed Xiang Yang's arm and pointed at the Steller's sea eagle.
Xiang Yang turned around and saw a Steller's sea eagle running towards him with a piece of chicken in its mouth. The cute look immediately made Xiang Yang crazy. "Oh, I don't want to eat this, you can eat it yourself!"
Xiang Yang took the chicken that the Steller's sea eagle brought over and fed it to the Steller's sea eagle. The Steller's sea eagle tilted its head and looked at Xiang Yang, and chirped.
"Master Zhou, just cast the net here!"
"Yes, Captain."
Zhou Wang immediately flicked away his cigarette butt and ran towards the winch, while Xiang Yang pretended to play with the sea eagle.
Soon the fishing net was lowered into the sea, spreading out like a parachute to catch the fish under the sea.
Xiang Yang smiled slightly. He had actually already determined the catch of this net. It would definitely be a great harvest.
Sure enough, Xiang Yang heard Zhou Wang's cry after a while, "Hey, could it be that they caught some sea beast? The net rope is very tight!"
Xiang Yang naturally knew that what he caught in the net was not a sea beast, but a huge school of fish. Fortunately, Xiang Yang's boat was big enough and powerful enough. If the boat was smaller or had a poorer power system, the speed of the fishing boat might have to be reduced by half.
"Master Xu, there's no need to slow down, just drag the net forward." Xiang Yang shouted into the intercom.
"receive."
Chen Qingsheng walked up to Xiang Yang and said, "Captain, Lao Zhou said the net rope is a bit tight. Based on my experience, this should be a sea beast like a sea lion or a walrus. Should we lift the net and take a look?"
"There are no sea beasts in my net." Xiang Yang half-jokingly said, "Why can't it be a school of big fish? It must be a sea beast. Keep moving forward. If it turns out to be a sea beast, we can just release it."
Chen Qingsheng smiled bitterly and said, "Many sea beasts such as sea lions can directly tear up fishing nets. This fishing net is not cheap."
Xiang Yang glanced at He Mingde, who was lying on the side of the boat smoking happily with an obvious smile on his face, and said with a smile: "My uncle and I are not afraid, so what are you afraid of?"
The fishing boat sailed forward for a while, and the rope connected to the fishing net by the winch became tighter and tighter. Now everyone knew that they must have encountered a school of big fish.
"I don't know what kind of fish it is. I hope it's not the cheapest sea fish." He Mingde put his hands in a praying gesture.
"We'll know once we raise the net," Xiang Yang directly ordered Zhou Wang to raise the net.
Zhou Wang immediately operated the winch and controlled it to pull the fishing net onto the deck.
"Kabang, kabang." The steel rope made a huge pulling sound under the huge force. When the sea eagle saw it, it retreated far away with a thump.
The crew members on the deck poked their heads out one by one, looking expectantly at the fishing nets that were about to float to the surface of the sea.
"My goodness, there are so many sea fish that the stern of the boat has sunk."
When the fishing net floated to the surface, the stern of the fishing boat had obviously sunk a few inches, and everyone was shocked by this situation.
Zhou Wang's face was more serious than ever before. He controlled the winch to slowly hoist the fishing net onto the deck at a very slow speed.
Soon everyone saw a big bag full of sea fish and a fishing net that was almost stretched into a ball shape.
"Damn, this net is almost over 20,000 kilograms, right?" He Mingde's eyes turned red.
"It must be over ten tons." Zhou Wang's expression became more serious when he saw the catch. "Look at how the steel rope has been broken."
"Slow down, slow down, take your time."
It took a long time before the fishing net was dragged onto the deck and the net opened.
"I'm rich, I really made money with this net. Axe fish, more than half of the fish in this net are axe fish." He Mingde pounced on the pile of fish and grabbed a two-pound axe fish in one hand, and he was so excited that he was incoherent.
Axefish is a horse-head fish. It is also called axefish because its head looks like an axe at the tail.
Xiang Yang once helped Fatty Zuo sell horsehead fish. That time, Li Chao paid 40 yuan per catty and bought nearly 500 catties of horsehead fish from Xiang Yang.
A quick glance this time tells us that the number of horsehead fish is definitely over ten thousand kilograms. Over ten thousand kilograms of horsehead fish is definitely worth it for Zhang Qicheng to open up a separate sales channel. Even if it is sold wholesale to Zhang Qicheng for less than 40 yuan per kilogram, it can definitely be sold for 30 yuan per kilogram. The harvest of this net is equivalent to an income of more than 300,000 yuan from horsehead fish alone.
However, Xiang Yang was obviously more concerned about another kind of marine fish, the butterfly fish.
There were quite a few butterfly fish caught in this net. Xiang Yang picked up one of them and hurriedly shouted, "Fang Youqun, hurry up and bring me a water tank."
Fang Youqun quickly ran over pushing a seawater tank, "Brother Yang, the water tank is here."
Xiang Yang quickly put the butterfly fish into the water tank and started looking for the second one. "Hurry up, help me put all these sea fish into the fish tank first. Uncle, you and a few old sailors quickly clean up the valuable catch, and the rest of you put all the living horsehead fish into the water tank, and clean up the dead fish last."