Chapter 338 Passing through the Black Wind Channel
After sailing quickly for more than two hours on the sea with endless fishing fires flickering, the light on the sea changed little by little.
It gradually turned from pitch black to jet black, and from jet black to gray. As a magnificent red sun suddenly jumped out of the sea, half of the sky was dyed orange-red.
The fishing boats ahead were hidden in the shadows and seemed to be floating on the sparkling sea.
The red sun with a golden edge is rising slowly in the due east. As the red sun leaves the embrace of the sea, the world seems to have suddenly ushered in light.
Chen Hong sailed firmly to the east against the red sun and entered the open sea. There were fewer and fewer small fishing boats and the sea seemed wider.
As far as the eye could see, only three or five ships appeared in her sight.
Occasionally, a few whistles broke the calm of the sea in the morning. They were medium and large fishing boats fully loaded back to the port.
Today's temperature is minus [-] degrees, the northwest wind is level [-], and the sea is calm. Chen Hong's physical fitness is very good now. She only wore a thin cashmere sweater and long johns for the winter.
Wear a sports suit on the outside to facilitate work activities on the ship.
Entering the East China Sea, waves as high as two meters are common, and the "Xinsheng" is like a leaf moving steadily forward on the sea.
Passing by the sea area where she had previously released fish fry, Chen Hong released the half-grown fry that had been growing in the space for more than two months back into the sea.
She no longer thinks about whether all the fry will survive this winter.
If she doesn't let them go, the breeding ponds and breeding boxes in her space will soon burst.
It was her business to release the fish, but whether the young fish would survive in this cold temperature was beyond her control.
However, she is very confident in these seedlings born in space, growing in space water, and eating so many space vegetables, grains, fruits and other high-end feeds.
If you can't even resist the cold, then let's survive the fittest and become food for sea fish!
It wasn't that Chen Hong was cruel, there was nothing she could do! Her space is limited, and if she doesn't let her go, she won't have room to store it.
She can't be allowed to dig through all the space, leaving no land at all, and use it all for raising fish!
But she is a farmer, and her favorite is farming rather than fishing.
In order to save time, Chen Hong did not have time to carefully search for other suitable sea areas for release.
Except for the newly hatched fry and tropical fish fry, all the other fry in the space were swept into the East China Sea by her.
After releasing the fry, Chen Hong stacked up all the dumped breeding boxes.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there was finally a place to set foot underground.
Chen Hong traveled lightly, feeling relaxed and less stressed.
You must know that during the time when I was studying in Jinan, I went in and out of the space every day and watched the fry in the breeding ponds and breeding boxes hatch and grow up every day.
There were densely packed fish fry of various colors and sizes everywhere. She felt dizzy and nauseous, and even her dreams were filled with squirming black fish fry.
She thought that she might be passively suffering from trypophobia! Several times she became upset and wanted to act impulsively and release the fry into the rolling Yellow River.
Fortunately, at the last moment, she controlled herself, killed a batch of brood fish, and reduced the hatching of some fry, and this disgusting mood was slightly improved.
Chen Hong is sailing southeast. She is planning to go around Japan's Kyushu Island, pass through the channel connecting the Pacific and the East China Sea, take the Osumi Strait, and go fishing for bluefin tuna in the Pacific.
Along the way, Chen Hong saw more than a dozen medium-sized fishing boats taking passengers out to sea for fishing.
From far away, she could hear the noisy noises of the fishermen on the boat. Chen Hong could faintly hear some people shouting in disappointment after running away from the fish, while others were heartbroken and upset.
Some people caught big cod and laughed loudly, as high-spirited as a charlatan.
These boat owners are experienced fishermen who understand the migration patterns of fish in winter, can find window periods, have their own secret fishing spots, and have rich experience in finding fish.
Some of their fishing spots have even been passed down orally for generations, and the password to their wealth will never be revealed to outsiders.
As the water temperature gradually drops, fish will swim to deep water to find a place to avoid the cold and overwinter.
Fish such as blackhead, yellow croaker, and croaker will spend the winter in potholes and deep ridges at the bottom of the deep water offshore.
Like bass and mullet, they swim to the deep sea, while eels look for caves in nearby waters to hide and inhabit.
Barracuda will plunge into the mud of deep water and spend the winter with only its tail exposed. Each fish has its own way of surviving the winter safely.
After mastering their life patterns, the rugged, deep and low-lying sea areas are their comfortable habitats for overwintering.
Weather with light wind, high solar temperature, north wind, northwest wind, west wind, and southwest wind below Level 1, and medium and small waves with wave height of half a meter to [-] meter are more suitable for fishing and trawling in winter.
In winter in the East China Sea, in addition to the largest amounts of mackerel, hairtail, yellow croaker, and cod, there are many valuable reef fish.
Black duck, big-eyed pheasant, red-tailed snapper, happy thorn, golden pineapple, grouper and so on.
These fish often inhabit reef groups and large reefs and cannot be caught by fishing boats.
Besides tuna, it is also Chen Hong’s favorite fish species to harvest in winter. They are rare in the winter market and the price is high, with an average price of no less than seventy or eighty yuan per catty.
The fish species are rare and the price is high. It is very easy to sell them when they are landed. High-end hotels and restaurants are rushing to buy them.
At noon, Chen Hong stopped the boat to rest for a while. When she saw someone on a fishing boat not far away catching a large cod weighing three to four kilograms on the side of the boat, she also felt a little itchy.
While gnawing on the buns, I went to the stern of the boat and took a shot. He took a piece of fresh shellfish from the space and used it as bait. After putting down the fishing rod for a while, before Chen Hong finished finishing a bun, there was movement on the fishing rod.
After stuffing the buns into his mouth in three mouthfuls, Chen Hong choked and rolled her eyes. She patted her chest and tried hard to swallow the food. She had no time to drink any more water.
Chen Hong grabbed the fishing rod and started shaking the pinwheel. The fish was not small, weighing at least six or seven pounds.
Chen Hong could feel the size of the fish as soon as she started fishing. The cod at this time was the fattest and most tender. She hoped that the fish she would hook would be a big cod.
When the fish came out of the water, Chen Hong smiled. Her hard work paid off. She really got what she wanted, and it turned out to be a big fat cod.
After catching this one, Chen Hong untied the cod and put it into the space to try out his skills.
I put away my fishing rod and went back to the cabin to drink a bowl of ginseng chicken soup to replenish myself.
It seemed that there was a large cod school here. Chen Hong saw several domestic fishing boats nearby.
After sailing for a while, we discovered some fishing boats from neighboring countries. They were fishing for cod and mackerel despite the cold.
Chen Hong stopped stopping along the way and set the boat to sail automatically even when eating.
She kept the radio on the boat turned on to receive weather forecasts and notifications from nearby fishing boats.
The weather these days has been the rare good weather since the beginning of winter. Even in the Osumi Strait, which is known to have strong winds and waves, there are only level [-] or [-] north winds, and the maximum wave height is about three meters.
It’s the rarest good weather in the whole winter! Chen Hong speeded up and quickly passed the world-famous "Black Wind Pass".
On the day we entered the Pacific Ocean, the weather was clear and the wind was clear, making it a good day for fishing.
Tuna have the characteristic of clustering under floating objects on the sea. Chen Hong did her homework before going to sea.