Gui Dong's Journey to the Sea丨The angry sea asks for life, and loses more than 10,000! More than 20,000 catties of sand stings were recovered in two days, but only 500 catties of finished products were obtained.
Peninsula All Media reporter Sun Guidong
Sand stings, like fish, also have their own rules. The fishermen also follow the tide to catch fish based on their years of experience.
On the first night the reporter was on the ship, he encountered short-term strong convective weather, lightning and thunder outside the ship, and a tenth-level gust of wind blew the cabin from side to side.
On August 6, because the meteorological station issued a yellow warning for strong winds at sea, the ship boss had to lift anchor and close the net in advance.
From 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, I finally put away the fishing net and caught more than 20,000 catties of sand stings.
However, after these sand stings are processed, only about 500 kilograms of finished products can be produced.
After more than 6 hours of sailing, the fishing boat finally returned to Luojiaying Pier at 9 pm.
The crew was busy unloading the cargo until around 11pm.
Although the daily salary for going to sea is relatively high, six or seven hundred yuan a day.
If you go overseas for six or seven months a year, you can earn more than 100,000 yuan.
However, the crew members expressed their unwillingness to let the next generation suffer, hoping that they could find a stable job ashore.
The nightlife of the crew read stories and read martial arts books
Sand stings, like fish, also have their own rules. The fishermen also follow the tide to catch fish based on their years of experience.
After September, sand stings will migrate to the open sea, and their fishing places will be near Chaolian Island.
"After the opening of the sea, there are fishing boats nearby, and it will be more lively at night." Said the boat boss, Sui Liangji. Now there are only nearly 20 boats of them, about 2 nautical miles apart.
At night is the hardest time.
On August 5, it was busy until seven o'clock in the evening. After the crew put the fishing nets, they finally started to eat dinner.
"Before the sea opening season, we can only eat the vegetables brought from the shore." Said the crew member Liu Xiaobing, fishing for stingrays is a different net from fishing for fish. The net is too big to catch fish.
When the sea is open, seafood can be eaten casually.
The prawns and swimming crabs are placed in front of you one by one until you are tired of eating.
When we went to sea, no sand stings were seen on the sea.
The captain of the ship judged that this year's output may not be high, coupled with the poor light at night, he decided to let the crew rest for one night, and then close the net the next morning.
In the open sea, the sea breeze is very humid, and it does not make people feel cool when it blows on the body.
In the cabin, due to poor ventilation, the room is the same as a sauna.
It was hot and humid, and the crew were all shirtless in shorts.
In the open sea, there is no signal in the mobile phone.
There is nothing to do at night, what are the crew busy with?
Said the crew member Lao Chen, some crew members also read books and buy magazines.
He downloaded the music and a few movies in advance and watched it while lying in bed.
"It's all forced, why don't you watch it?" Lao Chen said, he usually brushes his mobile phone at home, and often goes to bed after eleven o'clock.
Now that there is no signal to go to sea, I can only read more e-books and pass the time in this way.
Also, there is only one satellite phone on board, which they don't normally use.
That is to say, in a voyage, often for four or five days or half a month, they are in a state of loss of contact with their family members.
Sometimes when I feel homesick, I look at the photos or videos of my life in my phone.
The box bed is hot and humid like a sauna
Since it is a new fishing boat this year, all the equipment on this boat is new, and the living environment is relatively better.
The crew slept in bunk beds, box-type wooden beds.
The beds on the first floor have poor ventilation and are more stuffy and humid.
Since it is a new boat, the beds are very clean and there is a small fan inside.
In order to take care of the reporters who went to sea for the first time, the boss of the ship specially arranged a sleeping bunk next to the cab on the second floor, next to the stairs.
The box bed is about half a meter high and more than two meters long.
You need to squat on the ground and climb in to lie down.
For the first time at sea, it was always difficult to fall asleep.
The whole sea level was eerily quiet.
Looking out, only a few fishing boats in the same boat can see a little light.
However, just lying on the bed was like entering a sauna.
Although there was a sea breeze outside, it was steamy and stuffy inside.
Old Chen, who has been out at sea for more than 20 years, said that he was used to blowing the air conditioner at home after resting for more than two months during the fishing moratorium.
The first day on the ship was a little uncomfortable, and the old crew members also lost sleep.
Around ten o'clock, a strong wind suddenly hung on the otherwise calm sea.
When I got up and walked to the window, I saw a strong wind was blowing outside, and lightning flashed from time to time in the distance.
The big waves came one after another, and the hull swayed from side to side.
Sleeping on a boat, the body is rocked back and forth.
The next day, the old sailor told reporters that if he sleeps on his side, he can sleep better.
Lying down at 10 o'clock in the evening, the reporter could not fall asleep no matter how hard he tried.
In desperation, I had no choice but to open my phone and flip through the photos I had taken before, and I saw it over and over again at 2:00 in the morning.
In the end, the sultry weather could not stop the sleepiness, and the reporter fell asleep.
At five o'clock in the morning, there was a strong convective weather, lightning, thunder, and a 10-level wind.
However, not long after sleep, the reporter was awakened by the whirring sea breeze outside.
I opened my eyes and looked at my phone, it was around 5 in the morning.
In an instant, there was lightning and thunder outside, and at the same time, it was raining heavily, and the raindrops were frantically pounding on the windows.
Along with the strong wind, the waves were also larger, and the scope of the ship's swaying became larger and larger.
The captain of the boat came over and said that the wind and waves are normal.
No big deal, you see the crew slept soundly.
As usual, they would work at dawn.
Now we have encountered short-term strong convective weather, the wind is strong and the waves are turbulent, and it is easy to be dangerous.
The reporter saw that the ship was gloomy all around, there was lightning from time to time in the distance, and the waves beat on the edge of the ship, splashing huge waves.
It is known from the weather forecast that a short-term strong convective weather was encountered that day, and gusts of 8 to 10 were encountered during the thunderstorm.
"The wind is fine, just for a while, mainly because I'm afraid of a typhoon." The boss of the boat said that the waves three meters high by the sea were very big, which is very common here.
By about 7am, the sky had begun to clear.
But on the sea, there are still one or two lightning bolts from time to time.
The wind has also weakened, not as violent as it was at first.
The master has already prepared breakfast, and when the crew finishes eating, he will pick up the goods.
Since the cabin is hotter and not as cool as the deck, the crew chose to eat on the deck.
As soon as I stepped out of the cabin, the sea breeze was blowing.
The crew were already shirtless and had breakfast at the table.
The reporter asked how big the wind is now.
The boss of the boat said that it was about level 7, and the wave height was about 3 meters.
At sea, winds of this magnitude are common.
It's cooler to eat outside, it's too stuffy in the cabin.
After breakfast, the crew was ready to lift the net to see how the night's harvest was.
The anchoring and retracting net worked continuously for 6 hours to catch more than 20,000 catties of sand stings
At about 9 am on August 6, the captain of the ship suddenly received a notice from the Municipal Ocean Development Bureau. The Meteorological Observatory issued a yellow warning signal for strong winds at sea.
After receiving the notice, the captain of the ship looked embarrassed.
"Although I know this is for our good, I still want to take the risk of fishing for two more days." The boss of the boat said that there are only 10 days of fishing time during the fishing moratorium.
According to the original plan, basically a voyage every 5 days, so as to catch as much as possible at a time.
Otherwise, the round-trip fare is too expensive, and you won't be able to earn much.
Although he complained, he immediately woke up the resting crew, lifted the anchor and closed the net, and prepared to return.
After the ship was started, the location of the iron anchor was found according to the buoys at sea.
Using the ship's machine, an anchor weighing up to 1 ton was pulled onto the ship with a rope.
After that, the network work will begin.
Retracting nets is the most dangerous job on board, just like setting nets.
In order to prevent being stung, the crew must wear airtight leather jackets and gloves.
Stand in the sun for a while and your boots are full of sweat.
The entire fixed net is 180 meters long, and with the influence of water flow, it is not easy to pull it up.
The timing and choice of direction all have certain techniques.
"The main thing is to look at the wind direction and the tide." Said the boat's boss, Sui Liangji, to ensure that the fishing nets would not run under the boat.
Because they were in a hurry to return and did not wait for the best tide, they chose to close the net.
The captain of the ship is in the wheelhouse, commanding commanding condescendingly.
In the process of closing the net, all 9 crew members were on deck.
According to their respective division of labor, they tied ropes to the fishing nets and used the cranes on the boat to pull the fishing nets up.
The workers took advantage of the situation to arrange the fishing nets neatly in the cabin.
About an hour later, I finally saw the tail of the fishing net. A large number of sand stings gathered in the net pocket. The next step is to salvage these sand stings ashore.
The crew used the crane to pull the net bag from the sea to the deck, and below is the cabin for storing sand stings.
Before opening the net pockets, the crew brought in bags of salt and placed them nearby.
Sprinkle some salt on top of the stings to keep them for longer.
After the net bag was transported to the deck, the crew blocked both sides with baffles, and the sand stings automatically entered the cabin.
The captain of the boat said that sand stings are only worth the skin, and the economic value of the beard is very low.
In previous years, after the sand stings were salvaged, they had to be placed on both sides first. The crew cleaned the whiskers and threw them directly into the sea, leaving only the skin.
This time I went out to sea, and the number of catches was not large, and all of them were pulled back, and I could earn a little more.
The reporter saw that some of the sand stings that were salvaged were very large. The larger one was more than one meter in diameter and weighed at least fifty or sixty pounds.
The boss of the ship, Sui Liangji, said, don't look at it so big, there is not much processing.
This net bag is processed into a product, which is about 50 pounds.
According to the ratio of 50 jin to one jin, a net bag of fresh sand stings weighs about 2,500 jin.
It was busy from 9 a.m. to nearly 3 p.m., after 6 hours, the crew finally put the anchor and fishing net on the deck.
After a rough estimate, there are 9 net pockets in total, and the fresh sand sting is estimated to be about 20,000 catties, which can be processed into products of about 500 catties.
It was nearly 11 pm after returning to the port late at night to unload the cargo
The boat owners who go out to sea all know that they are fishing together in this sea area, but also to take care of each other.
They asked each other about the progress through the walkie-talkie, and basically they had already closed the Internet and were ready to return.
The crew took turns eating in the cabin and heading back to port.
Going back is a bit slower due to the added weight.
At about 7 pm, after more than four hours of sailing, it has reached the vicinity of the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge.
Since Luojiaying Port is at the mouth of the Dagu River, it is only possible to return to the port with the help of rising tides.
The ship's boss, Sui Liangji, said that these ships are also the best managed ships.
Because the time to go out to sea is only a few hours a day, the sea exit is really a one-man relationship.
At this time, the sky has slowly darkened, and the boats stopped at sea and slowly waited for the tide to rise.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, I felt that the tide was almost there, and the captain of the ship decided to return.
The boats are equipped with instruments that automatically measure the depth of the sea, but they also have soil methods to assist.
When they were about to reach the bridge, they took out searchlights and checked the position of two seawater submerged bridge piers.
This is the content they often mark, and it means that it can pass safely after a certain level.
With the cool sea breeze, the shore is already brightly lit.
At about 9 o'clock in the evening, the ship went upstream along the Dagu River, and the ship finally returned to the port.
They were also the first ships to arrive in port.
However, docking is also a technical activity.
The number of fishing boats is large, and the "boat space" left is relatively narrow.
After the crew went ashore, two ropes were tied to the bow and stern for assistance, and it took more than ten minutes to finally land.
The way the fishermen go ashore is also relatively simple. There are no boat boards or handrails, and they go up with a few pillars.
Four or five crew members remained on board, carrying the stings from the cabin into large net pockets.
The crew on the shore used the equipment to control the tower crane to transport the sand stings bag by bag to the car.
Sui Liangji said that this time the goods are small, and it can be finished before 11 o'clock, or it can be done until one or two o'clock in the morning.
The sand stings are put into the pond, and after subsequent processing, they can become delicious jellyfish on the table of the citizens.
Due to the impact of wind and waves, the originally expected five-day voyage became two days.
The boss of the ship also complained that he would lose money this time.
The boss of the ship, Sui Liangji, said that compared with previous years, this year's output is not good, at least 60 to 70% of the output.
Last year, it took four or five hours of netting to catch as much as this year.
This time, after putting it for one night, nearly 20,000 catties of sand stings can be sold for 5,000 or 6,000 yuan.
This trip to the sea for two days will cost at least 20,000 yuan for round-trip fees plus labor, and this trip will cost more than 10,000 yuan.
But this is a life at sea, and sometimes it may be nothing, and sometimes it may be a great harvest.
Sailors talk about going to sea: the risk of drifting at sea is too big and they do not want their children to go to sea again
The crew member Lao Chen said that he is a villager in Hetao Street. Since his grandfather and grandfather came to him, he has been the third generation to go fishing in the sea.
The first time he went to sea was with his grandfather, when he was in his 20s and had no other job.
The ancestors went to the sea to fish, and they did not have the genes to prevent seasickness.
The first time I went to sea, I encountered a strong wind. From the time I got on the boat, I started to vomit until I got off the boat.
For five days, he only drank water and did not eat.
"After the first experience, many people felt that I would never dare to go out again." Lao Chen said, he was dissatisfied, and went out the second time, but fortunately he got used to it.
This is 20 years.
When it comes to going out to sea, the boat boss Sui Liangji said that the sea is no better than the land, not only the turbulence of wind and waves, but also a physical task.
If the harvest is good in normal times, the net bag should be closed every four or five hours, and the sand stings will be processed and put into the cabin.
They live, day or night.
The conditions for going to sea are tough and these are okay, but the biggest problem is that the danger is high.
The boss of the ship, Sui Liangji, repeatedly told reporters that everything on the ship is dangerous, and that if every link is not done well, it may hurt people.
Working on a ship requires shrewd and capable people, otherwise it is really impossible to do it, and it may be injured at any time.
Although six or seven hundred yuan per day, the daily wages are not low, but the crew is not easy to find.
Most of the people going to sea are 40 to 60 years old, and the youngest among the 10 crew members is 41 years old.
Liu Xiaobing, a crew member, said that he worked hard to earn money, but he didn't want his children to suffer like this, so he could find a stable job on land.
The crew member Lao Chen said that those who do this work know the hardest.
But then again, it's not easy to do anything, the key is to have a better mentality.
People of their age are used to this life.
There is no technology, can't do other work.
But for children, he still hopes to study hard, master more skills, and have more career choices.