Chapter 200： Masu tuna

  Masu tuna is not produced much in Hokkaido, and Minami Shuichi remembers it as one of the best tuna for sashimi!

The species with greater economic value include bluefin tuna, masu tuna, bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna, albacore tuna, bonito, etc. Among them, bluefin tuna, masu tuna, bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna are Raw fish for sashimi, albacore tuna and bonito are mainly used as raw material for canned tuna, however, albacore tuna is also used for sashimi.

From the perspective of tuna species, the quality of sashimi from high to low is bluefin tuna, masu tuna, bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna. Bluefin and masu tuna are produced in low quantities and very expensive, and common tuna fillets are made from bigeye and yellowfin tuna.

It can be seen from here that Masu tuna ranks second among many tuna, which is enough to see how high its quality is.

Adult masu tuna can reach 2 meters in body and weigh more than 150 kilograms.

Minamino Shuichi directed the fleet to kill the Masu tuna school, and at the same time he switched his vision to observe the movement of this school of fish in advance.

Soon he saw this school of fish foraging in the area ahead. The tuna was big and ate a lot. Because they swim fast, they consume a lot of energy and eat more. If the tuna stops swimming, it will suffocate. The reason is that the tuna always opens its mouth when swimming, so that the water flows through the gills to absorb oxygen and breathe, so it can only continue to swim at high speed throughout its life, even at night without rest. It just slows down the swimming speed and reduces the metabolism.

I saw that these Masu tuna had a spindle-shaped body with the highest body near the center of the base of the first dorsal fin. There are swim bladders. The underside and ventral surface are silvery-white, with colorless transverse lines lined with colorless dots above. The first dorsal fin is yellow or blue; the **** and abscisic fins are dark yellow with black margins; in adults, the central caudal keel is yellow.

"A kind of colorful fish!" At first glance, this is the first impression of Xiu Nanye when he saw them, there are blue, yellow, black!

The fishing boat approached the top of the Masu tuna, and some of the tuna were one or two meters below the water, so someone on the fishing boat found them.

"Tuna! Haha...it's tuna, there's tuna here." The first to discover this was Ueno Tanimura. Excited to report after finding out.

"Boss, I found tuna, come and have a look."

Minamino Hideyoshi walked over quickly after smelling the shouting, stuck his head out and saw that the northern part of the Masu tuna under the water was yellow or blue.

"Hey, is it a bluefin tuna? Its back is blue." Ishida Yu said in surprise.

"There are also yellow backs, so is there still yellowfin tuna!"

"Haha... I think these two kinds of tuna are mixed together, no matter what kind of fish, let's go off the net first." Noguchi Minami laughed hehely.

"This is Masu tuna, illiterate!" Minami Xiuyi said in a sullen look at the two of them.

"The other three fishing boats followed, and our Falcon set trawl nets and tried to take them away in one wave." Nanye Xiu said to a few people.

"Yes, boss."

Needless to say, the other three fishing boats don’t need to take action at all, just one of the Falcon trawler can be dispatched.

"Boom boom boom..."

The    diesel engine was at its maximum power, and the trawling net had been lowered into the sea. Under the impact of the two steel supports and the sea water, the 400-meter-long trawl net rushed towards the Masu tuna.

This time, Minano Shuichi personally went on the top of the boat with a telescope to observe the fish. In fact, he was just pretending. His real situation is to use the switch vision to check the fish school, and then report to the old Kimura who was sailing the boat and tell him which direction to drive.

Once the trawler puts down the trawling net, whether the net can successfully reach the school of fish is directly related to the person who drives the boat! If the fishing boats pass by and deviate from the school of fish, nothing will be caught.

"Left, 8°! Continue to deviate 10° to the left in one minute!" Minano Shuichi said loudly, and someone below naturally conveyed it to the old Kimura who was sailing the boat.

An hour later, this group of Masu tuna has been slowly dragged onto the deck.

Minami Shuuichi was in charge of the scene, and the old man Oda was always in charge of the tuna bloodletting, and everyone had a tacit understanding. To this day, no one wants to propose eating tuna sashimi, because everyone is tired of eating them.

If it was some time ago, every time a tuna school was caught, these guys would cry and beg Minano Shuichi to make sashimi for a tuna. Now, I have eaten more than 20 times in a month and one after another, and I am tired of each one.

I don’t know if this sentence will be killed in future generations. Tired of tuna sashimi! It is too extravagant, and the wealthy of later generations would not dare to say that eating tuna sashimi is boring!

"Boss, when will our next vegetable and fruit supplies arrive?" Ishida asked to Minano Shuichi. They haven't eaten vegetables for two weeks. Even fruit is now eaten by only two per person a day!

"Don't worry, wait another two weeks until the supply is next month, and then you can have a big meal!" Nanye Xiu said. At this time, he kind of misses the dried pickles and radishes from his previous life.

Now, in addition to eating kelp, seaweed and other seaweed to supplement vitamins every day, or you can only rely on oranges. But the oranges are eaten by a group of people, and each person does not share much every day.

"There are still two weeks!" Ishida Yu had a bitter look on his face.

"Boss, did you say the letter we sent home last time arrived home?" a sailor asked.

"I think it's almost there, don't worry, they will definitely help deliver it to your house." Minami Xiuyi waved his hand.

"When my family sees those photos, they will definitely be very happy, and they shouldn't worry about me when they see my photos." The sailor's wrinkled face showed a bright smile.

"Ding Dong...Due west, 5 nautical miles from the host, a school of flounder was found. The coordinates of the fish school are 144.2 longitude and 42.1 latitude. The number of fish schools is 1033."

Listening to the system's prompt, Minami Shuuichi intends to go to the location of the flounder school to catch them. Anyway, now he accepts all kinds of fish!

Flounders generally inhabit the sandy bottom of the shallow sea and prey on small fish and shrimp. They are particularly suitable for benthic life on the seabed. Because of their flat body. The eyes are on the upward-facing side of the body, and the color of this side matches well with their surroundings; the downward-facing side of their body is white. The flounder has very fine scales on the body surface. Flounders have only one dorsal fin that extends almost from the head to the tail. They mainly live in temperate waters and are important economic fish in temperate waters.

The fishing of Masu tuna has been completed just now. The field is currently busy with the bloodletting of the caught tuna. It is estimated that it will be completed in an hour. But it does not affect him to catch other fish.

Minami Shuuichi personally drove a fishing boat and led four fishing boats to the destination.

When he arrived at the destination, Shuichi Minano knew by checking that there was a shallow sea nearby, which was estimated to be the edge of the ocean basin. The deepest seafood here is only 50 meters deep, and the shallowest is more than 1 meter deep!

Be careful with fishing boats in this place, it will be no fun if you hit the rocks. But with an old driver like Minamino Shuichi, it must be all right. Fishing in such shallow seas is best done with a trawler. Because of such shallow sea water, the trawl net can be dragged directly to the seabed, and even the shrimps, crabs and snails on the seabed can be collected! This situation is really where the trawl has passed, and no grass will grow.

"Kimura, go and inform Ishida Yu that they will put down the trawl net immediately. There is a shallow sea in front of it, and there must be a lot of fish and shrimp. We haul a net and it's cool!" Nanye Xiu said.

"Yes!" Kimura old man doubted him. Shallow sea and deep sea can be seen at a glance because the colors are different. The color of the sea in front looks very shallow, it must be a shallow sea.

Generally, there are many small schools of fish and fish and shrimp in the shallow sea, because there must be many plankton in the shallow sea.

Soon, the 400-meter-long trawl was dropped behind the fishing boat.

Minami Shuuichi switched his vision to look at the direction of the flounder, and rushed towards where he was.

At this time, the water here is only 30 meters deep. The bottom net of this large trawler scrapes directly onto the sea mud and rocks on the seafloor. All the fish, shrimp, crabs and snails on the bottom of the sea had no chance to escape, so they were scraped into the fishing net.

The low end of the trawling nets sometimes hang on some coral reefs, rocks, etc., but under the huge drag of the fishing boat, they are all scraped by, and some coral reefs will be scratched. Even the slightly loose rock face was scraped off a layer.

This marine trawl is exceptionally strong, with alloy wires held together at the bottom. This is to take into account the fact that rock, reef, riverbed, coral reef, etc. hard and sharp things can break the net when trawling in shallow seas.

Although the trawling nets caught in the ocean are strong and tough enough, they will still be partially scratched. Usually when sailors have nothing to do, they will take out the trawl nets and sew and mend them. This kind of thing is done by every fisherman.

"Hey, the water here is really shallow!" The sailors on the deck noticed that the water nearby was relatively shallow, and it was obviously a shallow sea.

"There are so many schools of small fish here, look at those floating waters over there, there are fish schools under their names!"

"I see, I was thinking of going down for a swim!" A sailor was very interested. In the deep sea they rarely choose to swim, in the shallow sea they always feel more confident.

Minamino Shuichi's fishing boat has already opened above the school of flounder, and the trawling net has also shrouded the school of flounder.

The trawling caused a storm on the seabed, and a layer of sea mud was scraped off wherever it passed. Anyway, the water on the seabed was turbid.