MTL - A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village-Chapter 118 Migratory Gorge

   Speaking of salmon migration, this is a tragic story. Salmon are born in freshwater rivers and lakes on land. After birth, they swim back to the sea to grow. When they become adults, they migrate collectively to the place where they were born to spawn, and then die!

   This habit has been passed down for countless generations, and it has always been so. The process of their migration is very difficult, and the long-distance trek of almost thousands of nautical miles even spares half of the earth. They are not afraid of hardships and may be devoured by marine predators on the way, or caught by fishermen. When they came to the river on the land, the bears, birds and other birds and beasts on the land would also go down to the river to kill them.

   However, nothing can hinder their tragic journey of migration!

  Because they have to migrate in order to reproduce, this reason is enough.

   Anyway, salmon is where it was born and where it dies! Unless it is eaten before returning home.

   "Wow, there are so many small islands here, although they are not very big ones." A sailor exclaimed.

   At this time, three fishing boats were at the entrance of this small strait. The entrance was relatively wide, about a few hundred meters wide.

   "Boss, why did you bring us here? It seems that the sea is too shallow, and there are probably no schools of fish." Ishida Yu looked around, and he could see the sand and rocks under the seabed in shallow places. In such a shallow place, there are generally no large schools of fish, some are all those trash fish and small shrimps.

   In the face of Ishida Yu's doubts, Minano Shuichi certainly wouldn't say that he came here to fish! Wouldn't that be a fortune teller? Amazing. Minano Shuichi also observed the direction, he found that dozens of nautical miles behind this small strait seemed to be Sakhalin Island. It seems that the salmon that pass here are headed for the countless rivers of Sakhalin.

   "Let's rest here for half a day. When you have nothing to do, you can go to those small islands to play." Minamino said generously.

   "Half a day off?"

   "Boss, you are really kind." The sailors all cheered after hearing this.

   It is noon now, and after a half-day holiday, they will start working again tomorrow. Of course these sailors are happy.

   Several sailors have already discussed taking a kayak to a nearby island to see if they find some wild fruits or something. It's best to catch a few wild birds and pheasants or something.

   "Ding dong... A school of salmon was found 10 nautical miles from the due north. The coordinates of the fish school are 132.1 longitude and 41.9 latitude. The number of fish is 40241!"

   "40,000 salmon!" Minamino Shuichi was slightly shocked. Such salmon schools are considered large fish schools.

   After getting the prompt from the system, Minano Shuichi did not choose to lead the fishing boat to the destination immediately, but switched his vision to the ocean to observe it.

  When Minamino Shuichi's vision appeared near the salmon school, he saw that the direction of the huge salmon school was moving towards the strait where he was located!

   "Sure enough, these salmon are really going to pass through this small strait!" Minamino Shuichi knew that he had guessed right! No wonder the system prompted one after another yesterday and today, it turned out that they all had to travel through this small strait. Here is one of the salmon migration routes of this batch.

   "It seems that this batch of salmon and the above batches of salmon belong to the same clan, so their birthplace should be the same." Minami Hideichi analyzed in his heart. He just had no idea how many batches of salmon there would be, and of course he hoped the more the better.

  Nano Hideo knew that this batch of salmon was swimming towards this small strait, so he didn't have to take the initiative to attack, it's best to just sit back and wait!

  Minano Shuichi let the three fishing boats enter the strait to moor first, and the entrance is a few hundred meters wide, which is still wider. It is best to fish when the width of the strait is less than 100 meters.

   At this time, Minano Shuichi hadn't told the sailors that there would be a school of fish coming later. So a small number of them choose to go to the island to play, and most of them choose to sleep or play cards or something.

   Soon, the school of fish came to the entrance of the strait. At this time, Shuichi Nanye saw the huge school of fish in the sea water from a distance of thousands of meters.

   There are more than 40,000 salmon, which is too huge. They form a group, and the number of them is too dense to count.

   Minamino Shuichi was looking at it with a telescope. Otherwise, how can the naked eye see so carefully?

   "Boss, there seems to be a school of fish coming in ahead!" At this time, Yu Ishida, who likes to look around with binoculars, also found the school of fish and screamed first.

   "Hahaha... Let's see." Minami Shuuichi must be pretending.

   After reading it, Shuichi Minano immediately ordered all three fishing boats to act and put down the purse seine to catch the salmon fish! The width of the strait is less than 100 meters, and three fishing boats put down a large purse seine to intercept the entire strait. Those salmon won't be able to escape at all, and most of them should be caught.

   "Hush...what a big school of fish, it's a school of salmon!"

  Except for the part of the sailors who went to Kojima to play, the other sailors were kicked up by Minano Shuichi to work. Their jaws dropped in shock when they saw the huge school of fish approaching ahead.

As soon as   40,000 salmon came in, the strait less than 100 meters wide was filled with salmon all at once! It was so dense that the sea water could not be seen, and all were salmon.

   This picture is really shocking.

   Minami Shuuichi is also the first time to see such a situation. It was as if the sea surface was piled up with fish.

   "This place has become a gorge of migration." Minano Shuichi said with emotion.

   When these schools of fish came to Minami Shuichi, this large purse seine was just set up.

   As soon as these salmon were laid out, they banged up!

   "Bang bang bang..."

   The purse seine was hit and taut, and although there were many salmon, the net was not broken. It's kind of funny to look at these salmon all at once.

   "Hurry up and continue to get off the net, three in a row! You can't let these salmon escape, and there can't be any fish that slip through the net." Minano Shuichi shouted loudly.

  Because the terrain is very suitable and the width is not large, it is very easy to fish with almost no effort. If you fish in seawater with no straits around, some of the fish will often escape. Most of them can't escape now.

   "Boss, this is the easiest fishing I've ever encountered, these salmon just happened to pass here, haha."

The    fishing operation lasted for three hours, and this wait-and-see approach captured most of the salmon. Through the system, Minamino Shuichi knew that he had caught a total of 38,000 salmon this time!