MTL - A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village-Chapter 60 The importance of handling tuna

The   thousand-hooked bait floats above or near the yellowfin tuna, and the large and unique bait quickly attracts these yellowfin tuna.

  These specially processed baits are used for tuna fishing.

  The yellowfin tuna with a keen sense of smell began to smell the smell of these baits.

   Having said this, many people who don’t know how to do it will think that this is nonsense. Is the sense of smell of fish better than that of dogs? It turns out that fish's sense of smell is many times stronger than that of dogs! In the previous life, Shuichi Nanno read an article. It seems that I forgot whether it was salmon or salmon. Anyway, the article says why this kind of fish can find its birthplace in the vast ocean when it is migrating. Find your way home in the endless sea!

  Because they can tell which drop of fresh water comes from the rivers and lakes in their native hometown among the hundreds of millions of drops of sea water. It is according to this that they crossed the ocean and returned to the birthplace of the freshwater river where they were born to reproduce.

   It sounds a little too incredible, but this is an authoritative certification.

   At this time, a yellowfin tuna tentatively swam to a bait.

  The smell of the bait makes this yellowfin tuna very greedy. However, the yellowfin tuna did not bite down, but after observing and teasing it, it took one bite after it felt that there was no danger.

   When the yellowfin tuna took a bite and was about to swallow it, the barb of the hook caught the yellowfin tuna's gills. Painful yellowfin tuna struggled violently. Under this struggle, the hook went deeper.

   "Flapping Flutter"

  The yellowfin tuna began to struggle fiercely in the water. It was already very frightened at this moment. It knew that its life was in danger and wanted to break free and escape. But the hook is so easy to break free?

   The more the yellowfin tuna struggles, the more pain it gets, and the more it struggles, the deeper it gets hooked.

The sailors who finished the longline waited for more than 20 minutes and didn't see any fish hooked, so they felt that there were no fish nearby, and one sailor asked Minano Shuichi: "Boss, I don't think there are any fish here, can we? Go back to sleep?"

   At this moment, someone shouted: "Boss, I saw a fish bite the hook!"

   "Here too!"

   "There is a school of fish! It may be a big guy depending on the movement."

   After hearing that a fish was hooked, everyone was in high spirits.

   "Because of being hooked?" Minamino Shuichi walked over.

   "Boss, wherever you look, it's there!" Ueno Tanimura pointed to the front.

   "I see, pull it up and see what kind of fish it is. Others who are hooked also get it." Minami Hideyoshi said.

   "It's the boss."

   "Boss, Xiaokimura also said that a fish has been hooked!" Inoue Ami ran up to Minano Hideo in a hurry.

"understood."

   Soon, the first fish was dragged to the side of the fishing boat, and everyone cheered when it showed its true colors.

   "Tuna, it's tuna!"

   "It's yellowfin tuna!"

   "Haha, boss, you are really a god, you know that there will be fish here!" A group of sailors were flattering to Nanye Xiuyi.

"hang up!"

   The first yellowfin tuna caught was about 2 meters long and estimated to be over 100 kilograms.

   After the tuna was caught on the fishing boat, everyone started to get busy.

  Caught tuna also needs to be processed before being refrigerated.

   After the two-meter-long tuna was hoisted onto the deck, Minamixiu shouted: "Don't let it jump, so as not to cause blood congestion in the body!"

   Minamino Shuichi knew that after the tuna bruises, it will cause a large area of ​​muscle damage, especially in the abdomen. If the damage is caused, the selling price will be greatly reduced.

   "The newcomer will help lift the tuna and hand over the tuna to the veteran!" Minano Shuichi commanded.

   Handling tuna is a technical job, it must be done by experienced hands, and new sailors cannot do it.

   Several old sailors put the tuna on the carpet, one sailor pressed the fish's eyes with both hands, and the other hit the fish's head with a hammer.

   Such a simple action of percussion on the head of the fish looks simple, but it is a technical task. The percussion on the head of the fish makes the tuna faint and cannot move. If you don't knock it out, the tuna's jumping will cause it to bruise.

   It is very important to strike the head of the fish. A hammer can stun the tuna without breaking the head. If it is damaged, it will not sell well and the price will be reduced.

  Oda old man is one of the good hands, one knock is accurate, and it is guaranteed that there will be no need for a second one.

   Cut the tail and bleed immediately after knocking the dizzy!

  Tail cutting and bleeding is relatively simple. Use a sharp knife to cut the dorsal fin between the 3rd and 6th segments of the penultimate fin. For larger fish, in order to prevent the tail from being cut too thin, it should be between the penultimate 4 and 5 segments.

  Tuna has two blood vessels in the back of the pectoral fin. The old man Oda separated the two blood vessels from the pectoral fin with a sharp knife. The cut edge was 5 cm deep and 4 cm long.

  Oda's cutting is very appropriate, as expected of 20 years of professional processing of tuna. You must know that if the knife is cut too deep, the blood will penetrate into the internal meat, causing waste.

  Oda old man cut off the cephalic artery in front of the heart, Minami Shuichi punched a bucket of seawater and washed the fish with seawater. This was to prevent the temperature of the fish from rising.

   The next step is to perform a blood drainage operation.

   For this old man Oda, he can be said to be very handy. I saw that he cut a hole in the inner membrane of the fish’s gills and poured seawater into it with a water pipe until it was basically bloodless.

   After the blood has been drained, Oda inserts a pin at the back of the tuna's head, an operation designed to destroy the cartilage in the fish's brain, leaving the fish in a state of death.

   When the old man Oda was busy, the other old sailors were also busy, dealing with strips of tuna, and everyone was busy. Tuna is easy to hang, but handling tuna can be time-consuming.

   Finally, the old man Oda used a sharp knife to cut the abdomen from the tail to the pectoral fins, took out the internal organs of the fish, rinsed them with sea water, and removed the gills after rinsing.

   After doing all this, it can be refrigerated, all of which are to make the commercial fish meet the requirements of high quality and high price.

   Do this for every tuna.

   Now everyone is so busy sweating profusely that their feet never leave the ground. Minano Shuichi is no exception as the boss, and he is also busy with his feet on the ground.

   It was already twelve o'clock at this time, and no one complained, because the salary given by Minano Shuichi was worth their hard work. It would be good to have a job these days.

   "Come on everyone, if we catch a lot of yellowfin tuna, we must hold a tuna whole fish feast to eat after we go back!" Minano Shuichi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to everyone.

"it is good!"

   "Boss, you are so kind!"

   Everyone cheered in unison.