Hanhai Langshan (Xiongnu Langshan) has lived in coastal areas all year round and has long-term ocean experience, so he still has a basic understanding of large-scale sea conditions. Generally speaking, whether it is in the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean, as long as there is sea and it is not seriously polluted, there is never a shortage of fish. Along the coast, there are mixed freshwater and saltwater areas injected by larger rivers, shallow seas with many underwater reefs, and some special areas where warm and cold currents meet. These are all waters where various fish species are particularly dense; in the deep sea, you may encounter Large fish such as sharks and even whales . Sometimes if you are lucky, you will encounter the phenomenon of " fish floods ". This is an area of hundreds or even tens of thousands of square meters on the sea surface, and it is actually filled with schools of fish that suddenly appear. They may be sardines or other small fish. They are almost delivered to your doorstep for humans to fish at will. If a fishing boat encounters this phenomenon, it is often impossible to catch all the fish even if the boat is full. If it is a large fishing boat, it can even fish it out of the water in one day.
Hundreds of tons of fresh fish are worth tens of millions. Once you catch something, you may not need to go to sea again that year. Because not to mention all the shipbuilding costs have been recovered, there is still a large surplus. However, this kind of thing is often hard to come by, but Langshan witnessed it once in a certain sea area around 2010! Within a radius of several hundred meters around the ship, there was actually a swarm of black fish that could not be driven away. The total amount was estimated to be at least several thousand tons. However, the ship Langshan was on at the time was not a professional fishing boat, and he could only watch the fish sink and disappear collectively in more than an hour. It can be seen that as long as you live on a ship all year round, no matter whether the sea area is in the cold zone or the tropics, there will never be a shortage of fish. However, whether contemporary people live inland or along the coast, they all know that seafood is getting more and more expensive nowadays. In the 1980s, many low-end fish and shrimps that were given away for free and no one wanted them cost more than ten yuan a pound now. As for high-end seafood, most people cannot consume it once a year. Since there is no shortage of fish at sea and fresh fish can improve the lives of sailors,
or sailors, there is a problem. This is whether sailors in the navies of various countries can fish at will on warships or even cast nets to catch fish when they are not on duty? This is also a question that viewers without sailing experience may have in mind. In fact, as to whether sailors can fish casually, navies of various countries have different regulations since ancient times. As early as the Age of Discovery, European navies generally allowed sailors to fish in their spare time. This has two major advantages: first, life at sea is difficult, especially the lack of fresh vegetables and fresh water, and the living conditions on board the sailors are very harsh; by allowing them to fish freely, they can relax; second, the fish caught can indeed supplement the energy of the people on the ship. Nutrition is of considerable benefit for long-distance voyages. However, around the time of and during World War II, some navies with stricter requirements gradually began to explicitly prohibit crews and sailors from engaging in activities such as fishing in their leisure time. The reasons are also very sufficient: First, the navies of various countries at that time were considered "aristocratic" services.
Even the sailors with the lowest rank were already part of the "class of soldiers" who ate the royal rations. If they were still fishing like low-status fishermen on warships, Fishing for shrimps, what's the ethos? Second, if there are a large number of sailors fishing on the deck of a warship, there is bound to be a possibility of falling into the water. Once someone falls into the water, a large number of personnel must be dispatched for rescue, which will inevitably distract the warship management personnel and lead to a lack of discipline; it is definitely a situation that the management does not like to see. Third, large warships are actually a huge system; giant ships of more than 10,000 tons have seven, eight or even ten decks, and the various passages and spaces inside are as dense as a spider web. If they are not senior officers on the ship, sailors in different positions are not allowed to roam around the ship. Because it is very possible to get lost internally and go to areas that have nothing to do with your own work, affecting the normal work and management of others.For example, during the First World War, there were thousands of people on the battleship. If all sailors were allowed to go fishing on the deck in their free time, then hundreds of people would run to the deck, which would inevitably cause all kinds of chaos. Fourth, large warships with dense personnel consume huge amounts of food every day. Even if sailors can get some fish from fishing, it is basically negligible compared to the daily food consumption of a large ship with thousands or even thousands of people. Long gone are the days of sailing where catching a big fish can make the whole boat better. Moreover, there are many kinds of fish in the sea, and some fish are even poisonous. There is an incident in history where a poisonous fish almost killed a boat of people. Therefore, warship fishing is of less significance than before. The fifth and most important point is that fishing on warships not only creates a negative atmosphere, but also a large number of fishing lines may entangle the propellers, which will have a negative impact on the combat effectiveness of the warship itself. Therefore, most of today's strict navies prohibit sailors from fishing on warships. Only the navy of the superpower allows sailors to fish on warships again. But they would never dare to let these off-duty people perform maintenance on the warships. The fall of an empire always starts with these smallest details!
