Sunday, May 04, 2014

駛過黃濁海水的捕飛魚日 The fishing day in the muddy yellow sea


雨勢不停歇,今日近海仍是黃濁色。
老漁人們都說:「海水這麼混濁,不會有飛魚進來啦。」
但我們仍是開著小船出海,離開混濁的海水,下了三次網,邊等飛魚邊釣鬼頭刀。
兩百多公尺的魚網每次收網頗耗功夫,我的手因收網起了三個水泡,這雙平常只用來拿相機、按快門的手指也太嬌嫩了些...
最後如同老人們預測的,我們只網到三尾飛魚。所幸另有捕到近30條尖嘴魚,讓這趟出海還算有些收穫。而沒有飛魚群,自然也釣不到會尾隨飛魚獵食牠們的鬼頭刀。

The rain won’t stop; the color of the coastal water is still muddy yellow.
The old fisher men always say, “there won’t be any flying fish in such condition!”
But we still ride on a small boat, leaving the muddy water, casing the net for three times, waiting for flying fish, and catching dolphin fish.
It is very effort-consuming to pull the 200-meter net. The net had given me three blisters on my unbelievable tender hands which are mostly used for carrying camera and pressing the shutter release button…

Eventually, as the elder predicted, we only got three flying fish. Luckily, we got nearly thirty pipefish, which makes this trip abundant. However, without flying fish, it is reasonable to have zero harvest of dolphin fish, which follows and hunts flying fish. 

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