When he saw that the crew had switched to a small-mesh trawl net, Ye Yuan did not approve, but he did not stop them either.
If it had been another species of fish, he might have intervened.
After all, small-mesh trawl nets caused extremely serious ecological damage.
Many people had a misconception about trawling. They always believed—
that trawl nets were indiscriminate extermination nets.
In fact, that was incorrect.
To be precise, small-mesh trawl nets were the true indiscriminate extermination nets.
It was precisely because small-mesh nets caught fish of all sizes.
That was why the trawl nets used by many fishing boats were almost all small-mesh nets.
But Ye Yuan's Yushui Hao was different.
They did not care much about the catch, so Ye Yuan was not particularly concerned with catching smaller fish.
This meant that the trawl nets used aboard the Yushui Hao were usually medium-mesh nets.
That way, fish fry and smaller fish—
would not be wiped out in a single sweep because of human fishing.
It could be considered another kind of mercy, couldn't it?
However, Ye Yuan was not worried about switching to a small-mesh net to catch Pacific saury.
The main reason was that these things reproduced far too well.
One had to know that the annual global catch of Pacific saury was measured in millions of tons.
And that was only the damage humans caused to Pacific saury.
The number of Pacific saury that died in predators' mouths each year—
far exceeded the amount caught by humans.
Even so, there was no sign that Pacific saury numbers were declining.
The main reason was that their reproductive capacity was beyond human imagination.
As the school of fish gathered here, predators continually appeared in these waters as well.
This was one of the interesting traits