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  • it's open season in this Chinese fishing village, thes people are swarming toward appear to get their hands on the freshest catch of the day.

  • Yeah, on the eastern coast of China, there is a small village called beige, how where people enjoy a plethora off underwater delicacies, but only for a few months out of the year.

  • That's because fishing is banned in these waters from around May to August, which means every year in late summer it's open season here.

  • Thes people are rushing to get the best quit shrimp, eel, aunt, local fish.

  • They are in a hurry not just to preserve the freshness of the catch, but also because they only have an hour before everything is sold out.

  • There is not a moment to wait.

  • It's a typical scene between August and September, when the annual fish and bareness lifted and fishermen can go out to harvest.

  • Buyers and sellers speak to each other in special jargon that only people in the fishing trade can understand way.

  • Yeah, competitive, unpredictable and grinding is how fishermen Lee by describes his life.

  • Yeah, the only sleeps two hours a day in order to keep pace with this cut throat industry every morning.

  • He needs to be one of the first boats to arrive at the market.

  • If he wants the best prize for his catch, he's there by 7 a.m. And for the next hour, it's nonstop mayhem.

  • You don't know.

  • Yeah, Despite the tough routine, Lee works every day.

  • The only thing that might stop him is a really bad storm.

  • Yeah.

  • Uh huh.

  • Lee's boat is the rusty ist one in town.

  • It has braved powerful waves and unpredictable weather conditions.

  • But he is so busy that he hasn't had time to repaint it to make his effort worthwhile.

  • The needs to catch over £1000 of squid every day, I think.

  • But some days he can't even catch a few.

  • There are many different types of seafood in bagel.

  • Lease crew specializes in a small squid known locally as little tubes.

  • They say, Oh, for four hours every day in search off squid.

  • How did the one feeding?

  • Uh huh.

  • To catch squid lease both shines green fluorescent lights into the sea.

  • The light attracts the squid, which are then hold up by a huge net.

  • The light also makes it easier to spot the squid, which light up like stars in the water.

  • The doctor clothes crew is at work.

  • Lee prepares their meals in a tiny kitchen below the deck.

  • Just a simple dish of rise vegetables and some off the freshly called squid are enough to satisfy Lee and his hungry crew.

  • It starts to rain, but Lee carries on with the work at hand.

  • He's already anticipating the next day's catch.

it's open season in this Chinese fishing village, thes people are swarming toward appear to get their hands on the freshest catch of the day.

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