FISHERMEN FROM IMERETINSKY BAY Part1 Fishing season (putina)

  This is litl story about Russian fishermens

  Fishermen on the shore stretch and repair the nets. Summer is over, but it's still very hot. September in Sochi is a "barhatniy" season. Fishermen are preparing for the fishing season (putina), the fish will pass past the Imeretinsky Bay from November to December, from north to south. This is the time of the Black Sea delicacy - burabuli. The price per kilogram comes to 350 rubles, and the people of the sea intend to earn extra money, they feed the year for two months.

  Rusty trawler George Pobedonosec picked up on dry land. Now it is sawn to metal, and the main fishing equipment will be transferred to another, almost new building. The old "Pobedonosc" patches on the bottom so many that the ship seems more like a sieve. An eerie sight! However, the Black Sea fishermen are brutal guys, they are not afraid of the devil of the sea, and the leaky bottom. Especially since in the brigade of the ataman Zhenya there are two more longboats: Voshod and Rassvet. One of them has just been renovated after last year's shipwreck by master who is called Spanish. After a successful last year's fishing season, the Spaniard Antonio was bred ataman from a deep binge. This is common in fishing teams. "To drink and whine" - say the fishermen. Especially in the Zhenka brigade there is a pensioner from Vorkuta Didu, who is make a good alkogol himself. Didu worked for thirty years in the mine and caught nelma and chir in the north. He, of course, chuckles at every "shalupenju" such as a barabule. Well, it's true! Fish are hardly more palms, and those that are larger, they are called sultans, come across in very small quantities.

  In the motorboat load the nets, it is called the BS. This is a special nets that puts the fish in a trap. It must be properly set, usually it uses manual labor for a few guys and a "turachka"- a mechanical winch on the boat. When the net is exposed on the bottom, at a depth of 10-30 meters, every day it is necessary to lift and scoop out everything that God sent. Perch, stingrays, hake, ruff, burbot, horse mackerel, cows, humpbacked and even red-booked rooster fish. But in the fishing season most of all the barabula, of course, this small bottom fish, feeding on crustaceans and worms. It is very oily, and it can be seen by its color. The redder the barabula the fatter.

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Other parts of history “FISHERMEN FROM IMERETINSKY BAY”
Part1 Fishing season (putina)
Part2 Black Sea delicacies
Part3 Fishing Work
Part4 About fish
Epilogue