My Deep-sea Fishery

"This is the Antarctic sea lion? It's so cute." Someone beamed his eyes. "Who knows that this thing is to protect animals? If not, I will find a way to catch it."

"The IUCN red list ranks at the top of the list, do you mean to protect animals?" someone asked rhetorically.

The person who first asked the question immediately stopped speaking.

Although Antarctica does not belong to any country, it does not mean that it is a three-minded zone.

To be precise, Antarctica is a piece of fat that everyone covets. Everyone wants to take a bite here.

"Although its name is Antarctic fur sea lion, it is actually a fur seal." Xiang Yang explained: "As early as 1775, Captain Cook reached South Georgia while exploring Antarctica. At that time, Captain Cook discovered on the island. A lot of sea dogs."

"And even if this thing is not a mammal, it is not so easy to grasp. It doesn't need to bite you. It just needs to breathe at you. You may not see the sun tomorrow." Gao Chuang said to the crew. Said coldly.

Antarctic fur seals are the most smelly for a reason. There are tens of millions of bacteria in their mouths. These bacteria Antarctic fur seals can be immune, but other organisms do not have that immune function.

If you are lucky and do not encounter deadly bacteria, even if you are bitten by Antarctic fur seals, it is just a wound infection.

But bad luck can directly lead to a plague.

The Antarctic curl sea lion is a living biochemical weapon.

"The two Antarctic curled sea lions, the big and the small, should be mother and child. It's strange. If I remember correctly, sea dogs and sea lions are all social creatures. Why are the two orphans and widows together here? "Fang Youqun wondered.

Xiang Yang smiled, "This is not a mother and child, and that little one is not a little Antarctic curl sea lion."

"The cubs of normal Antarctic curl sea lions do not exceed 70 cm in length. Once they exceed 70 cm, they can almost move independently."

"Look at that big one, which is about two meters long. It must be a male curly sea lion. As for the small one, it is a female."

Male Antarctic curl sea lions can grow up to two meters in length and weigh between 100 kg and 300 kg. Females are generally about 1.4 meters long and weigh between 30 and 60 kg. There is a huge difference in body shape between husband and wife, so in the eyes of people who don't know it, it is easy to mistake the female sea lion for a little sea lion.

"Moreover, the average lifespan of male Antarctic curled sea lions and female Antarctic curled sea lions is also very different. According to scientific statistics, the lifespan of female Antarctic curled sea lions on average can live about twice as long as that of male Antarctic curled sea lions." said a captain.

Xiang Yang nodded, affirming the captain’s statement, “This is related to the living habits of Antarctic curl sea lions. Male Antarctic curl sea lions almost exclusively feed on Antarctic krill. The food intake is too monotonous and has a serious impact. The lifespan of the male Antarctic curl sea lion. Although the female Antarctic curl sea lion also feeds on Antarctic krill, it sometimes eats some Antarctic fish and squid, and sometimes they will hunt penguins or leopard-shaped seal juveniles on the shore. Cub."

At this time, the larger one of the two Antarctic curled sea lions under the water suddenly stretched its head and drilled its head into the ice cave, as if it wanted to go through the ice cave and climb onto the ice. .

"Hehe, this ice cave is very smooth and deep. It is impossible for it to climb up." Xiang Yang smiled.

Sure enough, after working hard for a while, the Antarctic curled sea lion suddenly gave up dejectedly.

Then, its eyeballs stared at the top of the ice cave for a while, suddenly drilled under the water, and then disappeared.

"Should be gone, continue fishing for Antarctic krill." Gao Chuang took off his leather gloves, lit a cigarette, took a sharp breath, and then exhaled a hot airway mixed with smoke.

Xiang Yang nodded. In fact, the Antarctic curl sea lions are also very poor. Don't look at the carefree appearances of these two under the water. In fact, they are in an awkward position in the entire Antarctic biosphere.

They are only one level higher than penguins in the food chain, and both killer whales and leopard seals like to hunt them.

The most important thing is that every spring, Antarctic curl sea lions will concentrate on South Georgia Island for reproduction. At that time, they will attract a large number of leopard seals.

However, leopard-shaped seals that can easily kill Antarctic curled sea lions do not like to eat Antarctic curled sea lions, or only eat the internal organs of Antarctic curled sea lions. A leopard-shaped seal can often kill more than a dozen Antarctic sea lions in one day. Curly sea lion.

Xiang Yang turned his head and looked in the direction of the ice cave that his crew had sculpted. He just happened to see a few crew members dragging out a cage from the ice cave with difficulty.

There are a lot of Antarctic krill under this piece of ice.

Every time you put the ground cage under the ice cave and then bring it up, there are at least one or two hundred catties of Antarctic krill in it. The money is really fast.

At this moment, Xiang Yang heard the exclamation again.

"Look, you guys look at it quickly."

"Sea lion."

"It's the two Antarctic curl sea lions under the ice cave just now."

"They climbed onto the ice floes."

Xiang Yang turned his head to look at the edge of the floating ice.

Sure enough, on the edge of the ice floes, there are two Antarctic curl sea lions, one big and one small. It looked like an alpaca, now relying on its two front fins to support its entire body, stretched its neck, and looked curiously at the crew members who were working on the ice fast.

With that cute look, many crew members wanted to run over and join them and Zhang Ying.

"Everyone stays where they are, and they are not allowed to get close to the two Antarctic curled sea lions." Xiang Yang yelled to his crew, and after yelling, he gave Fang Youqun who was eager to move.

Although fur seal creatures rarely attack humans, the Antarctic curl sea lion is a type of fur seal and is rated as a non-hazardous creature by the World Conservation Union, but their mouth that looks like a biochemical weapon is really too terrifying.

Gao Chuang was still innocent. On the one hand, he asked many captains to take care of his men and not allow the crew to approach the two sea lions. At the same time, he asked everyone if there were any sea urchins in the cabin of the fleet.

Xiang Yang was quite speechless. It is estimated that the boss saw that the two Antarctic curl sea lions were cute, and he wanted to tease the two Antarctic curl sea lions with sea urchins.