My Deep-sea Fishery

Xiang Yang is now an experienced captain.

From the degree of back strength of the fishing boat sailing, we can probably predict the harvest in the fishing net.

However, most of the Antarctic fish are very precious, and it is impossible to judge success or failure based on the amount. Like Antarctic krill, it is only worth so much to drag a hundred tons back, and if it is Antarctic ice fish, as long as it can catch a few. It's a worthwhile trip if you come up very hard.

This is also the reason why Xiang Yang insists on fishing with large meshes. Although the amount of catch is small, the quality of the remaining catch will definitely be improved by filtering a large amount of krill.

Soon, the fishing net was dragged up.

I have to say that Antarctica's krill resources are really rich. Even if Xiang Yang uses a large-mesh fishing net, after the fishing net is on the deck, there are still thousands of catties of krill in the net.

In addition, there are not a few marine creatures such as squid, and there are also two ice fish.

Except for krill, the most abundant fish in this net is a small fish with a body length of about six or seven centimeters, a grayish black back, white abdomen, and transparent gray fins.

"This seems to be an Antarctic toothless lionfish?" Chen Qingsheng grabbed one and asked Chao Xiangyang.

"Yes." Xiang Yang nodded, "It is a very rare type of a very common species. This fish is an Antarctic bottom-dwelling fish, which can generally be sold for three to four hundred yuan per catty in restaurants. But this kind of fish is poisonous, so be careful when you clean it up."

Antarctic toothless lionfish is a kind of lionfish. Its habitat depth is generally 60 meters underwater, and the deepest can reach 500 meters under the sea. Although it is not large, it is indeed a very fierce carnivorous fish. Its meat is cooked. After ripening, it will be crystal clear like snow and melt in the mouth. It is a very precious treasure of Antarctica.

"Use the harpoon to spread the catch first. It's time to clean up the catch." Xiang Yang said.

Chen Qingsheng nodded immediately. Before clearing the catch, he used a harpoon to pick it up again. This is already a custom on Xiangyang's boat. The main purpose is to confirm that there are no dangerous marine creatures hidden in the catch.

Several crew members were holding fish rake with extra-long handles, pushing the pile of catches.

One of the crew pushed a few times, but did not push.

Just as he was about to walk over and take a look curiously, the fish pile suddenly moved by himself, and saw the gray-white dog's head, which had been all over his body, come out of the krill pile, and then looked at the crew member with a silly smile.

The crew member was so frightened that he backed away a few steps, "Sea, seal."

"Don't be afraid." Xiang Yang pressed the shoulder of the crew member, and then shouted to the crew members who were rioting around: "This is not a leopard seal, it's a Wilder seal, and it won't attack people."

Xiang Yang shouted several times, and the crew gradually calmed down.

Actually, it's no wonder the crew are so scared.

While on the ice floes, the fleet encountered a leopard seal, which was very cruel.

Now they are on the deck, and they don't have gas cans in their hands. If they are attacked by seals, it will not be a joke.

Xiang Yang comforted the crew and said: "Wild seals are a very cute species in Antarctica. Under normal circumstances, they will not attack humans."

In fact, the appearance of Wilder seals is very similar to that of leopard seals, except that the nose is shorter than that of leopard seals, and the size is much smaller.

"It's really weird. This time we trawled the net for more than an hour, and this Wild seal was not drowned." Chen Qingsheng was very puzzled.

Xiang Yang smiled, "A little longer, it will really drown, but how do you know that it was caught in the fishing net just after we cast the net? It was not accidentally dropped into the fishing net when we were about to start the net. ?"

Wild seals are the most capable of diving of all seal species. They can dive to a depth of 700 meters and the longest diving time can reach 70 minutes.

"Dug it out of the krill." Xiang Yang ordered.

"Yes, Captain."

The crew acted immediately and soon dragged the Wild seal from the krill pile.

The Wild Seal doesn't seem to be afraid of humans at all.

After being dug out by the crew from the krill pile, it did not escape or hide. Instead, it lay on its back on the deck, with its two front fins firmly holding the fork of a harpoon and refusing to let go, as if the little milk cat was screaming at humans. Acting like a baby.

"Captain, this?" The crew member was a little at a loss holding the harpoon for fear of hurting the Wild seal.

Xiang Yang bent down, picked up the squid weighing about a catty from the fish pile, and handed it to the Wild seal.

The Wild seal immediately released the harpoon, and the front fin hugged the squid, but did not eat it. Instead, it looked at Xiang Yang with a dull expression.

Xiang Yang sighed, "This Wild Seal won't live long."

"What do you mean?" Chen Qingsheng was startled. "Is it because we dragged it on the bottom of the sea for too long and hurt its lungs?"

"No." Xiang Yang shook his head. The chubby body of an ordinary Wild Seal is synonymous with cuteness and bloat.

Although this wild seal is cute, but the body is not bloated at all, UU reading www.uukanshu.com has seen it hasn't eaten for a long time.

"Look at its mouth." Xiang Yang broke the wild seal's mouth open.

At first, the Wild seal shook its head and avoided Xiang Yang's hands, but after being comforted by Xiang Yang, its mouth grew obediently.

Chen Qingsheng lowered his head and glanced into the mouth of the Wild Seal, and immediately did not dare to say: "How could this be?"

It turned out that the wild seal's teeth had almost completely melted, and only a little bit of broken teeth could be seen in the decayed gums.

"Wild seals are very weird. They like diving very much. Each dive lasts for 20 to 30 minutes, and the longest can reach 70 minutes. In fact, it’s okay to like to dive, but Wild seals also like the cold. They only need to arrive. Under the water, they especially like to go down to the bottom of the ice surface, and they can’t control their diving time. When it is under the ice surface, when it needs to breathe, it is sealed under the ice, and they can only do nothing. Nibbled the ice cubes with big mouths, gnawed the ice cubes out of a hole, then breathed, gnawed too much, or which piece of ice is too thick, it becomes like this." Xiang Yang shrugged.

Xiang Yang once watched a documentary in which a Wild seal was so dull under a block of ice that was one meter thick. It could only bite the ice without any consideration. In the end, the mouth was worn out and the teeth were flattened. Now, although it escaped from under the ice block, it could no longer eat. In just two weeks, the chubby Wild seal was so skinny that it was starved to death on the ice block.

Xiang Yang said silently on the head of the Weddell seal, "In fact, this Weddell seal is still lucky, or at least came out from under the ice. Many Weddell seals have not bitten through the ice under the ice, just because The lack of oxygen and physical exhaustion was alive and suffocated."