My Deep-sea Fishery

On weekdays, harp seals hide from humans.

Harp seals have a very strong diving ability and can go to very deep waters to forage for food. Some biologists have done tests and found that the average diving depth of the harp seal reaches two hundred meters, and the average time for each dive reaches ten minutes. .

But harp seals are rare.

Not uncommon.

Every year during the breeding season of harp seals, on the ice at the birthplace of harp seals, an average of more than two thousand harp seals gather per square kilometer.

This is also one of the main reasons why the protection of harp seals by many animal protection agencies is limited to their cubs.

However, the reproduction ability of harp seals is not strong.

The gestation period of female harp seals is as long as eleven and a half months. Female harp seals will breed on ice floes every March and only give birth to one litter per litter.

Harp seals were long strips when they were born, about one meter in length, but weighing only about ten kilograms.

Newborn harp seal pups have white body hair, only a little black at the snout.

The most difficult thing is that harp seals do not have a fixed mate. The baby seals never know their fathers, and they all rely on the mother seals to raise their offspring.

Within two weeks of the birth of young harp seals, the mortality rate is extremely high.

The female seal spends most of the day looking for food underwater. Whether the laughing seal encounters natural enemies on the ice is entirely luck.

However, as long as the most dangerous two weeks have passed, the baby seal’s weight can almost triple, and a thick layer of fat will be formed on the body to resist the cold. At this time, the cubs of the harp seal do not mean that they will survive. Up.

At this time, the female seal will return to the sea, and the harp seal cubs that have not fully grown up will be left alone on the ice.

On the ice, the cubs of harp seals need to complete the process of fading from white to silver gray on their own.

Until one month later, they are completely independent before they can enter the water for food.

During the period from being abandoned to autonomous predation, juvenile harp seals lose 50% of their body fat and have a mortality rate of 30%.

"You guys are waiting here. I'll go down and see if I can catch this guy." Gao Chuang said with a smile.

Xiang Yang was quite speechless. This harp seal was nearly 1.7 meters long and weighed at least two hundred catties. If Gao was really let go, who would catch it and who wouldn't know.

What makes Xiang Yang speechless is that Fang Youqun actually said at this time, "I should be the one who caught it. This harp seal was the first thing our captain discovered, and it belongs to us."

Xiang Yang covered his forehead, the old and the young are really bold and fat.

"Forget it, a seal can't sell for a lot of money, don't go down, lest you encounter danger again later." Xiang Yang directly ignored Fang Youqun's words and patiently persuaded Gao Chuang.

Gao Chuang frowned. Although the harp seal had a certain attack ability, Gao Chuang was sure to deal with the harp seal.

But Gao Chuang couldn't ignore Xiang Yang's words.

Because there are some harp seals, they are very good friends with killer whales.

Killer whales are a very strange creature. They are gods of war on the sea. They dare to attack all marine life, including blue whales, and they also prey on various seals.

But killer whales only attack seals passing by outside their territory.

Killer whales never attack native seals within their own territory.

Not only does it not attack, but sometimes it even provides protection to the seals, playing with the seals under the seabed.

Well, it's like a human being has a pet.

And this sea area is precisely the sea area where whales are infested. To be able to live so leisurely in the sea area where whales are infested, it is extremely possible that this seal is a native seal in this sea area.

"Forget it." Gao Chuang waved his hand. "Let's continue talking about the Weddell Sea. Tell me what you think, whether you want to go or not."

"It's up to you to make the decision, Mr. Gao. Whether to go or not, I will tell you the same thing."

"Haha, since you don't catch it anymore, this harp seal is mine."

Of these two sentences, the first one was meant to be addressed to Gao Chuang, while the other one was called out by Fang Youqun.

"Without my order, no one on board is allowed to enter the water."

Xiang Yang first gave Fang Youqun a vicious look, and warned him rather severely, before turning his head and saying, "General Manager Gao, let's sit down and talk about it. In fact, whether we are going or not, we have already gone deep into Antarctica. The sea area requires a lot of preparatory work."

The two found a seat and sat down.

Gao Chuang fell into the memory again, "In fact, the first time I went to the Weddell Sea was by accident. At that time, the Weddell Sea itself was not in the route we had originally planned, but suddenly there was a more important thing that required us to go there immediately. Going to the current Great Wall Station, we left the Weddell Sea after we were busy with that, and we were very close to the Weddell Sea. At that time, the captain joked that we would go to the Weddell Sea for the next stop."

Xiang Yang blinked, "Then you went to the Weddell Sea?"

"Yeah." Gao Chuang nodded: "We were in the Weddell Sea that day, we boarded a huge ice floe with wine, and then drank a lot of wine on the ice. Champagne showed a dazzling color in the Antarctic sunshine, even And surprisingly bright red."

"I remember that Antarctica was in summer at that time, and the sun would disappear in the early morning, and then it would rise again soon. Although the sunshine was so abundant, we were still cold. UU reading www.uukanshu.com because the Weddell Sea is In the cold polar regions of the world, the sea ice there has a history of thousands of years, and theoretically it will never melt."

"At that time, penguins were not protected animals. At that time, a group of our young guys slaughtered penguins in a competition in the Weddell Sea."

"At that time, I was young and eager to win. In addition, I got on board the second mate at a young age, and the status of sailors in our country was low at that time. Many people on the boat refused to accept me, so as long as I could catch I never let go of the penguins I lived. When night fell, I killed three Adelie penguins, two king penguins, and more than a dozen emperor penguins."

Xiang Yang blinked.

The Adelie penguin is an Antarctic bird with a small head and not much meat. Although the Adelie penguin has less oil, it is not easy to hunt at all. This is the most combative penguin of all penguins. For one, they are often able to drive a group of newly grown emperor penguins off the ice floes.

It is still extremely difficult to kill three Adelie penguins.

As for the dozen or so emperor penguins, Xiang Yang didn't feel strange at all. In front of a human butcher's knife, the emperor penguins were just slightly larger chickens, ducks and geese, basically as long as an adult man was able to kill them.