My Deep-sea Fishery

Sardines need to be caught in small boats.

In the case of a big boat, the fishermen would never see this kind of fish because of their vision.

When Xiang Yang was a child, he once saw fishermen fishing for sardines in small boats.

Hundreds of small fishing villages are connected in a line, dragging fishing nets mightily, enclosing a group of sardines.

Now, although there are a few small lifeboats on this big ship of Xiang Yang, the number is too small, so it is not as convenient to use the big ship directly.

Soon, the three fishing boats cast their nets together, and then trawled them forward, forming three long waves on the sea.

The tropical sea breeze is very warm and very comfortable on the face.

Standing on the bow of the ship, Xiang Yang blew a sea breeze and drank a sip of ice beverage, enjoying himself very much.

Soon, as the waves were rolling, the fishing nets began to be slowly pulled out of the sea.

"Wow."

As the fishing nets were untied, a huge amount of sardines piled up on the deck like a hill.

"When this sardine was in the sea, it looked dark blue. Why did it become silver-white when it got on the deck?" Fang Youqun was very puzzled.

Xiang Yang smiled, "It doesn't matter what color it is, there are so many catches, hurry up and take someone to clean them up."

"Yes, Brother Yang." Fang Youqun hurriedly took people to the cabin to carry foam boxes and crushed ice.

With so many sardines, it is certainly impossible to bring all of them back alive.

Most of them have to be processed into fishmeal or canned fish. A small part will be covered with ice and brought back to the shore. Only a small part of the big ones will be put in the living water tank and brought to the shore alive.

The crew were all dispatched, and some of them, led by Fang Youqun, threw sardines into the foam box and covered them with crushed ice.

Under the leadership of Xia Pengjie, some people transported the sardines to the living water tank.

Even the people in the wheel group, under Zhou Wang's organization, began to look for the larger sardines one by one.

Xiang Yang looked at the busy crew members, he was too embarrassed to stand and watch, so he went up to help.

Speaking of it, sardines are actually a very important part of the marine ecological environment. They not only taste delicious meat, but are also a purifier of the ocean.

Sardines will help humans clear the toxic gas near the coast, so that certain areas are free from the threat of becoming a dead zone for marine life.

In the journal Ecological Research, researchers reported that the hungry sardines will remove phytoplankton in the Namibian waters, thereby reducing the production of toxic gases in the area.

This phenomenon will have a profound impact on alleviating global warming.

For more than a century, people have discovered that the waters off the Atlantic coast of Namibia are scattered with toxic sulfur dioxide gas. The emission of these gases is often accompanied by the death of large numbers of fish and marine crustaceans.

It is only in the last few years that researchers have begun to carefully study the emission of methane and hydrogen sulfide gas under the surface of the sea.

From the satellite imagery, people can clearly see that the blue-green band of the special sea area is similar in size to the total area of ​​New Jersey in the United States.

Many scientists believe that this gas is released by the rot of phytoplankton, which is covered in silt several meters deep on the seabed.

Two years ago, researcher Andrew Baku from the University of Miami, Florida, and Skla Vickers, a researcher from Camp City University in South Africa, simultaneously discovered that the gas emission trend had come to a halt.

They later found out that this pause occurred at the same time as the local sardine breeding period.

They calculated that millions of sardines had eaten the phytoplankton that was going to the coastline, thus reducing gas emissions.

Baku also emphasized that the link between these two phenomena needs further proof, but the experience of Namibia has also brought serious warnings to other regions, such as Morocco and California.

These areas also have similar nearshore waters suitable for phytoplankton growth. Global warming will promote the large-scale reproduction of phytoplankton, and these seas will also become dead zones for marine life in the future.

Baku said: "You can imagine if you double the catch of sardines, how much methane and sulphur dioxide, which can cause the greenhouse effect, can be added to the atmosphere by the gas released."

Therefore, from an environmental point of view, Xiang Yang also does not approve of the large-scale fishing of sardines.

If it were not for such a huge group of sardines this time, Xiang Yang would not issue an order to catch a hundred tons.

Even if he encountered such a huge ethnic group, Xiang Yang only issued a catch of one hundred tons.

The number of one hundred tons sounds terrifying, but in fact, compared to three huge fishing boats of 1,000 tons, a mere one hundred tons of sardines is nothing at all.

"Captain, I think we can catch another net. The number of sardines around has not decreased, but it has continued to increase." Zhou Wang shouted towards Xiang Yang while clearing the catch.

Xiang Yang looked around and shouted: "Clean up the catch on the deck first."

With that said, Xiang Yang put down the two sardines in his hand, got up and walked aside to wash his hands with clean water, took out the walkie-talkie and started calling Chen Qingsheng.

"Boss, are you looking for me?" On the other boat, Chen Qingsheng met Xiang Yang and called him, and quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and replied.

"How many sardines did you catch in the net just now?" Xiang Yang asked Chen Qingsheng.

When Chen Qingsheng heard that Xiang Yang was asking about this, he immediately became excited and quickly replied: "Captain, it’s a good harvest. Don’t you know the net just now? Our captain’s sardines are now piled up like a hill. It’s a conservative estimate. There are at least sixty or seventy tons, and this number will only be more, definitely not less."

Xiang Yang nodded ~www.readwn.com~ This figure is similar to Xiang Yang's estimate.

Chen Qingsheng’s fishing boat can catch up to more than 100 tons of fish in one net.

The sardines gathered in a group below, as long as they cast a net, they must be full.

Because of the mesh size of the fishing net, some of the smaller sardines will be drilled out of the mesh. The last net can catch exactly 60 or 70 tons of sardines.

"Well, you take someone to clean up the sardines on the deck quickly. It is best to freeze them all. Some of the bigger ones are best sent to my boat." Xiang Yang said.

The price of some larger sardines is different from ordinary sardines.

If it is also frozen in a foam box and sold as ordinary fresh food, it would be too wasteful.

Chen Qingsheng’s drift-gillnet ship had only storage compartments and freezing compartments, but no live water tanks. Some of the larger sardines could not survive, so sending it to Xiangyang’s processing mother ship was the best choice.

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