My Deep-sea Fishery

Although prying abalone with a knife is a common method of catching abalone, no one will use this method on natural abalone.

Because the sharp edge of the blade may accidentally hurt the abalone when it touches the abalone. The farmed abalone is okay. In order to be quick and fast, almost all of them are pried off in this way, but the natural abalone is definitely not good, and it hurts to pry it off!

Xiang Yang hurriedly swam over to stop him, and at the same time taught those who couldn't catch abalone how to catch abalone.

In the beginning, Xiang Yang had to teach slowly one-on-one. Gradually, more people knew how to catch abalones, and those who couldn't catch them gradually figured out the way. Only then did everyone's efficiency in catching abalones increase.

Xiang Yang took a rough look at the net pockets around everyone's waists and was finally satisfied. Although he himself wasted some time catching abalones, the gains made by the crew allowed Xiang Yang to make up for this part of the loss. There were more or less harvests, and Xiang Yang saw that many of them were three-headed and four-headed abalones.

After confirming that everyone knew how to catch abalone, Xiang Yang continued to search the bottom of the sea.

Xiang Yang swam into the seaweed bushes, scanning around while swimming.

Xiang Yang, who was swimming suddenly, paused, he thought he was blindsided.

Not far ahead, there is a snow-white creature with a shark-like tail and a round body. It is holding a large abalone over ten centimeters in its two fins and smashing it hard on the ground. how cute.

"Seal?" Xiang Yang muttered in his heart, "How is it possible, this is a temperate sea, how could there be seals that are adapted to survive in the extremely cold sea?"

Xiang Yang, who was so curious, couldn't help but swam in that direction.

The strange "seal" was not afraid when he noticed that Xiang Yang was approaching. Instead, he turned around and looked at Xiang Yang curiously. His smooth and fuzzy face was full of cuteness.

As soon as the 'seal' turned around, Xiang Yang confirmed its true identity.

"It turned out to be a fur seal." Xiang Yang smiled. Although fur seals are also a kind of sea animal that lives in extremely cold seas, temperate seas are not uncommon.

Fur seals are divided into northern and southern genera.

Most of the northern fur seals are distributed in the North Pacific sea area north of 35 degrees north latitude, and they inhabit the Thousand Islands for a while, and they can occasionally be seen in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea in my country.

The distribution of South Sea Dogs is quite wide, reaching the Gala Boggs Islands near the equator in the north and the cold Antarctica in the south.

There is a famous fur seal island near Alaska, which breeds the largest group of fur seals that have been discovered so far.

In fact, the number of fur seals in my country's territorial waters was very large in the early years, but in recent years, they are almost extinct, because the fur quality of fur seals is very good. In our country, the fur seals are even called sea dragon skins. A nearly complete seal skin was once In the era when households with ten thousand yuan were rare, they could be sold for tens of thousands of yuan.

In addition to the fur, the oil on the fur seal is also a very precious resource. The seal peptide extracted from the seal oil has the effect of lowering blood pressure and dilating blood vessels to dredge the meridians.

Xiang Yang looked at the simple, honest and cute bird that raised its head high like a seal, with a pair of big round black eyes blinking at him, like looking at a friend who came from afar, and regarded himself as a seal of a guest Slightly sighed.

Fur seals have always regarded humans as friends. They used to be very common marine creatures in the ocean, but now they have become endangered animals because of the large number of human hunting.

Fortunately, not many people dare to kill sea dogs anymore.

At present, except for a few countries in the world that do not have territorial waters at all, relevant fur seal protection laws have been introduced. Only fishermen in very few countries can hunt and kill fur seals reasonably according to law.

Xiang Yang tried to swim towards the seal.

The seal was very bold, with its head raised high like a dog, as if it was welcoming Xiang Yang.

Xiang Yang approached, and the sea dog also approached Xiang Yang.

When the fur seal's pectoral fins were sliding, Xiang Yang could tell the difference between its pectoral fins and the humpback whale's pectoral fins at a glance. The humpback whale's double fins were real fins, but the seal's were not.

The fins of fur seals are actually feet. It has a total of four fin-like feet, and each foot has five fingers connected by webs.

The most amazing thing is that this fur seal has a pair of ears with shells on its round head.

The shells on the ears of fur seals are very useful. When they usually go into the water to catch food, they use the shells to cover their ears to prevent water from entering the ears.

When they are active on land, they open their shells again, and their ears can be raised like dogs. At that time, their hearing becomes extremely sensitive, and they can hear wind and grass a hundred meters away.

This fur seal is plump and seems to be extremely greedy, and it doesn't forget to hold the big abalone when swimming.

Xiang Yang saw that there were some cracks on the abalone shell that was held in the arms of the seal, which was just smashed by the seal.

Although fur seals are sea beasts, they are almost the weakest of all sea beasts. They are the predators at the bottom of the ocean, and their ability to prey is limited. Therefore, small fish, shrimps, crabs, scallops, etc. are all in their diet among.

When food is scarce, fur seals will also prey on shelled marine life such as abalone, conch, and even sea urchins.

They are also one of the few marine creatures in the ocean that are able to deal with abalone, conch, and sea urchins, because fur seals have very developed brains, they have very high intelligence, and they can even use some tools simply.

For example, when a fur seal finds a sea urchin covered with venomous thorns that other sea creatures cannot deal with, they will copy it. They will find some small stones nearby and smash the shell of the sea urchin hard until Break open the shell of the sea urchin until you can eat the delicious tender meat inside.

The sea dog was very excited when it swam in front of Xiang Yang, just like a dog seeing its owner coming home, jumping around around Xiang Yang, and handing the abalone it caught to Xiang Yang as if offering a treasure.

Xiang Yang smiled, and took the abalone after gently stroking the seal's head a few times with his hands in sharkskin gloves.

The size of this abalone is not small, with a diameter of more than ten centimeters. Visually, it should be a four-headed or five-headed abalone, but the shell was smashed by a sea dog. It can’t be sold for a good price, and it can’t survive if it is released. up.

Seeing that Xiang Yangzhen took the abalone, the sea dog looked at it eagerly. It looked like a dog watching its master eating roasted chicken legs.

Xiang Yang smiled again.

The Master said: Reciprocity is respected in etiquette, and it is inappropriate to come and not reciprocate!

Now that he has accepted the kindness from the sea dog, then Xiang Yang must have to send something back, otherwise, the next time Xiang Yang meets this little guy, this little guy might not be so friendly again.