My Deep-sea Fishery

It is precisely because of this habit of lionfish that it is extremely difficult for ordinary fishermen to catch lionfish.

However, there is a common saying in the market that rare things are more expensive, so the price of lionfish in the ornamental fish market is not low, usually a palm-sized one can be sold for tens of dollars.

"Lionfish are withdrawn and like to live alone. How did we catch so many lionfish in this net?" Chen Qingsheng wondered.

"It's not difficult to explain. Lionfish are nocturnal. At night, they slowly undulate the fins on their back and buttocks in dark water to swim and forage. After the sun rises, they hide in the shadows of corals and rocks. Resting, when resting, they will lower their heads and remain completely still. They can communicate with their nearby companions through touch, smell and secreted chemicals. Our boat has been parked on this water for a while, and it must be a coincidence. A lionfish was used as a sunshade, and a large group of lionfish came over." Xiang Yang explained.

Lionfish are at the highest level of the food web in coral reef environments.

They mainly feed on crustaceans, invertebrates and small fish that live in coral reefs.

Lionfish eat a lot, and an adult lionfish eats 8.2 times its own body weight in food every year.

The lionfish's best feeding time is around sunset, when most fish and invertebrates return to their resting places, while nocturnal fish come out to feed.

Because the surrounding animals are ready to rest, all lionfish do not need to expend too much energy to find prey.

Lionfish are silent killers of the seafloor, usually swimming silently around coral reefs when hunting for prey, inadvertently attacking and capturing their victims.

When a lionfish tries to prey on small fish, it usually spreads out all the fin rays on the chest to cover the movement of its tail fin. In addition, its own bright color blends in with the background of the coral reef, making it difficult for prey to find the lionfish.

After the lionfish catches the prey, it will swallow the prey whole by swallowing directly.

As long as the swallowing process is fast or tactful enough, other fish with the victim may not notice that their companions have been eaten. At this time, the lionfish can continue to hunt other unsuspecting fish.

Lionfish also sometimes hunt in open water.

They will observe small fish schools at a depth of 20-30 cm from the water surface. When the small fish school jumps out of the water trying to avoid another predator, the lionfish will swim very fast under the small fish school Wait for them to fall back into the water, then attack.

Also, it's worth mentioning that lionfish are straight steel fish.

If two lionfish meet while hunting, the more aggressive male darkens his body color and points his venomous spines at the weaker female, who folds her pectoral fins and swims away. Go find the next prey.

"It's time to make a decision. These lionfish should either be released immediately, or the catch should be cleaned up now, or they will dry up to death." He Mingde said.

"Let it go." Chen Qingsheng shook his head and suggested.

"Why put it?" Fang Youqun became impatient, "Wait for them to dry out and then freeze them?"

"Why freeze it? This is not edible fish." Chen Qingsheng rolled his eyes and said.

"can not eat?"

"It's not allowed to eat." Xiang Yang said with a smile: "Lionfish is also called lionfish. Lionfish was included in the "IUCN Red List of Endangered Species" in 2016. Although it is not a protected animal in our country, if we put it They're brought back alive and sold as ornamental fish and no one will say anything about us, but it's not a good idea to sell them as food fish."

"Master Zhou, let these lionfish go." Xiang Yang ordered. Regardless of the fact that these lionfish seemed to gather harmoniously under the fishing boat, in fact Xiang Yang knew that these fish were very repulsive, and if they were kept in the same tank, they would definitely fight.

If there are so many lionfish, it would be a bit of a loss for Xiang Yang if each one had to be raised in a separate fish tank. It would be fine if the fishing boat was on the return trip, but it is just out to sea now, so it is impossible to waste so many fish tanks to raise these lionfish.

"Okay." Although Zhou Wang was sorry, he didn't say anything, and directly manipulated the winch to dump all the lionfish back into the ocean.

Fang Youqun stood on the side of the boat, listening to the sound of the lionfish falling into the water, covering his heart with distress. These are all money, and any one can sell for hundreds of dollars.

The fishing net was retracted, and the fishing boat continued to set sail.

This time, Xiang Yang asked Xu Fang to continue sailing eastward, and at the same time, the boat sailed slightly southerly. Xiang Yang felt that it was time to go to the deep water area to haul a net, and he couldn't always sail in this diving area not far from the shore.

Xu Fang took Xiang Yang's order and immediately sailed the fishing boat to the deep water area.

At this time, the crew who went to sea before can finally take a good rest and recover their physical strength.

At this time, the tiger-headed sea eagle that had been staying on Xiangyang's boat suddenly uttered a loud cry, then jumped up happily, and plunged into the bottom of the ocean.

Many crew members on the ship were taken aback, and then ran to the side of the ship.

Xiang Yang was also among them, and he also stared at the sea surface. With the help of the jade shell, Xiang Yang saw that after the tiger-headed sea eagle jumped to the bottom of the sea, it was like a swan gliding in the sky with its wings folded. Very fast, even comparable to the speed at which it spreads its wings in the sky.

"Could this stupid bird see a sea snake or plan to provoke a squid?" Xiang Yang thought in his heart. During this time, the tiger-headed sea eagle was fed by the crew and there was no shortage of food. It had been without itself for many days. I went to the sea to catch food myself.

It is definitely not ordinary fish that can attract tiger-headed sea eagles to go into the sea. It is either the favorite food of tiger-headed sea eagles, or the creature that tiger-headed sea eagles hate the most.

Steller sea eagles' favorite foods are chickens, lambs, and snakes. Obviously, there are no chickens and lambs in the sea. If the tiger head sea eagle goes to the sea for food, it must have found a sea snake.

As for the animal that Steller's sea eagle hates the most?

Xiang Yang doesn't know what other tiger-headed sea eagles hate the most, but right now this tiger-headed sea eagle must hate the giant squid, because it was almost pulled underwater by a giant squid and drowned.

Soon, Xiang Yang saw the tiger-headed sea eagle dive directly into a thicket of aquatic plants on the bottom of the sea, and a pair of powerful eagle claws directly grabbed a lily that looked like a land lily, but the buds were drooping. Like a strange plant that has bloomed and withered.

The strange plant was caught by the eagle's claws of the Steller's sea eagle, and was directly uprooted from the sand on the seabed.