My Deep-sea Fishery

"When the prey swims past its mouth, the oarfish will quickly attack the prey like a spring, sucking the food into its mouth quickly."

Xiang Yang turned the oarfish over with difficulty, and continued: "Oarfish are easy to identify. Their body is as silvery as the hairtails that are much smaller than them, and there is a bright red back above the entire body."

Li Chao fixed his eyes on the oarfish, and said in surprise: "It really exists."

Since the oarfish came out of the deep sea and was discovered by humans in September 2006, many of its habits are no longer secrets.

Scientists and biologists have summed up the habits of many oarfishes.

Mid-November is the breeding season of oarfish. Countless oarfish will gather from all over the world to the South Pacific Ocean. They will form countless small groups in the South Pacific Ocean. Each group can be as small as a dozen or as many as hundreds. Like the snake group in the movie "The Plague of Anaconda", the flat and slender bodies are twisted and entangled with each other, wriggling and rolling on the seabed full of coral reefs.

The strange thing is that no matter whether it is a small oarfish group or a large oarfish group in the sea, there is only one female oarfish in it, and the rest are male oarfish suitors.

Scientists have discovered through diving robots that a female oarfish lays a total of about 100,000 eggs during breeding.

After the breeding period is over, all oarfish disappear without a trace in an instant, leaving behind patches of coral reefs that have been stained white by their eggs.

In addition, the oarfish seems to be a creature with a high degree of intelligence.

Because they can play pranks and know how to play tricks on humans.

In 2005, when a captain of the U.S. Marine Corps was driving a sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean, a huge sea monster with a twisted body suddenly appeared on the sea.

The dots of starlight on the sea set off its outline, and it looked like a string of neon lights.

The sea monster was covered in silver and white, with a huge head like a horse's head, but without ears or horns. It was decorated with white stripes on its forehead, which looked ancient and mysterious, and there was something like horse hair growing under its neck.

The captain of the U.S. Marine Corps calculated accurately that the sea monster's fins alone were at least half a meter long. Its fins were thin and blunt, like a triangular piece of iron.

The scary thing is that the sea monster is at least fifteen meters long.

As soon as the monster appeared, it rushed directly towards the sailboat, slammed into the sailboat violently, and shook the sailboat from side to side.

Just when the captain of the Marine Corps was about to shoot at the monster, the sea monster went into the bottom of the sea and disappeared without a trace.

Later, experts confirmed that the sea monster was the oarfish after comparing the pictures.

The scientists also concluded that the oarfish is a carnivorous fish.

And it was determined that the oarfish has a more ferocious temperament than ordinary sharks, and they even have the same cannibalistic behavior as crocodiles.

This is probably because the oarfish live in the deep sea where there are few other fish and food is scarce, and it finally evolved into this brutal character in order to survive.

"Mr. Xiang, are you interested in this oarfish? If not, why not pass it on to me?" Murong Zhenfei looked at Xiang Yang and said.

Xiang Yang shook his head, then nodded again, he said with a smile: "I'm a fisherman, I'm interested in all kinds of fish, but I also sell them if I'm interested, Boss Murong, if you want it, how much is this fish per catty?"

It's cheap with fish.

In Zhoushan, very fresh small-eyed hairtail costs only a dozen or twenty yuan a catty.

But oarfish is obviously not so cheap.

After all, the market has always followed the principle that the rarest is the most expensive.

Although there are a lot of oarfish on the seabed, they are extremely difficult to catch, and they are even rarer than lobster and abalone on the market.

"This fish weighs a thousand catties, right?" Murong Zhenfei first asked Xiang Yang an insignificant question.

Xiang Yang shook his head, "More than seven hundred catties, this is already considered a very large oarfish."

The teeth of such a large oarfish can tear even a fishing net, and they have been hiding at a depth of more than 800 meters on weekdays, making it almost impossible for them to be caught.

Xiang Yang was also lucky, he got such a piece by chance.

Even with the mysterious jade shell in his body, Xiang Yang didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to catch the second one in this life.

Murong Zhenfei was obviously thinking about the rarity of the oarfish, otherwise he would have looked down on this kind of fish.

Even Li Chao was a little moved. He knew how rare oarfish was. If he got it back, he would definitely be able to attract a large number of customers to him.

But Li Chao thought it over after careful consideration.

He is in the hotel business, and the hotel business attaches great importance to word-of-mouth. If the hairtail fish is not as good as expected, it will be a bad thing for him.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Chao got a batch of large yellow croakers before, and this time he brought back a bluefin tuna, so his desire for this oarfish is not great.

Murong Zhenfei could see that he really wanted to buy this fish, but he had never dealt with Xiang Yang before, this was the first time he had dealt with Xiang Yang, and now Xiang Yang asked him where he bought the oarfish How much is a catty, he doesn't know how to answer Xiang Yang.

If the asking price is lower, he is afraid that Xiang Yang will not sell it, and then he will offend Xiang Yang.

If the asking price is high, Murong Zhenfei is also worried that this oarfish will fall into his hands. After all, this fish is too rare, and he doesn't know how many people in the market can accept this kind of fish.

Murong Zhenfei tentatively asked: "How much is this fish per catty, are you willing to sell it?"

Xiang Yang said: "I don't know if this fish is delicious or not, but the rarity of this fish is worth a hundred yuan a catty, right?"

Beef costs forty or fifty yuan a catty.

How rare is this oarfish?

If it is less than one hundred yuan a catty, Xiang Yang will definitely not sell it, he can keep it for himself, anyway, he has a lot of people now, and a 700 catty oarfish is not too much to eat.

Murong Zhenfei raised his eyebrows, the price Xiang Yang offered was much lower than he had imagined.

He thought for a while and said, "Mr. Xiang, oarfish is too rare. I don't know its market. I want to take it back to make processed food. Even if there is no market, it can bring me a lot of fame. You Brother Chao and I are old acquaintances, and I don't want to take advantage of you, so I'll buy this octopus for two hundred yuan a catty."

"Yes." Xiang Yang nodded. In fact, the reason why he offered such a low price was to save Li Chao's face. Now that Murong Zhenfei wants to raise the price, Xiang Yang is naturally happy.

The weight of the oarfish is 704 catties.

Xiang Yang gave Murong Zhenfei a change and took him 140,000 yuan.