My Deep-sea Fishery

Geoduck is also called geoduck, which is a creature that looks very similar to a pearl oyster after death.

Its biological name is the Pacific mud clam, also known as the emperor clam and the goddess clam.

Geoduck is its trade name.

The geoduck is the largest known bivalves in the world. Its shell is about 18-23 cm long, and the water pipe can be extended to 1.3 meters. The water pipe cannot be retracted into the shell. It can reach 3.6 kg and is a large shellfish of the clam genus.

Xiang Yang stared at a boat that was less than five meters long with glowing eyes.

To be precise, he was staring at the live water tank of that ship.

In the living water tank of that boat, several geoducks were lying there.

The largest of them had a fan shell as big as a cattail fan. Xiang Yang estimated that it weighed at least two catties.

The water pipe of the geoduck looks like a fat intestine, and it also looks like the trunk of an elephant, which is how the name of the geoduck comes from.

This is an extremely valuable seafood.

my country began to introduce geoduck in 1998, and currently there are large-scale aquaculture production areas in the southeast coast, and the price of the cultivated geoduck is frighteningly high.

Find a small and exquisite seafood restaurant in Sanya, and order a geoduck that is about half the price, and the price is at least as high as 800 yuan.

Of course, its farming cost requires this price.

Farmed geoducks feed on single-celled algae in seawater.

Wild geoducks also filter feed on sediment and organic detritus.

The biggest difficulty in raising geoduck is that it has a lot of natural enemies. In the entire ocean, almost all meat-eating animals are its natural enemies. Its main enemies are sea crabs, starfish, sea snails and plaice and other fish. kind.

Although the shell of a geoduck is as big as a cattail fan, its shell is actually a burden. It is thin and brittle, and it will break when touched. It has almost no self-protection ability in the ocean.

Generally, if you do aquaculture, if you put one million geoduck seedlings down, it would be good if you can get back 100,000 in the end, and the remaining 900,000 will either be eaten by crabs or eaten by fish.

Moreover, the growth rate of geoduck is very slow, and the return rate is also very slow.

The shell of a geoduck that has been raised for one year is 5-6 cm long and weighs 36-40 grams.

The shells of geoducks raised for two years are 8-10 cm long and weigh 200-250 grams. Most seafood shops sell geoducks of this size, and the bigger ones are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

A geoduck that has been raised for three years is only 10-12 centimeters long and weighs about one catty.

It takes four years for the shells of geoduck to grow to more than 13 centimeters, and the weight is about one and a half catties. More than 90% of the geoducks raised here are concentrated in those big hotels. No need to sell.

And as the age increases, the shell growth of geoduck will become slower and slower.

However, the soft growth of the geoduck can still continue. It is difficult to estimate how long it can grow to the maximum, because its life span can reach more than 100 years. send away.

Xiang Yang looked at these geoducks carefully, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the water pipes of these geoducks were all off-white.

Generally speaking, geoduck species can be divided into two types: mud clam and sand clam. The neck of geoduck that grows in sand is whiter, while the neck of geoduck that grows in mud is darker.

The sand clam without impurities and odor is also regarded as the top grade of geoduck.

The main edible part of sand mussels is the water pipe, which is the pluck.

The plucked meat is cut into a small piece of square shape. After simple cooking, the plucked meat is white and flawless, the meat is tender and refreshing, and the taste is extremely fresh.

The value of wild geoduck is very expensive, and it belongs to the same grade as abalone, shark's fin, and sea cucumber.

"Did you raise these geoducks?" Xiang Yang shouted down the boat.

"Nonsense, if we don't raise it, should we return it to you?" A young man with a crew cut said angrily.

"Xiaofeng, shut up for me." An elderly and skinny fisherman next to him immediately yelled at the young man.

Then, he looked at Xiang Yang and said with a smile: "This is contracted by our village. Boss, if you want to salvage it, I'm afraid it won't work."

Xiang Yang learned about it after talking with the old fisherman.

It turned out that they were all fishermen from a nearby fishing village. Their island was the center, and they used iron nails to pull the nets. They stocked a lot of geoducks near the island. These geoducks belonged to the common property of the whole village. After the sale, the money itself can only get one-tenth of the labor remuneration, and the rest will be handed over to the village committee for distribution, but even so, many people come here every night to salvage geoduck .

Because even if they can only get one-tenth of the salary, they can earn hundreds of dollars a night on average.

As for why they didn't wear diving suits to salvage, it turned out that they were not willing to buy diving suits, let alone that they couldn't afford diving suits.

This is the regulation of their village. The geoducks here, as long as they are people in their village, can come and salvage at will, but the amount of salvage should not be too large each time, and the water should be kept flowing.

At the beginning, the village head didn't say that they couldn't come down in a diving suit.

However, there are always some people who do not consciously salvage a lot of geoduck clams every night, and some even salvage geoduck seedlings, which makes other people in the village very unhappy. So later, they came up with this method. The villagers were dispatched together, and during the harvest season, no one was allowed to wear diving suits into the water in this sea area during the rest of the time.

As for why no order was given, it was simply that everyone was not allowed to enter the water in this area, and it was just a one-size-fits-all approach.

That's because geoducks are very precious. If no one is sent to guard them nearby, it is guaranteed that they will be missed by thieves every day.

And finding a security guard on this lonely desert island in the sea is not cheap.

Moreover, it is impossible for a security guard to guard such a large sea area, so in the end, the villagers unanimously agreed to this management method.

After Xiang Yang learned the truth, he immediately lost interest in this place.

Nonsense, this is a place contracted by others, and there are so many people there, Xiang Yang can't go down to salvage, let alone go down to steal, what else can he do if he doesn't leave?

In the end, the skinny old fisherman stopped Xiang Yang, "Boss, our geoducks are all natural, do you want to take some away?"

When Xiang Yang heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately lost his favor with the fisherman. Xiang Yang said in a cold voice, "You mean, sell these geoducks of yours to me? This is the property of all of you. There are so many of them. People are nearby, you sold it to me privately, are you not afraid of being seen?"

These geoducks are of excellent quality, Xiang Yang certainly wants them.

But even if Xiang Yang wanted to make a deal, he would go to this person's village, not this person.