My Deep-sea Fishery

Xiang Yang is now considered an experienced captain.

The harvest in the fishing net can be roughly predicted from the back force of the fishing boat.

However, most Antarctic fish are very precious, and success or failure cannot be judged entirely by the quantity. Like Antarctic krill, it is only worth so much to drag a hundred tons back. If you come up with a thousand catties, you will be able to make a worthwhile trip.

This is why Xiang Yang insists on fishing with large meshes. Although the number of catches caught is small, a large amount of krill has been filtered, and the quality of the remaining catches will definitely improve.

Soon, the fishing net was dragged up.

I have to say that Antarctica is really rich in krill resources. Even though Xiang Yang used a large-mesh fishing net, after the net was put on the deck, there were still thousands of catties of krill in the net.

In addition, there are not a few sea creatures such as squid, and there are two icefishes.

Apart from krill, the most numerous fish in this net is a small fish with a body length of about six to seven centimeters, a grayish hemp black back, a white belly, and transparent gray fins.

"This seems to be an Antarctic toothless lionfish?" Chen Qingsheng grabbed one and asked Xiang Yang.

"Yes." Xiang Yang nodded, "It is a very rare species among the common species. This fish is a bottom-dwelling fish in Antarctica. It can usually be sold for three to four hundred yuan a catty in restaurants. But this fish is poisonous, so be careful when you clean it up."

The Antarctic toothless lionfish is a kind of lionfish. Its habitat depth is generally 60 meters underwater, and the deepest can reach 500 meters under the sea. Although it is not big, it is indeed a very ferocious carnivorous fish. After ripening, it is crystal clear like snow and melts in the mouth. It is a very precious Antarctic seafood treasure.

"Use the harpoon to spread the catch first, it's time to clean up the catch." Xiang Yang said.

Chen Qingsheng nodded immediately. Before cleaning up the catch, it was already a practice on Xiang Yang's boat to grill it with a harpoon. The main purpose was to confirm that there were no dangerous marine life hidden in the catch.

Several crew members held rakes with extra-long handles to push the pile of catches.

One of the crew members pushed a few times, but did not push.

Just as he was about to walk over to have a look curiously, the fish pile suddenly moved by itself, and the gray-white dog's head that had always been covered in appearance came out of the krill pile, and then looked at the crew member with a silly smile.

The crew member immediately took a few steps back in fright, "Sea, seal."

"Don't be afraid." Xiang Yang pressed the crewman's shoulders, and then shouted to the rioting crew members around: "This is not a leopard seal, it's a Weald seal, and it won't attack people."

Xiang Yang shouted several times in a row, and the crew gradually calmed down.

In fact, it's no wonder the crew were so scared.

When they were on the ice floes, the fleet encountered a leopard seal, and that guy was very ferocious.

Now on the deck, they don't have gas tanks in their hands. If they are attacked by seals, it is no joke.

Xiang Yang comforted the crew and said, "Wild seals are a very cute species in Antarctica. Under normal circumstances, they will not attack humans."

In fact, the appearance of Weald seals is very similar to that of leopard seals, but the nose is shorter than that of leopard seals, and the body size is also much smaller.

"It's really strange. We dragged the net for more than an hour this time, but this Weald seal was not drowned." Chen Qingsheng was very puzzled.

Xiang Yang smiled, "If it takes longer, you will really drown, but how do you know that it was caught in the fishing net just after we cast the net, not accidentally fell into the fishing net when we were about to lift the net?" ?”

Weald seals are the most capable of diving of all seal species. They can dive as deep as 700 meters underwater and can dive for up to 70 minutes.

"Dig it out of the krill." Xiang Yang ordered.

"Yes, Captain."

The crew acted immediately and quickly pulled the Weald seal out of the krill pile.

That Weald seal didn't seem to be afraid of humans at all.

After it was dug out from the krill pile by the crew, it neither escaped nor hid. Instead, it lay on its back on the deck, holding the fork of a harpoon with its two front fins and refusing to let go, as if a kitten was attacking humans. Acting like a baby.

"Captain, what?" The crew member was afraid of hurting the Weald seal, holding the harpoon at a loss.

Xiang Yang bent down, picked up a squid weighing about one catty from the fish pile, and handed it to the Weald seal.

The wild seal immediately let go of the harpoon and hugged the squid with its front fins, but instead of eating it, it looked at Xiang Yang with a cute expression.

Xiang Yang sighed, "This Weald seal won't live long."

"What do you mean?" Chen Qingsheng was startled, "Is it because we dragged it on the bottom of the sea for too long and hurt its lungs?"

"No." Xiang Yang shook his head, the chubby body of the ordinary Weald seal is synonymous with being cute and bloated.

Although this Weald seal is cute, its body is not bloated at all. It can be seen that it has not eaten for a long time.

"Look at its mouth." Xiang Yang opened the Weald seal's mouth.

At first, the wild seal shook its head, avoiding Xiang Yang's hands, but after being comforted by Xiang Yang for a while, it suddenly opened its mouth obediently.

Chen Qingsheng lowered his head and took a look into the mouth of the Weald seal, and immediately dared not answer: "How could this happen?"

It turned out that the teeth of this Weald seal had almost completely melted, and only a little bit of broken teeth could be seen in the decayed gums.

"Wild seals are very weird. They like diving very much. Each dive lasts 20 to 30 minutes, and the longest can reach 70 minutes. In fact, it's okay to like diving, but Wild seals also like the cold very much. As long as they go Under the water, they especially like to swim under the ice surface, and they can't control their own diving time. When they are under the ice surface and need to breathe, they are sealed under the ice block and can only desperately Gnaw big chunks of ice, gnaw a hole out of the ice, and then breathe, if you gnaw too much, or a piece of ice is too thick, it will become like this." Xiang Yang shrugged.

Xiang Yang once watched a documentary in which a Weald seal was so stuffy under a piece of ice that was one meter thick that it could only recklessly bite the ice. In the end, its mouth was worn out and its teeth were smoothed out Although it escaped from under the ice, it could no longer eat. In just two weeks, the chubby Weald seal was so skinny that it starved to death on the ice.

Xiang Yang murmured about the head of the Weddell seal, "Actually, this Weddell seal is quite lucky, at least it may have come out from under the ice. Many Weddell seals have not bitten through the ice under the ice, because He was suffocated to death from lack of oxygen and physical exhaustion."