My Deep-sea Fishery

Cooking smoke curled up, carrying a tangy aroma, which made many people on the boat swallow their saliva involuntarily.

It may be because of the scent that many seabirds are attracted around the fishing boat, but it may be that they are afraid of the fierceness of the Steller's sea eagle. Those seabirds dare not land on the deck, but only dare to flap around the fishing boat.

On the contrary, there are many fish in the sea water, swimming to the side of the boat.

Even Xiang Yang saw a group of big guys.

It was a herd of walruses.

"There are so many walruses in Antarctica." Fang Youqun said while gnawing on grilled squid while pointing in one direction in surprise.

In the direction Fang Youqun pointed, there was a large group of walruses churning in the sea.

They have large bodies with thick, wrinkled skin.

Xiang Yang's eyesight was very good, and he could see the sparse setae on the skin of those walruses.

Xiang Yang said with a smile: "There are only a few dozen walruses. In the walrus family, they can only be regarded as the smallest group."

Like elephants, walruses live in packs.

An explorer once took a picture of tens of thousands of walruses gathering together on the beach of a deserted island. That scene was really a gathering of walruses, boundless.

"These walruses are so ugly. They have such long teeth, but short noses and no ear shells. They look much uglier than fur seals." Fang Youqun said with a look of disgust.

Xiang Yang smiled, but didn't speak.

In terms of appearance, walruses are naturally not as good-looking as elephants on land.

Elephants on land have fat heads and big ears, limbs like pillars, and a long nose.

Unlike the walrus, the walrus's limbs have degenerated into fins to adapt to life in the water. Although this allows it to swim faster in the ocean, it prevents it from walking on land like an elephant.

Walruses are generally only able to move in the ocean and on ice.

When on ice, walruses can crawl forward on the ice by relying on the combination of the hind flippers bending forward and the fangs piercing the ice.

"Don't watch it, don't watch it, these things are too ugly, and it will affect my appetite again." Fang Youqun turned his head and said.

When Xiang Yang heard this, he couldn't help laughing, "The walrus doesn't look very good, but if it affects your eating, it's not that bad, right?"

"Why not? Look at those guys, they look like pigs in a pigsty rolling in the sea." Fang Youqun said with a look of disgust.

"Huh?"

Just as he was talking, Fang Youqun suddenly stopped. He looked at the walruses with bright eyes and asked, "Brother Yang, I remember that ivory is very valuable. Do you think these walrus teeth are worth much?"

Xiang Yang shook his head, "You think too much, the teeth of elephants are regarded as gems, the teeth of the ocean are too rough, they are nothing compared to ivory, otherwise, how can we see so many in the sea now? walrus?"

When Fang Youqun heard this, he was completely uninterested in these walruses.

"It's so ugly, it's worthless, don't watch it, don't watch it, I really can't eat anymore." Fang Youqun muttered.

Xiang Yang squinted his eyes, and continued to look at the walruses.

Those walruses were still some distance away from the fishing boat, and the walruses had very poor eyesight, almost as if they were blind.

Even if it is such a large fishing boat, they may not necessarily be able to see it.

But walruses have a very keen sense of smell.

Xiang Yang was sure that those walruses must have come here smelling the smell of barbecue, but they might have been frightened by such a huge fishing boat, so they dared not get close to the fishing boat.

Speaking of which, these walruses are quite lucky. In Antarctica, they are almost at the top of the food chain. Because of their ugly appearance and low value, even fishermen are unwilling to catch them.

Those walruses that live in the Arctic are not so lucky.

Polar bears often turn to walruses when food is in short supply.

Every year, a large number of walruses are killed by polar bears.

Suddenly, Xiang Yang found that those walruses panicked, and all of them frantically paddled their fins and swam towards the distance.

"Huh? The walrus would run away, could it be that a killer whale is coming?" Xiang Yang was quite puzzled.

Walruses have rough skin and thick flesh. In the entire Antarctic, killer whales are almost the only ones that can kill walruses.

In addition to killer whales, even leopard seals can hardly kill walruses.

However, killer whales generally do not hunt walruses.

It's not that walruses are very light in combat, and killer whales will be injured if they kill walruses.

But sea creatures like walruses are very timid. Once they encounter killer whales, they will run away desperately and quickly climb onto the ice.

Killer whales can't get on ice, so there's nothing they can do about walruses.

"There are no obvious waves on the sea surface, so it shouldn't be a killer whale." Wu Shiwen, who came to eat and drink on Xiangyang's boat, stood up and said.

Xiang Yang smiled and said: "That's not necessarily true. If the killer whale attacks from the bottom of the sea, even if there are waves, it will be under the bottom of the sea. You can't see it. Hey, what is that thing?"

"It's a stinging jellyfish." Wu Shiwen said with a serious expression.

The stinging jellyfish is also a very dangerous jellyfish. It is transparent in appearance and looks like a crystal ball. In fact, the poison is very strong. Adult men only need to touch it once, and the pain will be worse than death.

If someone encounters a stinging jellyfish in the sea, they will often pass out from the pain, and then drown in the sea alive.

"What's there to be afraid of? We've even fished out box jellyfish, afraid of stinging jellyfish? Then drink, then barbecue." Chen Qingsheng pulled Wu Shiwen's wrist, motioning him to sit down.

"It doesn't matter what kind of jellyfish it is, as long as we don't get into the water, they will have nothing to do with us." Xiang Yang also said with a smile.

After thinking for a while, Xiang Yang said, "I'm not afraid even underwater. Although the diving suit on our boat can't withstand the bite of hammerhead sharks, I'm not afraid of the toxins of jellyfish."

After Wu Shiwen listened, he sat down slowly again, but it was obvious that he was restless now, and he kept looking at the sea from the corner of his eyes.

"Why are there so many stinging jellyfish here? You see, from the ice floes over there to the wave position here, there are looming stinging jellyfish everywhere. I'm afraid there must be tens of thousands of them." Wu Shiwen Said.

Xiang Yang said with a smile: "The biggest natural enemy of jellyfish is sea turtles. In Antarctica, except for special sea turtles such as thaupis, there are almost no sea turtles. There are no natural enemies, and with sufficient food, it is not very easy to reproduce. something?"

When Wu Shiwen heard this, he nodded his head thoughtfully, "That's right, coupled with the fact that there are few traces of human activities in Antarctica, and no humans deliberately salvage them, this number is indeed easy to reproduce."