My Deep-sea Fishery

Xu Fang nodded immediately, "Okay Captain, I'll go to the pilothouse right now."

After speaking, Xu Fang ran towards the upper cabin without looking back.

"Old Xu is really impatient." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.

Xiang Yang shook his head, "Master Xu is worried about other people sailing the boat. In addition, I guess he wants to use the power of the fishing boat to resist the wind when the fishing boat starts."

"Let him go, the snow has stopped, since it's called a blizzard, the wind won't blow for long." Xiang Yang said with a smile.

Hearing this, Chen Qingsheng looked out the window, then smiled forcedly, and said nothing. He doesn't have such a good attitude as Xiang Yang, and he is upset now.

"Boom!"

Just then, there was a loud bang from the impact on the window.

The loud noise was a bit strange, it didn't look like something heavy was hitting the glass, but it was like someone was slapping the window vigorously with a slap.

Xiang Yang and Fang Youqun hurriedly looked out the window.

"What is this? A piece of green rag?" Chen Qingsheng asked in surprise.

Xiang Yang looked out of the window carefully, the green rag-like thing was covered with small holes, and there were tiny bone needles in the body, and there were silk thread-like things entwined between the bone needles.

"This is a bowl of sponge." Xiang Yang said firmly.

The body structure of the bowl sponge is simpler than that of ordinary sponges, and it does not even have obvious tissue differentiation. The whole body is generally composed of two layers of cells.

"A kind of sponge?" Chen Qingsheng asked.

Xiang Yang nodded, "That's right, the bowl sponge generally likes to live in the ocean with big waves and fast currents. It looks like a piece of rag, but if you look carefully, you will find that it actually has a good streamlined shape." Body shape, able to adapt well to the impact of waves and currents."

As he said that, Xiang Yang shrugged his shoulders, "But this time the wind and waves on the sea surface were really too big, so this bowl of sea surface inevitably suffered bad luck. The wind and waves blown from the bottom of the sea floor and smashed on the glass of our cabin. superior."

Chen Qingsheng rubbed his head, "There is such a strange sponge. The sponges I have seen before are usually upright."

"That's because those sponges live in slow-flowing or calm seas, and no matter what their size is, they are given by the environment," Xiang Yang said.

The bowl sponge is an extremely rare sponge that can survive in the extremely harsh environment of Antarctica.

Xiang Yang said: "In the body of the bowl sponge, there are a large amount of sponge silk and the filter-feeding ditch system, which makes the bowl sponge unique in the animal world. It can lie quietly in the cold sea water of the Antarctic, without eating or drinking Live a long, long life without exercising."

When humans first discovered bowl sponges, they mistook them for a plant.

Because the divers stayed at the bottom of the water for a long time, they didn't see the bowl sponge eating, didn't see the bowl sponge drinking, and didn't see the bowl sponge moving. One bowl sponge after another was lying in the cold sea water, just like a flower. Like a huge flower.

In fact, it's not surprising that the diver misunderstood.

Because the bowl sponge is really like a plant, even the color is the same as the flower, colorful, there are bright red, light green, brown, brown and so on.

Chen Qingsheng was quite puzzled: "You don't need to eat, you don't need to drink, and you don't need to exercise. Isn't this just a plant?"

Xiang Yang shook his head, "No, it's just that humans didn't see it. In fact, bowl sponges can't be classified as plants even if they don't have a nervous system."

Although the bowl sponge does not have a nervous system, if worms or other small fish and shrimps touch the water outlet of the bowl sponge, the muscles of the bowl sponge will contract instantly, making the water outlet smaller or closed in between, so as to hunt prey .

In addition, bowl sponges are dangerous sea creatures.

When the bowl sponge is attacked by other sea creatures, it can release a highly toxic substance to protect itself.

"This bowl sponge is dead, will it leave toxins on our ship?" Chen Qingsheng pointed to the bowl sponge outside the window that was blown out of the sea by the blizzard, and then smashed heavily on the glass of the cabin and became torn apart.

"Dead?" Xiang Yang looked at Chen Qingsheng strangely, "You don't think the bowl sponge died so easily, did you? If the bowl sponge died so easily, it would have been extinct long ago."

"Impossible, the whole body was smashed down by such a heavy force, and it was split apart, so he still isn't dead?" Chen Qingsheng asked.

Xiang Yang shook his head, "The vitality of the bowl sponge is stronger than that of ordinary sponges. It has the jaw-dropping immortality function. Let alone the body is split, even if you go out now and tear it into pieces, then Throw it into the sea again, it will not die, but every fragment can regenerate its body and become complete bowl sponges again."

"What?"

Chen Qingsheng gasped, "So, this thing can also divide and reproduce?"

Xiang Yang nodded.

Like other sponges, bowl sponges are capable of multiplying into a whole new individual with just the slightest fragment.

In the Red Sea, there are fishermen who specially chop the bowl sponge into small pieces, then tie them with ropes, throw the pieces into the seawater, and wait for a year or so before pulling up the ropes. , you can get a complete bowl of sponge.

In the last century, many fishermen on the Red Sea used this method to artificially breed bowl sponges and gained a lot of wealth.

"Boom!"

At this moment, there was another loud noise outside the cabin window.

Xiang Yang and Chen Qingsheng immediately looked out the window.

A very ugly monkfish with a lantern in front of its head hit the deck heavily.

"It's actually a monkfish. If this fish is not blown away by the strong wind, then I will take it. This fish won't sell for much." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.

Xiang Yang also laughed when he heard the words, "That's right, but it's delicious."

"It seems that this blizzard has blown a lot of marine life into the air, and now the wind is slowly getting weaker, and it is no longer enough to blow these big marine life." Xiang Yang said with a relaxed face.

"That's right, the sound of the wind outside is getting smaller, and our fishing boat is no longer shaking, and the blizzard is getting smaller." Chen Qingsheng said excitedly.

"Don't be too happy too early. Look at the three cargo ships. They are not drifting now, but their hulls are shaking violently. We are not completely out of danger yet." Xiang Yang's face suddenly became serious again.

Chen Qingsheng also nodded cautiously, he didn't say anything silly about the three cargo ships having nothing to do with him and the others.

Not to mention that everyone is in the same fleet, even those three cargo ships really have nothing to do with Xiang Yang. According to the Maritime Convention and the Navigation Regulations, as long as there is a shipwreck at sea, everyone around must stick out. Helping hands, this is not a virtue, it is an obligation that must be followed when going to sea.