My Deep-sea Fishery

After Xiang Yang told Gao Chuang about his worries, Gao Chuang didn't speak for a long time.

In fact, Gao Chuang was also hesitant.

The deeper the fleet sailed into the Weddell Sea, the more ice floes on the sea surface.

Now that Xiang Yang looks around, there is almost no sea water around. The entire sea surface is like a broken egg shell, with small pieces of ice floes everywhere, and occasionally a very huge one appears. ice cubes.

The fleet sailed in the Weddell Sea, as if shuttling through the cracks between the broken eggshells.

"We can't go any further, otherwise, we won't even be able to turn around in a while." Xiang Yang whispered to Gao Chuang on the walkie-talkie.

Nowadays, every time the fleet travels one meter, there will be fishing boats colliding with some small pieces of ice floes, making a huge roar.

Soon, Gao Chuang compromised, "Well, this situation is really not suitable for the fleet to move forward. Let's stop at the spot and wait for two days to see the wind direction before making any further plans."

Hearing this, Xiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that the stubborn old man Gao Chuang's temper would turn stubborn at this juncture.

According to Xiang Yang's experience, with this amount of ice floes, if the fleet continues to move forward, it is likely to be trapped in nine out of ten.

If Gao Chuang insisted on sailing forward again, then Xiang Yang would have to think about whether he should leave the fleet and return alone.

Because of the large amount of ice floes, the speed of the fleet is not fast, and it is not difficult to stop.

Soon, the fleet stopped in a large piece of end-to-end ice floes.

Fang Youqun walked to the bow of the boat and glanced under the side of the boat, "Damn it, with so much ice floe, can our fishing boat turn around in a while?"

Holding a thermos cup in both hands, Xiang Yang silently took a sip, then looked at Xu Fang who was beside him.

Xu Fang frowned first, and then slowly opened it again, "No problem, captain, the ice floes on the sea seem to be numerous and scary, but they are actually not big. As long as our ship is no longer Continue to go deeper into the Southern Continent, this bit of ice floes won't be able to trap us."

Xiang Yang nodded, "Always pay attention to changes in the ice on the water surface, and don't be careless."

"Don't worry, captain, even if you don't tell me, I will pay attention to observe." Chen Qingsheng laughed.

Xiang Yang nodded, and then went directly to Gao Chuang's ocean-going processing mothership through the detection board, found Gao Chuang, and discussed with him what to do next.

Gao Chuang was instructing the people on the boat to sink the cage-like objects into the sea water one by one.

Seeing Xiang Yang coming, Gao Chuang asked in surprise, "Xiang Yang, it's finally arrived in the Weddell Sea. You're not fishing on a boat, so why did you come to me?"

Xiang Yang glanced at the bottom of the water, "Most of the fishery resources in this sea area are Antarctic krill, and we have already caught a lot of them on board."

"How much do you have, do you dare to say more?"

Gao Chuang shook his head with a smile, "Don't underestimate this kind of small shrimp. In the Weddell Sea, the Antarctic krill is more than the total food production in the world."

In 2019, the world's total grain output was only 2.722 billion tons, which also includes grain products such as wheat, barley, rice, corn, soybeans, mung beans, sorghum and millet, and sweet potatoes.

However, the krill reserves in the Weddell Sea area are conservatively estimated to be more than 5 billion tons, which is equivalent to twice the world's total food production, and in the entire Antarctic, the total amount of krill may exceed 10 billion tons, which is four times the total grain reserves in the world.

Xiang Yang shook his head and said: "After all, it's not a valuable seafood, and it's useless to catch too much."

Although Antarctic krill has a high nutritional content, with a protein content of more than 50%, far exceeding any food crop, and the content of vitamin A and astaxanthin is not low, so Antarctic krill is extremely valuable for development. The world-recognized granary of the future of mankind.

But in any case, Antarctic krill is not worth much at this time.

Xiang Yang felt that it was not cost-effective to catch a boat of krill that was not very valuable at such a long distance and risk being trapped in the Weddell Sea with the boat.

"That's because you don't understand the value of Antarctic krill resources, otherwise you wouldn't say that." Gao Chuang said.

Hearing this, Xiang Yang raised his eyebrows, "Is there any other way to say this thing?"

"Um."

Gao Chuang nodded and said, "Currently, all countries in the world are paying more and more attention to the possibility and utilization of Antarctic krill. Even the Russians who have announced that they have given up Antarctic krill fishing have refocused their attention on Antarctic krill this year."

Xiang Yang nodded. Xiang Yang knew about this. In May of this year, the Russian Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography sent more than a dozen experts to the Antarctic waters to investigate Antarctic krill, paving the way for future large-scale fishing. .

It is said that Russia's largest aquaculture company is planning to spend huge sums of money to go to the Antarctic this year, planning to catch more than 600 million dollars of Antarctic krill.

Gao Chuang patted Xiang Yang on the shoulder, "Nowadays, our country is paying more and more attention to the potential value of Antarctic krill. All capable countries in the world are beginning to carve up this piece of cake that is almost free. One of the countries with the most capacity, it is not doing enough in this regard.”

Xiang Yang nodded. This is a fact. my country's fishing business started late, with less fishing, and it is indeed not as good as those developed countries in terms of equipment.

"Therefore, my country, which has realized that krill resources are very important for future food sources, food security and national nutrition acquisition, attaches great importance to the fishing of Antarctic krill." Gao Chuang said.

When Xiang Yang heard this, he immediately became serious.

As the saying goes, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Although Xiang Yang is just a small fisherman, he is not so ignorant.

If this krill resource is really a resource that is valued at the national level, even if it loses money, Xiang Yang will have to take a big boat back.

Gao Chuang took out his mobile phone from his pocket, clicked on a document and handed it to Xiang Yang, "At present, the annual international catch of Antarctic krill is 6.2 million tons, and blue whales, penguins, waterfowl and fish eat about About 300 million tons of Antarctic krill have been lost, but Antarctic krill resources are still very rich, and some biologists even believe that Antarctic krill is a bug in the biological chain on the earth."

Xiang Yang carefully recalled the scenes of krill he saw underwater a few times before.

The dense Antarctic krill is like a hornet's nest, almost invisible at a glance.

Once, Xiang Yang stood on the deck and looked under the water surface, a large group of orange-red Antarctic krill, like a red magma river, was boundless at all.