Golden Fishery

After the Spring Festival, Qin Shiou ordered another batch of shrimp traps through Bigfoot Reyek. This time, he ordered a thousand pairs or two thousand. One harvest, if it goes well, he can collect five to ten tons Lobster.

For the current seafood market, five to ten tons of Maine lobsters is a considerable fortune. If the quality of these Maine lobsters is high, the value will be even more difficult to estimate.

The impact of Kiefella lobster on the North American lobster market has begun to show its power this year.

Qin Shiou remembered that when he went to Winnie's house for Christmas for the first time, Winnie's father Mario complained that he usually bought a pair of two-pound lobsters for a little more than one hundred Canadian dollars, but that time he was satisfied. It took four hundred Canadian dollars to get such a pair of lobsters.

Of course, it was also affected by Christmas, when no matter what kind of seafood, there will be a premium.

But now in the market, even in ordinary times, you can buy a pair of two-pound Boston lobsters for four hundred Canadian dollars!

In the past, if it was the autumn lobster fishing season, such a pair of lobsters only cost 40 Canadian dollars. Of course, the production of lobster in spring is less, and the price is more expensive, but at most it is 100 Canadian dollars, and now the premium has reached 400%!

After Butler arrived, Qin Shiou ordered the fishermen to place shrimp traps in the fishing grounds. The newly ordered 2,000 cages plus the 200 cages purchased when he went to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to catch lobsters made a total of 2,200 fish Shrimp pots were put into the fishing ground together.

Seeing the fishermen setting the shrimp pots with confidence, Barrett's dark face was full of surprises: "Oh, Xue Te. Qin, there are still lobsters in your fishery? As far as I know, your fishery is not Are you only two years old?"

Lobsters grow slowly, typically taking six years to grow to 1 pound. In the U.S. and Canada, the minimum size for a legally caught live lobster—measured by carapace length—is 325 inches, or about a pound.

In other words, lobsters must be at least six or seven years old before they meet the fishing regulations. According to estimates, about 85-90% of the lobsters caught each year in North America can meet this legal size.

That's why Butler was curious. Qin Shiou took over the Daqin Fishery just two years ago, and the fishery had a good harvest of lobsters?

really. The Daqin Fishing Ground really has a bumper harvest of lobsters.

The magical effects of Seagod's energy are endless, and Qin Shiou still hasn't figured it out yet. After bluefin tuna absorbed Seagod's energy, their growth rate did not speed up, but the meat quality improved a lot. And after the lobster absorbed the Seagod's energy, it continued to skyrocket!

Like the crayfish in Qin Shiou's hometown,

Maine coon lobsters have to molt many times in their lives before they can grow up. They moult about 2 to 3 times a year when they are young, and mould about once a year when they are adults. When it is long enough to produce, it basically needs to be shelled fourteen or five times.

The lobsters in Daqin Fishing Farm can molt once a month, and it’s no problem if they molt more than ten times a year. So it will take more than a year to produce. Qin Shiou watched the seabed of the fishing ground, and the lobster group was mighty. There is no shortage of large lobsters weighing more than ten pounds.

In normal times, lobsters grow to a weight of fifteen pounds. That would take fifty years! But in Daqin Fishing Ground, their growth rate only depends on how much Seagod energy they absorb. The more you grow, the faster you grow.

Qin Shiou has also considered this issue. He believes that the evolution of species by Sea God's energy is in the direction that they must survive.

For example, bluefin tuna, the higher the fat ratio in their meat, the more energy they store, the stronger their swimming ability, and the stronger their ability to survive, so the Poseidon energy increases the fat content in their meat.

When it comes to Maine lobsters, because there are things like Kiefella lobster in the seawater, they need a more indestructible carapace to protect themselves, so they continue to molt—every time a lobster changes its shell, the texture of the carapace will change. Get stronger and better.

It is also the lobster that can confirm his guess. There are two kinds of lobsters in Daqin Fishing Farm. One is the rainbow lobster that was raised for the first time. The carapace of this lobster is mutated and has a dreamlike color. It is extremely hard and is not afraid of collisions and germs. Growth is slow.

The fast growing ones are the lobsters introduced later. Their carapaces have not mutated into iridescent colors. They are not much different from ordinary Maine lobsters in appearance, and the hardness of their carapaces is not much different, so their moulting speed is very fast, and their growth rate is very fast. It's also fast.

Hearing Butler's question, Qin Shiou explained with a calm expression: "Man, the reason is very simple. These lobsters are left over from the fishery. I think you should know that before I came, my fishery was vacant for at least twenty years , including a ten-year blank period!"

"No one has come to catch fish in the past twenty years?" Barrett asked in disbelief.

Qin Shiou shrugged and said: "Of course not. This is my grandfather's private fishing ground. He is very prestigious on the island. Without his permission, fishermen would rather go out to sea than come to his fishing ground to fish. That's why there is such a thing. Many lobster and marine fish resources."

"It's really a successful recuperation." Butler said with emotion, "Qin, you are so lucky to take advantage of it. I am very jealous of you, very much!"

As he said that, he still didn't believe it: "Then no one came to steal fish? I think in those days, no one helped you watch the fishing ground."

Qin Shiou secretly scolded his grandson for being cunning and difficult to deal with, so he continued to explain: "They will come to steal fish, but who would be interested in worthless lobsters? You know, Canada used to produce 70,000 tons of lobsters every year!"

Butler was finally fooled and nodded in agreement with Qin Shiou's statement.

Because of the long and narrow coastline and relatively few fishermen, Canada has always been rich in lobster resources, and the caught Maine lobster accounts for about half of the total lobster production in North America.

About 75% of the lobsters are caught by small fishing vessels. They usually operate in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the waters of Newfoundland. There is no need to steal and they can be fished openly.

And if it weren't for the Kiefella lobster attack, lobster fishing is not profitable, so who wants to take the risk of being caught to catch something worthless? Pollock and Atlantic cod can be much more expensive.

This is also one of the reasons why Butler said Qin Shiou was lucky. As soon as he took over the fishery, the world lobster market fell into turmoil, which happened to allow him to take the opportunity to make a fortune.

Qin Shiou asked Butler to go to the villa for a coffee break. The bearded man dragged a chair and sat on the pier, and said, "No, no, buddy, I won't go. I want to stay here. I really like the fishing ground in spring."

"I have been to many places, and the scenery I have seen is beautiful, but your fishing ground has the most beautiful sea water I have ever seen. Every time I see this crystal clear sea water, my beating prodigal heart, It will be quiet." The bearded man began to express his emotions.

Qin Shiou touched his forehead and asked, "Do you have a fever or are you flirting?"

Butler: "..." (to be continued...)

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