Golden Fishery

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The water column ejected by the bowhead whale is V-shaped, and the water pressure is so strong that it can eject five or six meters high, like two fountains.

After one right whale spouted water jets, other right whales followed suit and started jetting water jets one after another. One of them happened to be right next to the Melon Princess, and the water splashed on the ship!

Winnie sprinkled these fish pieces in batches. The right whales are all big-bellied men, and they haven’t eaten enough yet. They leaned out after finding no fish pieces in the water. This time, they were not just floating around , Half of the head sticks out.

"Wow, what a bunch of greedy guys." Winnie smiled, waving her hands again and again, and shouted, "Goodbye, big guys, it's gone, there's no food, you have to hunt for it yourself!"

The right whale was unable to stand upright in the water for too long, and then got tired and went back into the water one after another. At this time, the Melon Princess continued to drive, heading north.

After driving for a while, the sea monster in the cab came out with a smile and said, "From the fish finder, these guys are still following us."

Shaq exclaimed: "≡How is it possible, the swimming speed of right whales is very slow, they can't keep up with our fishing boats!"

The sea monster shrugged and said, "Maybe they just burst out with great energy after eating and drinking? But they are following. If you don't believe me, go and see in the cab."

Qin Shiou also found it incredible that the right whale's swimming speed was very slow, and it couldn't keep up with the ship that was traveling at a speed of 40 to 50 kilometers per hour. So he guessed that the bodyguards in the water were too close.

Sure enough, the Seagod's consciousness entered the water to take a look. The giant monster and the black overlord were speeding up like a game, and he quickly controlled them. He also gave orders to the sea pythons behind to make them dive deep and swim outwards.

The weather gets colder as you go north. Before, Qin Shiou was interested in blowing the sea breeze outside and teasing tigers, leopards, bears and wolves. After entering the Labrador waters, he lost this interest. At most, he would bask in the sun outside at noon.

Usually free, Qin Shiou kept releasing the sea god consciousness. After entering the Red Bay in the Labrador waters, a sunken ship more than 20 meters long appeared on the bottom of the sea.

Seeing the sunken ship, Qin Daguan was refreshed. This ship is a three-masted sailing ship. It looks like a large wooden ship commonly used in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It has a ram and a family crest on the bow. It looks a bit like a treasure ship.

But look closer,

He found that there were four small wooden boats at the rotten and broken tail of the ship, so it should not be a treasure ship.

In order to prevent the crew from being dissatisfied, stealing or snatching the treasure on board and leaving, the treasure ship will not bring so many small boats, but this is how whaling ships operate.

Enter the cabin to have a look. Qin Shiou was taken aback. The purpose of entering was a few corpses. Because the waters of Labrador are cold all year round, these corpses were sealed in the cabin. There are few bacteria, but there is no decay, and it maintains a dehydrated and mummified appearance. It looked very scary.

There are many kinds of corpses on the seabed, and some will rot. Some will swell due to seawater immersion, but the latter kind of corpse. If there is no decay for a long time, then as the cells die, they will dehydrate due to the difference in density between the inside and the outside, and this is what they will eventually look like.

Dehydrated corpses are the scariest thing Qin Shiou knows. Because of strong muscle spasms, the expressions of these corpses look very hideous, and even the five sense organs are crowded together or cannot be distinguished clearly.

In the cabin next door, he found two large boxes, which were tightly sealed, which made him look forward to it. Will there be any treasures inside?

As a result, he stirred up waves, and the rotten box shattered easily, and all white bones fell out of it! And judging from the appearance of the skull, it is clearly a human bone!

But this doesn't make sense, Qin Shiou wondered, the corpse next door was dehydrated, how could the corpse in this box rot so thoroughly?

There is nothing to explore, so if you can’t figure it out, don’t think about it. He continued to search, and found that there were many large oak barrels piled up in the cabin. When he broke one of them, he found a solidified grease-like substance inside.

In this way, he confirmed that the ship was a whaling ship, and the oil should be whale oil.

The Labrador waters were once an important base for Basque whaling. In the 15th and 16th centuries, tens of thousands of right whales lived in this sea area. Since then, after continuous extinct culling, It is here that the right whales are exiled to the point where they are now endangered.

According to Qin Shiou, at the peak of the late sixteenth century, during the whaling season, more than 2,000 whalers lived in the Red Bay area and produced 500,000 gallons of whale oil for profit.

At that time, whale oil was a valuable commodity, used for lighting, lubrication, and as an additive in medicines, soaps, and asphalt. Spice-added whale oil was the favorite fuel of European nobles in the 16th century.

After the Basques caught whales in the Red Bay to refine fish oil, they only need to go on a one-month ocean voyage to sell it to Europe. The price of a 55-gallon barrel of whale oil can be as high as $10,000 today.

So for the Basques, finding a right whale reserve in Labrador is tantamount to finding a gold mine.

But it was useless to Qin Daguan. After searching carefully, he found that the only valuable things in the ship were barrels of whale oil in the cabin and a box found in the closed cabin.

The box was sealed with whale oil, so although he didn't know what was inside, Qin Shiou estimated that it should be well preserved.

He wanted to open it, but considering that the owner of the box sealed it with whale oil, the contents inside were obviously afraid of water, so he found the giant monster and let it suck the box with the suction cups on its tentacles, and then the water would come out. Look again.

Taking the box with him, Qin Shiou reluctantly left. Whale oil has no value nowadays. Whether it is lighting or lubricating oil, whale oil already has a better substitute.

In this way, he withdrew the Seagod's consciousness, sighed subconsciously, and Wei Ni, who was next to him, gave him a strange look and asked, "What happened? You seem very frustrated?"

Qin Shiou said: "I've been at sea for too long, and I haven't found a suitable catch. I will inevitably be frustrated."

Things go against the grain, and after resupplying at Burwell Harbor all the way north, we left the Labrador waters and entered one of the coldest places in Canada - Baffin Island.

Pass through the Hall Peninsula of Baffin Island and enter the Davis Strait. At this time, across the strait, Canada and Greenland can be separated from each other.

When they arrived at such a place, the temperature also dropped to below zero. They planned to cross the Davis Strait to the Ilulissat Icefjord. As a result, when the fishing boat arrived at the port of Attu Island to prepare supplies, Qin Shiou accidentally discovered that this sea area lived With loads of king crabs! (To be continued..)

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