Golden Fishery

Although king crabs are called crabs, in terms of scientific classification, they do not belong to the category of crabs. They can only be said to be crustaceans. Real crabs have four pairs of legs and a pair of claws. It is forward-curved, while king crabs have only three pairs of feet plus a pair of claws, and their feet are curved backwards.

But in reality, no one cares. Fishermen regard them as crabs. Anyway, they have carapaces, claws, and arthropods, and their appearance is exactly the same as crabs. Why do they need to classify them additionally?

This kind of crustacean tastes delicious, has a high meat yield, and is very large. It has always been known as the king of crabs and is an important economic seafood.

Qin Shiou found a large number of king crabs in this area: just one hundred kilometers west of Atu Island in the deep sea, they can be found everywhere, and the number is surprising.

This also surprised Qin Daguan. The price of king crab is one of the most expensive crabs, even more precious than the Dungeness crab he specially bought from the North Pacific. Only pay back.

Therefore, whether it is in Alaska or Greenland waters, as long as fishermen find them, they will kill them. I don’t know why there are so many stocks here.

In this way, Qin Daguanren's mind became active, and the king crab was very attractive to all fishermen.

In fact, he also thought about raising king crabs at the beginning, but unfortunately this kind of crabs are too ferocious and reproduce at an astonishing speed. Every year, each female crab can produce nearly 10,000 surviving young crabs. Once introduced into the Daqin Fishing Ground, it will cause an ecological disaster, such as lobster, tongue sole, Dungeness crab, and geoduck. Then wait to make food!

The most obvious example is the current Antarctic.

decades ago. I don't know whether it was the Soviet oceanographers or the Norwegian and American oceanographers. They brought a batch of Alaskan king crab samples to the Antarctic. As a result, the crabs escaped captivity and burrowed into the icy waters of Antarctica.

Then, during the recent Antarctic expedition, the French scientific research team was astonished to discover that there are a large number of king crabs living under the Antarctic continental shelf.

If this discovery was in the waters of Alaska, American fishermen would be crazy, and it turned out to be in Antarctica!

This is terrible, the multinational scientific research team has predicted. In the next ten to twenty years, the Antarctic waters will encounter an ecological catastrophe.

What's worse is that the United Nations has regulations that no matter which country is allowed to go to Antarctica to catch fish, so these king crabs not only have no natural enemies in Antarctica, but also have no enemies of humans.

The scientific name of those king crabs in Antarctica is Alaskan king crab, also known as golden king crab, and their ancestors came from Alaska. The scientific name of these king crabs in the waters of Greenland is called red king crab. Both are equally precious.

King crab is an ice-water creature, and it is one of the few species that can survive in the extreme environment of the North and South Poles. The fish produced in this environment, regardless of the species, are delicious, nutritious and non-polluting.

Later, following the Seagod's consciousness, it progressed to the surroundings. He gradually understood the reason why there are so many king crabs in this sea area.

Very interesting, the seabed environment in the surrounding large sea area is very complicated. King crabs are known to live in deep waters. However, there are generally no hidden reefs in deep sea waters, so large ships can fish at will.

But this sea area is different. It has a continuous circle of reefs. It is estimated that this is the reason why the fishermen in Greenland did not kill the king crabs here.

Led by the sea god consciousness. The Melon Princess can naturally enter and exit this sea area at will.

Qin Shiou went to find the sea monster and Shaq, and told them that there were red king crabs in this sea area.

The sea monster and Shaq, who were chatting with hot coffee, were taken aback and asked, "Are you sure? Is it the discovery of the Five Elements Searching for the Dragon?"

Qin Shiou patted the sea chart behind them and said, "No, I found it from here. Look, isn't there a bright red mark here? Isn't that the red king crab?"

Shaq couldn't laugh or cry, and said depressedly: "But it's not, although this sea area is indeed marked in red on the map, but we think it means dangerous sea area..."

Qin Shiou laughed and said, "I know, this sea area is considered to have a lot of submerged reefs, isn't it? But look at the previous Greenland catch distribution map. The sea map shows that king crabs were produced around here, do you understand?"

Of course, Shaq and the sea monster understand that the distribution of king crabs is regional. Since king crabs are abundant in the surrounding sea area, they are naturally distributed near the reef where they are located. Considering that the sea area is full of hidden reefs, there must not be many ships daring to enter, so there are naturally abundant king crab resources here.

"Our ship is too big, can we enter here?" The two hesitated.

Qin Shiou smiled and said: "Don't worry, leave this to me. With a captain like me leading the way, you will definitely not encounter hidden reefs. Now, what you have to consider is not safety, but whether our fishing quota is a bit small."

King crab fishing is the same as bluefin tuna fishing. You need to spend money to buy a fishing license. The government will give you a fishing quota. .

This is an exaggerated quota. The total weight of king crabs produced in Alaska and Greenland waters is about 10,000 tons every year. Among them, Alaska mainly produces 8,000 tons, and Greenland waters can produce at most two to three thousand tons.

Therefore, what Qin Shiou asked Shaq to buy was a 200-ton fishing license. At that time, he thought that it would be very good if he could catch one tenth of the annual production in the Greenland waters. A good start, I encountered such a large piece of king crab.

Deep-sea fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and king crab fishing is one of the most dangerous deep-sea fishing jobs. The work-related death rate of crabbers in Alaska is 50 times that of ordinary workers. On average, 1 crabman will die every 7 days on the strait!

The climate in Greenland's waters is much milder than that of Alaska, but there are also fisherman casualties every year.

Under the guidance of Qin Shiou, the Melon Princess avoided the jagged reefs, and soon appeared on top of the king crab group. Qin Shiou called all the fishermen for a meeting.

This time, together with the four new recruits brought by Geng Junjie and the ten fishermen recruited from the town, he brought out a total of twenty-two fishermen, and the team was unprecedentedly large.

Therefore, in Qin Shiou's expectation, the harvest this time must be unprecedentedly huge! (To be continued..)

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