Golden Fishery

Compared with Shaq, Qin Shiou, the hands-off shopkeeper, doesn't look like a fisherman.

After discovering that the sponges in this sea area were so strangely dense, Shaq immediately called Bill Sage of Dick Sea Aquatic Vegetation Company, and the two parties agreed to test the water quality the next day to check the problem.

Just as ranchers are sensitive to diseases, fishermans are also sensitive to abnormal fish and marine life, because you don't know when nature will let you go.

After Bill arrived with two so-called experts, the experts collected water sources and sponge samples and returned to the laboratory for analysis.

A day and a half later, Bill rushed over by boat, and first put a bunch of reports in front of Qin Shiou.

Seeing the anxious look on this guy's face, Qin Shiou's heart sank, and he immediately asked, "Didn't you find some bacteria in my water again?"

If this is the case, Qin Shiou can only raise his middle finger to the sky, and it's fine if he can't raise lobsters on a large scale. What can't he raise this time? Wouldn't it be impossible to raise sea cucumbers?

Bill shook his head vigorously and said, "No, this time it has nothing to do with you. It's the North American lobster market. God, the North American lobster market may be hit by an earthquake this year!"

"What's going on, slow down, the North American lobster market is going to have an earthquake this year? My fishing ground is also related to the entire North American market? Isn't this bullshit?" Qin Shiou couldn't help but swear in the end.

Bill smiled embarrassedly and explained: "I was too anxious just now and didn't explain things clearly. There is not much relationship between these test sheets and the news I notified you. The results on the test sheets show that your water quality is fine. These sponges are common species in North American waters, and the content of various elements in their bodies is also very balanced. They are very suitable for food for sea cucumbers..."

"Dude, what I want you to figure out isn't these, but why are those sponges gathered in just such a body of water?" Qin Shiou asked with a frown.

Bill spread his hands helplessly, and said, "We haven't found the reason, Qin. Don't worry, there's nothing terrible about this, is it? It's just a collection of normal jellyfish. In addition, today I'll tell you another scary thing. information……"

He took out a newspaper from under the test sheet. It was the first article on the front page of the well-known "Fishing Field News" in Newfoundland: "The four major offshore waters in North America have sounded the lobster fungus alarm!"

Take out another newspaper and open it, this time it is the famous "Globe and Mail", the headline on the inside page: Red Alert. Lobster Doom!

Qin Shiou didn't pay much attention to the news. Apart from chatting with his friends and spanking on the Internet,

That is to go to refresh forums such as Hupu, Maopu, Sohu, Sogou, etc., so I don't know much about this hot news that was just released last night.

Let Qin Shiou watch the news. Bill said excitedly: "I'm not sensitive enough, I'm not sensitive enough! I should have expected this to happen when I found Garfia lobster in your place! Sure enough, this is not a disaster for a fishing ground , but a disaster for the entire North American lobster industry!"

According to several newspapers, recently, the fishery departments of the United States and Canada have received sporadic reports, saying that their own fisheries or local public fisheries have detected the lobster Garfkiella, and hope that the government can solve it.

This bacterium has no name in the outside world. Many people have never heard of him. Only fishermen who rely on lobsters for food will be intimidated by it.

Actually speaking. Lobster Galfia is not that scary, it is not a virus like sars that can be transmitted through the air, it is a fungus, and only through the broken shell of the lobster can it cause sepsis and then die, if the lobster carapace is intact, That is absolutely unnecessary to worry about this fungus.

So it seems. The lobster gaffkia seems to be less scary than its sibling, the lobster plague fungus.

However, the problem lies in such a link. We all know that lobsters are creatures that like to fight when they are free. Lobster and lobster, lobster and crab, lobster and fish, even lobster and rock...

In this way, the problem will become big. The shell of the lobster is too easy to be damaged, and once the shell is damaged and the fungus invades and causes sepsis, the lobster will definitely die.

In addition, another frightening aspect of the lobster Galfkiella is its infection of shrimp larvae. The carapaces of lobster larvae lack a layer of chitin that can block the fungus, making them susceptible to infection. As long as this fungus does not die, it is almost difficult for lobster larvae in this area to survive.

To exterminate a species, you only need to exterminate its larvae, which is what Gaffkia lobstera does.

Originally, the marine fisheries departments of Canada and the United States did not pay attention to these reports, but when the reports flew in like snowflakes from Florida, Massachusetts, Ontario, and Newfoundland, they knew that something was wrong.

The marine fisheries departments of the two countries, belatedly, jointly conducted a survey, and the results were astounding: the most serious outbreak of Garfkyella infection in lobsters in history has occurred in the offshore waters of the Atlantic Ocean in North America!

In fact, this incident did not happen without warning. As for Qin Shiou, he didn't understand at the beginning why there were plenty of lobsters in the deep sea waters but his own fishery didn't. If he carefully scans around the offshore waters, he will find that not only his Daqin fishing ground has no lobster populations, but other fishing grounds also have no...

No, Qin Shiou suddenly shivered. There are lobsters in his fishing ground, and more than 100,000 lobster pups have survived. Yesterday, we saw them carrying sponge fragments and running rampant everywhere...

With such random thoughts, a ray of light suddenly shone in Qin Shiou's mind, and the whole thing was strung together:

He bought lobsters after he bought Mr. Ross's fishery. In order to prevent the shrimp larvae from being eaten by big fish, he raised them in Mr. Ross's fishery. Now a large number of sponges gather in Mr. Ross's fishery, and the sea surface relies on plankton in the water for a living. , most of the plankton live on scavenging...

The whole thing should be like this. Mr. Ross’s fishing ground also has lobster gaffkia bacteria. After the shrimp larvae enter, 90% of them die and rot, which then causes a large number of scavengers to appear in that sea area. These plankton eventually lead to Here comes the sponge, or rather. It fosters the vigorous reproduction and growth of sponges, because after all, sponges do not have the ability to move independently.

After figuring this out, Qin Shiou was relieved. As for the so-called lobster red alert? That's the government's business, and it has nothing to do with him, a bastard. It's best if all the lobsters in the offshore are extinct, so the 100,000 lobsters in his fishing ground are worth a lot.

After seeing off the excited Bill, Qin Shiou was in a good mood, so he searched the Internet for news about Garfia lobster.

As a result, in the United States and Canada, this news caused a lot of trouble, but the reports were not very concentrated. Most sites still report on it as a scrap.

All website media have the same attitude. People who like to eat lobster will be unlucky in the past two years. Either they don’t eat it, or they are going to spend a lot of money to buy European lobster.

The day after knowing about the lobster Garfia outbreak. The Newfoundland Summer Cup Township Union Basketball Tournament is over, and a small town named Xishui Town has won the championship. It is said that this town is a traditional strong team in the basketball game.

Qin Shiou only played two games, and they won both games. In the third game, he went home for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Hughes brothers tried their best to persuade them to stay, but it was absolutely impossible for Qin Shiou not to go home to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with his parents for the insignificant basketball game, so he lacked the main force, which led to Farewell Town not taking a historic step. Still out of the top sixteen.

Of course, this is just an indifferent game to adjust the mood of everyone's life. Canadians are not keen on basketball. They still like ice hockey, which Qin Shiou can't understand at all.

Ice hockey is the favorite sport of Canadians. There is no one. The ice hockey league NHL is one of the largest leagues in North America. It is as famous as the NBA and other four major leagues in North America, and its influence in Canada far exceeds that of the NBA.

In the next few days, Qin Shiou was studying the issue of sea cucumber breeding. Now we have identified the type of cultured sea cucumber, which is the famous Arctic ginseng.

Arctic sea cucumbers are native to the waters of Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic, not far from Farewell Island, about 30 feet underwater. Rich in nutrition, the protein content is more than 60%. Sea cucumber mucopolysaccharides account for about 15%, rich in sea cucumber saponins, vitamins and trace elements, extremely low in fat, and free of cholesterol. It is the top sea cucumber in the world market, and its price is high.

With the aggravation of ocean pollution, the production of wild Arctic ginseng has become less and less, and it has become a veritable noble food. More and more farmed Arctic ginseng circulates in the market.

Farmed Arctic ginseng and wild Arctic ginseng grow up in the sea, but the growth environment is different. The former is kept in captivity, waiting to be fed and fed, while the latter has to find food by itself.

Bill suggested that Qin Shiou also raised arctic ginseng in captivity. Wild-farmed arctic ginseng grows slowly, but is difficult to catch. It has a similar problem with geoduck. Geoduck burrows into the sand, while arctic ginseng likes to grow in cold deep seas. .

Normally, Canada collects wild arctic ginseng by trawling nets instead of diving by divers. There is no way, the sea is deep and cold, and manual picking is unbearable, so trawling is very difficult.

The method of artificial breeding of arctic ginseng is sea raft farming and submerged cage farming. In this way, arctic ginseng can be raised in captivity. When it is time to sell it, it can be pulled out of the cage. It is the same as raising chickens and ducks, just a land a water.

Qin Shiou chose free-range Arctic ginseng. September and October coincided with the spawning time of Arctic ginseng—they are different from ordinary sea cucumbers in this regard. Sea cucumbers in tropical and warm waters spawn in May and June, and Arctic ginseng is delayed. It has been affected by the environment for so long. This kind of ginseng seedlings are afraid of heat but not cold.

I bought 1,000 female ginseng waiting for delivery at a price of 220 yuan per head, 100 catties of small ginseng seedlings at a price of 2,000 yuan per catty, and 100 catties of medium-sized ginseng seedlings at a price of 3,400 yuan per catty. Basically, you don't need to worry about the sea area of ​​the fishing ground.

The three procurement methods constitute the three generations of Poseidon's growth, the old, the middle and the young. The medium-sized ginseng seedlings are about 60-70 per kilogram, and they can be sold after two or three years of simple breeding.

There are about 500 small ginseng seedlings per catty, and it takes six or seven years to produce them. As for the female ginseng to be produced, how many ginseng seedlings they can produce, others depend on God's will, while Qin Shiou depends on the power of Sea God's consciousness. (to be continued)