Golden Fishery

"Captain, everything is ready, please give the order!" The bull roared loudly.

Qin Shiou waved his hand to signal that he understood, and then carefully watched the sea surface. The sea god's consciousness had already entered the bottom of the sea, and he was looking for the lobster gathering place in the bay.

The fishermen looked at Qin Shiou expectantly without saying a word, waiting for him to show the magical power of family spells. They are full of confidence. Under the leadership of Qin Shiou, they will definitely make money this time when they go to sea!

Compared to the blindly worshiping fishermen, Qin Shiou was a little embarrassed.

His mother's lobster gaffkia is too awesome. Qin Shiou didn't find any lobster larvae during the trip. Obviously, the entire Lawrence Bay has been infected by this bacteria. In the next two years, this rich bay will no longer be big. Large-scale production of Maine lobster.

And even if the bacteria were cleared from the ocean two years later, it would take years to recover the lobster catches of previous years.

Maine lobsters are relatively slow growing. Their lifespan is seventy years. It takes four to five years for a small shrimp to grow to a pound. And it will take twenty to thirty years to grow to twenty pounds or ten kilograms!

Now the lobster production in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is reduced. In addition to the extinction of the lobster Garfgiella, there is also the crazy operation of shrimp fishing boats.

Knowing that Garfia lobster had appeared in the offshore, the major fishing companies and shrimp fishing boats knew that their good days were coming to an end, and they all wanted to go crazy for the last time. After entering the lobster fishing season in November, the Gulf of St. Lawrence The boat was full.

Fishing for lobster in North America is the same as fishing for bluefin tuna, and there are rigid standards. Small shrimp cannot be caught, and only lobsters that grow to half a pound, which is about 227 grams, can be caught and sold.

Therefore, the gap in the shrimp trap brought by Qin Shiou was the size of a child's fist. This gap can allow lobsters under 200 grams to pass through, no matter how big it is.

Generally speaking, it takes 9 to 12 months for Maine lobsters to grow to half a pound. Their mating season is generally from late April to July, and the peak of group mating is in May. From July every year, North America enters the lobster harvest season, and the United States is earlier. Canada has a higher latitude and lower temperatures, so the harvest season is later.

actually. The beginning of summer lobster shelling means that the lobster season is coming. However, the lobsters that have just changed their shells are all soft-shell lobsters, which are not full of meat and contain a lot of water. The value was low, so no one was fishing at that time.

From September onwards, as the temperature cools, the shells of the lobsters will harden and the quality of the meat will be better. In November, the lobsters are the most fat. The Canadian government will start from this time to February next year, as the lobster fishing season, and start to reserve lobsters for mating and reproduction in March.

Lobster fishing is extra crazy this year,

A large number of lobsters have been taken away, and the Harvest entered the game too late.

Good luck to them though. Having just experienced a terrible storm last night, all the shrimp fishing boats returned to sea with varying degrees of damage. There are fewer shrimp fishing boats in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at this time, giving them a chance.

For fishermen, this winter can be described as a leaky house and continuous rain all night.

The lobster Garfia bacterium just showed its ferocious figure, and it encountered the cold weather once in ten years. The storm last night also dealt a heavy blow to the fishermen. Many shrimp pots of shrimp boats were lost in the ocean. Qin Shiou has seen several strings of shrimp pots in the sea through the sea god's consciousness.

Lobsters are also occasionally found in these shrimp traps. But such a few sporadic ones were not what Qin Shiou wanted, so he could only continue going north.

The smoking gun and the others could bear their temper. They smoked and chatted together, and even began to discuss how to spend the money they earned, what to buy for their wives, children and parents, and what to add to the family.

Qin Shiou felt that such an aimless search was not enough, and began to look at the chart to find the dense reefs in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

He knows that lobsters are not good at swimming, and usually live in shallow water areas with rocky reefs, and submerged reefs are very suitable for their habitat.

After identifying several areas with dense reefs, Qin Shiou asked Shaq to drive towards this position. Smoker and others were a little embarrassed after seeing it, and explained: "Captain, there may be lobster schools in these places, but they are very dangerous. There are too many reefs. , are you going to take risks?"

Qin Shiou patted the shoulder of the smoking gun and said: "We must avoid risks, but we must not be afraid of taking risks. There is a saying in China that if you can't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cub! Forget it, you don't understand, follow what I said, go forward !"

If it was in the past, Smoker and others might have questioned Qin Shiou's decision, after all, it would be too dangerous to enter the reef waters during the low tide in winter. But after what happened last night, the group firmly believed in him. If he said go forward, then go ahead!

The Harvest turned to the nearest hidden reef waters, Qin Shiou was not afraid of accidents, the Poseidon consciousness was warning, if there was danger, he would let Shaq turn in advance.

It's true that if you don't enter the tiger's lair, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. When the fishing boat was more than ten kilometers away from this hidden reef, a lobster group appeared in the sea god's consciousness.

This lobster group consists of about four to five thousand large and small lobsters. Dozens of half-meter-long super big lobsters lead the team in front, and other lobsters follow behind, forming a shrimp belt several kilometers long. Formed into a neat queue, moving forward mightily.

Seeing these lobsters, Qin Shiou was overjoyed. Good people get rewarded. They risked their lives to save people yesterday and they were rewarded. On the first day they entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence, they encountered a group of migrating lobsters.

Ethnic migration does not only occur in migratory birds, but fish and shrimp are more common, such as lobsters. In order to avoid the severe cold in winter, they will look for warm ocean currents to migrate.

Generally speaking, Maine lobsters are lonely by nature and don't like to live in groups. However, when migrating along the warm current in autumn and winter, they will automatically gather together and travel mightily across the seabed.

Why do lobsters, which are naturally withdrawn, migrate in groups? Very simple, they form a queue to advance, which can reduce the resistance of the water in the advance. According to research by marine biologists and dynamicists, lobsters in a formation can reduce drag by 65 percent compared to individual swimming.

In addition, lobsters have many natural enemies, such as sharks and whales, and they can deter natural enemies and protect themselves in groups like this.

However, this will make it cheaper for humans. If fishermen are lucky enough to catch a warm current, they can catch a large number of lobsters.

Qin Shiou waved his hand to signal Shaq to drop the anchor, and then shouted: "Guys, put down the shrimp trap, there is a lot of lobster smell here, there must be a large group of lobsters nearby!"

The smoking gun and others threw away the cigarette butts in their hands, and more than a dozen people shouted and immediately started to work.

Shrimp traps can’t just be thrown into the water randomly. First, Shaq measured the water depth in the cab. This was done by the sonar radar. After observing for a while, he shouted: “The water depth is 110 meters!”

The smoking gun made a gesture of understanding, and he asked the bull to drag the cable long enough, the length of the fish and shrimp at both ends was about 140 meters. Then from this position, every time a shrimp cage is passed through, it must be bound, and twenty shrimp cages are connected on a rope to form a cage string.

After the cage strings were tied, two dexterous fishermen came up and tied rubber ball buoys on both ends of the cable. This kind of buoy was a big dark red leather ball with a diameter of more than one meter. It could be found even if it was floating on the sea surface from a long distance.

Others put frozen entrails of chickens, ducks, pigs, and cattle into the shrimp pots as bait. These baits are all procured and the price is cheap, because Canadians do not eat poultry-livestock offal, but they are very good for lobsters. of allure.

Ready, all that's left is to throw the cage. (to be continued)