Golden Fishery

The fishermen had a lively meal and went to sleep in a comfortable mood. Qin Shiou waited for the snowball and ice skates to run over from the fishing ground, and now they have just rounded the corner of Dell.

It is the first time for the two little guys to be so far away from home. In the past, they used to go to the deep sea fifty to sixty kilometers away from the coastline to hunt for food. It was the first time they were thousands of kilometers away from home. Qin Shiou was worried about what might happen on the road, so he waited for them .

Before he left, Smoker gave him a washbasin, which contained a bunch of slimy things, which looked disgusting, but this thing was very valuable, and it was the famous arctic ginseng.

The seabed is not a simple plain terrain. Seamounts and reefs can be seen everywhere, so sometimes when trawling, the fishing net will be dragged to the ground, so that some things attached to the seabed will be caught, such as sea cucumbers.

But in this case, abalone will not be caught. Abalone is different from sea cucumbers. They live close to the rocks. When wild abalone is caught in Canada, it needs to be collected manually by prying with a knife.

Unfortunately, Canada does not produce abalone very much, and the west coast of the North Atlantic has very little abalone production. In the international marine fishery statistics, they do not even participate in the ranking.

However, just as the old saying goes, what is concentrated is the essence. Canadian abalone production is small, but its value is great.

There are a small amount of British Columbia spotted abalone in the Newfoundland fishing grounds. This abalone is the best quality in the world, because they can only grow in cold and clean waters and have the highest requirements for the living environment.

Qin Shiou also planned to raise this kind of abalone when he was raising Arctic ginseng. But you can't buy abalone fry. Because there is no precedent for successful artificial breeding of this thing, fish farmers have no demand for abalone fry, and naturally there will be no sales if there is no demand.

also. Even if it can be farmed, Qin Shiou is not easy to sell. Canadian laws have strict regulations. B.C. spotted abalone is a marine protected aquatic product and is not allowed to be sold commercially. Whoever sells it will catch him.

Again, where there is demand, there is sales. If Qin Shiou can really breed this kind of abalone, then contact Butler. There are ways to sell them.

The government banned the sale? Why don't you just send some money? Wouldn't it be enough to manage the media? What? Do you think it's illegal to bribe?

No, no, there is nothing like bribery and corruption in politics for Canada and the United States. This is called political investment, and this is called financial election assistance.

With the crazy increase of sea cucumber farms in countries around the sea in recent years, the price of sea cucumbers has plummeted, and it has changed from the protagonist of high-end dinners to the supporting role of rural wedding banquets. Qin Shiou used to be in Haidao City, and a sea cucumber cost only 2.5 yuan during the harvest season.

But this is an ordinary farm,

Wild Arctic ginseng has always been expensive. Even in the North Atlantic regions of Newfoundland and New Brunswick, Canada, a ten-centimeter piece of wild Arctic ginseng can sell for hundreds of dollars.

Such a pot of Arctic ginseng has more than 50 large and small ones. That's four to five thousand yuan.

The fishermen collected these sea cucumbers carefully and wanted Qin Shiou to sell them for money, but Qin Shiou thought about it now. Let's just make sea cucumber porridge together and eat it up. Whatever it sells, it's an extra meal for everyone.

After picking fourteen or five fat sea cucumbers and putting them in the clean sea water, Qin Shiou injected some Seagod energy and went back to sleep.

Before six o'clock in the morning, the fishermen got up one after another. Prepare to cast nets for fishing or collect shrimp pots.

Qin Shiou went to have a look at Snowball and Skate, yes. The two little guys were powerful enough, and with the support of the Seagod's energy, they ran all the way to the St. Lawrence Bay without any hesitation.

Inputting some Seagod energy into the snowball and the ice blade again, Qin Shiou let them swim around the Harvest, but they swam for a while and then stopped suddenly.

Qin Shiou thought they had found something, so he went to look, and he made a big discovery: the two little guys were swimming from the depths of the seabed, so the resistance of the sea water was small, and at this time, a super giant appeared on their way forward. big dick.

This big fish is about 12 to 3 meters long, with a spindle-shaped body and a thick torso, but there is no flesh, so it looks quite lean. There is a protrusion on each side of its caudal peduncle, the head is large, slightly flattened, the whole is tapered, and the snout is short and round.

The most representative thing is that this big fish has a very big mouth. At this time, it fully opened its mouth. The diameter of the big mouth is one and a half meters, as if a big hole appeared in the sea.

The snowball and the ice skate were on a rampage, but they almost hit the big fish's mouth. They were so frightened that they turned around and ran, grinding their teeth while running, preparing for a big fight.

As a result, the big fish with its mouth wide open didn't even look at the two of them, maybe it glanced at them, but who knows, compared to the big mouth, this guy's eyeballs are a bit small, as if sleeping with squinted eyes.

Seeing the frightened look of the little guys, Qin Shiou couldn't help laughing. After he saw the appearance of this big fish, he was no longer worried. This fish is a basking shark, the second largest fish in the world.

Although basking sharks have such a big mouth and sturdy body, in fact they are docile and belong to herbivorous fish. They mainly feed on algae and plankton, and occasionally eat some cephalopods such as squid and octopus. Animals and fish are of no interest.

Seeing the basking shark, Qin Shiou was moved.

This big fish looks tough, but it is actually very suitable to be the companion of human diving in the sea. They are docile, intelligent, and not easy to move around. It is very suitable to accompany divers into the water.

In addition, this shark is very mysterious. Because they are slow and easy to be hunted, and their shark fins are very precious, and they have oversized fish livers that occupy a quarter of their body volume, so they have been overfished by humans.

Overfishing by humans quickly brought the honest basking shark to the brink of extinction. During the 1980s and 1990s, no basking sharks were found for a whole decade, so countries could only declare this type of fish extinct.

The mystery is that after the killing of basking sharks was defined as a crime in 1998 and countries issued prohibition notices one after another, they seemed to know that they were protected and would not be slaughtered arbitrarily, and then slowly appeared...

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of the places where basking sharks often appear. The largest basking shark ever found was found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 1980s.

But since the 1990s, no one has found them in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Qin Shiou was lucky to encounter this basking shark.

At this time, the basking shark was floating above a large algae field composed of brown algae and blue algae. It sucked the algae with its mouth open, swimming slowly, looking lazy.

The two little guys are mean-tempered. When they met this big shark just now, they were so frightened that they hated their parents for giving birth to a few pairs of dorsal and pelvic fins before they could escape. They would find that they would not attack, but they wanted to tease him.

The first thing to do was Snowball, and the little white whale tentatively tried to get up, but the big shark ignored it, and was still focusing on eating the surrounding seaweed.

The ice knife opened its mouth to reveal the iconic sharp teeth of the tiger shark family, and rushed to the basking shark to demonstrate. The basking shark looked at it calmly, then turned and swam away. (to be continued)