Golden Fishery

A wild boar barbecue is a celebration dinner for the fish produced in the fishing ground. Although it is not very formal, everyone is happy to eat, drink and play.

After finishing the five barrels of beer that night, Qin Shiou had no choice but to call Shining Star Bar to deliver two barrels of dark beer. In the end, the fishermen got drunk, and it was Iverson who threw one back to the fisherman's apartment with each hand.

It is useful to have more talents in the fishing ground. For example, Iverson is not very useful at ordinary times. There is no one better than him to deal with drunks. Even Bird, who is proficient in fighting, is not his opponent when he is drunk. Want to play drunk? Just cut your hands back behind your back, if it doesn't hurt you, it's your fault.

The fishermen were all drunk the night before, and it happened to be Sunday again, so Qin Shiou simply gave them a holiday, and they didn't have to do anything the next day, just lie at home and sleep.

Byrd and Nelson had more self-control. They took a cold shower in the morning and routinely flew a helicopter into the fishing ground to check for fish piracy boats.

Before Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd. came to the fishing ground to install radar, it could only rely on helicopters to patrol.

The fishermen didn't get up, so Qin Shiou took the tiger and leopard out to sea by himself to randomly check the fishing grounds.

Habitually, Qin Shiou released the sea god consciousness after going out to sea, and landed just in the waters of the coral reef.

The range of the coral reef multiplied toward the coast of the fishing ground, and stopped advancing to the depths of the ocean. Qin Shiou continuously input the Sea God's energy into it, and the coral polyps became extremely active, but the reproduction speed was still a bit slow.

He can no longer rely solely on the proliferation of polyps to reproduce the reef. In a few days, he spends money to build artificial reefs at the fishing grounds, so that coral polyps can cover these artificial reefs, and the coral reefs can expand rapidly.

After the coral polyp absorbs the Seagod's energy, its metabolism is extremely fast. There is also a great demand for bait. Their food is plankton, which can eat both phytoplankton and zooplankton. As long as the environment is okay, they are not too picky eaters.

The prosperity of plankton is not only related to bottom predators such as herring, arctic shrimp and mackerel, but also to the expansion rate of coral reefs.

But coral reefs and phytoplankton go hand in hand, even though they use phytoplankton. However, it provides places and nutrients for the survival of phytoplankton, and a large number of plankton and benthic plants grow on the surface of coral reefs.

in benthic plants. Algae are the most abundant vegetation in coral reefs.

Blue algae, red algae, brown algae and green algae, etc., they cling to the surface of the reef, like thick sheets of felt, providing shelter and nutrition for the coral reef.

At the same time, it also makes coral reefs colorful.

Some of these algae grow directly on coral reefs, which are rock algae, and some grow in sand and sea mud, which are sand algae.

No matter what kind of algae they are, they are beneficial to coral reefs, so Qin Shiou infused them with some Seagod energy by the way. But in addition to these beneficial organisms, there are also some organisms that have a destructive effect on coral reefs.

In the past, there were relatively few destructive organisms on coral reefs, and Qin Shiou didn't care, but as the coral reefs expanded. In addition, sometimes he accidentally injected the energy of the Seagod's will into these creatures, and there were more and more such creatures.

Ball sea urchins, living stone clams, diamond rock clams, stone razor clams, open belly clams, etc., these things have already formed a scale. all over the coral reef.

Sea urchins can stretch out echinoderm tentacles to drill coral reefs, and shell-piercing sponges that occasionally float out can also use similar means to destroy coral reefs. Stone clams, rock clams, razor clams, and open clams can secrete acid to corrode coral reefs. Where they live, coral reefs are often full of potholes.

Qin Shiou looked like this, is it okay? It is not easy to reproduce a coral reef, it has been destroyed by you.

Fortunately, he has a way to deal with it. He directly pulled the Peacock Mantis Shrimp Assassin Legion over, anyway, Jiadeli Fishing Farm had already been taken. They are useless to stay there.

Seeing the colorful peacock-tailed mantis shrimp coming to the coral reef, the black butterfly shells on the periphery quickly retracted their arms and legs stretched out, and immediately closed their shells to avoid these deadly Hades.

But the mantis shrimps didn't even look at them. When they found stone clams, diamond rock clams, stone clams, and open-bellied clams, they raised their small hammers and began to strike.

Stone clams, diamond rock clams, stone razor clams, and open-bellied clams are all shellfish, and general marine life can't deal with them, but the peacock mantis shrimp happens to be their nemesis, and it is handy to deal with them.

Qin Shiou didn't want to kill all these clams, because they were also a kind of delicious seafood. After the peacock mantis shrimp drove them all to the seaside, he stopped killing and prepared to take the children to catch clams to eat some time.

The fishing boat was moving quickly on the sea. Qin Shiou saw several jets of water spewing up in the distance, so he quickly got off the boat and drove over. It should be that a group of whales appeared in the fishing ground.

Over the place where the group of whales appeared, the short-tailed fulmars circled and flew, and some silver-white small fish more than ten centimeters long jumped out of the water. Qin Shiou thought that these short-tailed fulmars were attracted by these small fish, but it turned out that it was not.

This group of whales is relatively large, with a total of more than ten humpback whales forming this group, and around the group of whales, a large school of fish is flying back and forth!

The big ones are one meter long, the small ones are only ten or twenty centimeters, and most of them are about half a meter. Their bodies are spindle-shaped, they look quite thick, their bodies are smooth without scales, their tail fins are very developed, and they swim very fast.

In addition, there are several longitudinal dark stripes on the sides and abdomen of these fish, the tail fin is crescent-shaped, the back of the body is blue-brown, and the abdomen is silver-white, which looks very aesthetic.

At a glance, the whale group is surrounded by this kind of sea fish. There are tens of thousands of them, swimming all the way to the fishing ground, with extraordinary momentum.

Qin Shiou recognized the identity of this fish, and there was only one in his fishing ground, which was skipjack tuna, a cousin of bluefin tuna.

Skipjack is also a kind of tuna, but it is the least valuable among tunas. When I was fishing, I caught a few of them. Qin Shiou's fishing grounds were not many before, and now the appearance of this fish school can be regarded as making up for a gap in the fishing grounds.

Skipjack is a strange kind of fish. They follow the whales for collective swimming, and the two sides are in a symbiotic relationship.

Regardless of the size of the whales, they actually don't like to eat large fish, because they are caring rather than swallowing. If they eat a large fish, they will get stuck in their mouths.

The mission of the bonito school is to help the whale eat some of the big fish it encounters. The whale sucks in the small fish to eat, and sometimes eats the bonito fry, but this kind of misunderstanding is inevitable. At the same time, the whale provides protection to the skipjack, and most predators would be intimidated by the whale's large size.

Like other tuna, skipjack eat juveniles of sardines and other fish, squid, molluscs, small crustaceans, and their favorite is anchovy, the tiny, palm-length, silvery fish that keep jumping out of the water.

Chasing the anchovies all the way, the skipjacks and the humpback whales came to the Daqin Fishing Ground, and after they arrived, it was difficult to leave... (to be continued)