Golden Fishery

The appearance of this piece of deep-sea coral surprised Qin Shiou, which was completely unexpected!

At this moment, Qin Shiou realized Billy's feeling when he suddenly saw shallow coral bushes in his fishing ground. It was unbelievable, because it was a bit contrary to common sense!

Deep-sea corals are very precious. They have a small distribution area, a long formation time, are irreproducible, and are not easy to fish in the deep sea, so they are very valuable.

Unlike shallow sea corals, there are a lot of them in Australian waters and the South Pacific waters. Deep sea corals are mainly distributed in three areas: the Mediterranean Sea, Hawaii and surrounding Midway waters, Taiwan waters and the southern island of Japan.

These three areas are high-incidence areas of volcanic earthquakes in the world. The volcanic activities on the nearby seabed are frequent, and new submarine volcanoes often develop, resulting in a large amount of constant elements such as iron, manganese, and magnesium in the seawater, which provides extremely good conditions for the emergence of deep-sea corals. important material conditions.

In addition to these areas, there must be deep-sea corals in all major sea areas, but the number is very small and not discoverable. There are three million shipwrecks in the world's oceans, and the number of deep-sea coral clusters must be less than 30,000, and they are all deep-sea So much to look for than to look for shipwrecks.

The coral grove that appeared in front of Qin Shiou was very small, less than a thousand square meters. Corals are different in height and size, the center is more than two meters high, and the outer ones are less than half a meter high.

In addition, in addition to the difference in height, the color of corals is also different. They are snow white on the outside, pink on the inside, and deep red like flames in the middle.

This is normal. Deep-sea corals are mainly divided into five categories according to their colors, namely deep red corals, peach red corals, pink corals, pink white corals, and white corals. The more iron, manganese and magnesium elements they absorb. The darker the coral, the darker the color, the higher the value.

Qin Shiou is really grateful to his second grandfather for being able to find this piece of deep-sea coral in his own fishing ground. If it can be said that the shallow-sea coral was introduced by his old man, then these deep-sea corals must not have been introduced by him.

because. Deep-sea corals are the creatures with the longest life cycle in the world, especially red corals. There is a life cycle of tens of millions of years, so there is a saying in the jewelry market of "thousand-year coral and ten thousand-year red".

What does this sentence mean? Very simple, it takes thousands of years to grow into a piece of deep-sea coral, and it takes thousands of years to absorb iron, manganese and magnesium elements. to turn red.

Even if Qin Shiou has the heart of the sea god against the sky, he can't guarantee that he can form such a piece of deep-sea coral in a few decades.

He shrouded the sea god consciousness on this deep-sea coral, and he could feel the weak but tenacious vitality, which proved that the vitality of this deep-sea coral forest was fine.

It's normal to think about it. Deep-sea corals are known as the most efficient organisms in the ocean, and they only need a very small amount of nutrients to meet their survival needs.

In order to protect this deep-sea coral forest, Qin Shiou hastened to input the Sea God's energy, but he was exhausted after inputting it for a long time. This piece of deep-sea coral forest has not changed, and its vitality has not been strengthened much.

This is the difference between deep-sea corals and shallow-sea corals, if so much Seagod energy is input to such an area of ​​shallow-sea corals. It is estimated that it can expand to half the area.

However, Seagod energy is definitely useful to these corals, at least it can speed up their reproduction speed, this is also a skill of deep sea corals, coral polyps can survive for thousands of years and have the ability to reproduce.

From this point of view, all the millennium kings and 80,000-year tortoises all stand aside.

The Seagod energy output is a bit too much. Qin Shiou was so sleepy that he withdrew his sea god consciousness and went to sleep. In the end, he took a longing look at the small coral forest again, making sure that he was not dreaming, and then closed his eyes.

In the morning, Qin Shiou heard shouts outside, rubbed his eyes and walked out of the villa after waking up, but the bull came towards him with red eyes, and shouted excitedly: "Captain, guess what I saw?!"

Qin Shiou recalled his excitement when he discovered the red coral, and subconsciously asked, "Damn it, did you also find that piece of deep-sea coral?"

The bull looked at him in astonishment and said, "Deep-sea coral? What deep-sea coral?"

Qin Shiou secretly scolded himself for being sleepy, and said haha: "It's nothing, I just said it casually, what's the matter, what did you see so excited? Your eyes are all red, did you find gold?"

The bull laughed and said, "No, my eyes are red because I was on the night shift all night. Come with me, captain, and I will show you the magic of the sea!"

Curiously following the bull, Qin Shiou walked to the beach, and after a distance, he saw a miraculous scene:

On the beach by the sea, silver-white long fish in the shape of a shuttle are twisting their bodies, and the new rising sun shines on them, reflecting brilliant colors!

Qin Shiou looked around and saw this kind of fish on the entire coastline. Some fish had their tails stuck on the beach, and some fish hovered around and jumped around, looking very happy.

After staying on the beach for not long, these long silver fishes would twist their bodies, struggle and jump back into the sea. After Qin Shiou watched for about half an hour, the long silver fishes returned to the water, only a few weak ones , Still struggling in vain on the beach.

Smooth Jaw Silver Hanfish!

Qin Shiou has been studying marine life in the world, and he is naturally deeply impressed by this fish that is native to North America.

The smooth-jawed silverman lives in the coastal areas of North America. They are similar to the capelin, that is, they also lay their eggs in the sand and hatch them by solar energy.

From March to August every year, you will see this kind of fish jumping to the beach to reproduce. The ones that Qin Shiou saw before with their tails stuck in the sand are female fish. They are laying eggs and jumping around. It's the male fish that fertilizes the eggs.

Unlike the capelin, the smooth-jawed silverman has super physical strength. They don't need to rely on big waves to go to the beach. Every time they reproduce, they will secrete a hormone in their bodies to stimulate their vitality, allowing them to jump ashore by themselves.

However, after hatching, the small silver-jawed silverfish didn't have the strength to jump into the water. They still had to rely on the night tide and the waves to return to the sea.

The smooth-jawed silverfish is a very interesting fish. They have the same natural ability as the jellyfish. The jellyfish predicts the arrival of a storm fifteen hours in advance, while the smooth-jawed silverfish predicts a high tide ten days in advance.

This is a masterpiece of nature. The eggs of this fish rely on the sun to warm the sand to hatch, and it takes about ten days. Therefore, they will come to the shore to lay eggs ten days before the arrival of the tide. Ten days later, when the tide comes, the juvenile fish can return to the ocean.

However, what Qin Shiou didn't understand was, how could there be a sea tide after ten days?

According to his experience and weather forecast, only small tides are right at this time, and it is impossible for small tides to wash up the beach so far, and it is impossible to bring the small silver-jawed silverfish back to the sea... (to be continued)