Golden Fishing Village

After diving into the water, he found that the situation was not as he thought. There was a group of sea cucumbers in the water waiting for him to harvest casually. The plum blossom sea cucumber is indeed rare.

There are only two or three large sea cucumbers exposed. The two that Black Dragon caught are the largest. The rest are only 20 to 30 centimeters long and hide at the bottom of the coral reef.

There is a large area of ​​coral reefs here. The sea water is colorful and beautiful. Clownfish, colorful fish and other coral fish are swimming around underwater, with gorgeous colors.

"It's simply a diving paradise." Jiang Caoqi praised.

Others dived to find plum blossom sea cucumbers, while he took an underwater camera to dive and take pictures, and took a lot of pictures.

Ao Muyang harvested a total of 22 plum blossom sea cucumbers. He carefully transferred the sea cucumbers into the fish tank and fed them one by one.

Jiang Caoqi came over with a camera, and he was surprised and doubtful: "What are you doing?"

"Show you the photos, guess what I took?" Jiang Caoqi smiled.

Ao Muyang looked at the camera, and it turned out to be a scene of himself catching sea cucumbers underwater.

"You are so bored." He commented on Jiang Caoqi.

The large fish tanks were neatly arranged, and Ao Muyang prepared to take the sea cucumbers back to the fishery to raise them.

The plum blossom sea cucumber is dioecious, but there are no obvious characteristics between the male and female bodies. The male and female sea cucumbers can only be distinguished when they lay eggs.

They have two breeding seasons, one in spring and one in late autumn and early winter, which is about this season.

The scene of the plum blossom sea cucumber reproducing offspring is very interesting. They do not lay eggs, but just like they will spit out their internal organs when they encounter danger, they will directly discharge the gonads from the reproductive opening when they reproduce.

Among them, male sea cucumbers discharge milky white or light yellow gonads, and female sea cucumbers discharge pink or orange gonads. The two gonads combine in the water to form embryos...

This reproduction method is unique among various organisms and is related to the powerful organ regeneration ability of sea cucumbers.

The plum blossom ginseng found by Heilong became Ao Muyang's biggest gain on this trip. The value of this sea cucumber does not lie in how valuable its finished product is, but in bringing new species to Ao Muyang's fishery.

If the plum blossom ginseng thrives in the fishery, the subsequent economic benefits will continue to flow, allowing Ao Muyang to make a lot of money and save an endangered species.

After drying himself, he asked Heilong with great interest: "Did you find the plum blossom ginseng when you were on the boat?"

Heilong shook his head.

Ao Muyang was stunned: "Then how did you find the plum blossom ginseng? By luck?"

Heilong shook his head again, then pointed to the coral reef in the water and began to gesture.

Ao Muyang couldn't understand it, and he secretly vowed to learn sign language in the future, otherwise he and Heilong would have a communication barrier.

He found the plum blossom ginseng in the morning, and in the evening, he suddenly jumped into the water again.

"Damn, what did Heilong find this time?" A group of fishermen stayed at the stern and looked curiously.

This time, after the black dragon jumped into the water, it did not surface for a long time.

Ao Wenchang was a little anxious. He looked at his watch and said, "How long has the black dragon been down there? Five minutes, right?"

"Will he not drown down there?" Ao Mudong laughed.

Ao Muyang glared at him and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

"I'm kidding." Ao Mudong said awkwardly, "We all know the underwater ability of the black dragon. It's impossible for him to get into trouble underwater."

"Then don't joke around."

But Ao Mudong was right. Ao Muyang was full of confidence in the underwater ability of the black dragon. He believed that the black dragon must have discovered something.

The fishing boat left, the sea water returned to calm and became clear again, so the black dragon under the water showed up. He had been holding his breath to pick something under the water.

Ao Muyang curiously went underwater and took a look, and then saw a big abalone between his hands!

Less than twelve hours later, the black dragon made another contribution and found abalone in the water again!

Abalone is different from sea cucumbers. After they attach to coral reefs, they have strong adhesion. Black Dragon is very powerful underwater, but it is difficult to pick it off with your hands.

Ao Muyang went over to help. He signaled Black Dragon to float up for air first, but Black Dragon was very stubborn. Even though his eyes were red and his face was black, he still wanted to deal with the abalone.

The abalone is quite large. Although it is not as big as the Australian black gold abalone, which is as big as a bowl, it is also the size of a teenager's palm. This big abalone may have lived for more than ten years, just like growing on a stone.

Ao Muyang had to go up to help. Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. He came out of the water first and shouted: "Give me a leaf knife, quick!"

The leaf knife is a kind of fish-killing knife. It is made very thin, a bit like an oversized scalpel, shaped like a leaf, so it got this name.

This knife is suitable for dealing with abalone. It can cut in along the place where the abalone adheres to the stone, and then cut the abalone off step by step.

Ao Muyang gave the leaf knife to Heilong, who quickly removed the abalone that had been mostly separated from the stone and floated to the surface with it.

Seeing the abalone he raised, Ao Mudong said, "Fuck, I kneel down to this guy, his eyesight is invincible!"

When fishing boats go out to sea, their targets are fish, shrimps and crabs, and sea cucumbers and abalones are rare because they are difficult to find.

Everyone knows that sea cucumbers and abalones are marine treasures. In the past, they were exclusive to dignitaries and even the palace. Now there are a lot of abalones and sea cucumbers on the market, and the price is not high. That is because of the promotion of artificial breeding.

The price of wild abalone and wild sea cucumber is much higher than that of farmed ones, but there is no huge difference between the two. Before these two seafoods were farmed, their prices were really out of reach for ordinary people.

Because they are too hard to find and too hard to catch!

The shell of this abalone is grayish yellow, rough and uneven, with a relatively wide spiral part on the upper part. There is a row of protruding spiral ribs on the shell surface, like a small tumor. Turning it over, its shell is silvery white, with a wide shell mouth, a thin and large outer lip, and a thick and small inner lip. It looks rather wretched.

Ao Qianwen recognized its identity at a glance and said, "Sheep abalone."

Sheep abalone is a special abalone variety in the South China Sea. It is not particularly valuable, at least much less than plum blossom abalone, but it is rare enough to find it.

Ao Wenchang asked, "Uncle Wen, is this abalone? Can abalone grow so big? The largest I've seen is only six or seven centimeters long."

Ao Qianwen said, "The largest farmed ones are sold when they grow to that size. Some wild ones can grow big, and this one is very big."

The fishermen changed their water boats and continued to go into the water. This time, each of them had a net bag and a scimitar, and they searched the sea area like plowing the land, harvesting all the abalone grown in the water.

Heilong followed Ao Muyang and ate milk candy, smiling like a child.

Jiang Caoqi leaned on the railing and said, "Old Ao, this black dragon is a lucky general."

Ao Muyang said, "The servant of the sea god is worthy of his reputation. This is the top sea ghost!"

But he asked Heilong how he found these abalones. After Heilong gestured, he still didn't understand!