My Deep-sea Fishery

It was a group of right whales. Their swimming speed was very slow, and they were closer to the coast than other whales. Their fat bodies were filled with blubber, whale bones and balsamic oil. They were the favorite prey of many whaling ships. They were hunted by whalers so much that there are not many of them left today.

At present, there are no more than 2,000 right whales in the world. Many countries around the world, including my country, regard right whales as protected animals and strictly prohibit their killing.

If you are not very familiar with the ocean, it is easy to confuse right whales with humpback whales because the two look very similar.

The body of the group of right whales that Xiang Yang saw was spindle-shaped, and the surface of the body was extremely smooth. The largest in the group was nearly 20 meters long, and the weight was conservatively estimated to be at least 100 tons. Most of the skin on the body was It is pitch black, and the skin on the head has gray and white spots, which looks very rough.

Xu Fang held up the binoculars, "It seems to be a group of right whales, tsk tsk, there are not many of these whales, I didn't expect to be met by us, unfortunately, this kind of whales are not allowed to be caught now, otherwise our trip will be really difficult. Got rich."

"It's a right whale?" Chen Qingsheng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No way, as the marine environment continues to deteriorate, the natural death rate of right whales is also increasing. After so many years, Countries around the world and major animal protection organizations are working hard to protect them, but the number of these whales has continued to decrease over the years."

"Yes, although right whales can no longer be fished these years, the overall marine environment has been destroyed, food is in short supply, and natural enemies are increasing, making it difficult for right whales to reproduce." Xiang Yang nodded.

In the past, right whales had few natural predators.

Like the humpback whale, although the right whale is docile and basically will not actively attack other marine life, but its size is there after all, as long as it is not a fish with a bad head, it will generally not attack the right whale. Look for stimulation in front of you.

Due to the lack of natural enemies for many years, the immune system of the right whale has been greatly degraded. Sometimes, only a small wound is needed to kill the right whale.

The origin of the name of the right whale is precisely because they often appear on the coast where the land can be seen, and most of the time, the right whale will float its back above the water.

As a result, many seagulls regard the right whale as an isolated island and like to land on the back of the right whale.

This is nothing at all, after all, since ancient times, no one knows how many seagulls have landed on the back of a right whale.

In the past, the right whale got along well with the seagulls, but at some point, a stupid bird pecked the back of the right whale.

Seagulls have the habit of imitating their own kind. After the action of the seagull pecking the back of a right whale was seen by its kind, the same kind imitated it one after another.

Right whales have a smooth body surface and are very easy to be pecked, and because they are huge, they don't even feel a little pecked, so they don't even drive seagulls.

The consequence of this is that often when a right whale floats out of the sea, dozens or even hundreds of seagulls land on its back and peck together.

When the area of ​​the peck is too large, the right whale cannot rely on its own immune system to recover.

Soon, the fleet was getting close to the right whales.

Now, everyone in the entire fleet could see clearly that the right whales were very large, and their heads were more than a quarter of their body length, which made them look very similar to humpback whales.

"One, two, three, there are three right whales in total, I don't know if there are any under the water." Fang Youqun said after counting.

"Probably not. Right whales are different from other whales. They don't like to stay on the bottom of the sea. They often play in bays or on the sea around islands." Xiang Yang said.

Those three right whales were not afraid of people at all.

Seeing that the fleet surrounded them, they actually shuttled slowly among the fleet, and occasionally patted the hull with their small fins that were out of proportion to their size, causing the crew members of each hull to keep shouting at them.

Xiang Yang watched a right whale swim to the left side of his fishing boat at a very slow speed, and said to the crew with a smile: "A right whale can be regarded as a big fool in the ocean, precisely because of its Because of its personality, it has been hunted by humans a lot, because it is really easy to kill right whales compared to other whales."

Chen Qingsheng nodded, "Yes, that's right, if it weren't for the protection of animals, give me a harpoon, I'm at least 90% sure to keep it."

Xiang Yang smiled and said nothing. In the past, whalers did use harpoons to kill right whales, but it was definitely not as simple as what Chen Qingsheng said. After all, rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry, not to mention their size. A right whale the size of a house.

Under the boat, the right whale seemed to understand Chen Qingsheng's words. It took a big dive, lifted its tail fin out of the water, and set off a huge wave of water onto the boat.

Suddenly, everyone standing on the side of the ship became drowned.

Fortunately, the jacket that Xiang Yang bought was waterproof, so it could have been used as a raincoat, otherwise everyone would have been shivering from the cold just now.

Even so, the behavior of this right whale also angered everyone on board.

"Damn, if you dare to splash me with water, believe it or not, I'll kill you soon." Fang Youqun ran to the side of the boat angrily, and shouted at the right whale.

Xiang Yang exchanged glances with several veteran crew members who had been to Antarctica, including Chen Qingsheng and Xu Fang, and they suddenly became playful, and a subtle smile flashed across their eyes, and then they all looked at each other in unison. Retreat in the direction of the cabin.

After every big dive, a right whale will spray a column of mist water several meters high through the whale hole. When the water column spreads in the air, it is enough to wet the deck of the entire ship.

Sure enough, Xiang Yang, a few old crew members, and a few students from the Maritime University who had already thought about it had just hid in the cabin when they saw the tail of the right whale slamming on the water, and then Its huge head emerged from the sea, and a huge water column as high as six meters was ejected from the whale hole.

The water column spread out in mid-air and covered the surrounding tens of meters, but anyone or anything within this range enjoyed the treatment of being sprayed by the sprinkler.

"Depend on."

Fang Youqun and the others went crazy immediately. Even if they were wearing assault jackets, if they were sprayed like this, the duck down thermal jackets inside would also be wet.