space fisherman

Duck?

When Ye Yuan heard Ma Hua's shout, his first reaction was that it was impossible.

Let’s not even mention that this is the sea.

Just talking about the current distance of the Royal Water from the shore, it is impossible for a duck to appear here.

Ye Yuan glanced in the direction of Ma Hua's finger.

I saw a group of duck-like creatures appearing on the sea in the distance.

But from the outside, it does look somewhat similar to a duck.

They have black and gray feathers on their backs.

The feathers on the belly that touch the sea surface appear white.

The most eye-catching thing is their bright red pointed mouth.

Judging from their appearance alone, people who don't know better would mistake these creatures for a group of ducks.

"Boss, what is this? It can't really be a duck, right?"

Wang Husheng also ran out of the cockpit after hearing the news.

After seeing the scene in the distance, he asked curiously.

"It's too far away to see clearly, but I'm sure it's not a duck."

Due to the distance problem, Ye Yuan did not recognize the names of the creatures floating on the sea.

"Isn't that simple?"

When Wang Husheng heard what Ye Yuan said, he quickly ran back to the cabin.

At the same time Wang Husheng returned.

The fishing boat began to change direction and approached the unknown group of creatures.

The fishing boat gradually approached this group of unknown creatures.

Ye Yuan finally saw clearly what the duck-like creature was.

"Horned puffins. It turns out to be a flock of horned puffins!"

Ye Yuan said involuntarily.

But the crew members were confused.

"Boss, what is a horned puffin? Why have I never seen it before?"

Ma Hua transforms into a curious baby, carrying out his fine tradition of asking questions when he doesn’t understand.

"The horned puffin is actually a seabird that makes a living by preying on marine fish.

They like to live in groups and usually build their nests in rock crevices or caves on the cliffs of coastal islands.

Nesting in groups on coastal grassy slopes, each pair of puffins digs a burrow about 1 meter deep.

Puffin eggs are white and hatch one at a time. The incubation work is mainly done by the female bird.

Both parents feed the chicks together.

When the chick reaches six weeks old, they abandon it.

The bird will stay in the hole for another week, while its flight feathers will grow.

Then it flew from the beach to the sea.

After two or three years, the puffin will return to its birthplace to breed."

Thinking back to the introduction about horned puffins in my mind.

At the same time, he also told the crew what he knew.

"Boss, I've never heard of this bird. Is it famous?"

Ma Hua asked.

Ye Yuan smiled and shook his head:

“It’s not necessary to be famous.

Horned puffins mainly live on islands and move in groups on the nearby sea.

Because they are good at swimming and diving, they mainly feed on some small fish and crustaceans.

Many fishermen don't know them.

I have only seen some introductions about them in the school library."

"There are no islands found nearby, are they just swimming in the water?

This is the first time I’ve seen a seabird that can swim.”

Wu Hao heard the conversation between the two and also intervened.

Ye Yuan looked around:

"Horned puffins generally don't come to shore.

Although they are good at swimming, they cannot live in the water for a long time.

They also need to sleep and rest.

So there should be islands nearby, but we just didn’t find them.”

"Yes, how can there be birds that stay in the sea all year round? There must be islands nearby."

Ma Hua also nodded and said in agreement.

The fishing boat did not change its speed because of the conversation between a few people.

While the crew was still discussing the horned puffins they had just seen.

It has been discovered that in the distance, a vague outline of an island appears in everyone's sight.

"Haha, isn't that an island? Whoever questioned the boss just now, please stand up for me."

Ma Hua, a living treasure, seriously plays the role of pistachio on his ship.

He never forgets to flatter the boss Ye Yuan at any time.

The fishing boat is getting closer and closer to the island, and the surrounding sea is no longer calm.

The wind stirred the sea surface, bringing with it medium-sized waves.

The waves crashed on the rocks, and the sound of sea water and rocks lapping could be heard from time to time.

This island is made up of rugged rocks.

These rocks seem to rise straight up from the depths of the ocean floor.

Stop two or three meters above sea level.

It seems extremely irregular.

The dark surface of the reef makes it look a bit unnatural.

This made Ye Yuan have a strong interest in this reef island.

After finding the chart, Ye Yuan saw clearly the coordinates of where he was.

That’s why we understand why the rocks on the island look like this.

This is an earthquake-prone area.

This also explains why those rocks were so weird before.

It turns out that those rocks were caused by the changed topography after the earthquake.

No wonder there are no fishing boats here.

In such sea areas, there are rarely large numbers of fish activities, which means that no fishing boats come here to fish at all.

Just when Ye Yuan released his senses and scanned the sea area.

A fish that suddenly appeared in his mind aroused Ye Yuan's great interest.

I saw that the body of this fish was oval.

The body color is purple-black, with irregular small black spots on the scales on the side of the body.

The first time he saw this fish, Ye Yuan recognized it. It turned out to be the not-so-famous rare marine fish, the spotted fish.

From the appearance point of view, the spotted turtle looks very similar to the dragon turtle.

In China, it is a very delicious edible fish with high nutritional value and is very suitable for steaming.

After steaming, the fish meat has a unique sweet and tender texture.

It is deeply loved by countless gourmets.

Why is such a delicious fish not very famous?

It's because its quantity is really too rare.

It's hard for most people to see it, let alone eat it.

Even the fishermen who hang out at sea all year round.

There are also many people who have never seen the true appearance of Banlu.

Especially in recent years, with human overfishing and damage to the marine environment.

Spotted hawks are becoming increasingly rare.

Before, occasionally fishermen could catch one or two spotted deer.

But now, it is rare to hear that anyone can catch the spotted deer anymore.

I only occasionally hear that fishing friends have caught small individuals of spotted plovers.

Ye Yuan had never heard of a group of spotted grebes as big as the one he saw today.

The spotted turtle is a warm-temperate mid-pelagic fish, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical waters.

Generally live in water depths below 30 meters.

Most like the smell and surrounding the rocks.

Therefore, even if someone finds traces of the spotted frogfish, it will be difficult to catch it with a fishing net.

It is precisely because of the difficulty of catching, the scarcity of the population, and the delicious taste of the spotted deer itself.

This also results in the price of spotted crocodiles being very high.

Since the spotted deer was discovered here today, Ye Yuan certainly couldn't miss it.

As for the inability to catch fish in fishing nets, does this matter to Ye Yuan?

(End of chapter)