space fisherman

The depth of the Yucatan Basin is about 4,000 meters, the average depth of the Cayman Trench is 5,000 to 6,000 meters, and the deepest point reaches 7,680 meters.

The eastern part is divided into the Colombian Basin and the Venezuelan Basin by the Beata Ridge, which runs from northeast to southwest.

The average depth of the Columbia Basin is about 3,000 meters, and the deepest point is 4,535 meters.

The average depth of the Venezuelan sea basin is about 4,500 meters, with the deepest reaching 5,630 meters.

The Jamaica Ridge extends southwest from Haiti and Jamaica to the east of Honduras and Nicaragua in Central America. The depth is generally about 500 meters, and more than half of it is less than 200 meters deep.

The Caribbean seabed is composed of Cenozoic sediments, the deeper ocean basins and trenches are mostly red clay, the sea platform is composed of coccidial ooze, and the submarine mountains and continental slopes are composed of pteropod ooze.

The northernmost Yucatan Basin has a water depth of about 5,000 meters, is bounded by the 220-kilometer-wide Yucatan Strait to the north, and is separated from the Cayman Ridge and the Cayman Trench in the south.

While Ye Yuan was standing on the deck, recalling some information about the Caribbean Sea, Yu Hongbo came over.

"Um...boss, how about we find a place where the brothers can go out into the sea to catch some ornamental fish?"

Ye Yuan did not expect that the crew of the fishing boat would have such a request just after entering the Caribbean Sea.

"Why are you thinking about hanging ornamental fish? Didn't you just catch them once not long ago?"

"Boss, Wang Husheng said that he had checked the information and found that there are many types of ornamental fish in the Caribbean, so everyone is trying to catch some that they have never caught before, so they can sell them at a high price when they return home, right?"

Yu Hongbo said a little embarrassed.

“So that’s how it is”

Ye Yuan nodded, but did not agree immediately. He just said to Yu Hongbo:

"I won't go back immediately this time. Just tell the crew that the opportunity will come. There's no need to rush."

What these crew members don't know is that Ye Yuan has his own island here.

Some ornamental fish live in shallow sea areas. The reason why Ye Yuan did not agree to them immediately was because he planned to stay on the island by himself during this period.

Let these crew members catch ornamental fish on the edge of the island. Are you afraid that they will not have time to catch them?

It is said that the crew did not know that Ye Yuan had an island here because Ye Yuan did not say what he came to the Caribbean for.

That's right, but I didn't say it. Now Ye Yuan will not tell these crew members in advance where he is going, and the crew members are used to this way of going to sea.

Anyway, Ye Yuan would not take them to do anything illegal, so the crew members still believed in Ye Yuan.

Yu Hongbo received Ye Yuan's reply and quickly went back. After returning, Yu Hongbo began to organize the crew.

The first trawling operation in the Caribbean Sea began, and they wanted to know what kind of fish there were in this somewhat legendary sea area.

With the trawl net lowered, the "Watermaster" cruise to the Caribbean Sea has just begun.

After an hour of towing, a large bag of fish was slowly piled on the deck.

When the crew saw the fish caught in the trawl net, everyone was stunned on the spot.

It’s not that this fish is so precious or cheap, but that no one knows what this fish is.

These fish have a yellow body with red to brown stripes, spines on their back, feathery pectoral fins, and transparent dorsal, anal and tail fins.

There are several tentacles above the two eyes, the snout is long and narrow, the center of the back is convex, and the distance between the eyes is narrow and concave; there is a concave carving in the center of the upper jaw, the gill bone has a flat spine, the gill opening is wide, and the body is covered with round or ctenoid scales.

Because they didn’t know what kind of fish they were, everyone was not in a hurry to touch these fish.

Ye Yuan has warned everyone many times that if there is a fish that he does not recognize, he must be notified first and then decide how to deal with it.

Ma Hua shouted at his loud voice and Ye Yuan, who was lying on the hammock in the distance with his eyes closed and enjoying the sea breeze:

"Boss, come here quickly and see what kind of fish these are?"

Hearing Ma Hua's shout, Ye Yuan opened his eyes and looked over. When he saw the fish on the deck, he was stunned.

Ye Yuan immediately reacted and took a few steps directly to the crew.

"Be careful, this fish is poisonous." After saying that, he took a rubber glove handed over by Yu Hongbo and put it on.

Ye Yuan carefully picked up a fish that was still jumping around, looked at it carefully and then said to the crew:

"That's right, this is a lionfish."

The crew members all looked at Ye Yuan and were ready to listen to his explanation, because no one had ever heard of this kind of fish.

Ye Yuan threw the fish in his hand into the bucket and said:

"The lionfish is what I call the lion fish. Please be careful with it here."

As he spoke, Ye Yuan used a pair of tweezers to prick the back spine of a fish.

Lionfish, alias: Lionfish

This fish is a nocturnal, saltwater fish. It swims in the dark water at night by slowly undulating the fins on its back and buttocks. After the sun rises, it will hide in the shadows of corals and rocks.

When resting during the day, they lower their heads and remain completely still. They communicate with each other through touch, smell and secretion of chemicals.

When encountering danger, lionfish will spread their long fins as much as possible to make themselves appear larger, and at the same time use bright colors to warn others.

If it encounters an equally bold fish, the lionfish will constantly expand and contract its fins, sometimes expanding and sometimes retracting.

Even if it falls into the mouth of a predator, the predator will have difficulty swallowing because of the fins all over the body of the lionfish. When it spits it out, it will be stung by venomous spines, resulting in poisoning.

After listening to Ye Yuan's explanation, everyone carefully put the lionfish into the bucket.

Since Ye Yuan did not ask everyone to return these fish to the sea, it means that they have certain economic value.

Otherwise, the boss would have asked everyone to throw them back into the sea, and there would be no time to explain so much to himself.

Now these crew members all know Ye Yuan very well. This guy can be said to be extremely lazy. He doesn't even bother to say anything if it's not necessary.

Ye Yuan looked at these caught lionfish. They were 25-40cm long.

Find a fish tank and put some smaller lionfish in it to ensure their survival.

Because the lionfish are so beautiful, Ye Yuan plans to transport some of them back and sell them as ornamental fish.

This is also the conclusion Ye Yuan came to after walking through several ornamental fish markets.

Since rat spots and manta rays can be sold as ornamental fish, what does it matter if you sell some lionfish yourself?

However, Ye Yuan does not intend to use too many lionfish to sell as ornamental fish.

Because its price itself is already pretty good. Generally, a 20cm lionfish can be sold for several hundred yuan per pound in China.

Ye Yuan believes that such a big lionfish will definitely fetch a good price. Like the stone fish and puffer fish that are common in China, they are fish that contain toxins.

Wanting to eat them requires professional processing, which is not something ordinary people can do casually, so Ye Yuan suppressed his urge to eat them often.

I never expected that my first trawl would bring me such a big surprise when I first arrived in the Caribbean.

Ye Yuan thought happily, and at the same time joined in the process of sorting the fish. He had not sorted the fish for a long time. It was not because he was in a good mood that he was too lazy to do this.