At the seaside, harvest and joy are synonymous.

The sky was bright, and the wharf on Pishan Island was already noisy. After a busy time, several medium-sized fishing boats left the dock and rode the waves towards the marine ranch in the southwest.

Qi Zheng and Chen Zhenian, head of the marine business sector, expert representatives led by Academician Zhou and Academician Ge, and representatives of investment institutions led by Chen Jian and Mr. Mei all went to sea with the fishing boat.

The wide sea area centered on Lang Ho Island is calm and calm. Beneath the calm surface of the sea is a vibrant underwater world of plankton swaying and fish swimming freely.

Before that, this was not the case in this sea. As in many areas of the East China Sea, the environment is so desertified due to overfishing that there is almost nothing in the sea except water.

In order to let there be fish in the sea, Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has successively put 450,000 empty square meters of artificial reefs, built 8,000 acres of seaweed farms, and released more than 5 million fish fry, more than 10 million abalone fry, and more than 4 million sea cucumber fry...... It has become a marine ranch with all kinds of fish, shrimp, shellfish and algae ginseng.

On the fishing boat, the screen of the sonar fish finder is constantly beating, filtering the search for the fish caught and looking for the fish that have been located before.

Although marine ranches are open relative to general fishing grounds, the location of fish schools is regular.

In addition to the active division of fish fry breeding area, fish fry grazing area, and adult fish breeding area, the perfect marine ranch environmental monitoring platform also has a marking function, with the sonar of fishing boats, no need to blindly cruise, according to the marked position to fish.

A group of experts crowded in front of the sonar fish finder and whispered from time to time: "Look, a big fish, that's a big yellow croaker? Oh, another big fish......

In contrast, Qi Zheng is more trouble-free.

In the sea ranch covered by the spirit array, the "divine sense" passed through the water, and groups of large and small fish shook their heads and tails.

The middle and upper layers of the marine ranch are schools of anchovy that congregate at different times. It is one of the most common small fish species in marine ranching, the species with the largest biomass of single fish resources in the East China Sea, and a key fish species in the food web of marine ranching.

A few large red sea breams with flattened sides and oblong shapes swam quickly, chasing the anchovy schools to hunt.

Suddenly, a large school of sharp-toothed, agile, and ferocious mackerel roared through the center of the anchovy school, and the red sea bream was frightened away, and the anchovy school seemed to be stimulated by the group of predators, and the original formation was scattered, and the small fish scurried in all directions.

The "Divine Sense" traveled further, and the hairtail began to appear.

A group of about one meter long, like a thin whip of ribbon fish shuttles by, the scene is full of beauty.

Short and sturdy anchovy, slender Zhoushan hairtail, plump blue-spotted mackerel, vigorous real sea bream, schools of large yellow croaker, and continuous patches of small yellow croaker......

If the fishermen had seen this, they would have been amazed by the diversity of fish species at the Jiagu Marine Ranch, which had disappeared from most of the East China Sea two or three decades ago.

As we all know, large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, cuttlefish and hairtail have always been the main economic fish in China, known as the "four major fisheries" and "four major fishery products". These "four major fishery products" are all high-quality bottom fish of high trophic level, but unfortunately after predatory fishing since the sixties and seventies of the last century, they have collapsed.

The so-called "there is no general in Shuzhong, Liao Hua is a pioneer", aside from the distant-water fishery, a number of low-value fish have appeared on the stage of China's offshore fishery.

For example, the main catch in the offshore sea is the Balang fish, which is a small fish that is located at the next level of the food chain, with a short life cycle, declining trophic level, and low value.

Gourmets talk about fish, pay attention to rarity and delicate meat, and are still immersed in the nostalgia for the big yellow croaker. However, when the fishing boats only brought back the Balang fish, despite the fact that they looked down on it with rough skin and rough meat, they were as bad as mud, but in the end we had to face up to the reality: the marine fish we ate were getting worse and worse, and our dietary tastes had to be adjusted downward.

Some people may say that in recent years, the fishing moratorium has been implemented, and many economic fish stocks have recovered, and the production has greatly increased.

Not to mention the limited effect of a two- to three-month annual moratorium on the restoration of fishery resources, the so-called "restored" fish stocks are full of young juveniles, and the vast majority of them never have a chance to reach adulthood.

For example, the hairtail fish, which is still the main economic fish in China, and the hairtail fish caught by fishermen now must be carefully selected in order to pick out a few large "generals" from a large number of small hairtail fish -- the average anal length of the hairtail fish in the East China Sea has dropped from 23.2 cm in the sixties of the last century to 17.9 cm today, and the average age has dropped from 1.94 to 1.45 years.

It is precisely because of this that the volume of economic fish in Jiagu Marine Ranch far exceeds the ordinary standard, which can only be described as magical, not to mention that many of them are traditional long-lived high-quality economic fish.

Qi Zheng regained consciousness, and at this time, the fishing boats also arrived at the corresponding fish positions, and under the command of the fishing boat owner, the fishermen began to lower their nets. Huge nets are lowered and spread out to envelop the fish.

The Jiagu fishing boats were lowered with improved trawls. The fishing intensity of Jiagu Marine Ranch is strictly limited, at least the net port should allow small fish to get out.

Marine ranch fishing is certainly not the same thing as high seas fishing, the fish in the ranch are your own thing, and you can only catch big enough fish, and the small fish have to be released.

Fishing on the high seas is as simple as choosing a net with the right mesh according to the requirements of the Ministry of Fisheries, and then casting the net to catch it, regardless of what it catches – and that's in compliance with the law. If you use some forbidden fishing gear, it will wipe out all the marine life in the netted sea in minutes, turning it into an empty underwater desert.

trawling, purse seine, stretch nets, drift gillnets, cage pots, longlines...... It is difficult for a layman to understand how complex today's fishing gear fishing methods are and how terrifying the power of modern fishing gear is.

For example, drift gillnets were originally a kind of fishing gear with strong selectivity, but now drift gillnets are often thirty or forty kilometers long, floating down the river, which can be called the "wall of death" at sea, and it is an out-and-out disaster for marine fish!

Modern fishing boats, efficient fishing gear, fishing methods, and too small mesh often cause a fish to be on the verge of extinction before the aquatic industry can react. How else to say that most of the disasters are basically the sins of human beings themselves?

From another point of view, the construction of marine ranches by human beings is not so much an innovative development as an "atonement".

The fishing boat slowly sailed forward, the nets were opened, and the fish were caught, and after about half an hour, the target fish were almost all in it, the fishermen turned on the electric switch, the motor started, and the turbine dragged the net and began to recycle.

No matter what time of year, the harvest is always something to look forward to. Neither experts nor investors have the opportunity to witness such large-scale fishing activities on the spot. For a moment, there was a sense of tension on the ship.

The net was empty when it was thrown down, and now it has become a large ellipsoid with a diameter of more than five meters.

The nets are pulled to the entrance of the ice tank and opened, and the big fish "crackle" and fall into the ice tank like hail!

As the catch in the fishing net was revealed, the eyes of the visiting group slowly widened.

Fishermen sort out their catch in the ice hut and see how it should be preserved according to the species, and from time to time they let out cheers of surprise.

", a horse fish weighing at least 10 kilograms, baby!"

"More than that, I think it's almost 25 pounds ......"

Mayou, also known as catfish, is a fatty and valuable fish. There is a proverb in the coastal area, "one catfish, two red sharks, three pomfret and four mackerel, five catfish and six gala", which is the ranking of traditional marine fish. The meat of the catfish is delicious, the protein content is also very rich, it has the effect of replenishing fatigue and strengthening the spleen and stomach, and fishermen often rank it first in the fish rankings.

The catfish needs dozens of catties to be really delicious. But don't say that it weighs dozens of pounds, even a big fish weighing more than ten pounds, and few fishermen can catch it. This nearly 25-pound catfish must be one of the largest catfish caught in recent years.

"Mom, this gala (i.e. real sea bream) weighs more than 10 catties, this is really our free-range seedling, why does it grow so fast?"

"I guess it was drawn from the open sea. ”

"Attract so much?"

“......”

With the depletion of offshore fisheries, these fishermen have not experienced this feeling of catching their catch for a long time before becoming employees of Jiagu Sea Ranch. For fishermen, seeing the abundant catch in the fishing net is a visual feast and a cool point that can be easily poked.

Looking at these big fish jumping around, as well as the fishermen who high-fived each other in celebration, Qi Zheng also laughed.

The experts didn't just watch, they also "got started" themselves.

I saw that Academician Ge found a small miscellaneous fish, pinched it casually, took out a sharp knife, cut its belly neatly, and began to watch.

Chen Jian and other investment representatives were stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "What is he looking at?"

Qi Zheng understood it and introduced them: "Look at the food chain structure of the marine ranch. Small trash fish feed on seaweed and plankton, and if their stomachs are full, it means that they have eaten a lot of bait, and the foundation of the marine ranch is solid. ”

"In fact, our ranchers also use this method to determine the need to put seaweed seeds or feed into the fishery. As you know, marine fish like to move along the currents and for food, and the abundance of bait in the pasture attracts these fish to stay. If there is less bait, the fish will leave. ”

Chen Jian: They suddenly realized.

Academician Ge didn't hear it, and saw that the green internal organs were clearly visible in the trash fish, and it was because he had eaten green micro-algae, so he nodded secretly.

Chen Jian: Of course, they are not as professional as the experts, but they also have their own judging criteria.

"Raising a big yellow croaker is the same as raising a beautiful woman, not only to raise the body, but also to take good care of the skin. Chen Jian squatted in front of the big yellow croaker catch, recalling his temporary "make-up lesson" - imitating wild large yellow croaker has two direct sensory indicators, one is to be slender and have the same figure as Miss World;

Mr. Mei also squatted down: "Artificially bred big yellow croaker will have a big belly." The second is that the color of the fish is not bright enough, the meat is rough, the taste is sticky, and finally the growth rate cannot keep up. ”

"The big yellow croaker produced in Jiagu, anyway, I don't see any difference from the wild big yellow croaker. I reckon even industry veterans will find it hard to see the difference. ”

Finally, the two glanced at each other and said in unison: "The high-quality imitation wild yellow croaker should be the highest quality in the industry, and it is even infinitely close to the standard of wild fish." ”

Nowadays, how many people want to eat wild yellow croaker, touch their pockets and hold back. For no other reason, wild yellow croaker is too expensive right now. The price of 2000-3000 yuan/jin is still available but not sought.

Ordinary cultured large yellow croaker is about 20 yuan/catty, and the price difference is as much as 100 times. The large yellow croaker produced by Jiagu Marine Ranch is said to be able to sell for 200 yuan per catty, which is ten times higher than that of ordinary cultured large yellow croaker, but compared with the wild large yellow croaker, the cost performance is terrible.

Of course, after the expansion of Jiagu Marine Ranch, the production of imitation wild large yellow croaker increases, and the price will inevitably decrease, but with the original wild quality maintained, there will definitely be no shortage of market, and compared with the price and profit of ordinary farmed large yellow croaker, it is still very profitable.

This is not only reflected in the large yellow croaker, even the most common hairtail, the hairtail fish produced by Jiagu Marine Ranch is not small - the price of the large hairtail is at least twice as high as that of the small hairtail.

Experts look at the essence of the catch, and investment representatives look at the catch like a fish-like amount of money.

Is that the smell of fish? No, that's the smell of money.

As a net of fat sea fish was pulled onto the fishing boat, the investment representatives were shaken, and the fishermen cheered directly: "Harvest, harvest, harvest!"

The high-spirited sound startled thousands of migratory birds nearby.

Flocks of migratory birds circling densely in the air are like a black tornado, reflecting the fish ** that leap out of the sea.

This spectacular scene attracted everyone's attention.

Qi Zheng spread his hands and smiled: "Yes, disturb these 'little robbers', let's keep a low profile......"

When Jiagu contributed to the construction of a benign offshore ecosystem, because of the good environment and temperate climate of the marine ranch, coupled with the abundant food brought by biodiversity, these migratory birds, known as the "greatest migrators" on our planet, chose to come here to inhabit, forage, and even reluctant to leave, and stayed in the marine ranch to become "resident birds".

The populated Pishan Island is fine, but the two small islands in the marine ranch, Upper and Lower Lang Jue Island, have become "Bird Island".

In addition to common migratory birds such as the Great Egret, Red-billed Gull, Black-bellied Sandpiper, and Green-winged Duck, many rare species have also been observed and monitored, such as the black-faced spoonbill and the sandpiper, which are endangered species in the world, and there are not many in the world.

Therefore, don't look at Qi Zheng talking about "little robber", look at his smiling expression, you know that he likes to see this scene of "water birds flying".

Academician Zhou's words exhausted the meaning: "Migratory birds are one of the most sensitive species to the environment, and the large variety and number of migratory birds show that the ecological environment of Jiagu Marine Ranch is good, and migratory birds can only stay if they are willing to stay." Fish fat, warblers fly, this is the paradise of the ocean!"

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