Chapter 49: The Death of the Shark
Sun Liancheng turned his head to look, picked up the binoculars on the driver's platform, and looked in the direction Yang Yi pointed, only to see a black piece about a kilometer or two away, as if a big fish was partying, he really hadn't seen this kind of scene, although he didn't know what kind of fish it was, but how could he be willing not to catch a handful.
"Sure enough, it's a school of fish, can you get it?" Sun Liancheng turned his head to Yang Yi and asked.
"Of course!"
If he didn't do it, what would he do with such great effort, you must know that spiritual water is very precious.
Sun Liancheng set the direction of the boat, and then walked out of the cabin, calling everyone up, and suddenly the fishing boat became lively, a large net was put into the sea under the action of the machine, and the deepest part was 50 meters according to Yang Yi's tune, and the sea surrounded the direction of the fish.
At this time, it is most suitable to use purse seine nets, after all, the fish are concentrated in one area, only to see the net winder in the back began to release the net, Sun Liancheng flexibly drove the fishing boat to start around, and when it was completely surrounded, the net collector began to work, and the fishing nets scattered into a large area began to retract, and gradually narrowed the range to the position of the fishing boat, so that the fish slowly gathered, and when the cable was collected, all the nets came in.
Yang Yi observed the fish, not only the humpback perch that came over in the past half an hour, but also other mackerel, bonito, red fish, herring and so on, among which Yang Yi also saw a hairtail fish with a body length of about 2 meters and a moray eel with a mouthful of fangs, among which he also saw a few sharks of about one meter, which looked like white-sided real sharks.
The fishing net was slowly lifted from the sea, and the whole boat was trembling, but it is conceivable that the number of this net is also quite a lot, at least dozens of tons, and it is estimated that the cabin of the fishing boat is more than half full, and the rest of the part needs to be selected, otherwise I am afraid that I will really have to return to the sea in advance.
The crane hoisted a net of fish to the designated position on the deck, and the water monkeys saw that it was densely packed with fish below, and some of the smaller ones fell from the mesh and fell on the deck and twisted their bodies.
The net was scattered, and a shark swept the other fish away with its tail like a broom, crawling in the direction of the water monkey, and the boy swished so frightened that he jumped onto the rising net and pointed at the shark and squeaked.
"Look at your guts, this is a little shark, not a great white shark, it doesn't eat people, come down quickly!"
Sun Liancheng really couldn't look at it, so he walked over and picked up the shark with both hands, lifted the shark's head, and scolded at the water monkey that was getting taller and taller.
"Eh, I really don't bite, I thought sharks would eat people!"
The water monkey jumped down from a height of more than two meters, rolled around on the deck on tiptoe, and ran in front of Sun Liancheng to look.
"At first glance, you have never seen a shark, there are only one or two sharks in the world that eat people, this is called a white-sided real shark, the largest is more than a meter, it is a small shark, although it also eats meat, but you should not be interested. Do you keep this shark? The skin and meat are worth some money!"
The last sentence is to Yang Yi, the white shark is different from other sharks with urine in its meat, its meat can be processed into a variety of different meat products, fins can be made into shark fin, skin can be made into leather, liver can be processed into vitamin medicine and oil, and the rest of the rest can be made into fishmeal. It can be said that all parts of the entire body can be eaten and used by humans, so Sun Liancheng asked such a question.
"Don't do it, put it back in the sea, it's very good to come out and harvest this time, although the economic value of this shark is good, it's not worth sending a few to be processed, it's better to let them live well in the sea!" Yang Yi decided.
"Alright, boy, throw them back into the sea with me!"
Sun Liancheng arranged for the water monkeys to throw these sharks back into the sea again, at first the water monkeys were still a little scared, but later they saw that there was no problem and became bold, and threw several by themselves.
"This shark is very fun, it's similar to the cattooth shark I've caught at the beach, and the skin is very comfortable to the touch!"
"The cat shark thing is played by children, like pets, it can also be called a shark, just a child like you to catch and play, when you look back and see a great white shark or tiger shark, I hope you don't pee your pants!" Sun Liancheng said with a cold face when he heard it.
"Haha, water monkey, don't listen to Lao Sun's nonsense, cat-tooth sharks and this white-edged real shark belong to the order of real sharks, in fact, they are indeed about the same, the great white shark is not in our sea area, don't be afraid when you see it, the great white shark does not live by eating people. ”
Yang Yi saw that the water monkey was hit a little hard, so he smiled and helped him out.
"It's not me who hits him, you have to be bold when you go to sea, you look over there, the whale shark is also coming!"
When Sun Liancheng saw Yang Yi breaking the siege, he didn't continue to hit him, but pointed to a white spotted back in the distance and said to them.
Hearing that a whale shark was coming, everyone stopped what they were doing and went to the side of the boat to look over, and sure enough, two huge fish dozens of meters away were floating on the water, about thirteen or fourteen meters long, scattered with pale spots and ribbons, like a chessboard.
The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, and it is an oceanic fish, although it is a shark, it has a gentle temperament, and feeds on plankton and small fish. They are mainly found in tropical and temperate seas, and the South China Sea, where they are located, is one of the habitats of these whale sharks.
These two whale sharks should also be attracted by the spiritual water, and these two should be a family, usually whale sharks are alone, unless they forage in a place where food is abundant, they rarely move in groups, even the male and female families are the same.
There is only one possibility that these two appear here at the same time, that is, they feel the appearance of spiritual water, so they come together. They have almost no natural predators in the sea, and the only natural predator should be humans, because there are very few whale sharks to be killed now, and the purpose of killing them is naturally for shark fins.
Shark fin is a high-grade seafood ingredient that is generally taken from the filamentous cartilage in the back and tail fins of sharks. The top shark fin is the "Sky Nine Wing", and the "Sky Nine Wing" is derived from the world's rarest shark species "Whale Shark" and "Basking Shark", both of which are one of the largest sharks in the world, the number is not much, basically an endangered species, and it is not easy to catch, so "Sky Nine Wing" has also become an extremely precious food.
The land of China is vast, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas are countless, but the most prestigious ones are the four national treasures of "abalone, bird's nest, shark fin, and sea cucumber", and the most difficult to catch is shark fin.
Shark fin was first on the table during the Ming Dynasty, according to legend, Zheng He passed by a lonely island when he went to the West, just in time to catch up with the food on the ship has been eaten, Zheng He and the crew picked up the shark fin that the predecessors did not want to satisfy hunger on the desert island, felt that the taste was quite peculiar, so he brought the shark fin back to the imperial court, the emperor had not seen this novelty, and immediately wanted to feast on it.
Let the imperial dining room make a "one-product pot" with delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the emperor praised it after tasting it, and shark fin has since become the "royal noble" in the food world. Buddha jumping over the wall, golden needle ham and shark fin stew, codonopsis shark fin pot chicken soup, fish maw cordyceps fin soup pot.... All kinds of exquisite and expensive palace secret dishes are inseparable from shark fin.
But speaking of which, shark fin is the most unworthy of the name of the "four treasures", the preciousness of shark fin lies in the rarity of raw materials, scarcity and complexity of the processing process, in fact, shark fin itself does not have any taste, like vermicelli but not as soft and refreshing as vermicelli, but stiff and fishy.
Speaking of nutrition, shark fins do contain about 80% high protein, in addition to sugars, fats and a little minerals. But these nutrients that make up shark fin are not only common and ordinary, but also difficult for people to digest and absorb.
In recent years, scientists have shown that the so-called "minerals" in shark fins are actually high concentrations of mercury, sharks live in the ocean, contaminated with wastewater and sewage discharged into the ocean by many countries, and sharks have no way to resist these pollution, so they can only let the body more and more toxins.
In addition, sharks are the highest in the marine food chain, accumulating more toxins from small fish and shrimp, resulting in a high degree of mercury contamination of shark fins.
Mercury is a chemical element that is very harmful to human beings, not only may cause male infertility, but also endanger the central nervous system and kidneys of human beings in serious cases.
But even so, the sharks killed every year are a terrifying number, all kinds of high-end hotels are hard to find, to put it bluntly, it is just the "face" of human beings in trouble, people's vanity and greed and curiosity, causing countless sharks to suffer from the catastrophe, were cut off alive and then thrown back into the sea, the former sea overlord, after losing the fins, can only be miserable and lonely suffocation, or become the bait of creatures.
I have to say that this is the death of the "shark"!