Chapter Twenty-Six: Interesting Facts about Catching the Sea
By the time we arrived at the bay, the tide had already receded by half, and some reef puddles were exposed, although they had not yet completely settled, and it no longer affected everyone's entry into the water.
Hu Zimeng, this little girl is more than five years old this year, it is the age of fun, although they all live in southern Xinjiang, but Gui City is a city that is not near the sea, there are not many times to see the sea, and when you see the white sand like snow, you are naturally running with joy, and several college students are the same, they all took off their shoes and stepped on the soft sand to play.
Yang Yi didn't urge, but took Lao Chen and a few people towards the bare reef area, there are very few real seafood on the beach, except for some clams and sea clams that move slowly and prefer to get into the sand, the others are very few.
On the contrary, the reef area is a paradise for these seafood, including sea crabs, lobsters, eels, and some fish like to live here. Due to the continuous purification of spiritual water, the marine life in the bay has gradually recovered a lot, which has also made the villagers of the mountain village who have not been in the sea for a long time start to catch the sea again, and many colleagues who have been in the low tide have found them along the coast.
With the help of Dragon Balls, Yang Yi is able to discover what is in his surroundings and avoid danger. Led by him, Lao Chen and his wife, as well as Professor Hu's family and a college student couple who followed behind, they introduced from time to time on the reef beach where there might be seafood.
"You see, this is a barnacle, distributed in almost any sea area from the intertidal zone to the subtidal shallow water, like to attach to the fixed or floating hard objects in the seawater, such as reefs, docks, the bottom of the boat, etc., where there are hard objects, it may be attached to it, and even on the body surface of whales, turtles, lobsters, crabs, amber, there are often attached barnacles.
On the sea, wherever there is a reef, there will be barnacles, and the rocks on the bottom of the sea can grow, and the sun and sea can be enjoyed, which is much more comfortable than other aquariums. There is an interesting legend about this habit of barnacles among fishermen in some places.
The dragon princess wanted to go ashore to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the world, and the dragon king was worried that the reef on the shore was too slippery and would break his heart, so he ordered to recruit the "threshold stone" in the aquarium and lay it on the reef for the dragon princess. If anyone is willing to take on this heavy responsibility, then the reef will come and go at will, and there will be no more control. The aquarists always complain that the underwater days are too dull, and they all compete for registration with such a good opportunity, and the competition is fierce.
The dragon head fish was the first to take the test with the word "dragon" by himself. One by one, they lay on the reef and let the dragon princess step on them. But the dragon head fish are pampered on weekdays, and their bodies are weak, and the dragon princess stepped on it and only took two steps, and they couldn't bear it, and they staggered one by one, making the dragon princess fall. The dragon king was furious and beat the dragon-headed fish so hard that their scales fell off and their bones were crispy.
The aquarists were terrified and did not dare to try again, only barnacles stepped forward. This barnacle was originally used in the Dragon Palace's imperial dining room, and the wine cups and bowls that were used on weekdays were kept one by one, and this time it came in handy. They covered the broken wine cup and bowl on their bodies, and attached them layer by layer to the rocky reef, and the dragon princess stepped on it steadily, and walked to the top of the rock. Since then, barnacles have been able to live both underwater and on the reef, and over time, those cups and bowls have become hard shells to protect their bodies.
Barnacles are also a kind of delicious seafood, people at the seaside like to stew them or make barnacle steamed eggs, they are delicious, but there is still too little meat, and it is difficult to get it down from the reef, even fishermen are too troublesome, so few people will get it to eat!"
Yang Yi pointed to the gray-white crater-shaped barnacles on the reef and said, in fact, barnacles are a very difficult marine parasite, belonging to the crustaceans of the phylum Arthropods, with more than 500 species of family members, widely distributed in shallow waters in the oceans around the world, at this time they saw the conical barnacles in the barnacles, the scientific name is reticulated barnacles, and it is also the most common one on the seaside.
"I didn't expect Xiao Yang to study barnacles so much, yes, barnacles are very difficult marine parasites, whales and turtles in the ocean are all suffering from them, and they are tormented by them. Ships in the ocean also need to clean the bottom of the ship regularly every year to prevent these small things from slowing down and increasing fuel consumption, and the cost of cleaning is very huge. In addition to this cylindrical barnacle, there is also a gooseneck-shaped barnacle, called gooseneck barnacles, many people call them pen snails, stone snails or dog claw snails, which is a very delicious ingredient, you see, under that reef, this kind of thing can be eaten raw, and the taste is said to be very good, but try not to eat it raw, although it is a parasite itself, but there are also microparasites on the body. ”
Professor Hu followed Yang Yi's words to popularize science for everyone, although he is a geological expert, but for marine biology there is also research, mainly to study ancient geology, biology is an extremely important reference.
"I know this kind of dog claw snail, in the southeast province of Zhanjiang Donghaitou side, this kind of snail is called sea chicken feet, they have a special method, the dog claw snail is particularly delicious, just add some spices and then quickly steam, when eating, peel off the back part, eat the front of the little meat, but the umami remains in the mouth for a long time, the more you eat, the more addictive. I also have several barnacles for sale in my fish shop, and many customers still like them!"
Lao Chen in Southeast Province is interested in making aquatic products, and all kinds of seafood products must be contacted, so he is also familiar with barnacles, which is a seafood, and then Professor Hu said.
Tong Ling kept patting them with his mobile phone, and broadcast these conversations truthfully, which was regarded as popularizing knowledge for netizens across the country, and was very popular with netizens in the live broadcast room.
Yang Yi didn't let them grab the barnacles, because this thing sucked too tightly, and it was very laborious to get it down without the flat kind of iron drill, and the time for the ebb and flow was limited, so it would be better to find something more attractive first.
In the process of searching along the reef, Yang Yi easily found some seafood hiding in the rock crevices, including three blue crabs weighing seven or eight to one catty, and orchid crabs with two large clips and beautiful patterned shells, but although this crab is not small, but the meat is not much, Yang Yi doesn't care, but these netizens, especially a few college students, are very excited, all under the guidance of Yang Yi, pinching the crab shell and throwing it into the bucket.
Almost all sea crabs have a pair of legs, which is the first pair of legs that the crab deforms, and the average crab has eight legs and a pair of legs. Yang Yi still remembers that there is a sentence in Xunzi's "Persuasion", there is no one to rely on in the cave of the crab six kneeling and the two chelates are not the snake eel.
There are a lot of debates on the Internet because of this matter, some say that science and technology were not developed at that time, and people thought that the last two feet were rudders, which could not be called feet, and some said that the crab that Xunzi knew at the beginning should be a six-legged crab, but now there is no more.
In any case, it can't change the fact that most crabs have two powerful feet, which are an important tool for their predation and a very powerful self-defense killing weapon. If ordinary people are caught by crabs, even small crabs will basically bleed, the blue crabs and orchid crabs they caught are the fierce category of crabs, a pair of big pincers is not a joke, some people have been caught by blue crabs with their fingers broken.
There are a lot of crabs in this reef area, and everyone is very happy, at the beginning, it was Yang Yi who caught it, and later these netizens learned it, and they all started it in person, even Hu Zimeng caught one, and they all shouted and shouted very lively, and the live broadcast room was the same, they were envious that they could catch it so happily, and they were even more determined to come and try it in person.
Yang Yi naturally knew where they were through the Dragon Balls, so he grabbed some and kept some, and in this way, in half an hour, these people actually caught a small half bucket. In addition to the blue crab and orchid crab, there are also some flower cover crabs and stone crabs, one of the blue crabs does not know whether it is mutated or how, it is actually three or four pounds, long and stupid, they were directly caught into the bucket, and then they discussed the issue of garlic or steaming.
After walking for a while, Yang Yi looked at the time, stopped next to a reef puddle left behind after a low tide, looked at it for a while, and turned his head to tell everyone.
"This puddle is a little muddy, there is sand at the bottom, there should be no shortage of good things, let's make this puddle today, maybe we will catch good things!"