Chapter 96: The Seafood and the Boat Have Arrived
Hawksbill turtles generally live in waters above 18.3 meters deep and live in several habitats with completely different environments throughout their lives.
Adult hawksbill turtles are mainly found in tropical coral reefs, and during the day they come and go in and out of the many caves and deep valleys in the reef, which provide a place to rest.
As a migratory sea turtle, they can live in a variety of habitats, including vast oceans, lagoons and even mangrove swamps at the mouth of the sea.
Little is known about the preferred habitat of juvenile hawksbill turtles in their early stages of life, but it is speculated that they live plankton-like lives in the sea like other juvenile turtles and do not leave their homes until they reach adulthood.
Hawksbill turtles are also large and ferocious carnivores in the ocean, often infesting coral reefs and preying mainly on fish, shrimp, crabs and mollusks, as well as seaweed.
It is more mobile and swims faster.
Hawksbill turtles prefer to feed on coral reefs, continental shelves, or shallows overgrown with brown algae.
Although hawksbill turtles are omnivores, their predominant food is sponges.
It can be said that sponges occupy 70~95% of the total diet of Caribbean hawksbill turtle populations.
Hawksbill turtles feed on only a few specific sponge species, such as Demospongiae, especially Astrophorida, Spirophorida, and Hadromerida. In addition to sponges, hawksbill turtles feed on seaweed and cnidarians such as jellyfish and anemones. It also preys on the very dangerous polyp Physalia physalis.
Hawksbill turtles close their unprotected eyes when preying on these cnidarians, and the cnidal cells of highly venomous animals such as the monk's hat jellyfish do not penetrate the hawksbill turtle's scaly head so that the hawksbill turtle is not threatened.
Hawksbill turtles also sometimes prey on shrimp, crabs and shellfish, and their jaws are so powerful that they can bite into crab shells and even very hard and thick shells, such as bivalve shellfish. The hawksbill turtle's beak makes it easy to prey on small shrimp and squid in the crevices of the coral, and the eagle's beak-like hooked mouth can easily hook them out.
Hawksbill turtles are highly adaptable and resistant to their prey, and some of the sponges they feed on are highly toxic and often lethal to other organisms. In addition, tortoiseshells will choose some sponges rich in siliceous bone needles for feeding.
Due to the unusually solid carapace of hawksbill turtles, they have few major predators, as few animals can bite through their shells.
Sharks and bay crocodiles are considered natural predators of hawksbill turtles, and octopuses and some marine surface fish also prey on adult hawksbill turtles.
And because hawksbill turtles often forage for sponges, they will have some unpleasant sponge smell on their bodies, and because hawksbill turtles feed on poisonous sponges and cnidarians, their meat contains considerable levels of toxicity, so it can sometimes deter certain predators or humans.
In addition, hawksbill turtles have a ferocious temperament, and they will bite when caught, but they will not actively attack humans if they are not harmed.
Ye Luo learned through mobile phone search, the spawning period of hawksbill turtle is in 3~4 months, when spawning, the female digs a hole in the coastal beach during the day to lay eggs, the diameter of the pit is about 20 cm, the depth is about 30 cm, and it is divided into three spawns during a spawning period, each spawning 130~200.
Ovophyte, white, with a soft and elastic shell. The diameter of the eggs is about 3.5 cm.
The incubation time is long, and it takes about 2 months for the larvae to hatch.
The dorsal carapace of the newly hatched young tortoise is not completely hard, but it has been arranged in a shingle-like arrangement, and the tortoise carapace is about 43~48 mm long. The neck of the baby turtle can be retracted freely, but it cannot be rotated backwards, backwards, left, right, and left.
Now seeing the figure of a small tortoiseshell, Ye Luo not only has some doubts, but his beach will be the spawning ground of the tortoiseshell.
"Forget it, I don't want to, if you have it, it's good, if you don't, it doesn't make any difference to me. ”
Ye Luo thought for a moment, then chuckled and shook his head and muttered.
Looking at the endless sea, Ye Luo understood that the water blue star, like the earth, has the most abundant resources in the ocean, and human development is very limited.
No one can draw a concrete conclusion about how many rare objects exist at the bottom of the sea.
"I really don't know how many treasures are buried under such a sea......"
Ye Luo couldn't help but sigh softly: "It's just right, let's see if the seafood that was stocked before has grown up." ”
Compared with these, he still values the seafood seedlings that were just released a few days ago.
The terrifying growth rate of the vegetables produced by the [Super Mall] Ye Luo is considered to be a long insight, so that he is also very curious at the moment, is it true that all the things purchased from the [Super Mall] have such a terrible growth rate?
No more, Ye Luo took off his clothes while walking, came to the beach and plunged into the sea.
The next second.
He was shocked, and instantly found that he did not have any discomfort in the underwater body, as if he could breathe freely in the water, and he could also shuttle freely under the water, without worrying about the problem of underwater pressure and oxygen, as if the surrounding sea water did not exist.
In order to verify whether he was dreaming, Ye Luo began to swim like a fish in the water, his eyes constantly scanning the surrounding environment.
At this time, the view of the seabed is very clear, and there are coral reefs everywhere, the seabed covered with a layer of sediment, and the occasional exposed reef is covered with various seaweeds, and from time to time there are schools of fish frolicking in it.
Ye Luo caught a sea fish beside him, only the size of his palm, teased it and let it go.
Then he stood at the bottom of the sea, picked up two palm-sized seashells, threw away the seashells after looking at them for a while, and caught the big lobster that was fighting, and it was estimated that it weighed four or five pounds.
"Yes, it's good to have a mouth at noon. Ye Luo was overjoyed.
Grabbing the leaves of a lobster with both hands, it was instantly seen that the two lobsters did not belong to those seedlings in the [Super Mall], but pure wild lobsters.
Wild lobsters, especially such large ones, are still very expensive.
In his previous life, Ye Luo also ate it a few times, because his father bought it from the fishermen, and the price was cheaper than the market, but the price per catty was more than three hundred.
A big lobster alone costs more than a thousand, and people who don't have a little money really can't afford it.
It's too extravagant!
In general, the price of wild seafood like this is often many times higher than that of farmed seafood, but with the continuous fishing of human beings, wild lobsters have gradually decreased, and most of the lobster groups have migrated to uninhabited waters.
Even in an island nation like Hawaii, wild seafood is rare.
Even if you live on the island of Newfoundland, there are not many people who have actually eaten such a big lobster, and normally speaking, as long as you catch it, you will immediately send it to the market to sell, and you will definitely buy it.
Ye Luo still wanted to go deeper, but looking at the big lobster in his hand, he had to wait for the next time.
He found that there were still a lot of seafood on the seabed, but they were a little scattered, and he had seen a lot of lobsters about a pound during the period, and he immediately realized that these lobsters were the seedlings in the [Super Mall].
Unexpectedly, in just three days, the lobster grew to more than a catty, the crab was a little smaller, about three or four, less than half a catty, and the pipi shrimp grew to about six or seven centimeters, and was hiding under the mud and sand at this time.
As for the various scallops, because of the different varieties, there are large and small, the big ones are probably the size of the bowl, and the small ones are the size of table tennis balls.
And on some of the exposed reefs on the seabed, Ye Luo also saw abalone of different sizes, wild abalone is very large, but the abalone he stocked is currently more than one size smaller than the wild abalone, almost the size of a duck egg, but Ye Luo held two big lobsters in his hands, and finally reluctantly gave up the idea of prying abalone.
Grabbing a pair of large lobster leaves with teeth and claws, he returned home.
He found that not only was his breathing not affected in the water, but his eyesight was actually worse than usual, and he could see some dark capes by himself, which must have something to do with the system.
It's a pity that the intelligence of the system has disappeared, and he can't ask if he wants to, so he can only suppress these thoughts.
He must not share the secret of being able to breathe in the water, not even Mina and the other women who belong to him.
Besides, no one will believe him even if he says it, and he will even think that he is a psychopath, or he will be caught for dissection and research.
Thinking of himself lying on the operating table and watching those science madmen dissect himself, Ye Luo couldn't help but shudder, and quickly threw strange thoughts out of his mind.
As soon as Ye Luo entered the room, he looked up at the clock on the wall and found that the time was actually past eleven o'clock.
Without saying a word, he grabbed two large lobsters and walked into the kitchen to toss.
Twenty minutes later.
Ye Luo came from the kitchen to the table with a plate of lobster in one hand and put it down.
One plate steamed, one plate braised.
Two plates of lobster have an enticing aroma.
It was lunch time at this time, and before breakfast, William called him to see the maple tree, and Ye Luo, who was already hungry and hungry, sat down and started eating directly.
After eating.
"Hiccup......
Ye Luo hiccuped while cleaning up the hygiene on the table, with a satisfied expression: "Wild lobsters are delicious, but I don't know what abalone tastes like, why don't you find a time to catch a few abalone and come back for dinner?"
Not to mention, Ye Luo really had such a thought in his heart.
Originally, he liked to eat seafood, especially after eating wild lobsters, the delicious, smooth, Q-bomb taste and texture made him unforgettable.
Soon.
Ye Luo, who had washed the dishes and chopsticks, blinked, and lay on the floor of the living room with an aftertaste on his face.
Suddenly, the phone in the pocket rang.
Ye Luo took out his pocket from his pocket and looked at it, and found that the caller was actually Willy of Poseidon Marine Heavy Industry Group, and immediately understood that it should be the ship he bought that had arrived.
Subsequently, Ye Luo connected the phone.
As he expected, Willy called him and told him that the two boats he had ordered had sailed to the docks in Newfoundland and told him to pick them up.
It's just that Ye Luoren is not in Newfoundland, so he can only call Xia Xiaofei and ask her to go over to sign for him first.
After informing Xia Xiaofei, Ye Luo called Willey again, telling him that he would let someone come over to hand him over, and gave Xia Xiaofei's phone number to Willy and asked him to contact Xia Xiaofei.
Ye Luo, who threw the boat to Xia Xiaofei, was inevitably counted by Xia Xiaofei, and in the end, Ye Luo could only sign many 'unequal' treaties with her before she took over the matter.