Chapter 213: Gooseneck Barnacles

When Ye Luo and the others were eating, Dast and several people came to the door, and without waiting for them to say anything, they asked Ye Luo to have lunch together.

Although Dast and the others had already had lunch, after seeing a few dishes on the table that Ye Luo had never seen before, they did not refuse with their saliva, but consciously went into the house to get chopsticks and bowls.

Had lunch.

Dast said with some excitement: "Hey, I almost forgot, by the way, boss, I looked at the weather forecast in the morning, and said that there will be a wind and waves coming soon, you know?"

"I look at the weather forecast every day, so I naturally know, but why are you so excited? Do you want to rest?" Ye Luo rolled his eyes, but he knew that there was nothing to do in the fishing ground now, and Dast They have been idle and bored every day recently, which is similar to resting, isn't it the same with wind and waves?

Hearing Ye Luo's words, Thomas hurriedly waved his hand and explained: "No, boss, we plan to tell you, now is a good chance, a good chance to catch gooseneck barnacles!"

"Gooseneck barnacles?"

Ye Luo scratched his head, he hurriedly went to the house to check the information of this kind of thing in front of the computer, it was very embarrassing, he, the fisherman, knew too little about the sea.

Speaking of gooseneck barnacles, Ye Luo doesn't understand much, but when he looks up the common name of this thing on the Internet, he will know what's going on, dog claw snails!

In his previous life, when the leaves fell on the earth, once his father took him to a party (see the world, see this thing, it looks ugly, several snail shells are together, like the claws of a monster.

But this thing is very expensive, and the production is very small, it is said that it was flown in from Spain, and a dish of a few snails is cooked, and it will cost thousands, and Ye Luo was shocked at that time.

In addition, there were too many big people on the table at that time, and as a junior, he naturally didn't get his turn to eat, he just listened to his father's evaluation that it was very fresh and delicious, and he didn't taste it.

"We still have a dog's claw snail here? Ye Luo asked in amazement.

Dust shrugged and smiled, "Of course, just to the west of the island, there are a lot of reefs growing on them, and we call them horse teeth because they resemble horse teeth." ”

After Ye Luo checked the information on the computer again, he learned that barnacles are widely distributed, and their traces can be found in almost any sea area from the intertidal zone to the shallow water area of the subtidal zone.

However, this barnacle is generally inedible round barnacles, and gooseneck barnacles are relatively rare, except for the coastline of Galicia, Spain, there are no signs of its large-scale growth.

I didn't expect that the feng shui on my island was quite good, and there were gooseneck barnacles that were relatively rare among barnacles.

The price of this barnacle is very high, and in Europe it is comparable to caviar, tender foie gras, and bluefin tuna, and it costs one or two thousand yuan per kilogram.

It can be said that this thing is the highest price on the island of Ye Luo, except for those things produced by the system!

There is no way to do the high price of the ingredients produced by the system, after all, they are all bought with prestige.

Remembering the praise of the so-called 'VIPs' on the dog claw snail when they were entertaining, Ye Luo, who had never tasted what it tasted like, patted his thigh and said, "Hurry up, why didn't you tell me that there was still this kind of delicacy on our island before?"

"Boss, you've wronged us, you also know that our island is too big, and we found out that we didn't have anything to do lately, so we just found out about it. ”

Dast reluctantly explained: "Horse teeth grow on reefs, usually in shallow waters, and they have to dive down to fish, and they have gelatinous substance, which is difficult to catch when stuck to the reef. Now that the wind and waves are blowing, the reefs will be exposed, so that we can fish them up. ”

I've had lunch, but haven't I eaten dinner yet?

Ye Luo left the yard with Daxter and the others without saying a word, preparing to go fishing for gooseneck barnacles, Scarlett stood at the door with Alice in her arms and looked at him intently, one big and one small with hope in their eyes.

Seeing this scene, Ye Luo, who had already gotten into the car, waved his hand at the mother and daughter, and shouted: "You guys go together, hurry up, if we can catch it, we will make it and eat it in the evening!"

Daxter and Thomas, two tall guys, drove one to lead the way, Renison and the three of them followed behind, and Robert and Wiggins drove the other to the back, as if they were protecting Leaffall in the middle.

Soon to the west of the island.

After getting out of the car, Renison took out a whaling knife from his kit without saying a word, and made a few strokes.

"It's a good knife. Ye Luo whistled.

He found that the saber in Renison's hand was about twenty-five or six centimeters long, the handle and the blade were similar in length, and the blade was flashing with cold light, and it looked hideous, and it looked like a murder weapon.

Hearing Ye Luo's praise, Renison smiled: "This is an extreme force whaling fork saber, it is a good knife, the blade is made of 42oj2 steel, and the hardness has reached 57HRC. ”

Gooseneck barnacles are beautiful and don't move, but they have their own way of surviving, which is to grow on reefs with strong winds and waves.

Because they can cling to the reef, they are not caught by the average fish.

Like this kind of seafood attached to the reef, everyone must think of abalone at the first time, and we also know that under normal circumstances, it is difficult for us to pick abalone from the reef empty-handed, and gooseneck barnacles are far more difficult to pick than abalone.

At least for those experienced fishermen, even if they are empty-handed, as long as they find the right time to pick abalone, but gooseneck barnacles are different, they are much larger than abalone, and they are densely packed together, and there is no way to start without tools, even if they have tools, they have to find the right time.

Every species has natural predators, and for gooseneck barnacles, humans are naturally not natural predators, but they still have natural predators, that is, seagulls, sea spirits that can cross in the wind and waves.

To the west of the island is a steep coastline, six or seven meters above the sea, and the craggy reefs below are lined up, which looks extremely dangerous.

The wind blows the waves and crashes against the shore, making a loud 'pop' sound, and sometimes when you look down, you can feel the cold of the sea water on your face.

Gooseneck barnacles live on the reef below, and there are also some on the coast, and it is these gooseneck barnacles that grow on the reef that Dast and Thomas are aiming for today.

If there were no wind and waves, they could have dived to pick, but now that there are wind and waves, going to sea is an extremely dangerous thing for experienced fishermen like them, so naturally they will not do such a stupid thing.

Daxter looked around, and soon found a coconut tree, tied a rope to the trunk of the coconut tree, and said to Ye Luo, "Boss, you can see those that look like horse teeth."

Is it the same thing? Gray and white, it looks ugly, this is a horse's tooth, and the delicious things are generally not very pretty, don't underestimate it. ”

At this time, more than a dozen seagulls take advantage of the gap between the waves to peck at the barnacles clinging to the reef, although the barnacles are protected by hard plate shells, but it has a very deadly habit, that is, when the water passes through them, the shell cover will open, and feather-like tentacles will extend from it to filter the plankton in the water with vines.

In this way, the rolling waves create an illusion for them, and when the waves crash up, they think that the tide is high, so they quickly open their backs to hunt. But the waves soon fall, so that they do not have time to close their backs, and the seagulls seize the opportunity to come up and peck at them.

Although the success rate of seagulls is not high, the delicious taste of barnacles makes them willing to work hard, as long as they hunt two barnacles, they can have a full meal.

The snow-white seagulls chirped, and they heroically crossed the waves, swooping and pecking again and again, until they were full, and of course, if they couldn't peck several times in a row, then they would also leave.

Seagulls are very smart, they know that their stamina is not good, they will not waste their energy on catching a kind of food, if this road does not work, then they will go another way, this is their predatory strategy.

Like Daxter, Renison found a tree to tie a rope and exclaimed, "I used to taste it when I was in the army, but it was too rare for us in Newfoundland, and I remember that when it was not polluted, I could occasionally find it, and since the sea was polluted, I haven't tasted it for a long time." ”

Hearing this, Ye Luo stood on the shore and looked down, there were layers of gooseneck barnacles pasted on the reef below, this thing looked like the claws of monsters, I don't know how Dast and the others could feel that they were like horse teeth.

The gooseneck barnacles are very reproductive, and the reef is densely packed with tens of thousands, and if you look at it from the kind of person who suffers from dense phobia, it will definitely be nauseous and vomiting.

After tying the rope, Daxter and Renison began to rub against the reef and move slowly, Thomas grabbed Daxter's rope and told Ye Luodao: "Boss, hold on to Renison's rope, pay attention to his position, if there are waves rushing in, then pull the rope vigorously, try not to let them be hit by the waves!"

Hearing this, Ye Luo looked to the side and found that Robert and Daxter were also slowly moving down against the reef, and it was Wiggins who was responsible for grabbing the rope.

Seeing this scene, he grabbed Renison's rope without hesitation, while Scarlett took a few steps back consciously with Alice in her arms, knowing that what Scarlett, who knew that she couldn't help, could do at the moment was not to cause trouble for Ye Luo.

As the warm cyclone rises and the waves in the ocean, the previously calm sea becomes extremely turbulent, and the sea water is constantly blown up by the wind and waves and constantly retreats into the sea, and the sea level is at least two meters lower than before, exposing the gooseneck barnacles that are usually hidden in the sea.

Ye Luo made an 'ok' gesture to Renison, put on gloves and arm guards, and pulled the rope.

Daxter jumped like a frogman and landed under the shore, his whaling knife between his teeth, he saw an opportunity, and when a big wave fell, he immediately jumped to the nearest place where the gooseneck barnacle was born, and drew his whaling knife with his right hand and plunged it between the barnacle and the reef.

"That's you!"

Renison snorted, and while prying vigorously with his right hand, he stretched out his left hand and pulled off a gooseneck barnacle with a length of fourteen or fifteen centimeters, quickly stuffed it into his satchel, and then aimed at the next one, and pulled the knife in......