Chapter 424: Electric Ray
Unconsciously, Wei Hang returned to the fishing boat again, no one knew that this guy actually ran to South Korea halfway, even if Wei Hang confessed, everyone would think it was a joke, and it was not funny.
The days at sea are always so boring, Chen Jianliang and the others woke up, looking at the unchanged scenery outside, and felt a little depressed.
They were still having breakfast in the cabin, and the other fishing boat was in trouble.
"Who got corona?" Wei Hang asked.
After learning about it, I learned that someone had caught a huge ray that was more than a meter long. But there was a guy who didn't know much about it, so he went up to see it, and when he was not careful, he was stunned by the electric ray.
"Mother! I have long let them learn to know marine life, this time they suffered, right?" Daniel Zhang scolded.
Those dangerous sea creatures, they had told those guys to be careful, but there were still problems.
"Get out of the way, let them learn a lesson. Wei Hang laughed.
Electric rays don't kill people, he knows this. Everyone went out and went to another ship to see what was going on. Although no one dies, it must be dealt with appropriately.
When they saw the electric ray, Daniel Zhang and they were also stunned, almost as big as the devil fish in the village.
I saw that the fish had a flat back and belly, and its head and chest were together. The tail is in the shape of a thick rod, like a fan.
Wei Hang knew that electric rays inhabit the bottom of the sea, and a pair of small eyes grow in the middle of the front of the dorsal side. On each side of the ventral surface of the cephalothorax there is a kidney-shaped honeycomb generator. They are arranged in a hexagonal column called an "electric board" column.
"Don't come closer, it's going to discharge again. Wei Hang hurriedly shouted.
When the others heard this, they all jumped out. When I looked back, I saw that the electric ray was struggling, and it looked like an electric light flashed on its abdomen.
"It's okay, it won't electrocute people. Fang Zhen said luckily.
"You can't be too optimistic, it's better not to touch it in the future or not to touch it. The current they emit is very weak, but when there are many of them. It's also terrifying. Especially at the bottom of the sea, once it stuns you, then you are miserable. "We had to give them vaccinations.
The surface of each "plate" of the electric ray is distributed with nerve endings, one side is a negative electrode, and the other side is a positive electrode. The direction of the current is from the positive electrode to the negative electrode, that is, from the back of the electric ray to the ventral surface.
Under the action of nerve impulses, these two dischargers can convert nerve energy into electrical energy and release electricity. The voltage generated by a single "board" is very weak, but there are many of them. It can emit a very strong voltage.
Therefore, don't take these electric rays too lightly, they are known as low electric shock players, and they are not in vain.
Of course, among the discharged creatures, the most powerful is the electric eel, which is called the high-voltage electricity in the water, which electrocutes people every minute, with an electric current of 300 to 800 volts. It's not something the human body can bear.
The electric eel is a descending migratory fish that is native to the sea, grows up in freshwater and returns to the sea to spawn.
The meat of this fish is delicious. Nutritious. Although it can emit a powerful electric current, the indigenous people of South America have their own means of catching it.
They use electric eels to continuously discharge, and after a period of rest and abundant food, they can restore the original discharge intensity. First, drive a herd of cattle and horses down the river, so that the electric eel is enraged and constantly discharges, and when the electric eel is exhausted. You can just capture it.
"The creatures under the sea are amazing. One tourist spoke.
"Actually, the creatures on land are just as amazing, but you don't notice them. Wei Hang laughed.
"In ancient times, this kind of fish could still be used for healing!" Gu Haichao said.
"Treatment, how to treat?" everyone was curious.
Wei Hang smiled slightly, current treatment is not nothing, in the hospital, there is no cardiac defibrillator, electric shock to stimulate the heart of the instrument, is the most effective way to rescue fatal rapid arrhythmia.
Gu Haichao told everyone that as early as the ancient Greek and Roman times, doctors often put patients on electric rays, or let patients touch electric rays that were discharging in the pool, and used the electric ray discharge to treat diseases such as rheumatism and madness.
"Actually, even today, along the coast of France and Italy, you may see elderly people suffering from rheumatism, looking for electric rays on the beaches after low tide to be their 'doctors'," he continues.
"It's incredible. ”
"Can you eat it?" someone asked.
"Is this fish worth anything?"
"You can eat it! Let it release all the electricity, steaming and braising it without any problem. Wei Hang laughed. Just treat it as an ordinary ray, it's nothing more than that it can be discharged, as long as the current in its body is stimulated, how to slaughter it is not up to humans to have the final say?
However, rays are not very valuable, so Weihang has not been interested in them.
"I'll send it to the kitchen and stew it at noon. Muzi said to the men.
One of the joys of going out to sea is enjoying a variety of seafood. These days, I have tasted seafood all over again, steamed, boiled, burned, etc., and the patterns have changed.
"Wouldn't it be poisonous?" someone asked.
The guy remembered that he had read in a book that rays were poisonous.
"This electric ray is reassuring and not poisonous. Wei Hang said to him.
Ray is a general term for a variety of cartilaginous fish. There are more than 100 species of rays found worldwide and are found in all temperate and tropical shallow waters, except for the South Pacific Ocean and the northeastern coast of South America.
The giant manta ray and the electric ray, which can discharge electricity, are among the rays, and the lance ray is the largest of the rays, with its pectoral fins spread out to eight meters and can swim in the sea as if it were flying. Rays and stingrays are very similar in that they both have flat bodies.
Those who have stingers have to be careful, they can poison people in minutes.
"Last time I watched a news story about eagle wing rays poisoning people. The tourist began.
The body of the ray is flat, the tail is slender, some species of ray tail, there are one or several serrated stingers on the edge, if the stinger stabs the human body, the wound will be unbearable, once the rescue is not timely, the injured will even be in danger of life.
"Poisoning people is uncommon, but it's not impossible. Gu Haichao said.
There is a rumor among fishermen that a fisherman was stabbed by its stinger and rolled in pain on the deck of the fishing boat, crying and howling to jump into the sea, so he had to tie him to the mast of the ship, afraid that he would jump into the sea. I have also heard that a ten-centimeter-long "ray" stinger pierced into a big tree that was hugging thick, and within a year, the big tree would wither and die.
Gu Haichao is familiar with it, and he remembers that there was a celebrity in Australia who was killed by a ray attack.
Owen has become a household name for hosting the popular "Crocodile Hunter" TV show and is also a well-known Australian wildlife conservation expert. However, he shot an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef and died when a fan-shaped stinger of a sea ray stabbed him in the chest.
At that time, this matter was quite a big fuss.
"In short, just don't mess around in the future. Wei Hang finally reminded the guys.
Gu Haichao gave everyone a way to quickly stimulate the current in the electric ray's body.
Afterwards, three or two people carried dozens of pounds of rays to the kitchen. The kitchen master on the fishing boat is a good hand in Tangjia Village, and he is very good at all kinds of seafood.
He cut off the tail with a single sword, saving him the trouble of swinging it around.
Two knives cut open the cavity of the fish, and there were mysterious gills, hearts, brains and other things. The master cut it off completely, because the gills of this flat slice fish could not be pulled out. And this fish inhabits the bottom of the sea, and it is similar to a vacuum cleaner every day, so there is a lot of mud and sand in the gills, which is not clean at all.
"Help me out here. The old man said to the guys on the boat.
"Okay! Hold it down, huh?" That guy is very obedient, and the food of a boatload of people depends on this master, and if he is not obedient, he will not be able to do it!
"This fish has a lot of blood!"
The master nodded, it was not the first time to cook a ray dish, so he was naturally very aware of the characteristics of this fish.
This fish has a lot of blood, which is also very similar to warm-blooded animals. Unlike the fish that are commonly eaten, there is basically no blood except for the one under the vertebrae and the heart. They seem to have abundant capillaries, and in the process of cleaning up, they are constantly oozing blood and have to be constantly flushed.
Therefore, when the public buys fish, if they find that the skin under its belly has turned red, they know that it must have been dead for a long time. If it is fresh, it should be white.
"The shark fin of the ray is very delicious, you can come in early and give your kid a taste first. The old master smiled.
The shark fin of the ray is still relatively expensive, forty or fifty yuan a catty, and the taste is excellent. It can be steamed directly, it is original, it tastes good or makes soup to eat, it is delicious and nutritious, and there is a unique fragrance of shark fin in flowers.
It's not the first time this little guy has gone to the kitchen to steal food, seeing that he likes seafood very much, and the master also takes care of it, turning a blind eye to it.
"Oh, thank you, Donald. ”
He came with Brother Cao, a distant relative of Cao Da, who grew up in a mountain village since he was a child and had never eaten seafood. Since I came to Tangjia Village, I tasted the taste of seafood, and I immediately liked it, and I didn't get tired of eating it every day, and other people looked at this kid like a monster.
"Hehe, you kid often runs in to help, and you should take care of you. However, it's not good to eat too much seafood. "The old man has experience, and the seafood has a lot of salt, so you can't always eat it like this.
At this time, Cao Da's voice came in.
"Aaron, you kid ran in and stole food again?"
"Ahh
Cao Da glanced at his distant relative, and he was helpless, this kid was addicted to seafood. He was also laughed at by Daniel Zhang and them several times about this.
"I asked the little guy to help here," said the old man, righteously.
"Donald commanded, then forget it. However, if you kid dares to run to the kitchen without permission in the future, I will break your legs. ”
The other two rolled their eyes, what kind of place is the kitchen? (To be continued......