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After two days, Weihang's fleet entered a relatively warm sea, and the sea surface was calm and sunny, and it was simply not in the same world.

The whales were noticeably more active, spraying more cheerfully, and some of the calves were doing the same, showing a harmonious picture.

The people on the boat also took off their heavy clothes and ended up relaxed.

"Did you notice that there are fewer whales?" said someone on deck.

"They are just temporarily migrating together, and they don't live together as such a group, so of course they will be separated. Gu Haichao said that he has been paying attention to the movements of whales and studying their habits for the past two days.

The calf that had been caught on the boat by the Japanese swam away with its mother and disappeared.

"It turns out that they don't blindly follow, they are quite assertive!" Cui Jinghao joked.

"If you don't blindly follow, you won't form such a large group, it's just that their ancestors have migrated for generations and have already formed a habit, and they are also following the route in their memories and returning to the familiar living environment. Gu Haichao analyzed it from the perspective of a professional.

"What kind of fish is that? It seems to be more and more. Ling Fei asked, pointing to a group of small fish that appeared and disappeared in the sea, and he was also one of the people who continued to keep an eye on the whale group.

I saw them shuttling back and forth among the whales to feed, looking cheerful, not afraid of being swallowed by the whales.

"That's the bonito, commonly known as bomb fish and small tuna, and they like to follow whales and sharks and swim in groups, forming a symbiotic relationship. They will eat the larger food in the water first. The rest is easy to devour by whale sharks, which also protect bonitos. Gu Haichao explained.

"Such a cow! dare to live with whales, and are not afraid of being sucked into the stomach. Muzi said exaggeratedly.

Gu Haichao didn't argue, there must be such accidental injuries, but in order to survive, they will still choose to coexist, which is much better than becoming the target of other large animals.

"These fish are very greedy and easy to catch, you can try it, but they don't eat dead bait. You can use live fish as bait. ”

"There are no live fish, and they haven't been netted for the past two days. Wei Hai said, what is still alive are relatively precious or ornamental fish, if it is used as bait, it would be strange if Wei Hang didn't scold him to death.

As they spoke, they saw a small, slender, flattened, silvery-gray fish leap out of the sea, as if they were hiding from some predator and panicking.

They recognized it as anchovy. I've seen it before.

"What's the situation? Fancy performance?" The movement of the fish also attracted the attention of many people, and Wei Hai and Xiao Wu were even lying on the side of the boat to watch.

"It's bonito hunting, and they often feed on sardines and other juveniles, squid, molluscs and small crustaceans, though. Anchovies have always been their favorite food, and it seems that there are quite a few fish below! Those anchovies are besieged and have nowhere to run but to jump out of the sea. Hope escapes. ”

Gu Haichao said, but he knew that this qiē was all in vain. Coming out of the lower layers of the food chain, their ultimate fate can only be food.

The water here is warm, and there are more types of fish, not as monotonous as in the cold waters, maybe they hide in the sea!

"There seem to be more and more fish! Brother Hang, are you going to get off the net?" On the other boat, Tang Jiahui's voice came.

The two brothers are both in charge of the fishing boat operation on the boat sponsored by Gu Yanji and Zhao Wenchang, after all, Gao Yang and Wang Tao can't control a boat, they are responsible for identifying fish, and other aspects need to send people over.

"It's also an opportunity, so let's get out of the net!" Wei Hang said, adding that skipjack tuna is usually caught with tuna purse seine nets, longline fishing, drift gillnets and other methods, but this is not a problem for him. Moreover, the fish are clustered behind the whales and are easy to catch with trawls.

The three boats were lowered together, and when the nets were lifted, they were basically 70% full, which showed that there were not many schools of bonito below.

In fact, bonito is also a cluster fish, usually hundreds of thousands of fish swim together in the ocean.

They are warm-water pelagic migratory fish that are found over a wide area of the temperate zone and tropics, and can be found in waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans where water temperatures are above 15 degrees Celsius.

Bonito, which lives in the Pacific Ocean, lays planktonic eggs near the equator every spring, and a female fish lays up to 2 million eggs and lays them several times.

In the summer, they begin to move north, reaching the coast of Japan. In the fall, the juveniles begin to move south.

For this reason, these fish are a very important economic fish in Japan, and have been developed for thousands of years, not only can they be used to make canned food and sashimi, they can be cooked using a special process, and after repeated smoking, they can also be made into "boniyu", which is one of the most commonly used condiments in Japanese homes and Japanese restaurants.

"This fish is quite big! it's almost a meter long, isn't it? Why didn't you think it just now?" Wei Hai said in surprise.

Like tuna, the body of these bonito is spindle-shaped, so it grows to almost a meter, making it a relatively large fish.

"Nonsense, it doesn't matter who they walk with, compared to whales, are they bigger? Chen Jianliang said angrily.

These bonito have a blue-brown dorsal body, a silvery-white belly, and light gray fins. They have a stout, smooth body surface, no scales, and a very well-developed caudal fin that is crescent-shaped.

They are similar to tuna, but a little smaller.

Bonito is generally forty or fifty centimeters long, and the largest ones are more than one meter long. It can be seen that the luck of this group of bonito is very good, and there is enough room for growth to have such a big block, but when they meet Weihang, their luck is also over.

"Aren't they tuna too?" asked Xiao Wuai, stroking a bonito more than a meter long.

"The price difference is far away, they are just bonito under the tuna family, but many canned tuna on the market are passed off as bonito, with the increase in demand for canned tuna in Europe, America and China, the price of raw materials has risen sharply, and their prices have also become expensive, but there is still no comparison at all. Wei Hang said.

"You kid, be careful, can you not touch it? Don't look at this fish's very small mouth, its teeth are very sharp, you can bite it off casually. Tian Zhongchi saw that Xiao Wuhun didn't care, and shouted worriedly.

When Xiao Wuyi heard this, he quickly retracted his hand, and then saw that these fish out of the water did not mean to hurt people, so he was relieved a lot, and began to deal with these catches with others.

Gao Yang and Wang Tao are not interested, this fish is also found in the East and South China Seas, the production is not low, there is little market in China, one of the most exported fish in China, for them, there is little value.

At this time, Wang Tao lifted a crab weighing four or five catties, and said uncertainly: "Is this a snow crab? ”

In order not to miss some precious fish, they will also help when the net is lifted.

"Yes, it's still a relatively precious red-eyed snow crab, there seems to be a lot of them in this net! It must have floated up to follow the autumn wind, and the leftover minced meat of those bonito fish is their delicacy. Gao Yang looked left and right for a while before saying.

Snow crab is divided into two kinds of gray-eyed snow crab and red-eyed snow crab, the average weight of gray-eyed snow crab is about one to two catties, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are produced, the main production area is in Alaska, but the output is only 100,000 tons in large years.

In addition, it is also found in the Russian Far East, Canada, Japan, North Korea, Australia, and Antarctica.

In our country, snow crab is one of the imported species, the price is relatively expensive, especially in this season, before the fishing season, there is basically no stock in the market, and it can be sold for three or four hundred and one catties on the table.

However, Gao Yang and Wang Tao know that there are some crabs called Australian snow crabs on the market, but in fact, they are not snow crabs, but the collective name of several crystal crabs produced in Australia.

The real Australian snow crab only grows in the thousands of meters of deep sea in Australia, and it can only survive in the pollution-free seawater below zero degrees Celsius, and the annual catch is very small, which is more valuable than wild lobsters.

The size of the red-eyed snow crab is basically twice as large as the gray-eyed snow crab, about three to five catties, only produced in the waters of the North Pacific Ocean, and the yield is very low, the Bering Sea waters have stopped fishing, South Korea also limits the number of fishing, the global annual output is only a few thousand tons, and the price is more expensive.

Wang Tao and Gao Yang were overjoyed, if they got a batch of these goods back, the boss would be happy, and the bonus would definitely not be less. So, they discussed it for a while, and then proposed to Wei Hang.

Wei Hang actually found some snow crabs here, he knew that Alaskan snow crabs were very famous, and he wanted to see them, but he turned back before he could go.

I heard that there are also special crab fishers in Alaska, and they use crab traps that are specialized in catching snow crabs.

In those places, where the cold weather combined with high winds and waves, as well as the harsh sea conditions, crab fishing is a high-risk profession that kills people every year. Behind the deliciousness, what is written is a bitter history of blood and tears.

Through Guò Haizhu, Wei Hang found that there were many red-eyed snow crabs below, probably the fish in the upper layer alarmed them, and they were floating up to feed, picking up some "leftovers" to fill their stomachs.

"Okay, this is a rare opportunity, let's let go of the bonito for the time being, put the net a little deeper, and catch this red-eyed snow crab first. That's a good thing! The FOB price is at least hundreds of dollars. Wei Hang said to everyone.

When the others heard this, they also became excited, and hurriedly finished handling the bonito that they had caught, handled the snow crabs separately, and released the net again. This kind of good thing can't be missed. (To be continued......)