648. The Second Gift (2)
After diving into the water, he found that the situation was not as he thought, there was a group of sea cucumbers in the water waiting for his casual harvest, plum ginseng is indeed rare.
There are only three or three sea cucumbers exposed, and the two that the black dragon catches are the largest, and the rest are only twenty or thirty centimeters long and hide at the bottom of the coral reef.
A large area here is full of coral reefs, the sea water is very green, and there are clownfish, colorful fish and other coral fish swimming under the water, and the colors are gorgeous.
"It's a diving mecca. Jiang Caoqi praised.
While the others dived to find the ginseng, he took an underwater camera and took a lot of photos.
Ao Muyang harvested a total of twenty-two plum ginseng, and he carefully transferred the sea cucumber into the fish tank and fed the golden droplets one by one.
Jiang Caoqi came over with a camera, and he was surprised: "What are you doing?"
"Show you the photo, guess what I captured?" Jiang Caoqi smiled.
Ao Muyang looked at the camera, and it turned out to be a scene of himself fishing for sea cucumbers underwater.
"Idle eggs hurt. He commented on Jiang Caoqi.
The big fish tank was neatly placed, and Ao Muyang was ready to take the sea cucumbers back to the fishing ground to feed.
Plum sea cucumber is dioecious, but there are no obvious characteristics of male and female, and live sea cucumbers can only distinguish male and female when they lay eggs.
They breed twice in the spring, once in late autumn and early winter, which is about the same time as the current season.
The scene of plum ginseng breeding offspring is very interesting, they do not lay eggs, but just like they vomit their internal organs when they are in danger, and when they reproduce, they will expel their gonads directly from the reproductive pores.
Among them, the male sea cucumber excretes milky white or pale yellow gonads, and the female sea cucumber excretes pink or orange gonads, and the two gonads combine in water to form embryos......
This method of reproduction is unique among all kinds of organisms and is related to the sea cucumber's powerful organ regeneration ability.
The plum ginseng found by the black dragon has become the biggest harvest of Ao Muyang's trip to the sea, and the value of this sea cucumber is not that they are worth more than the finished product, but that it has brought new varieties to Ao Muyang's fishing grounds.
If the plum ginseng is multiplied in the fishing grounds, the subsequent economic benefits will continue to flow, which can make Ao Muyang earn a lot of money and save an endangered species.
Drying his body, he asked the black dragon with great interest: "Did you find plum ginseng when you were on the boat?"
The black dragon shook his head.
Ao Muyang was stunned: "Then how did you find plum ginseng?
The black dragon shook his head again, then pointed to the coral reef in the water and began to gestile.
Ao Muyang couldn't understand it, he secretly swore that he must learn sign language in the future, otherwise he would have a communication barrier with the black dragon.
In the morning, he found plum ginseng, and in the evening, he suddenly jumped into the water again.
"Damn, what did the black dragon find this time?" a group of fishermen stayed at the stern of the boat and looked curiously.
This time, after the black dragon jumped into the water, it did not emerge from the water for a long time.
Ao Wenchang was a little anxious, he looked at his watch and said, "How long has the black dragon been down? Five minutes, right?"
"You won't drown underneath, will you?" said Ao Mudong with a smile.
Ao Muyang glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense." ”
"I'm kidding. Ao Mudong said embarrassedly, "We all know the black dragon's underwater skills, and it is impossible for him to have an accident underwater." ”
"That's no joke. ”
But what Ao Mudong said was right, Ao Muyang was full of confidence in the black dragon's underwater ability, and he believed that the black dragon must have made a discovery.
The fishing boat left, and the sea returned to calm and became clear again, so that the black dragon under the water was revealed, and he had been holding his breath to pick something underwater.
Ao Muyang curiously went underwater to take a look, and then saw a big abalone between his hands!
Less than twelve hours later, the black dragon made another meritorious service and discovered that there were abalone in the water again!
Abalone is different from sea cucumbers, they are very adhesive after attaching to coral reefs, and the black dragon is very good underwater, but it is difficult to pick it with both hands.
Ao Muyang went over to help, and he motioned for the black dragon to float up first to breathe, but the black dragon was very stubborn, even if his eyes were red and his face was black, he still had to deal with this abalone.
The abalone is quite large, although it is not as big as the Australian black gold abalone that is often the size of a sea bowl, but it is also the size of a young man's palm, and this large abalone may have lived for more than ten years, just like growing on a stone.
Ao Muyang had no choice but to go up to help, sharpening the knife without mistakenly chopping wood, he went out of the water first and shouted: "Give me a leaf knife, quick!"
The leaf knife is a type of fish-killing knife, which is very thin, a bit like an oversized scalpel, shaped like a blade, hence the name.
This knife is suitable for dealing with abalone, it can cut along the place where the abalone adheres to the stone, and then cut the abalone step by step.
Ao Muyang gave the leaf knife to the black dragon, and the black dragon eliminated the abalone that had been mostly detached from the stone with three strokes and five divisions, and surfaced with it.
Seeing the abalone he raised, Ao Mudong said: ", I knelt for this buddy, his eye strength is invincible!"
When fishing boats go out to sea, the target is fish, shrimp and crabs, and there are few sea cucumbers and abalone, because they are difficult to find.
We all know that sea cucumber and abalone are sea treasures, which used to be exclusive to dignitaries and even the court, and now there are many abalone and sea cucumbers on the market, and the price is not, that is because of the promotion of artificial breeding.
The price of wild abalone and wild sea cucumber is much more expensive than that of farmed goods, but there is no significant difference between the two, and before these two seafood were farmed, their prices were really out of reach for ordinary people.
Because it's too hard to find, it's too hard to catch!
The shell of this abalone is grayish-yellow, rough and uneven, the upper spiral part is relatively wide, there is a row of protruding spiral ribs on the shell surface, like a small nodule, turn it over to see that its shell is silvery-white, the shell mouth is wide, the outer lip is thin and large, the inner lip is thick and small, and it looks more obscene.
Ao Qianwen glanced at it and recognized its identity, and said, "Yang Bao." ”
Sheep abalone is a characteristic abalone species of the South China Sea, the value is not particularly precious, at least it is much worse than plum blossoms, but it is rare enough to find something.
Ao Wenchang asked, "Uncle Wen, is this a sheep abalone? Can a sheep abalone grow so big? The largest length I have ever seen is only six or seven centimeters." ”
Ao Qianwen said: "The largest of the breeding will be sold to that extent, and some wild ones can grow up, and this one will grow very big." ”
The fishermen changed into the water and continued to enter the water, this time with a net and a lancet, and searched the sea area with a plough-like attitude, and harvested all the abalone that grew in the water.
The black dragon followed Ao Muyang to eat toffee, eating like a child with a smile on his face.
Jiang Caoqi leaned on the railing and said, "Old Ao, this black dragon is a lucky general." ”
Ao Muyang said: "The servant of the sea god, worthy of his name, this is the top sea ghost!"
However, he asked the black dragon how he found these abalones, and the black dragon compared them, but he still didn't understand!