Every autumn, sexually mature eels travel thousands of miles down the river into the western Pacific Ocean to breed.

From February to May every year, a large number of eel larvae enter rivers and lakes from the ocean, and during the years when eel fry are still produced in Hongyang Bay, fishermen will go to the estuary and coastal areas to catch eel fry after the Chinese New Year.

The earliest eel seedlings in the Fuguang area were in February, and in April in Hongyang, which means that if Lao Ao wants to raise eel seedlings, then he has to hurry up.

Interestingly, it takes a year for eels to complete the spawning process, swimming thousands of miles along the river to reach the sea, and swimming for a long time to find a spawning ground.

But once mated and spawned, it takes 36 hours for the fry to hatch, which is a magical place.

In addition, once the females lay eggs, they die. The male and female of the fry cannot be distinguished at birth, and they cannot be determined until they have grown to 30 centimeters, which is also a magical place.

In the afternoon, Ao Muyang called Ao Dao's fishing boat, and then fished for eels to be sent to his fishing grounds.

Fishing for eels requires a special tool, that is, bamboo tubes, and eels, like eels, eels, and loaches, like to drill into confined spaces such as bamboo tubes.

Ao Dao arrived with these tools, and a series of bamboo tubes were tied together, somewhat similar to longline fishing.

Carrying a string of bamboo tubes, he sighed and said: "Oh, dragon head, it's not easy to find this thing, no one in our village has gone to catch white eels for many years." ”

"Nobody catches eels, no one catches loaches? Besides, it's not like there are no white eels in Hongyang Bay, and I found a lot of plastic bottles in the garbage area of the town. Ao Muyang said.

Ao Dao smiled: "Haha, how is this possible, white eels have to live in the unpolluted sea, the water quality must be particularly clean, and there can be white eels in the garbage sea?"

Ao Muyang later checked this matter, in fact, those eels were put into the sea by the Fisheries Bureau, but it is difficult for artificially stocked eels to survive, and they happened to find the garbage sea area after entering the sea, so they lived there temporarily, and then were given a nest by Lao Ao.

Even if Ao Muyang doesn't catch them, they won't live long, and as Ao Dao said, eels need a particularly clean and unpolluted living environment.

Seeing their fishing boat drive in, Sun Beilong rushed to meet them by speedboat.

When he got on the boat, he saw the bamboo tubes, and said, "Brother Ao, before you want to collect the mother eel, I have something I must explain to you clearly, in the general environment, eel fry cannot be cultivated by artificial breeding until now, you know?"

Ao Dao said: "Isn't your fishing ground carrying out artificial breeding?"

Sun Beilong was gentle when facing Ao Muyang, it didn't mean that he was like this in the face of others, he was interrupted by Ao Daodao, he was very unhappy, and said: "Don't intervene in me!"

Ao Daodao smiled and shook his head and left, muttering, "Who likes to plug in?"

Ao Muyang said: "I know this, because eels have a very special life history, it is difficult to simulate in a human environment. ”

Sun Beilong nodded and said, "That's right, why is my fishing ground so valuable? It's because I have an eel spawning ground here, which is naturally formed." ”

Ao Muyang knew this, yesterday Sun Beilong learned that the underwater eel was released by a sea snake to deal with it, and he was so angry because he was afraid that this spawning ground would be destroyed.

The eel spawning ground in the Beilong Fishery is a plane tree that can exude fairy energy, as long as this plane tree is there, he will continue to attract golden phoenixes.

To put it more broadly, his fishery realizes the artificial breeding of eel seedlings, but strictly speaking, he is equivalent to finding an eel spawning area and contracting it, and he is not in the business of selling eels, but in the business of selling eel seedlings.

Seeing Ao Muyang nodding, Sun Beilong said: "Then you take the eels away, are you sure you can find another spawning ground for them to live? ”

Ao Muyang smiled: "If they don't mate, then I'll stew them." ”

Sun Beilong was dumbfounded.

This is a joke, Ao Muyang thinks that the sea area of Brick Island can be used as a spawning ground for eels, he can feed the eels golden droplets to let them adapt there, if they still don't adapt, then it will feed a little more golden drops!

Ao Muyang dived underwater and inserted a bamboo tube filled with freshwater shrimp into the sand layer of the seabed.

With freshwater shrimp as food and a hidden environment like a bamboo tube, he doesn't worry about eels not taking the bait.

Eels barely hunt when they enter the sea, similar to migratory salmon that spawn, and can go on a hunger strike for a year and a half and still stay alive.

But this does not mean that they do not want to hunt, but they are adapted to the food of small fish and shrimp in freshwater, and are not interested in the high salinity of marine fish and shrimp in the sea.

Ao Muyang used freshwater shrimp to seduce them, and this trick was definitely useful.

At night, he swims slowly in the water as usual, and the sea around the fishing ground is flat, and his vision is very good, if someone is holding a mannequin under the water, he can definitely notice it.

It may be because he noticed that Sun Beilong had increased the number of patrol personnel at sea, and there were no accidents that night.

Sun Beilong let out a sigh, but when he checked the employees, he found that someone had run away again, which made him angry enough!

Ao Muyang didn't care, he took someone to put away the bamboo tube at noon, and sure enough, most of the bamboo tubes had traces of eels in them, and after being caught, the eels were wandering around in the bamboo tube, very nervous.

The bamboo tubes were sent to the fishing boat, and then the fisherman on the boat poured them out, and Ao Dao drove the boat to Brick Island.

During the day, he didn't need Ao Muyang to monitor the fishing grounds, so he followed the boat to Brick Island.

Transporting eels and eel fry is a very simple task, and is considered the easiest of the live fish transports, because they can be transported dry, by placing them in clean wagons, as long as the air is well circulated and the water is sprinkled once an hour.

This is because eels can breathe not only by their gills, but also by their skin, swim bladder, mouth, fins, and even intestines.

After releasing the slow grains, Ao Muyang began to sprinkle water on them, and the water he sprinkled had gold droplets in them, and the eels could absorb them through their skin.

As the water sprinkled on, many eels writhed, they looked like sea snakes, and when they twisted their bodies, it was really amazing.

The fishing boat entered the fishing ground of Brick Island, and Ao Muyang gave an order, and everyone began to grab the eels and put them into the sea.

Ao Muyang continued to spread gold points into the sea, countless gold points filled the water, and the eels that attracted the water scrambled to snatch them, some of them grabbed and grabbed and fought, and they became entangled and began to mate.

Seeing this scene, Ao Muyang couldn't help laughing: I hope you will find true love and enjoy the rest of your life together in the fishing ground.