Chapter 308 Dolphins in Tokyo Bay

In ancient times, Tokyo Bay was called Edo Bay, and it got its name because it borders Tokyo. Both sides of Tokyo Bay are cities that were very important to the Japanese country: Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, and Chiba。。。。。 To put it bluntly, the two industrial belts of the Japanese kingdom directly encircled the entire Tokyo Bay.

So the water quality here is really poor. The water quality of the Yokoga Waterway, which is close to the open sea, is relatively good, and corals grow (corals are water quality inspectors, so it is impossible for corals to grow in places with poor water quality), but in Tokyo Bay, red tides often occur due to the narrowness of the bay mouth and the difficulty of exchanging seawater with the open seawater.

The occurrence of red tide means that it is very harmful to marine life, whether it is seaweed or fish and shrimp, especially seaweed, they are very sensitive to the pH of seawater, and they can survive if the water is dirty;

As a result, the color of the sea in Tokyo Bay and the color of the open sea are directly two colors, which looks 。。。。。。 More clear and beautiful?

When many Chinese tourists arrive in Tokyo, they will take a photo of Tokyo Bay, and then express their feelings with envy: "Look at how good the greening of the Japanese country is, and how beautiful the color of the sea is。。。。。。 "Well, how ignorant it is to say such a thing? It's because of the low nutrient content in the seawater!

After arriving at Tokyo Bay, the "Huaxia" reduced its speed and moved along the prescribed channel, the water depth of Tokyo Bay is not deep, the average depth is only 12 meters, and there are countless artificial islands, although the area of Tokyo Bay is very large, almost 2/3 of the area of the Bohai Sea, but if you do not follow the channel, it is still easy to have problems. That's when you can see the captain's ability.

However, Xiao Peng is not worried about his captain, and the crew that Du Yulin introduced to him are all top talents. Take the captain as an example, this person's name is Lu Guoqiang, who originally worked at the Haizhou Maritime Search and Rescue Center, and is the only captain in China who has won the 'Special Courage Award at Sea', which is in recognition of his experience of rescuing seven crew members in distress in 18 hours in extremely bad marine weather. Whether it's his experience or his mental quality, it's superb.

Originally, he had just retired this year. You can live at home. But I don't know what Du Yulin thought of, he gave up his retirement and came to the 'Huaxia' as a captain. Although he had never sailed before, it was his first time in Tokyo Bay. However, thanks to its rich experience, the huge 'Huaxia' can still move safely in Tokyo Bay.

The Japanese people think that their territory is very small, so they are extremely fanatical about artificial islands------ and they also do their best to expand their territory and living space.

It's a pity that there are often some things that make people speechless, such as the famous Kansai Airport.

Kansai Airport was built in 1987, when Osaka was one of the most crowded airports in the country, but because there was an urgent need to build an airport, engineers came up with the idea of building an artificial island on top of it. As a result, Kansai Airport was built, and it is the world's first artificial island airport built with 100% land reclamation. Of course, that's a lot of money. The total cost was as high as 20 billion US dollars, which was almost equivalent to 200 billion US dollars today in those days, right?

This Kansai airport has really won a lot of praise for the Wa Kingdom, and it has been called a 'feat that has caused a sensation in the world', and the Stars and Stripes have directly praised it as a 'monument of the new century'.

However, such an epoch-making airport has a huge flaw, that is, it does not take into account the underlying geology.

The bottom of the sea on the other side of Osaka Bay is a clay layer with a thick layer of silt. As a result, Kansai Airport has been sinking since it was built. So far, it has sunk to a height of more than 10 meters. The depth of the sea in Osaka Bay is only about 20 meters.

In order to keep it from sinking, the Japanese country can be regarded as heartbroken, and from the day the airport opened, the airport has spent a huge amount of money to build a cement wall in the basement to prevent seawater from seeping in. To this day, maintenance and repairs are still ongoing. The entire Kansai Airport, the second largest airport in the island nation, is heavily indebted. The more you open, the more you lose money。。。。。。

And some problems cannot be solved by spending money, and if this trend continues, in a few decades, the Kansai Airport, which was built with huge sums of money, will probably sink to the bottom of the sea。。。。。。

But even so, it still could not stop the Japanese people's enthusiasm for reclamation and island building. The numerous artificial islands in Tokyo Bay are a prime example.

In the eyes of many people, the Wa Kingdom is a small country. In fact, people are really not small! The territory is four times that of plastic surgery countries! In the whole of Europe, there are a few countries such as Gaul and Spain that are larger than it. Big hair and two hairs don't count。。。。。。

But it's not their fault, who let them be a people who live on an active volcano, and it's an earthquake and a tsunami, so you can't be prepared for danger in times of peace!

But there are also places in Tokyo Bay that are worth learning from China. That is, although the water quality here is not good and the algae are scarce, there are a lot of fish here. And this is thanks to the artificial reefs of the Japanese country.

The Tokyo Bay is fed into the Tama River, Tsurumi River, Arakawa River, Edo River, and other rivers, bringing a large amount of plankton. The Japanese have built a large number of artificial reefs in Tokyo Bay, which gives space for plankton to inhabit, and plankton is the bait for small fish and shrimp, which improves the biological chain of the entire Tokyo Bay and enriches the fishery resources here.

In the eyes of the Tokyo Fisheries Agency, almost everything that can be used is a good material for making artificial reefs: discarded tires, abandoned boats, abandoned cars, and even some furniture bicycles are thrown into the sea。。。。。。

In any case, the fishery resources of Tokyo Bay are indeed much richer than expected, at least there are many dolphins living here, and there are all kinds of dolphins: bottlenose dolphins, short-nosed dolphins, long-nosed dolphins, white-beaked dolphins, Pacific spotted dolphins, etc., etc., the whole dolphin exhibition.

Dolphins like to chase boats, and on both sides of the 'Huaxia', from time to time, you can see baby dolphins swimming around, which is why Yang Meng called Xiao Peng over to watch.

"Hey, this little dolphin is so cute. Xiao Peng couldn't do it: "Strange, where have the big dolphins gone?" Looking at the group of dolphins in the sea, there were all small dolphins, but I didn't see a few big dolphins.

Pan Peiyu walked to Xiao Peng's side: "Brother Peng, do you know the 'dolphin savings' of the Wa Kingdom?"

"What kind of thing is 'dolphin storage'???," Xiao Pengleng said.

Pan Peiyu shook his head: "Every year in September, the fishermen of the Japanese Kingdom hold a traditional sea festival in Tokyo Bay. The so-called sea festival is actually the killing of dolphins. I saw it once, and it's no exaggeration to say that the water is dyed red. These dolphins did not swim on their own, but were caught by fishing boats and released into Tokyo Bay, because of the special structure of Tokyo Bay, which is more like a pot-bellied bottle with a small opening, so it is generally difficult for the dolphins to escape, and finally become the target of hunting. The so-called 'dolphin storage' is not to raise pigs, but to raise dolphins like pigs to be slaughtered. ”

Yang Meng's eyes widened when he heard this: ", these Japanese people are inhumane, right? They hunt whales and kills dolphins, they love to eat this thing so much?"

In the international seas, the Wa Kingdom is definitely notorious, and is best known for their commercial whaling activities.

In fact, commercial whaling has been banned internationally for a long time. The Wakoku agreed, but instead of stopping whaling, they put it in a different way and called it 'whaling for scientific purposes'.

Every year, a large number of whaling ships go to the Arctic and Antarctic regions to hunt whales.

Later, the Maple Leaf Kingdom went directly to the International Tribunal in The Hague to sue the Wa State, accusing the Wa State of whaling. The Wa Kingdom was honest for two years, and then began to go out whaling with great fanfare. And this time, it offended the kangaroo country again: the whaling ship of the Wa Kingdom ran to the waters of the Kangaroo Country to hunt whales, and the Kangaroo Country began to make trouble again, and the Wa State pulled this matter every day.

But no matter what, the Japanese country is also awesome, you can say whatever you like, Lao Tzu is going to whaling, can you scuttle my ship?

Listening to Yang Meng's question, Xiao Peng shook his head: "Now there are very few people in the country who eat whales and dolphins. At that time, whales and dolphins were eaten because of hunger and lack of supplies, and that period is long past now. ”

In the post-war period, whales and dolphins played a vital role in surviving the difficulties of the war.

Yang Meng didn't understand: "Then they don't eat whales now, what are they fishing whales for?"

Xiao Peng smiled and gave Xiao Peng the answer: "Industry." In the final analysis, it is to maintain the industry and promote the economy. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the industry, from fishing to processing to sales, and if the industry is really stopped, how will these people live, how will they be resettled, and how will these problems be solved?"

Yang Meng pouted: "This is a group of beasts!"

Xiao Peng hurriedly covered Yang Meng's mouth: "Dude, don't talk nonsense about what you say, if you let the group of 'public knowledge' on our domestic Internet hear it, you have to say that you are ignorant." In their eyes, this kind of whaling, which has a clear plan for modernization and intensification, is very civilized, and whaling is correct. There are even many Chinese people who kneel and lick the island country to appeal, saying that whale protection has been going on for a while, and the number has been very stable, and the number can be opened to kill. There are also many people who say that when they eat chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, do they consider their feelings? No big deal. As long as someone criticizes the whaling of the Wa Kingdom, a large number of people in Huaxia will definitely use these reasons to wash the ground for them, but what they don't know is that someone is criticizing their own father. ”

Yang Meng broke away from Xiao Peng's hand: "Ahh ”

Pan Peiyu shrugged and said, "Do you think they are stupid? Who dares to say their real names? Otherwise, they can drown their saliva alive! Don't underestimate the power of our Internet mob, it really costs human life." Alright, tell Captain Lou that I'll anchor here for a while, I have something to do. ”

ps: Lu Guoqiang is really a person, and he wrote it in the book to pay tribute to him. He is the captain of the rescue command ship of the Lianyungang sea rescue ship. Once, when rescuing a stranded ship that sailed illegally, because the water potential at the stranded position was too shallow, and it was accompanied by wind and waves above level 8 at that time. Tugboats, etc., cannot be rescued. Lu Guoqiang drove the command boat to the rescue, and after 12 times of help, he finally brought the ship close to the shipwrecked ship and rescued seven crew members. Half an hour after the end of the rescue, the shipwrecked ship sank. For this award, Lo received the International Maritime Organization's 'Brave at Sea' award. I have to say, it's really good!