The windward spiny cones on the peninsula are getting smaller and smaller.

At the top of the mast, the sound of the national flag being blown by the wind on the sand couch, accompanied by the roar of two powerful diesel engines, the Great Penguin headed for the fishing grounds.

The dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, revealing a clear blue sky through the cracks, from which the sun poured down on the deck.

After listening to Langdon's words, Han Xuan was deeply moved.

The sea has always meant abundance, and if you didn't expect it, it would be caught by humans one day.

Experts predict that by the end of the 21st century, the entire marine fishery resources will be depleted, but he believes that it will not last until then, and the future fishing technology will be more developed and the nets will be larger.

The population is increasing, species are extinct every day, and the creatures that have lived on this planet for thousands or even hundreds of millions of years have been wiped out by the civilization created by humans.

Asked by Langdon about ways to maintain the sustainable development of the fishing grounds, Han Xuan was ready to wait until he had time to buy some fish fry and seaweed, but he could not convince the world that he should at least be himself and not make himself feel ashamed of them.

Pooh was lazily lying on the deck blowing the wind, his little eyes seemed to be complaining about why he hadn't seen anything to eat, Jenny Turtle stood at the bow of the boat, stretching his neck and looking out into the sea, with a calm and wise look.

Seeing through the window that Daddy was with Captain Robinson, Han Xuan told Fat Ding a few words not to run around, and after the fat cat agreed, he walked down the stairs to the wheelhouse.

"Controlling a fishing boat is actually quite simple, similar to the principle of driving, if you want to learn, I will teach you, the research is troublesome, and you will definitely be able to get it with more practice."

Captain Robinson said to Daddy Boy.

Han's father nodded seriously, paying attention to his movements as he drove the boat, and saw his son come in. "Look at Mr. Aldrich, the black dot on the screen is the fish, the water is not deep now, the medium-sized fishing boat can't work, and it will have to wait a few minutes." ”

"I've heard that trawling destroys corals and algae on the bottom of the sea, right?" Han Xuan walked to the sonar radar. The spots on it are sparse and refreshed every ten seconds.

"Well, so find deep water to cast your nets, and here you need to use coastal fishing boats.

We dived yesterday to see the situation on the bottom of the sea, and some people have used trawling nets before, and the bottom ecology is not very optimistic.

The poaching boats don't care about the fishing grounds, as long as they can catch more fish, the Gambo family never fishes, and it used to be the best protected place in Monterey Bay. Later, he settled in New Zealand and did not come back, so the fishing boats dared to come and poach.

It's a shame that the coral colonies, which have grown for hundreds of years, are now all buried by the sediment on the bottom of the sea brought up by trawling. ”

Aldrich, the strong man, replied, "If it weren't for their insatiable greed and fishing with small nets, the nets would not touch the bottom of the sea, and the algae would have been destroyed and the plankton would have decreased." If there is no food, the fish will leave. ”

Robinson knew about the bottom of the sea yesterday. Afraid that they would be worried, he didn't say anything, but when he saw the silence in the cockpit, he clapped his hands to attract attention, and said with a smile: "It's almost time to put shrimp pots here." ”

Picking up the megaphone and instructing, the sailors easily loaded the cage with stinky fish. Arrange the rope and throw it into the water, float on the surface of the sea to make a mark, so that it is easy to come back and collect it.

Pooh smelled the smell again, pouted and ran to the driver's compartment, waiting for Han Xuan to open the door. The mouth whines and complains, sticks out the tongue and shakes the head, rolls the eyes and tilts the head to make a fainting appearance, indicating that it smells too bad.

Robinson and Aldrich were startled by its vivid expression, and it was only when they heard the boy say that it had trained in the circus before, and they figured out why.

"Almost! Putting the glass bucket down!"

The captain looked at the depth shown by the sonar radar and yelled at the deck sailors.

Turning back to the father and son, he explained: "There is a tributary of the Sacramento River in Monterey Bay, and the water is low in salinity, and there are a lot of eels living here, and those glass buckets are used to catch them.

The eel is a migratory fish, the adult eel spends its growth period in inland rivers, returns to the ocean to spawn after sexual maturity, and then dies, and the baby eels hatch and live in the sea for a long time, and then swim back to the freshwater river from the estuary.

There are a total of eighteen species of eels in the world, and most of them can be found on the west coast, with the exception of the European and American eels that live in the Atlantic Ocean.

Because they only spawn in the deep sea, their unique living habits are difficult to breed in captivity, and the number is scarce, and the price has always been high. ”

"No fisherman has ever been able to catch them before, no matter what bait is used.

Later, I learned that eels bite their prey with their mouths, and then pop something like a hook out of their throats and pull the prey into their stomachs.

Small eels can't be caught, big ones are easy, some time ago a guy caught an eel more than five meters long on the west side of Monterey Bay, and was bought by a restaurateur for 100,000 dollars, which is really lucky. ”

Aldrich said enviously, staring at the sonar radar, "Robinson, put the vertical fish finder down, the depth of the seabed is now fifty meters, and it is almost to the depth where you can cast a net." ”

The captain hummed and said a few words to the loudspeaker.

Han Xuan had eaten eels, a delicious food, and was very interested in how to catch them, so he went downstairs and ran to the deck, where he saw the sailors lifting the oilcloth, and dozens of glass bottles were densely packed underneath.

It looks like an enlarged beer bottle, with different mouth sizes, large and small, and different volumes, and the bottle mouth is quite long, corresponding to different eel volumes, and there are bloody things inside, and if you look closely, you will find that it is the liver of an animal.

A fisherman stood in front of Han Xuan, not letting him see these bloody things, and said with a smile: "Come back when we put it down, you can go to the top deck, you should be able to see Pacific bottlenose dolphins, those guys are very smart, we often throw fish into the sea, they like to follow the fishing boats, if you are lucky, you may find whales, boy." ”

Han Xuan remembered that Captain Robinson had called his name on the shore, as if it was Logan, and nodded, "I'll come back later, how long will it take?"

"A minute or two, now the boat is going fast, go into the deep sea and slow down, the eels can get in, we'll be squid fishing later, you can come and see." ”

"Squid fishing?" Han Xuan looked at the machine next to the boat, there were strings of simulated lobsters hanging on the line, he didn't see the hooks, and he didn't understand how to catch them.

When the sailors threw the glass bottles into the sea and dragged them behind the ship, the Big Penguin stopped.

Logan came over and turned on the automatic squid fishing machine, like a bicycle hinge, and the rope with the wooden shrimp hanging from the top roller into the sea, and after a while turned back from below.

After not seeing anything for a few minutes, Han Xuan was lying on the side of the railing, noticed that someone was patting him on the back, turned around and saw a life jacket, and said, "Thank you, Langdon." ”

Continuing to observe the string dragged out of the sea, it suddenly splashed and a pale red squid was dragged out of the water, and before it knew it, its tentacles clung to its "prey...... (To be continued.) )

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