(Today's four more broke out, the first one!)

The giant trawl is powerful, and anyway, Shuichi Minamino looks at it with a numb scalp. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis trawling is a net of all the seafood on the seabed! No matter how big or small, even the seaweed is scraped off.

Shuichi Minamino drove a fishing boat to chase the group of flounder, and after all the flounders he saw were trapped, he went around a few times around the neighborhood to catch some other small fish and shrimp.

Half an hour later, the trawl began to be hoisted onto the deck of the fishing boat. As the trawl net surfaced, the flounder in the net jumped. In addition to flounder, there are many other small fish and shrimp.

"Wow, that's a big flounder! 3 meters long!" Soon the crowd noticed that there were four or five large flounders in the net, the longest reaching 4 meters long.

"You see, except for the largest ones, the remaining flounder are tens of centimeters long. Ami Inoue pointed to the fish in the fishing net and said coquettishly.

In fact, there are also different species of flounder, some large and some small, for example, the largest species of flounder can reach 5 meters long, which is really terrifying. The small kind is also more than ten centimeters and dozens of centimeters.

Soon the trawl was hoisted onto the deck, and the sailors began to help sort and sort. The seafood caught this time is really varied, including flounder, all kinds of small fish in the shallow sea. Conch, shrimp, crab, conch, shell and much more.

"Giggle...... And baby turtles, good kawaii. Ami Inoue saw a few baby turtles in the net, her eyes lit up, and she ran over to pick up one in broken steps.

"Minamino-kun, can you raise these little turtles?" Inoue Ami winked at Nanno Shui.

At this time, Shuichi Minamino was looking at this trawl, and he felt distressed when he saw that there were many holes in the bottom part of the trawl, and this kind of fishing that touched the bottom of the sea really hurt the trawl. Fortunately, he had 4 trawls on his trawler, all of which were used in turns. Once one is damaged, it will be repaired when it is free.

"Little turtle?" As soon as Minamino walked over, he saw Ami Inoue holding a small turtle the size of two palms in her arms. At first glance, it looks like a juvenile sea turtle.

Sea turtles, in the eyes of fishermen, are long-lived creatures, and they also think that they are also the pets of the sea god. Generally, turtles caught at sea are released. This kind of prayer is also an allegorical meaning, and the majesty of the sea god cannot be violated.

"Let's release it. Nanno Shuichi thought about it and said.

"Okay kawaii oh, I want to keep it. Ami Inoue pouted a little unhappily.

"Okay, obedient, next time you go to sea, you can bring a puppy to raise it, okay?" Nanno Xiuyi persuaded her with good words, and the girl had to coax more.

"Really?" asked Ami Inoue with wide eyes. It's more fun to have a puppy than a turtle.

"Of course, you can raise as many as you want, and I'll buy them for you. Shuichi Minamino said with a smile.

"Alright, let's release them. Let them return to their parents. Ami Inoue touched the baby turtle with a loving face.

Soon after the release of the baby turtles, a sailor laughed loudly: "Haha, there are also a lot of conch and shells, it seems that you can have a smorgasbord of shrimp, crab and snails tonight." ”

"Oh, what conch and shellfish!" Shuichi Minamino is also interested, usually fishing in the deep sea, and usually conch shells and so on are not very caught. Because these things live on the bottom of the sea, only in the shallow sea!

"Boss, what kind of shell you see, I've never seen it! Light gray shell!" Ishida picked up a shell more than twenty centimeters in size and came to Minamino Shuichi.

"Hey, this shell is quite big!" Looking at the shell more than 20 centimeters large, Shuichi Minamino was a little surprised. Even if it is an ocean shell, like some shallow sea shells, it is not very large, usually more than ten centimeters. Of course, some shells reach tens of centimeters in size, or even half a meter in size. That kind of shell is a very large shell.

"There are hundreds of them here! We haven't seen these shells in Hokkaido, are they unique to the Pacific Ocean?"

Even the old man Kimura hadn't seen it, so surely no one else had seen it either.

"Can you eat this shell?" asked Minamiki Noguchi softly. If they encounter seafood they don't know, they don't dare to eat it casually. Because some seafood is poisonous, and if you eat it indiscriminately, it can kill people. This has to be done with caution.

"You see, the eyes of these shells are light gray and silvery-gray. Ami Inoue also picked up one curiously and looked at it.

"Could it be a black lipped shell?" Minamino Shuichi guessed faintly. He remembered that the color of the black lipped oyster was also light gray or silvery-gray!

Black lipped oysters mainly grow in the coral atoll of French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Panama Island and the Gulf of Mexico, and are also found in the waters of Weizhou Island in the Huaxia Sea.

Typically light grey to silvery-grey and can weigh up to 5 kg and 30 cm in size, they are usually twice the size of the island sea mussels, and they can live an average of 30 years and produce larger pearls.

There are two main natural sources of black lipped oysters: one is the island of Tahiti in the Polynesian archipelago, which produces 95% of the world's black pearls; The second is Penlin Island and Majuhiki Island in the Cook Islands, which account for 4% of the total production. Other Pacific islands produce less than one percent. These two regions cohabit the south-central Pacific Ocean.

From here, it can be seen that black lipped oysters are also found in the south-central Pacific Ocean, and now that Shuichi Minamino is also in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it is not impossible to catch black lipped oysters with good luck! The shells in front of me are too similar to black lipped oysters!

"Come on, take a knife and pry open the shell!" said Shuichi Minamino to a pair of sailors beside him.

"Yes, boss. ”

If these were black lipped oysters, then they must have black pearls in them, and if not, he didn't know what kind of shells they were.

"Minamino-kun, what are you doing with prying it open?" Inoue Ami was puzzled.

"Let's see if there's any pearls in there!" said Shuichi Minamino.

"Pearls? These shells have pearls in them. Ami Inoue exclaimed.

"I don't know, if it's a black lipped oyster, there should be, if not, then no. "Minamino Shuichi.

"Black lipped mussel, what is it?" the crowd pricked up their ears to listen.

"It is a shell that produces black pearls, which are the most expensive pearls in the world. ”

Black pearls, a bronze-colored pearl, are a very valuable jewelry variety. Symbolizing the crystallization of the most difficult years, it is called the most painful tears of the mother's oyster, and it is rare and noble because it has gone through hardships. Prior to the successful introduction of black plant-core South Sea pearls to the market, the only available black pearls were natural black pearls, which were rare and very expensive.

At the moment, black pearls have not yet been cultured, so its price is the first in the pearl world!

In the mid-19th century, fishing boats from Sydney, San Francisco and Chile caught large quantities of blackdish shellfish. Not only did they have to get the pearls, but they also had to get the inner shell of the black saucer shell with its beautiful and colorful nacre to meet the needs of the European button industry at that time. After more than a century of overfishing, by the middle of the 20th century, Tahiti's black saucer shellfish resources were on the verge of extinction.

Cultured pearl experiments in Tahiti began in 1961 using pearl farming techniques from island nations. However, it was not until 1966 that a number of pearl farms began to be established, and they were not very successful commercially. It was not until 1972 that French Polynesia began exporting Tahitian black pearls abroad, with only 1,563 kilograms exported that year.

The farmed ones are certainly not as good as the wild ones!

The two sailors came out with their knives, and one of the shells was pried up, and it was not long before the two shells were pried open. Everyone gathered in a circle, staring closely at the pried open shell with a pair of big eyes.

"Ah~ this one doesn't have pearls!" The first shell was pried open, but there were no pearls inside.

"Isn't this a black lipped mussel?" said Minamino Shuichi frowned slightly.

"Ah~ Yes, there is, there is really a black pearl, such a big one!" Just when Minamino Shuichi wondered if this was a black lipped oyster, the second shell actually opened a black pearl!

I saw this black pearl lying quietly in the soft body of the black lipped oyster, and it had been taken out by the sailor.

A black pearl about ten millimeters in diameter!

I saw that this black pearl also showed a bronze color on the black tone, with a metallic luster. It glows in the sun with rainbow colors such as peacock green, deep purple, and sea blue. When the sun shines, its intense metallic luster changes with the turn of the pearl!

"It's amazing! It's beautiful!" Inoue Ami couldn't help but lose her voice, in a woman's love for jewelry, she found herself deeply in love with this black pearl.

"Boss, this is the black lipped oyster, this is the black pearl, is there really a black pearl in this world?" Usually pearls are silvery-white, and now there is a black pearl, which really shocks this group of villagers.

"This should be the Black Pearl!" Nanno Shuichi nodded with a smile. Even the black pearls produced in the central waters of the Pacific Ocean were unusually few, and he didn't expect to be encountered by himself this time!

However, this kind of black pearl is expensive in this age, and it is not very expensive with the success of a large number of cultivation in later generations, and the expensive kind are wild black pearls. However, he could try to take some back to his fishing grounds and see if he could make a profit. However, he thought about the fact that the water temperature of his fishing ground was different from that here, and it was estimated that he might not be able to breed successfully.

"There are more than a hundred of them here, and most of them should have black pearls, which are hundreds of black pearls. "Ami Inoue has little stars in her eyes, she really wants a few black pearls to make a small jewelry for herself now. These black pearls are so beautiful, they are simply black tears falling from the sky. (To be continued.) )