Chapter 327: The Whaling Force

Mo Xie's current super biological detector has an absolute control distance of one hundred meters, so it can be said that inside the Bering Strait, as long as Mo Xie goes, he can completely exterminate the creatures here. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, Mo Ye will not be so ruthless, but the salmon, flounder, green whit, sea urchin, etc. here are more unlucky, among which salmon and clams receive the most.

So, when it got here, the squid fishing boat began to change course, and it zigzag again, so that under the water, which no one saw, some creatures would disappear from time to time.

This time when he entered the Bailing Strait, Mo Xie started fishing selectively and purposefully, and he didn't catch them all in one net, after all, such extinct fishing was too harmful to the environment.

Therefore, as long as the conditions are not met, he will let them all go, and the conditions are very simple, the fish and shrimp in the spawning period, Mo Ye will try to keep some of them, and let go of all the small fish and shrimp.

At present, Mo Ye catches mainly adult fish, shrimp and crabs, and the other most common ones are shellfish, seaweed, squid, mussels, sea stingers and so on.

As soon as he ate a meal of cold jellyfish, Mo Ye heard a lion's roar, which was not small, attracting the attention of everyone on the boat.

"What's that? How does it look like a lion? On a reef, Deng Chuge saw a behemoth, so he asked in surprise.

"What a lion's roar?" Chu Tian Yi.

"That's a sea donkey, also called a northern sea lion, timid as a mouse, but it can't be compared with a lion." Lin Yumin said with a smile.

"Where does it look like a donkey?" Mo Xie glanced at it and said with a smile.

Mo Xie knew that the northern sea lion was the largest sea lion, because it had long mane-like hair on its neck, and its cry was also like a lion's roar, so it was named, and he really didn't know that this thing was also called a sea donkey.

"It's so loud, it's so loud, it's not like a coward!" Others didn't know Mo Ye's thoughts, and at this time they were all looking at the huge size of the northern sea lion.

However, as the fishing boat approached, many northern sea lions on the surrounding reefs were all bouncing and swimming into the distance, looking at their panicked appearance, it really didn't look like they were running away in embarrassment.

"The roar just now was a sentry in the sea lion pack sounding the alarm!" Lin Yumin said.

The northern sea lion is very alert when moving on the shore, and its courage is extremely disproportionate to its large body, and it quickly returns to the sea as soon as the wind blows, and even when sleeping, there are "sentinels" in the group to act as a guard, and when they see danger, they immediately send a signal to inform their companions.

The "sentinels" were very careful about their work, looking around, listening to the sound and smelling at the same time, even the call of the seagulls could cause them to flee in panic. Sometimes, they don't mind approaching fishing boats, but when they sense danger, they quickly move away and shout loudly to intimidate.

"Look over there, these northern sea lions are probably not hiding from us!" At this time, Mo Xie spoke.

"I've heard that Canadians love to hunt seals!" Deng Chuge said.

At this time, Lin Yumin spoke: "It's the Inuit of northern Canada, which is what we often call the Eskimos. ”

Lin Yumin shook his head and didn't continue to say anything, it's not that Canadians like to hunt seals, but because the sealing area in northern Canada is inhabited by Inuit, which is too cold, and the land is frozen soil to grow crops and vegetables and fruits.

There is no vast grassland to graze, only sea lions, seals and other animals live, and there is no way but to hunt seals as the main source of protein.

Seal oil is a popular nutrient that softens blood vessels and prevents myocardial infarction.

Many drug companies take a certain amount of money to make seal oil capsules, so during the season, the Inuit have to harvest seals as a basis for their livelihood.

Now, of course, it is not only the Inuit who hunt seals for their livelihoods, but also the methods have become particularly ferocious, and the number of seals is not controlled, so the number of seals is declining dramatically.

This time, they met the authentic Inuit, who hunted not only northern sea lions, but also whales.

This time, the Inuit were not targeting a northern sea lion, but a whale, and they were chasing a wounded giant whale.

The Inuit are the only inhabitants who are not banned from whaling, which is their most important way of obtaining food, and they consume more than 50 whales a year, but whaling is not an easy task.

So, as Mo Ye and the others continued to get closer to the east coast, they saw more and more whaling ships.

"Huh? I didn't expect this event to be over yet. Looking at an injured humpback whale, Lin Yumin said with a little surprise.

Mo Xie looked ahead, the sea water in that place was flushed with a trace of blood red, he knew that there was a wounded behemoth under the water, and soon, a huge whale really floated up there.

"It's a humpback whale, I didn't expect them to target such a big guy!" Lin Yumin said in surprise again.

"It's huge!" Chu Tianyi said with a shocked expression.

At this time, even Mo Ye had to say a big word, because compared to the sea creatures he caught, the things that people hunted were called prey.

Although the humpback whale is not the largest cetacean in the world, it is also a well-deserved behemoth in the ocean, with a fat and bloated body, and this one is exceptionally large, it must be an adult humpback whale, which is more than fourteen meters long.

"Its head is broken!" At this time, Mo Ye noticed that the wound on the humpback whale's body was on the head, which seemed to have been hit, not injured.

"It was injured during a fight." Lin Yumin said.

"Fighting?" Mo Ye looked at Lin Yumin and asked.

"It looks like this is a female whale, that's why it grew so big, maybe those people hunted her relatives, and she will retaliate!" Lin Yumin said.

Humpback whales are a kind of social animals, with a very docile and amiable temperament, and adults often touch each other to express their feelings, but when fighting with enemies, they use their long flippers or powerful tails to slam each other, and even use their heads to collide, resulting in broken flesh and blood.

"It's a pity it's too slow!" Lin Yumin kept sighing.

Mo Ye looked at the surface of the water, its swimming speed is indeed very slow, 8~15 kilometers per hour, when it swims slowly on the sea surface, it is like an iceberg, so it will definitely not be able to get rid of the pursuit of hunters.

"It's so cruel!" Watching the spears shoot at the humpback whale one by one, Chu Tian was together.

Mo Xie glanced at Chu Tianyi: "How much food can this kind of big guy swallow in one bite?" Natural selection, there is nothing cruel that is not cruel! ”

"That's right!" Chu Tianyi touched his head and said a little embarrassed.

"Haha, this is the virgin, right?" Deng Chuge said with a smile.

"It's just a little unbearable, you don't even have this bit of pity, do you?" Chu Tianyi said with contempt.

"How much does this thing weigh!" Mo Xie didn't want anything else, he just thought, this is a huge mountain of meat!

Lin Yumin said again: "At least thirty tons, the maximum recorded female of a humpback whale is 18 meters, which is not too big in comparison." ”

"Isn't that big?" Deng Chuge was speechless.

"Look, what are those fleets doing?" Chu Tianyi pointed to more and more fishing boats in the distance.

"They're dealing with the harvest!" Lin Yumin took the binoculars, looked at the distant sea and said: "It seems that their harvest is good, I saw gray whales and horned whales, and the ones dragging behind are really humpback whales, it seems that this humpback whale family is going extinct." ”

"What whales do these people hunt? And no one cares? Deng Chuge also saw the situation over there at this time, although he thought that hunting whales was nothing, but looking at the red seawater, his mood was still a little depressed.

"They hunt whales legally, so they can hunt whales that live in this area!" Lin Yumin said.

Mo Ye didn't need a telescope to see the fleet clearly, especially the various harvests on the ship, it can be said that the whales that can appear here, they have all hunted them.

There are currently only six species of whales left in the Arctic, namely beluga whales, horned whales, gray whales, bowhead whales, humpback whales, and orcas.

The 3.7~4.3 meter long whale is a beluga whale, and the horned whale with tusks is the main hunting object of the Inuit.

The Inuit whaling season is very short from mid-April to early June, and now it's August, and it's a bit unusual that they're still hunting.

"Uncle Lin, you are well-informed, see if these are Inuit?" Mo Ye asked suddenly.

Lin Yumin immediately said: "It must be Inuit, others can't get so many boats, and they can't evade the monitoring of the local government." ”

Whaling is a huge investment of human and material resources for the Inuit.

At the end of March every year, at least two-thirds of the men in each village join the whaling team, and some women cook for the whaling team, so poachers can't pretend to be such a large-scale operation.

"If you want to have a little catch, you can walk around, and at this time, you can often pick up dead whales floating on the surface!" In the end, Lin Yumin proposed.

"Pick it up?" Mo Ye asked a little puzzled.

"Yes, pick it up! These Eskimo whaling teams are usually concentrated in places where whales are frequented, and choose favorable terrain to set up camp, so in this area, whales can definitely be picked up. Lin Yumin said.

Looking at the fleet in the distance, each ship is generally about 200 meters apart, and each whale team has its own hunting range, in this case, can they pick up the prey they have escaped?

"Don't you believe it? Actually, it has something to do with their hunting methods! Lin Yumin talked about the way the local Eskimos hunted whales, and just a little mention of it, Mo Xie knew why.

When the whaling team arrives at its destination, it begins to watch 24 hours a day, and the hunters tirelessly look out to the sea for whale tracks.