Although the name of king crab is crab, from the scientific classification, they do not actually belong to the species of crab, but can only be said to be crustaceans - the real crab has four pairs of feet plus a pair of crab claws, and the joints of the feet are curved forward, while the king crab has only three pairs of feet plus a pair of crab claws, and their feet are bent backwards.

But in reality, no one cares, fishermen treat them as crabs, anyway, they have carapaces, crab claws, arthropods, and their appearance is exactly the same as crabs, so why do you need to classify them additionally?

This crustacean has a beautiful taste, a high meat yield, and a large size, and has always been known as the king of crabs, and is an important economic seafood.

The king crab discovered by Qin Shiou is numerous: in the deep sea, just a hundred kilometers west of Attu Island, they can be found everywhere, and the number is surprising.

This also surprised Qin Daguan, the price of king crab is one of the most expensive crabs, more precious than the Dungeness crab he specially purchased from the North Pacific, and this thing is big, and you can get back by catching a few of them.

So, whether it's in Alaska or Greenland, fishermen will kill them whenever they find them, and I don't know why there is so much stock here.

In this way, the minds of the Qin officials were activated, and the king crab was full of attraction to all fishermen.

In fact, he also thought about breeding king crabs at the beginning, but unfortunately this kind of crab is too ferocious, and the reproduction rate is amazing, and each female crab can produce nearly 10,000 live baby crabs every year. Once introduced into the Daqin fishing grounds, it will cause an ecological disaster, such as lobsters, tongue soles, Dungeness crabs, and geoducks. Let's wait to make food!

The most obvious example is the current Antarctica.

Decades ago. I don't know if it was Soviet oceanographers or Norwegian, American oceanographers, who arrived at the Antarctic with a batch of samples of Alaskan king crab. As a result, the crabs escaped from captivity and burrowed into the icy waters of Antarctica.

Then, during the recent expedition to Antarctica, the French scientific research team was shocked to find that there are a large number of king crabs living under the continental shelf of Antarctica.

If this discovery had been made in Alaskan waters, American fishermen would have gone crazy, and it turned out to be in Antarctica!

This is miserable, and the multinational scientific research team has predicted. In the next 10 to 20 years, the Antarctic waters will suffer an ecological catastrophe.

What's worse is that the United Nations has regulations that no country is allowed to go to Antarctica to catch fish, so these king crabs have no natural predators in Antarctica, and there is no human enemy.

The scientific name of those king crabs in Antarctica is Alaskan king crab, also known as golden king crab, and their ancestors are from Alaska. The scientific name of these king crabs in Greenland waters is red king crabs. Both sides are equally precious.

King crabs are ice-water creatures and are one of the few species that can survive in the extreme environment of the Arctic and Antarctic, and the fish produced in this environment are delicious, nutritious and pollution-free.

Later, as the Poseidon consciousness progressed to the surroundings. He gradually understood the reason why there were still so many king crabs in this area.

Interestingly, the seabed environment of a large area of the surrounding sea is very complex. King crabs are known to live in deep sea waters. In deep-sea waters, there are generally no reefs, so large ships can go fishing at will.

But this sea is different. It has a ring of reefs, which is probably why Greenland's fishermen did not exterminate the king crabs.

Led by the Poseidon consciousness. Naturally, the Melon Princess can come and go in and out of this sea area at will.

Qin Shiou went to find the sea monster and Shaq, and told them that there was a red king crab in this area.

The Kraken and Shaq, who were chatting over hot coffee, were taken aback and asked, "Are you sure?" Is it the discovery of the Five Elements Dragon Hunting Formula? ”

Qin Shiou patted the chart behind them and said, "No, I found it from here, you see, isn't it marked with a bright red here?" Isn't that just a red king crab? ”

Shaq couldn't cry and laughed, and said depressedly: "But it's not, BOSS, although this sea area is indeed marked in red on the map, we think it means a dangerous sea area......"

Qin Shiou laughed and said, "I know, this sea area is considered to have a large number of reefs, isn't it? But if you look at the map of the catch in Greenland, the charts show that there were king crabs around here, you see? ”

Shaq and the Kraken certainly understood that the distribution of king crabs was regional, and since the surrounding waters were rich in king crabs, they were naturally found near the location of the reef. Considering that the sea area is full of reefs, there must not be many boats that dare to enter, so there are naturally rich king crab resources here.

"Our ship is too big, can we get in here?" The two hesitated.

Qin Shiou said with a smile: "Don't worry, leave this to me, with a captain like me leading the way, I will definitely not run into a reef." Now, it's not about safety, it's about whether our fishing quota is a bit small. ”

The fishing of king crab is the same as that of bluefin tuna, you need to spend money to buy a fishing license, the government will give a fishing quota, before the departure of the melon princess, all kinds of fishing licenses are complete, and the fishing license of red king crab is 200 tons.

This is a relatively exaggerated quota, the annual weight of king crab produced in Alaska waters and Greenland waters is about 10,000 tons, of which Alaska is the mainstay, can produce 8,000 tons, and Greenland waters can produce up to 2,000 or 3,000 tons.

Therefore, Qin Shiou asked Sha Ke to buy a 200-ton fishing license, and he thought it would be very good to be able to fish out one-tenth of the annual production in Greenland waters, but he didn't expect that as soon as he arrived in Greenland, he encountered a good start and encountered such a large piece of king crab.

Deep-sea fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and king crab fishing is one of the most dangerous in deep-sea fishing, and the work-related death rate of Alaskan crab fishers is 50 times that of ordinary workers, and during the crab season, an average of 1 crab catcher dies every 7 days in the Bering Strait!

Greenland's climate is much milder than Alaska's, but there are also fisherman casualties every year.

Under the guidance of Qin Shiou, the Melon Princess avoided the reef with intertwined teeth and soon appeared above the head of the king crab group, and Qin Shiou called all the fishermen for a meeting.

This time, together with the four newcomers brought by Geng Junjie and the ten fishermen recruited from the town, he brought out a total of twenty-two fishermen, and the team was unprecedentedly large.

Therefore, in Qin Shiou's expectations, this harvest will be unprecedentedly huge! (To be continued......)