Compared with Sha Ke, Qin Shiou, the shopkeeper who shook his hands, did not look like a fisherman.

After discovering that the sponges in this area were so strangely dense, Shaq immediately called Bill Thatch of Dick Marine Vegetation, and the two parties agreed to come the next day to check the water quality and check the problem.

Just as ranchers are sensitive to diseases, fishermen are equally sensitive to abnormal fish and marine life, because you don't know when nature will play with you.

After Bill arrived with two so-called experts, the experts collected water sources and sponge samples and went back to the real room for analysis.

A day and a half later, Bill came in a hurry by boat, and first put a bunch of reports in front of Qin Shiou.

Seeing this guy's anxious face, Qin Shiou's heart hung up, and he immediately asked, "Didn't you analyze any bacteria in my water again?" ”

If this is the case, Qin Shiou can only raise his middle finger to the sky, and he can't breed lobsters on a large scale, so what can't he raise this time? It can't be that you can't raise sea cucumbers, right?

Bill shook his head vigorously and said, "No, this time it has little to do with you, it's the North American lobster market, God, I'm afraid the North American lobster market will suffer an earthquake this year!" ”

"What's going on, slow down, the North American lobster market is going to earthquake this year? My fishing ground is also related to the entire North American market? Isn't that? Qin Shiou couldn't help but burst into foul language in the end.

Bill smiled embarrassedly and explained, "I was in too much of a hurry just now to explain things clearly, and there is not much connection between these test sheets and the news I notified you. The results on the test sheet show that your water quality is fine, these sponges are common species in North American waters, and the content of various elements in the body is also very balanced, which is very suitable for making sea cucumber food......"

"Man, that's not what I want you to figure out. But why do those sponges gather in such a body of water? Qin Shiou frowned and asked.

Bill stretched out his hands helplessly and said, "We haven't found the reason either, Qin, don't worry, this matter is nothing to be afraid of, is it?" It's just a collection of normal jellyfish. In addition, today I have another terrible news to tell you......"

Take out a newspaper from under the test list, which is the first article on the first page of the well-known local "Fishing Ground News" in Newfoundland: The four major offshore waters of North America, sound the alarm of lobster fungus!

I took out another newspaper and opened it, this time it was the famous "Globe and Mail", with the headline on the page: Red Alert, Lobster Doom!

Qin Shiou didn't pay much attention to the news. In addition to chatting and farting with his friends on the Internet, he ran to refresh forums such as Tiger Pounce Cat Pounce Sohu Sogou to play, so for this hot news that just came out last night. Not much is known yet.

Let Qin Shiou watch the news, Bill said excitedly: "I'm too sensitive, I'm not sensitive enough!" When you first found Gavkia lobster, I should have expected this to happen! Sure enough, this is not a disaster for one fishing ground, but for the entire North American lobster industry! ”

According to several newspapers. Recently, the fisheries departments in both the United States and Canada have received sporadic reports. He said that his own fishery or the local public fishing ground had detected Lobster Gavkynia, and hoped that the government could solve it.

This bacterium is penniless in the outside world. Many people have never heard of him, only the fisherman who feeds on lobsters. will be afraid of it.

In fact, Gavkia lobster is not so scary, it is not a virus that can be transmitted through the air like SARS. This is a fungus, and only the invasion of the broken shell of the lobster can cause sepsis and death, and if the lobster's carapace is intact, there is no need to worry about this fungus.

In this way, it seems that the lobster Gavki is not as terrible as its brother lobster plague fungus.

However, the problem lies in such a link, we all know that lobsters are creatures, and they like to fight when they are idle and sore, between lobsters and lobsters, between lobsters and crabs, between lobsters and fish, and even between lobsters and stones......

The shell of the lobster is too easy to break, and once the fungal invasion of the broken shell causes sepsis, then the lobster is certain to die.

In addition, another terrible thing about Gavkiella lobster is its infection of shrimp fry, which lacks a layer of chitin in the carapace that can block the fungus, making it very susceptible to infection. As long as the fungus is not extinguished, it will be almost impossible for lobster fry in this area to survive.

To exterminate a species, just exterminate its larvae, and that's what Lobster Gavkia does.

None of the marine fisheries departments in Canada and the United States paid any attention to the reports, but when the reports flew in like snowflakes from Florida, Massachusetts, Ontario, and Newfoundland, they knew something was wrong.

The marine fisheries departments of the two countries jointly conducted a survey, and the results were stunning: in the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean in North America, the most severe outbreak of Gavkiella infection in lobsters has broken out!

In fact, this incident happened without warning, for Qin Shiou, he didn't understand why there were abundant lobster schools in deep sea waters but not in his own fishing grounds. If he carefully swept along the coastal waters, he would find that not only did his Daqin fishing ground have no lobster groups, but also other fishing grounds did not ......

No, Qin Shiou suddenly shuddered, there are lobsters in his own fishing ground, and more than 100,000 lobster cubs have survived, and yesterday I saw them carrying sponge fragments everywhere and domineering......

Thinking so indiscriminately, a light suddenly shone in Qin Shiou's mind, and the whole thing was strung together:

He bought Mr. Ross's Fishery before he was going to breed lobsters, in order to prevent the shrimp fry from being eaten by big fish, he was raised in Mr. Ross's Fishery at that time, and now a large number of sponges gather in Mr. Ross's Fishery, and the sea is living on plankton in the water, and most of the plankton eat scavengers......

The whole thing should be like this, Mr. Ross's fishery also has lobster Gavkiella, and after the shrimp fry enter, 90 percent of them die and rot, and then cause a large number of scavenging plankton in that area, which eventually attracts sponges, or rather, nurtures the vigorous reproduction and growth of sponges, because after all, sponges do not have the ability to move on their own.

Figure this out. Qin Shiou was relieved, as for the so-called lobster red alert? That's a matter for the government, and it has nothing to do with him, and it's best to have all the offshore lobsters extinct, so that the 100,000 lobsters in his fishing grounds are worth a lot.

Seeing off the excited Bill, Qin Shiou was in a good mood, so he searched the Internet for news about Lobster Gavkiella.

As a result, in the United States and Canada, the news made a big fuss, but the coverage was not very concentrated, and most websites only reported it as a scrap.

All web media is one attitude. People who like to eat lobster have been unlucky in the last two years, or they don't eat it. Or be prepared to spend a fortune on European lobster.

The day after the outbreak of the Lobster Gaviella outbreak, Newfoundland's Summer Cup Township Basketball Tournament came to an end, and a small town called Creek Town, which is said to be a traditional powerhouse in the basketball game, won the championship.

Qin Shiou played two games, they won both of them, and he went home for the Mid-Autumn Festival in the third game.

The Hughes brothers tried to keep it at the time. But Qin Shiou would never go home to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with his parents for the sake of an indifferent basketball game. Therefore, the main force was lacking, and the guide zhì farewell town failed to take a historic step. Still out of the top 16.

Of course, this is just an indifferent competition to mediate everyone's lifestyle. Canadians are not keen on basketball, they still like ice hockey that Qin Shiou can't understand at all.

Ice hockey is one of the most popular sports of Canadians, and there is no one. The NHL is one of the largest leagues in North America, with the same name in North America as the NBA and other four major leagues, and far more influential in Canada than the NBA.

In the next few days, Qin Shiou was studying the problem of sea cucumber farming, and now he has determined the species of sea cucumber farming, that is, the famous Arctic ginseng.

Arctic sea cucumber is native to the North Atlantic Ocean, not far from Farewell Island, about 30 feet under water, rich in nutrients, protein content of more than 60%, sea cucumber mucopolysaccharides account for about 15%, rich in sea cucumber saponins, vitamins and trace elements, very low fat content, cholesterol-free, is the top sea cucumber on the world market, high price.

With the aggravation of marine pollution, the production of wild Arctic ginseng has become less and less, and it has become a veritable aristocratic food, and more farmed Arctic ginseng is circulating in the market.

Both farmed and wild Arctic ginseng are grown in the sea, but the growing environment is different, the former is raised in captivity, waiting to be fed bait and feed, and the latter has to find food on their own.

Wild farmed Arctic ginseng is not slow-growing, but difficult to fish, and has similar problems with geoduck, which drills into the sand and Arctic ginseng that prefers to grow in the cold deep sea.

Normally, Canada collects wild Arctic ginseng by trawling, rather than divers diving for fishing, no way, the sea is deep and cold, manual picking can't stand it, so trawling is very difficult.

Artificial breeding of Arctic ginseng, the method adopted is sea raft culture and submarine cage culture, so that you can keep Arctic ginseng in captivity, when the time comes, you can pull out the cage, and raise chickens and ducks a reason, just a land and a water.

Qin Shiou chose free-range Arctic ginseng, September and October are the time for Arctic ginseng to lay eggs - this point is different from ordinary sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers in tropical and warm waters are spawning in May and June, and the delay of Arctic ginseng for so long is also affected by the environment, this kind of ginseng seedlings are afraid of heat and not afraid of cold.

I bought 1,000 heads of mother ginseng at a price of 220 yuan, bought 100 kg of small ginseng seedlings at a price of 2,000 yuan per catty, and bought 100 kg of medium-sized ginseng seedlings at a price of 3,400 yuan per catty.

The three procurement methods constitute the three generations of the old, middle and young people who grew up in the sea god, and the medium-sized ginseng seedlings are about 60-70 heads per kilogram, and they can be sold after two or three years of simple breeding.

There are about 500 small ginseng seedlings per catty, which have to be cultivated for six or seven years before they can be produced. As for the mother ginseng to be born, how many ginseng seedlings can they produce, others look at God's will, and Qin Shiou looks at the power of the sea god's consciousness. (To be continued.) (lw0。 om))