625. The Basis of the Biological Chain of Fisheries (5/5)

When Qin Shiou returned to the fishing ground, the Harvest had just entered the port, and the Farewell was ready to leave.

Butler called and asked him to prepare a third catch, and they had already made a name for themselves throughout New York State and it was time to make their foray into Miami.

Fishing in the fishing grounds is not the same thing as fishing on the high seas, the fish in the fishing ground are your own thing, and you can only catch large enough fish, and the small fish have to be released. Therefore, the work is more tiring, and the fish must be sorted after being caught, and those that do not meet the fishing conditions are put back into the sea.

Fishing on the high seas is simple, according to the requirements of the Ministry of Fisheries, choose the right mesh of the fishing net, and then go down the net to catch it, no matter what it catches, big fish and small fish are piled up together, and the Ministry of Fisheries will not check very carefully.

Because of the lessons of the Newfoundland fishing grounds, Canada has a relatively strict control over the fishing industry, and fishing boats will honestly choose fishing nets in accordance with the regulations. In countries such as Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, their fishing boats have chosen the smallest mesh diameter, and when they encounter a school of fish, they will be wiped out.

There are a total of more than a dozen fishermen on the fishing boat, and so much labor is not needed on one boat, so Qin Shiou dispatched the farewell, anyway, this boat is a trawler, and it is also suitable for fishing.

Qin Shiou stopped the car and looked at the harvest, the catch was a bumper harvest again, the Atlantic cod and haddock were fat and strong, and the whole body exuded a delicate soft light, and it was a good fish with good meat quality at a glance.

But the single culture of the fishery is not good, there is no output in crabs, lobsters and shellfish, Qin Shiou decided that the next step is to breed crabs, shellfish can be put on hold for a while, don't be anxious.

Boxes of catch are transported to the freezer. Qin Shiou went to clean up his breakfast dishes.

Soaking porcini mushrooms in oil is simple, wash it and take it out to dry. Qin Shiou propped up a bracket in front of the villa, cut the porcini mushrooms into strips and put them on the sun.

Xiong Da thought it was delicious. He stood next to the stand with his head held high and sniffed vigorously.

Qin Shiou went up and gave it a crash, and said, "Go and sleep on your stomach under the tree, don't knock me over, otherwise I won't have dinner for three days!" ”

The bear walked away unhappily, but it found Dabai behind it, and when he shook his head, he understood the meaning, and cleverly climbed up to the bracket and brought it a porcini mushroom to eat.

The porcini mushrooms are not cooked, and the taste is really average, so Xiong Da chewed it. He opened his mouth and spit out tasteless porcini mushrooms, and leisurely climbed under the tree and leaned against the trunk and dozed off.

Pickled pepper mountain shiitake mushrooms can be made and eaten, Qin Shiou took out the pickled peppers from the refrigerator, he selected a large handful of fat pickled peppers with yellow and green color, removed the stems and washed off the excess pepper seeds, and marinated them in vinegar and soy sauce.

Mountain shiitake mushrooms need to be cooked in water first, and a little salt is added to them when cooking, Qin Shiou's mother used to make this dish, so he is familiar with it. After cooking, it is dried, then mixed with pickled peppers and marinated in vinegar and soy sauce.

There is no need for chicken essence to make this dish, because the mountain shiitake mushroom itself has an umami taste, after marinating it with salty, spicy, and sour flavors. It's a good dish.

Qin Shiou found a pickle jar to put it, smelled it and felt that it was good, and patted the jar with satisfaction and put it in the corner of the kitchen.

Squirrel Xiao Ming jumped in. I took a pine nut for him to eat, which is considered to communicate feelings.

Qin Shiou made a small portion of fruit salad and put it on the ground. Xiao Ming ran out to call friends, and ran in with the little yellow mouse family to enjoy the feast together.

For the little yellow squirrel family. Qin Shiou has a headache, these little guys are very well-behaved and cute, but they have a hobby that makes people depressed, that is, making holes.

The little yellow rats are full of holes in the fishing grounds, and the geese will sink into the sole of their feet from time to time, and the goose body is fat and heavy, and the inertia is large, so it is easy to break the legs and feet.

Qin Shiou couldn't deal with this problem, so he had to put it in the back of his mind first, lie side by side with Xiong Da under the maple tree, and put the Seagod Consciousness into the fishing grounds.

This year, the fishing grounds are more lively, and the high-quality seaweed attracts more fish, and some small fish are hatched in the fishery, and they do not return to the deep sea like their parents and ancestors, but stay in the fishing grounds, such as capelines.

Capelin fish are strange by nature, they come ashore to lay eggs, the small fish hatch and are carried back to the sea by the waves, and then the main force will go into the deep sea, but some of them will for some reason cruise into the river and become freshwater fish.

After the last time the capelin spawned on the shores of the fishing grounds, the waves swept in and carried the fertilized eggs of the fish into the water, which had already hatched, and now after two or three months, the small fish have developed into adults.

This is the change of the fishing ground to the capelin, the normal growth of the capelin is relatively slow, it takes at least half a year to grow from small fry to adult, if it is in the cold deep sea, it takes more than eight months, but in the fishing ground, the time is shortened by more than half.

Of course, even if the capelin is mature, it is only seven or eight centimeters long.

Qin Shiou welcomes capelin to stay, because of its small size and average economic value, it is not that it has no nutrition, but it is not easy to catch, and the catch is small, except for the annual breeding time, it is difficult to find a school of capelin.

However, according to the Canadian Fisheries Act, no fish, even the spiny mackerel and the North American banned mackerel, are not allowed to be caught during breeding.

In this way, the fish is too small and the fishing net mesh is small, but for deep-sea fishing boats, they do not carry small mesh fishing nets on board, so it happens that capelin lives in the deep sea, so it is difficult to raise the catch of capelin.

But for fisheries, capelin is a very suitable benthic food chain organism, they are easy to carry fish roe, it is a delicacy in the mouth of all carnivorous fish, rich in nutrients, more suitable than herring and mackerel as bait for cod, salmon and tuna.

In order to protect these capelin fish, Qin Shiou had to gather them together and then instill them with Seagod energy in a unified manner.

In addition, he selected a group of fish to live in the estuary of the Kambalshan River, because the current here is turbulent, and the large fish will not approach, even if they come, they are not afraid, and the capelin can migrate into the freshwater river for refuge.

Instilled the energy of the sea god into the capelin fish he encountered, Qin Shiou went to the sea area at the mouth of the sea to take a look, and found that there was something wrong with this look.

Capelin is so delicious that it attracts a large school of pipefish!

As the name suggests, the pipefish is a fish with a pointed mouth, and there are many fish in the ocean that are given this name, but in Newfoundland, this name refers to a specific fish, that is, the crocodile fork-tailed crane.

The name of the fish comes from their peculiar mouth shape, the upper palate is short and triangular, and the lower palate is super long like a needle, generally inhabiting the middle and pelagic layers of offshore and estuary, and can also enter fresh water, mainly eating green algae, plankton and small crustaceans and other animals.

Most squids are relatively short, but the crocodile fork-tailed crane is an outlier, able to grow up to one and a half meters, and they have a very fierce temperament, which can be called the 'eel' of the ocean, with similar appearance, personality and predation methods.

For a variety of reasons, capelin fish are the most popular food, so when schools of pipefish appear in the waters of the estuary, the schools of capelin are dangerous. (To be continued......)