The reason why Sanders applied to Qin Shiou was because he was worried that there would be another racial outbreak in the process of cultivating glow-in-the-dark sail jellyfish.

Jellyfish have an amazing ability to reproduce, and if you want to breed this thing, you have to guard against a population crisis.

Different jellyfish have different ways of reproduction, but they are all powerful, otherwise they would not have lived on the earth for so long, you must know that in the age of dinosaurs, jellyfish appeared in the ocean, and it has continued until now, and all the creatures of its time have been wiped out, they don't know how many vicissitudes of the earth have been seen, and they are still alive and well......

Qin Shiou has been learning about jellyfish these days, so he understands what Sanders meant, and he said: "You can cultivate, we have leatherback turtles here, and we are not afraid of them breaking out on a small scale." ”

In fact, he has the idea of breeding jellyfish, one to feed leatherback turtles, and the other to see if he can develop new projects, but if he breeds, then he must control the scale, jellyfish outbreaks are indeed not fun.

gave Sanders a research topic, and Qin Shiou used a small fish tank to hold two glow-in-the-dark sail jellyfish to surprise Winnie.

As a result, after thinking about it, he put down the small fish tank again, and it was still night, and he would create a dream world for Winnie to show at night.

Back at the villa, Winnie was entertaining a few people, dressed formally, some with microphones in their hands and cameras at their feet.

Qin Shiou thought it was Guinness World Records, and when he looked closely, he had the logo of Newfoundland Independent Television on them, and it turned out to be TV reporters.

Seeing Qin Shiou, Winnie said, "Oh, that's great. I was about to call you back when a TV station came to interview our fishery. You're here to entertain you. ”

Qin Shiou shook hands with the reporters, and the reporter in charge of the interview explained his intentions. The topic of their interview was the jellyfish disaster, because Qin Shiou was the first to discover the crisis and report it to the Ministry of Fisheries, and his fishing grounds were the least affected, so he was taken seriously by the TV station.

Canadians pay great attention to the building of their own brand, so they are welcome to TV interviews, and if it is a live broadcast and not a post-edit, it is common to see a young man suddenly appear in the camera to steal the scene.

The two sides first negotiated the interview question, and then Qin Shiou took them to the beach.

The reporter looked around, and everywhere he could see was the blue water. Where are there any stranded jellyfish that die? He subconsciously asked, "Your fishing grounds have not suffered from jellyfish disasters?" ”

Qin Shiou smiled and said: "No, it's just that I dealt with it overnight after I found the problem, these jellyfish have been sent to the freezer, and I plan to deal with it later to make fish and shrimp feed and put it into the fishing ground." ”

After the interview, the reporter said that they would publish a special report in the evening, and there would be an interview with him, so he was asked to watch it carefully.

Over dinner, Winnie turned on Newfoundland Independent Television, an important local television station. The status is equivalent to that of satellite TV in China's provinces, and it is not easy to land on special programs here.

At the beginning of the program, the first thing to introduce is the details of this jellyfish disaster.

This time it was not only Newfoundland but also Nova Scotia that was affected. But it was Newfoundland that suffered the most, with strong southeasterly winds blowing jellyfish into the Bay of St. Lawrence in the spring. Now on TV, the bay is full of stranded and dead sail jellyfish.

Originally blue sail jellyfish. It is dehydrated and dies by the sun, and then the body color undergoes a chemical reaction and changes to light black. The snow-white sand turns pale black, and it looks shocking.

Qin Shiou sighed: "Fortunately, we started early, if the beach of our fishing ground becomes like this......"

He shook his head as he spoke, sighing.

After introducing the disaster situation, the program carried out popular science, first introduced the species of jellyfish and their reproduction, and the reproduction problem was explained first.

Jellyfish reproduce through the foot sac, and after their mother sinks to the bottom of the sea, they can move on the attached crops, and as they move, they will split out of the foot sac and stay on it.

Time and conditions permit, these foot sacs can reproduce more polyps, so that after self-replication, even if the mother leaves only tens of thousands of fertilized eggs at the beginning, it will eventually evolve into billions of polyps!

And when the polyp grows further, the baby jellyfish will split out one by one, and the final number will reach tens of billions.

The most awesome of them is a lighthouse jellyfish, which is very small, only five millimeters in size. They grow from small to large, and when they grow to maturity and mate, they do not die, but immediately rejuvenate, become juveniles, and then grow again, which is incredible......

Now many marine scientists in various countries are studying this kind of jellyfish, in the environment with qualified resources, this lighthouse jellyfish can be immortal, and go through the cycle of life again and again, from this point of view, it is like the legendary fire phoenix, this is a mythical beast.

Another thing that is also terrifying is that the polyps of jellyfish are not only numerous, they also become dormant.

That is, when the external conditions are not suitable for reproduction, they can fall into dormancy, up to a hundred years, when the environment is suitable, when they re-move.

But that's not the reason for the explosion of jellyfish populations, even if they are so reproductive, they have only survived in the ocean before, but they can't explode so unscrupulously.

According to the analysis of marine experts invited by the TV station, the causes of the jellyfish outbreak are two, one is the reduction of natural enemies, the other is the greenhouse effect that leads to the idealization of the living environment, and the eutrophication of seawater leads to an abundance of food.

Over the past 60 years, humans have taken 3 billion tonnes of fish from the oceans, all of which are wild animals, not farmed by humans. At the same time, more than 3 billion tons of garbage are discharged into the ocean, so the whole ocean has changed a lot.

In addition, the rapid development of human society, the production of a large number of industrial and domestic garbage, sewage leads to more and more excess nutrients in the ocean, as a result, algae plants are overflowing, red tides, moss is popular, therefore, algae plants provide sufficient food for plankton, plankton multiplication, plankton as a feeder jellyfish, it began to run rampant.

Behind the outbreak of jellyfish is the withering of marine fish stocks. The marine food chain has always been in a pyramid structure, from the lowest level of diatoms and single-celled plants to the top level of large fish and marine mammals, which have been stable for hundreds of millions of years.

However, the explosion of jellyfish populations has led to a rampant raid on plankton, leaving fish without a food source and breaking the marine food chain. That's why fishermen pay so much attention to jellyfish outbreaks.

It may be that for the ocean as a whole, a large number of jellyfish outbreaks in one area have little impact on the whole, but for the farms in that area, it is a disaster.

In the news, the camera keeps cutting from various fishing grounds, the shore is stranded and dead jellyfish, and in the water is a large number of dead fish floating on the surface of the sea with their bellies, and some fishing grounds have just stocked fish fry in the spring, and these fry have all been wiped out! (To be continued......)