441. The Gulf of St. Lawrence
The fishermen finished their meals and went to sleep in a comfortable mood, while Qin Shiou waited for snowballs and skates to come from the fishing ground, and now he had just bypassed Dale's corner.
The two little guys are now so far away from home for the first time, at most they used to go to the deep sea fifty or sixty kilometers away from the coastline to hunt, and the first time they left home thousands of kilometers, Qin Shiou was worried about what would happen on the road, so he waited for them.
Before leaving, the Bonnet gave him a basin with a pile of slimy stuff in it, which looked disgusting, but it was very valuable, it was the famous Arctic ginseng.
The seabed is not a simple plain terrain, seamounts and reefs can be seen everywhere, so sometimes when trawling, the nets will be dragged to the ground, so that some things attached to the bottom of the sea will be caught, such as sea cucumbers.
But in this case, abalone will not be caught, abalone and sea cucumber are not the same, they cling to the rocks to survive, Canada to catch wild abalone, need to go into the sea manually to pry the harvest.
Unfortunately, Canada does not produce much abalone, and the entire West Coast of the North Atlantic produces very little abalone, and they are not even ranked in the International Marine Fisheries Statistics.
However, in response to the old saying, what is concentrated is the essence, and the Canadian abalone is produced in small quantities, but it is very valuable.
Newfoundland fisheries contain a small amount of B.C. spotted abalone, which is one of the best in the world, because they can only grow in cold, clean waters, which are the most demanding to survive.
Qin Shiou also planned to raise this abalone together when he cultivated Arctic ginseng before, but he couldn't buy abalone fry. Because there is no precedent for successful artificiality, there is no demand for abalone fry among fishermen. If there is no demand, there will be no sales.
In addition, even if it can be farmed. Qin Shiou is not easy to sell, and there are strict regulations in Canada's ** law. BC spotted abalone is a marine conservation aquatic product that is not allowed to be sold commercially.
Again, if there is a demand, there is a sale, if Qin Shiou can really breed this abalone, then contact Butler, and there is a way to sell it.
The government prohibits selling? Wouldn't it be nice to send some money? Wouldn't it be nice to have a little bit of media? What the? Do you think it's illegal to be a bribe?
No, no, for Canada and the United States. There is no bribery and corruption on the government, this is called political investment, this is called financial election.
With the crazy increase in sea cucumber farms in various countries around the sea in recent years, the price of sea cucumber has plummeted, and it has changed from the protagonist of the high-end dinner in the past to the supporting role of the rural wedding banquet.
But this is an ordinary farm, and wild Arctic ginseng has always been expensive, even in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, Canada, which are around the North Atlantic, a ten-centimeter wild Arctic ginseng can sell for hundreds of dollars.
Such a pot of Arctic ginseng. There are more than 50 large and small, that is, four or five thousand yuan.
The fishermen collected these sea cucumbers very carefully, wanting Qin Shiou to sell them for money, but Qin Shiou thought about it now. Just make sea cucumber porridge together and eat it, what to sell, just add food to everyone.
I picked fourteen or fifteen fat sea cucumbers and put them in clean seawater. Qin Shiou input some Seagod energy and went back to sleep.
It was less than six o'clock in the morning. Fishermen get up and get ready to cast their nets or collect shrimp pots.
Qin Shiou went to take a look at the snowballs and ice blades. Well, the two little guys are powerful enough, and with the support of the Poseidon energy, they ran all the way to the Bay of St. Lawrence.
Feeding some Seagod energy into the snowballs and ice blades again, Qin Shiou asked them to swim around the Harvest, but they swam for a while and suddenly stopped.
Qin Shiou thought they had found something, so he went over to look, and this time he made a big discovery: the two little guys were swimming from the depths of the seabed, so that the sea resistance was small, and at this time, on their way, a super big guy appeared.
This large fish is about twelve or thirteen meters long, with a spindle-shaped body and a very thick torso, but no flesh, so it looks quite lean. It has a protrusion on each side of the caudal peduncle, the head is large, slightly flattened, and the whole is tapered, and the snout is short and rounded.
The most representative thing is that this big fish has a very large mouth, and at this time it completely opens its mouth, and the diameter of the large mouth is one and a half meters, as if there is a big hole in the sea.
The snowball and the skate blades were on a rampage, but they almost hit the mouth of the big fish, and they quickly turned around and ran, grinding their teeth as they ran, preparing for a big fight.
As a result, the big fish with its mouth wide open didn't even look at the two of them, maybe glanced at it, but who knows, compared to the big mouth, this guy's eyes are a little small, as if squinting to sleep.
Seeing the frightened appearance of the little guys, Qin Shiou couldn't help laughing, he didn't have to worry after seeing the appearance of this big fish, this fish is a basking shark, the second largest fish in the world.
Don't look at basking sharks with such a big mouth and strong body, in fact, they have a docile temperament, belong to herbivorous fish, mainly eat algae and plankton as the staple food, occasionally eat some squid octopuses and other cephalopods, and have no interest in large animals and fish.
Seeing the basking shark, Qin Shiou moved his mind.
This big fish looks sturdy, but it is actually very suitable for human diving in the sea, they are docile, intelligent, and not easy to move, so it is very suitable to accompany divers into the water.
In addition, this shark is very mysterious. Because of their slow movement and easy to be killed, and because their shark fins are very valuable and have oversized fish livers that occupy a quarter of their body volume, they have been overfished by humans.
The overfishing of the basking shark soon brought the honest basking shark to the brink of extinction, and when it came to the 80s and 90s of the last century, no one found the basking shark for a whole decade, so countries had to declare the fish extinct.
The mystery lies in the fact that in 1998, when the killing of basking sharks was made illegal and countries issued no-fishing notices, they seemed to know that they were protected from being slaughtered indiscriminately, and then slowly appeared......
The Bay of St. Lawrence is one of the places where basking sharks are often seen, and the largest basking shark found in the Bay of St. Lawrence was found in the eighties of the last century.
But since the nineties, no one has found them in the Bay of St. Lawrence, and Qin Shiou was really lucky to encounter this basking shark.
At this time, the basking shark is floating above a large algae field of brown and cyanobacteria, and it sucks the seaweed with its mouth wide open, and swims slowly, looking lazy.
The two little guys are cheap-tempered, just now when they met this big shark, they were so scared that they only hated their father and mother for giving birth to a few pairs of dorsal fins and pelvic fins, and they didn't have time to escape, which would find that people didn't attack, and they wanted to tease people.
The first thing to do was the snowball, and the little white whale thief tried to go up, but the big shark didn't pay attention to it, and was still concentrating on eating the seaweed around it.
The skate blade opened its mouth to show the tiger shark's signature sharp teeth and rushed to the basking shark to demonstrate, and the basking shark looked at it calmly, turned and swam away. (To be continued.)