439. Here comes the moonfish

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The reason why Sha Kehui judged it to be halibut is because the appearance of this fish is indeed a bit similar to that of halibut, both of which are flat and round, and from the sonar fish finder, this fish is a round spot the size of a coin.

The fish that bites the hook is about a meter long and a meter wide, and unlike the overall white halibut, it has a rusty red body color and white spots all over its body, like an oversized red plate with white flowers.

In addition, the dorsal, pelvic and caudal fins of this fish are a thick brownish-red color, which is very beautiful.

Qin Shiou wanted to catch a big fish from the beginning, so he used a thick line, so that although the fish was full of vitality after biting the hook, it couldn't get rid of it if it wanted to, so he could only pull the fishing line and drill into the water.

Qin Shiou pressed the wheel seat and the big fish had a tug-of-war, about two or three minutes later, the big fish began to exert force, he let go of the wheel seat and let it continue to drill into the water, and when it drilled smoothly, Qin Shiou immediately pressed the wheel seat and came to tug of war with it again.

After a while, the big fish was a little tired, and it was Qin Shiou's turn to exert his strength.

After a few temptations, Qin Shiou directly began to quickly reel in the line, caught the big fish off guard, and directly lifted it out of the water.

Under the setting sun, the scales of this fish reflect the golden red light, which has a bewitching beauty.

"Whew! Moonfish! The group of fishermen watching from the aft deck suddenly screamed excitedly.

Qin Shiou also had a smile on his face, he quickly put away the fishing line and dragged the fish to the side of the boat. At this time, the waiting pent took off his pipe, put on gloves and began to lift the string. Quickly fished up the moonfish.

Moonfish is certainly expensive, but it is for fishermen. The spiritual symbolism is much greater than the actual value.

Fishermen in the North Atlantic have a saying that if you go out to sea and catch a moonfish. Then you will definitely have good luck this time, and you will definitely gain a lot. So sometimes, the moonfish is also called the luck fish.

Ordinary moon fish has a length of more than 20 centimeters, this kind of fish is not a luck fish, it can be called a luck fish, it is the big fish that Qin Shiou caught, a big guy more than one meter long and a hundred kilograms!

Seeing Qin Shiou catch the moonfish in this way, the fishermen, who already had strong confidence in going to sea, became more confident, and they took pictures together with the moonfish in the middle. Then start processing the fish.

Qin Shiou didn't want to sell this moonfish, he had other ideas, so he asked Shaq and the smoking gun to find a way to make a specimen and preserve it.

In addition to representing luck, the moonfish also has the title of 'only', that is, it is the only homeothermic fish in the deep sea.

It has long been believed that except for birds and mammals, which are homeotherms, all other animals in nature, especially fish, are ectotherms. But moonfish are the exception.

According to research, moonfish are able to maintain body temperature through blood circulation throughout the body, so as to maintain vitality when hunting in the cold deep sea.

Because, the blood vessels of the moonfish are located inside the gills of the fish. And not inside the muscles that fish use to swim. This means that when the moonfish waves its pectoral fins to generate heat, the heated blood "travels" all over the body. It doesn't cool down quickly by the water temperature.

In addition, the gills of the fish are cold blood. They are also able to generate heat when exchanging oxygen with water due to this characteristic of them. In engineering, a research topic called countercurrent heat exchange was born.

After harvesting this moon fish, Qin Shiou and his party became even happier, and the bull said with great interest: "I said guys, will we meet a group of bluefin tuna?" There used to be a lot of tuna in the Bay of St. Lawrence! ”

"Don't talk about bluefin tuna, if you can meet a school of fish, it's bigeye tuna, and masu tuna is even better. Of course, it's not bad to meet yellowfin tuna, isn't it? A fisherman laughed.

If you come across a school of tuna, it's cool, and once you catch twenty or thirty of them, each of them can get thirty or forty thousand yuan.

"Let's wait for Boss to look for lobsters, tuna schools are now hard to come by in the Gulf of St. Lawrence." Shaq is undoubtedly more pragmatic.

The harvest went all the way, Qin Shiou drank a belly of coffee, and was stunned that he didn't find the migrating shrimp, which was really helpless.

This situation is normal, and there are probably no less than 200 fishing boats on the way, and even more shrimp cage ball buoys, and sometimes the sea surface is full of balls of different colors.

Shaq tuned the radio to the public channel, he and the smoker and others have acquaintances here, and sometimes the public channel chats and chats and meets people who can be related, what seven aunts, eight aunts, two aunts, four uncles, neighbors, it is very common.

Qin Shiou laughed when he heard them pull the relationship here, he felt that Canadians can be more related than Chinese, and sometimes cats of the same breed can be related.

Shaq and the others chatted over the radio, tentatively asking the fishermen about their catch.

Most of the time, fishermen are very cunning when it comes to their catches, and they want to get the news of their catches from their mouths? That's hard, unless the guy across from you smokes a big maca or gets drunk.

But now, the fishermen were very honest, and when they asked about the lobster harvest, they told the truth: "It sucks, brother, it sucks!" Some time ago, I could harvest hundreds of pounds of lobsters when I went out to sea, but now it's too difficult, my boat is already there, but what do I catch? Twenty lobsters! ”

"It doesn't look good." The bull muttered, but the emotions were still more optimistic, because they were full of confidence in Qin Shiou.

Qin Shiou didn't let them look forward to it in vain, at midnight he casually found a place for the fishermen to throw the shrimp pots down, and then when he came to see it the next morning, he found that there were not many lobsters here, but a group of Atlantic salmon appeared, that is, Atlantic salmon!

Salmon is mostly a freshwater fish that lives in lakes or rivers with clean water, and Atlantic salmon is an outlier among them, which is divided into two types, the land-sealed type that lives in freshwater all its life and the migratory type that enters the ocean as an adult.

There is no doubt that the group of salmon that Qin Shiou encountered was a migratory Atlantic salmon.

The size of Atlantic salmon is not too large, and the adult fish is only about one catty, and two kilograms is the limit, and few grow larger. This kind of fish is selling very well, can be made into fish fillets or fish steaks, rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids, and is quite popular in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

Qin Shiou ordered the net to be cast, and the large trawl of the Harvest fell into the water, and then the fishing boat drove forward and directly caught up with the fish.

After dragging in the sea for more than forty minutes, Sha Ke began to collect the net according to Qin Shiou's instructions, and when the fishing net was opened at the ice hatch, the fishermen were very happy to see these fat fish with either silver blue or red on the body surface:

"Roar! Well done Captain, I'm going to sing you a song about your fish-finding skills! This is Atlantic salmon, how much can it be sold for now? Ten dollars? Fifteen dollars? ”

"Hurry up and clean up, and you can get another net!" Qin Shiou said calmly, and when the words fell, the fishermen immediately started to work with their hands and feet and full horsepower. (To be continued.)