Chapter 136: The Feast of Hunting in the Ocean II
Under the sparkling sea, they swim at high speed like flowing rainbows, and everyone is fascinated by them.
"Ghost Head Knife!" Li Yongmin, who was standing on the side of the boat, was the first to recognize these colorful fish.
The scientific name of the devil's head knife is loach, which is a fish widely distributed in the warm waters of various oceans, and is distributed in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea.
The reason why it is called the ghost head knife is because its head is very large, but the back is narrowed back, the body is extended back and very flat, like a gate knife, and the fish face is a little like a ghost head, so fishermen often call them ghost head knives.
Adult loaches are generally more than one meter long, the longest can reach more than two meters, and weigh more than 30 kilograms.
Loaches are gluttonous by nature, and like to chase sardines and flying fish with their fierce speed (up to 60 km/h), and then feast on their own in the panic of the flying fish and sardines.
The loach is also a very cute-looking fish, with a big head, a small flat mouth, and an aggrieved and loveless image of a big-headed doll.
But that's not the most impressive thing about the loach.
The most memorable thing about the loach is that it is full of brilliant colors, set of golden, bright blue, emerald green in one, really like wearing a layer of colorful xia clothes as gorgeous, colorful, unforgettable.
The colorful loach is one of the most colorful fish in the ocean!
The whole body of the loach is covered with small round scales, the entire back is fluorescent greenish-brown, the belly is lemon-colored, and the sides of the body are scattered with many small blue dots, like stars in the sky.
Females are mostly bright blue-blue, with stripes of different shades, and the color is intense but extremely transparent.
It seems that nature has given all the colors of its collection to the loach.
For example, the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway and the British poet Byron have praised this brilliant color on the loach.
If you have watched the movie "Life of Pi", you will definitely be impressed by a scene in the movie: the hungry boy is holding tears while beating the head of the big fish in the fishing net, and the body of the big fish gradually becomes dark with the passage of life.
This is not specially rendered by the director for the sake of cinematic effects, this is the real state of the loach.
Life is like the splendor of summer flowers, and death is like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves.
Nature is so amazing that all the beautiful colors of this loach only appear when the loach is alive in the sea.
Once they come out of the water and die, the thin scales on their bodies seem to have been drained of their vitality, slowly turning purple and black, dark and dull, and finally all the brilliant colors will fade, leaving only a black and gray, as if this is the color of death.
In addition, the loach has multiple nicknames, such as "Voldemort of the Sea", because the loach is very good at using the terrain or floating objects in the ocean to hide itself and then launch a surprise attack on its prey.
It's not like some of Voldemort's players in the chicken game.
In addition, the loach is also known as the "fox of the sea", mainly because once they are hunted by natural predators such as dolphins, they will also use the means of playing dead to deceive the enemy.
In addition, the loach is also one of the six fish that anglers are most eager to conquer. Every angler who catches it can't help but hold it for the first time to take pictures and record the glorious moments of his fishing career.
Li Xiaofeng drove the fishing boat, constantly accelerating, and met it at high speed in the direction where the flying fish fled, and the trawl net under the surface of the water followed behind the fishing boat, like a huge swimming snake.
At this time, on the sea, the oncoming flying fish leaped up, like a rain of arrows, shooting towards the fishing boat.
In a short time, the deck was full of flying fish, and the crew members who had just hid next to them only needed to take a large fader, push them directly together, and collect them.
And that's just on the surface of the sea, and beneath the surface there are even larger, thick walls of flying fish, which are swallowed directly by trawls.
Of course, it is not only the flying fish that are swallowed into the trawl, but also the various fish that follow closely behind the school of flying fish to prey.
Like loaches, sea wolves, dolphins......
Although some fish may swim faster than fishing boats, once they are in the trawl, it is not easy to come out, because there are many inverted whiskers in the trawl, no matter how many pieces you swim in, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.
Li Xiaofeng, who was staring at the map, couldn't help but smile with satisfaction on his face when he saw that more than half of the flying fish and all kinds of fish that followed the predation were pulled into the trawl net.
Haha, it's another bumper harvest, but today it's also a robbery!
The fishing boat dragged forward a few more kilometers, and Li Xiaofeng informed the crew on deck that they were ready to start collecting the nets.
Li Yongmin started the net winding machine, and then under the action of the huge rotational pull of the net winding machine, the trawl was dragged out of the sea little by little and dragged to the boat like a long dragon that had been fed.
The huge trawl nets that have surfaced are bulging with all kinds of fish.
The whole trawl is also like a huge snake that has eaten up.
Fortunately today, although the net reel is a little difficult, this time there is no situation like the last time I encountered a school of fish, the net reel could not drag the fishing net.
Seeing that the huge trawl net was gradually being pulled out of the water, Li Xiaofeng also began to slowly slow down the fishing boat.
Finally, when the trawl was completely pulled out of the water, all the crew members on deck cheered again when they looked at the huge trawl filled with all kinds of fish.
It is a kind of harvest joy, the joy of bursting the net, although most of the net is flying fish, which is not valuable.
Li Xiaofeng, who was in the cockpit, saw all this through the surveillance, and his face couldn't help but smile.
What Li Xiaofeng didn't know was that as they dragged away most of the flying fish and various predators in one net, the previous hunting feast in the ocean slowly came to an end.
There are no flying fish chased by predators, and there is no longer a need to jump out of the sea to avoid the pursuit of predators, and the seabirds in the air see that there is no advantage to take advantage of, and they gradually disperse.
This may be the law of survival in the ocean, so it is really hard to say whether Li Xiaofeng's behavior just now harmed this group of flying fish or saved them.
After stopping the fishing boat, Li Xiaofeng also came to the back deck of the fishing boat, and he also planned to see the rainbow in the ocean with his own eyes.
As Li Xiaoliang untied the trawl, the fish in the trawl rushed into the chute at the stern of the fishing boat like a flood out of the gate, and more than a dozen colorful loaches also followed the school of flying fish and flowed in.