Chapter 206: A Pot of Hairtail Fish That Can't Be Stewed
Looking back at the past, there was a torrential rain on one side of the sea, and a clear sky on the other, and two almost diametrically opposed weather appeared on this sea at the same time.
When everyone saw this amazing scene, they couldn't help but marvel at the magic of nature.
Since the location where the fishing boat docked last night was not far from the Diaoyutai waters, by about one o'clock in the afternoon, they had already crossed the narrow waters of the Diaoyutai Sea and came to the vicinity of the deep Okinawa Trough.
It's already on the edge of the continental shelf, and there's going to be a huge jump in the depth of the ocean.
For example, the depth of the sea near the Diaoyutai is usually about 140-180 meters, but the depth of the Okinawa Trough next to it can reach 2,000 meters.
Once here, there was no way to continue driving ahead.
The fishing boat went around in a circle and returned to the waters of Diaoyutai, and Li Xiaofeng also informed the third uncle to start netting at this time.
They dragged this net for five or six hours, which is already a relatively long time off the net, and everyone is full of expectations for this.
Li Yongmin, who received the notice, also stepped forward with great anticipation to start the net winding machine.
The trawl is also under the pull of the net winder, the rope is tightened, and the trawl begins to slowly surface.
But after a while, the winding machine began to make a difficult sound, which couldn't help but make Li Yongmin, who was standing nearby, happy and nervous.
However, although the net winding machine was very difficult to run, it finally dragged the entire trawl to the deck smoothly.
As expected, the trawl was stuffed with all sorts of catches, which should have weighed more than twenty tons.
But what was different today was that after seeing the catch of the fish, there was indeed no joy of a good harvest on the deck, and some of the crew members even exclaimed as if they had seen something terrible.
This couldn't help but make Han Minghua, who had just taken over the fishing boat, feel a little strange, and he asked Li Xiaofeng next to him, "Fifth brother, what's wrong with everyone? Everyone was shocked if they caught something valuable."
In fact, it's not just a shock now, everyone is already in a state of shock.
"You set the fishing boat to autopilot, let's take a look at it together, and we'll know why!" Li Xiaofeng, who knew this, said with a smile.
"Okay, Fifth Brother!" Han Minghua replied as he set the fishing boat to autopilot.
After that, the two of them got out of the cockpit together and came to the trawl.
At this time, Li Xiaoliang, who was a little distracted next to the trawl, saw Li Xiaofeng coming, as if he had met the backbone.
grabbed Li Xiaofeng's arm with one hand, pointed to the trawl with the other hand tremblingly and said to Li Xiaofeng, "Brother Feng, look, there is a sea monster pulled up in the trawl!"
"This must be a sea serpent!" Li Yongmin, who was next to him, had just come back to his senses and seemed to mumble to himself.
Hearing the words of the two people, Han Minghua suddenly became interested, and hurriedly looked in the direction of Li Xiaoliang's finger.
After reading it, he was also stunned!
I saw that in the trawl at this time, there was a monster that was six or seven meters long, with a flat body and a red horse's mane on its head.
It looks like a huge sea snake and a hairtail fish that has been magnified many times, and it seems to exude the breath of a fierce beast from top to bottom, which makes people shudder when they see it.
Han Minghua now understood the reason why everyone was shocked just now.
Seeing that everyone was scared like this, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but regret a little, he knew that he wouldn't have pulled this big guy into the net.
But now that it's been pulled up, I can only make it clear to you.
He patted Li Xiaoliang, who was still nervous, on the shoulder and said, "Okay, don't be nervous! It's not a sea monster, it's a ribbon fish!"
"Emperor Ribbon Fish?" Li Xiaoliang repeated as if he had just woken up from a dream.
Hearing that this big guy was not a sea monster, but a fish, Li Xiaoliang suddenly recovered his spirits.
He grinned and said, "This fish is so big that it can't be stewed in a pot!"
"What kind of fish is the emperor ribbon fish?" Li Yongmin looked at Li Xiaofeng suspiciously.
Li Xiaofeng explained with a smile, "Third uncle, the emperor ribbon fish is the largest bony fish found in the world, and it is said that the longest emperor ribbon fish can grow to more than 18 meters and weigh more than 1,000 catties!"
"But you're not entirely wrong when you say it's a sea monster or a sea serpent!" Li Xiaofeng continued with a smile, "In the past, when people didn't know about the emperor ribbon fish, when they saw their huge size, they also thought that they were the sea snakes in the ocean, the legendary sea monsters!"
"Is this royal hairtail fish delicious?" Li Xiaoliang said with a smile. Anyway, after he heard that this thing was a fish, he didn't feel scared at all when he looked at it.
"Xiaoliang, don't underestimate it just because it's called the Emperor Ribbon Fish! It's fierce by nature, brutal in character, even more terrifying than ordinary sea snakes!" Li Xiaofeng said solemnly.
This is not Li Xiaofeng's blind fabrication!
As early as the fourth century B.C., Aristotle wrote in his History of Animals: "In Libya the sea serpents are enormous. Sailors who sailed along the coast said that they had been attacked by sea serpents during their voyages."
The sea snake here refers to this deep-sea giant king ribbon fish.
On July 25, 2005, two soldiers of the U.S. Marine Corps, while sailing across the Atlantic, were attacked by a kingtail about 15 meters long.
Hearing that the imperial ribbon fish was more ferocious than the sea snake, the crew members who had just woken up couldn't help but gasp, and Li Xiaoliang quietly took a step back and kept himself away from this imperial ribbon fish.
In fact, Li Xiaofeng still kept a lot of things to say, and the emperor ribbon fish is still called "earthquake fish" in many places.
It is said that an earthquake or tsunami occurs immediately after the appearance of the fish, which has been proven to be nonsense by scientists, but there are still many people who believe that the appearance of the fish is an ominous omen.
Some people even think that the emperor ribbon fish is a kind of "messenger of the devil", don't think that foreigners are not superstitious, in fact, they are superstitious and more stubborn than us.
The Imperial Ribbon Fish is called the "Messenger of the Dragon Palace" on the small day, but looking at the long body of this Imperial Ribbon Fish, the red fins like manes, it seems that it is not uncommon to be mistaken for a dragon.
Since the emperor ribbon fish generally lives in the deep-sea area with a water depth of 200 to 1,000 meters, it is not caught many times, and it can be regarded as a rare deep-sea fish.
This is also the reason why Li Xiaofeng thought about dragging it up, but what he didn't expect was that this weird-looking guy would startle everyone.