Chapter 296: The Lagoon Sea

Speaking of engaging in seafood, Zhou Sheng came to the spirit in an instant.

Chen Yuan launched the fishing boat, took a look at it, and went straight to the Nono Atoll.

The closest to them is Tapiwa Island, which seems to be only 6.5 square kilometers, which is a small island with no atolls.

And then there's Nono Atoll.

Speaking of atolls, the situation here is similar to that of Butari, with only half of the atoll left, which used to be a lagoon and is now a lagoon.

The area of the Nono environment is also relatively large, with some small uninhabited islands.

The countdown to the fishing season is now begins, and Chen Yuan's two boats on their side carry enough diesel. Now they also make a lot of money, and at the last time, there is no need to borrow oil.

Away from the fishing boat, Chen Yuan directly turned on the three engines and pushed the throttle stick to the top.

The furious sound of the three engines, the super thrust, and the big white bow were cocked, as if flying against the sea.

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The Great White passed by, leaving a long white trail on the surface of the sea.

Zhou Sheng howled excitedly: "Cool." ”

Yang Xun and the others had just gone to sleep, and as the engine roared, the two were woken up again.

He Fei looked at Yang Xun with a loveless face: "What are they doing?" ”

"Let's start looking for fish." Yang Xun said: "It's really annoying to work the night shift. ”

He Fei laughed twice: "Hold on a little longer, there are still twenty days." ”

"Nineteen days."

"Okay...... Nineteen days to go. ”

After the two were woken up, they couldn't sleep.

"No smoking." He Fei asked.

"Pump."

The fishing boat bedroom has a convulsion, and in the bedroom, there is no problem with smoking one occasionally.

As soon as the cigarette was lit, the fishing boat hit the surge, and Yang Xun almost bounced in the cabin.

Dabai ran to 54 knots, which is 100 kilometers per hour. This speed is also very fast on land. At sea, there are not many speedboats that can run up to 54 knots, let alone yachts of more than ten meters.

"Happy no." Da Bai ran up, the huge, blood-boiling engine roared, Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Sheng, and said loudly.

"Happy." Zhou Sheng laughed.

"We are happy, Yang Xun and they are estimated to suffer again."

Zhou Sheng laughed twice, and saw Chen Yuan lower the throttle lever, switch to high-speed cruise mode, and try to stabilize the fishing boat.

That is, more than half an hour, Chen Yuan and the others came to the north of Nuno Atoll.

Nono Atoll is a coral atoll where the main body of the reef is made up of polyps.

The polyp is a coelenterate in the ocean, which feeds on the small plankton in the ocean, and can absorb calcium and carbon dioxide from the seawater as it grows, and then secrete limestone, which becomes its own shell.

Polyps, the small organisms that make up coral reefs, contain a photosynthetic algae called zooxanthellae. When the algae component is absent due to rising sea temperature or other stressors, the coral will lose its own color and produce the phenomenon of "bleaching", and drifting will inhibit the growth of the coral, which will form a variety of colorful coral reefs, constituting the most colorful and pure coral sea.

In the Midwestern Pacific Ocean, there are many similar atolls.

Chen Yuan found a sandy seabed and stopped the boat, Zhou Sheng went out to anchor, looked at Chen Yuan and made an OK gesture.

Chen Yuan also replied with an ok gesture, turned off the engine, went into the cabin and took the jellyfish suit, fins, and diving goggles. ”

He Fei also poked his head out: "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, we're coming to the atoll, diving and getting some snacks." Chen Yuan took the net bag and speargun again: "You sleep, Zhou Sheng and I went diving." ”

"I want to go diving too." He Fei said.

"If you're not sleepy, let's go together." Chen Yuan said with a smile.

"Forget it, sleep. I didn't close my eyes all night......" Yang Xun shook his head.

Chen Yuan went outside, changed his clothes, put on his equipment, and straddled the net pocket around his waist: "Let's go." ”

"Let's go."

The two came to the stern of the boat and jumped down one of them.

The water here is four or five meters deep, and below it is white coarse sand. These coarse sands should be limestone grains, which are polyp shell material. However, it is washed by seawater and forms particles.

The water is crystal clear.

The temperature of the sea here is also very comfortable, Chen Yuan swings his flippers, and soon comes to the coral reef area.

Colorful coral reefs, schools of small fish, and the occasional sight of big fish.

The water depth here is only six or seven meters, but you can see bonito, so you can see the number of skipjack tuna in the Gilbert Islands today.

Zhou Sheng held a speargun, and when Chen Yuan hadn't seen his prey, he stabbed it out. More than two meters away, it hit a red octopus......

This octopus is not big, two or three catties.

This red octopus can grow more than ten catties, twenty catties, or even bigger. Two or three pounds of octopus is still a baby.

Zhou Sheng smiled and accepted the seafood.

Chen Yuan dived to the top of the coral reef, picking up the coral rocks, looking for prey in the coral crevices.

There are abundant resources here, lobsters, crabs, hidden fish in the coral crevices, and so on.

In a few minutes, Chen Yuan saw a lobster with a thick wrist, slowly stretched out his hand, accelerated as he approached quickly, and grabbed the lobster.

A lobster with a wrist is as strong as it struggles. However, in Chen Yuan's hands, no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't escape Chen Yuan's palm.

After catching two lobsters in a row, Chen Yuan saw a strange stone with a gap......

Chen Yuan easily broke it off, looked at Zhou Sheng and waved his hand.

Zhou Sheng hurriedly swam over, looked at the thing in Chen Yuan's hand, grinned, and waved his hand.

This is a type of clam that looks like a stone. How to describe it, it looks eight or nine points similar to the Luo pot clam......

Luo pot clams are also rare in China, and there should not be many people who have seen them. This kind of clam looks very large, but there is very little meat inside.

This kind of clam, Chen Yuan is not familiar with them, and they don't know if they can eat it.

Zhou Sheng waved his hand, which meant that it was lost.

This kind of clam, which resembles a stone, is small in number, but it is widely distributed. You can eat it, but how to say it, it's not good to be less. The meat is very old, it looks big, but there is no meat.

I lost the stone clams, and I saw some seaweed not far ahead.

There is seaweed, usually sea urchins, and some seaweed-fed conchs.

Chen Yuan swam over, and the clear water was almost transparent.

Diving in such a sea is a great pleasure.

On vacation in Butari before, Chen Yuan just went to swim in the sea for a while and did not go diving.

Speaking of which, Chen Yuan hasn't dived for a long time, and he is free in the water......

There are quite a few sea urchins here, all of which are black and have long spines. Some sea urchins are quite large, but sea urchins are delicious when they are used to steam eggs.

Eating raw sea urchins, Chen Yuan doesn't like it very much.

"Woo woo......" Zhou Sheng made a sound.

Chen Yuan swam over and saw Zhou Sheng holding a giant clam in his hand, so he could hold it with both hands.

Speaking of giant clams, not many people should know about it, but it also has another name, clams.

Tridacnus, a marine animal of the phylum mollusk and bivalves, has a total of 9 species in 1 family, 2 genera, and is the largest bivalve shellfish in the ocean, known as the "king of shellfish", with a maximum body length of more than 1 meter and a weight of more than 300 kilograms.

The clams that Zhou Sheng held in his hand, the scientific name is long clams, which spread throughout the Indo-Pacific Ocean, as far as southern Japan and south to the Great Barrier Reef. In the west, from East Africa and the Red Sea to Pitcairn Island in the eastern Pacific Ocean and eastern Polynesia. Includes the Hawaiian Islands, Tonga, Samoa, and the French Polynesian Islands...... Both.

The giant clam is the most widespread and abundant giant clam and is also an aquaculture species used for marine trade.

Of course, the clams are also protected animals in China. But in many places abroad, this is a delicacy.