"Huh, that's not right." Xiang Yang said suddenly.
"What's wrong?" Chen Qingsheng asked.
Xiang Yang said: "This boatfish seems to be injured and has completely lost the ability to move on the sea."
"Really?" Chen Qingsheng asked suspiciously.
It is not impossible for a sunfish to float on the sea surface and completely lose the ability to move after being injured. On the contrary, such a thing happens to sunfish frequently.
Sunfish are attacked by almost all carnivorous fish in the ocean, and even equally docile sea turtles will occasionally bite them.
So many marine predators prey on sunfish, but of course not all of them can tear open the thick and hard skin of sunfish. Some ferocious marine predators cannot tear open the thick skin of sunfish after biting off its fins, so they will ignore the half-dead sunfish. At this time, the sunfish can only rely on its flat body to float to the surface of the sea like a boat and wait for death to come.
Xiang Yang shook his head, not sure about this matter. After all, the capelin was floating on the water. Although Xiang Yang's eyesight on the water surface was much better than that of ordinary people, it was still much worse than that under the water. He couldn't see clearly whether the capelin was really injured.
However, Xiang Yang was at least 80% sure that the capsized fish was really injured.
Because the sunfish is very timid, it is the kind of sea fish that will run away at the slightest disturbance. There are two humpback whales and a fishing boat here. If this sunfish was not injured, how could it still lie motionless on the sea
In fact, the timidity of the sunfish is not the fault of the sunfish itself, because the swimming speed of the sunfish in the sea is not as fast as that of a Husky that goes into the water for the first time. If they cannot find the enemy first and run away immediately, they will not have to run once they are discovered by the enemy. Ordinary people can catch up with it in the water with just their two arms without the help of any equipment.
"Chiu—"
The Steller's sea eagle let out a low cry, then swooped down and landed on the back of the capsize fish.
The back of the sunfish's head moved, as if it was struggling.
"It's really injured." Chen Qingsheng nodded and confirmed after seeing this scene: "Captain, you are amazing. You can tell that this sunfish is injured from such a distance."
Xiang Yang ignored Chen Qingsheng's flattery and told Chen Qingsheng everything he had analyzed before.
Chen Qingsheng was even more amazed when he heard this. Compared with Xiang Yang, Chen Qingsheng felt that he was the young man who had just graduated from the campus, while Xiang Yang was an old fisherman who had been wandering on the sea for many years.
"It's fine if the fish is eaten by the Steller's sea eagle." Chen Qingsheng said cautiously, "But don't get it on the boat."
Xiang Yang felt it was a pity. A pair of sunfish intestines was very expensive. In ancient times, in some places, a pair of sunfish intestines could even be exchanged for a big fat sheep.
In addition, the skin of the sunfish is considered to be the best raw material for leather.
"Forget it, that stupid eagle got away with it." Although Xiang Yang was the captain and owner of the fishing boat, no one could do anything to him even if he violated everyone's taboo, but Xiang Yang obviously would not let a thorn in the hearts of all the crew members just for a capsized fish.
Soon, Xiang Yang and Chen Qingsheng began to swim back and then dived towards the bottom of the sea.
When Xiang Yang swam to the bottom of the sea, he was stunned. The seabed of this sea was covered with clumps of kelp.
Most people's impression of kelp is that it is gray-green in color. Putting some of it in stewing soup is said to lower cholesterol. It is a popular food that is inexpensive and tastes good.
In fact, kelp is a marine plant with very important economic effects.
Especially in the Yellow Sea region, villagers in many local fishing villages will use nylon ropes to throw kelp down piece by piece. When the kelp is first planted, it is only one foot long. It grows slowly and finally grows to several meters. In some places, the planting area is so large that it covers large tracts of sea.
However, kelp is more than just an economic crop.
Xiang Yang wanted to laugh when he saw the dense clumps of kelp in front of him. He remembered a news report he had read before.
Strategic Deception Bureau... ... No, a comrade from the Strategic Bureau once made a speech, the general meaning of which was that nuclear submarines could not pass through any sea area where kelp grew. Once a nuclear submarine dared to sail to the sea area where kelp grew, the propeller of the nuclear submarine would immediately be entangled by the kelp. Once the kelp entangled the propeller of the nuclear submarine, it would become tighter and tighter, and the nuclear submarine would be ruined. Every time it passed by, it would sink. Kelp is a strategic weapon against nuclear submarines.
When Xiang Yang saw that video, he almost vomited blood.
Damn, that’s too exaggerated, right
kelp
Strategic weapons
Submarine entanglement
When did kelp become a fucking strategic weapon
However, now that Xiang Yang was looking at the clumps of kelp growing at an astonishing rate in front of him, he felt that the story of kelp wrapped around a submarine might not be a joke.
In fact, there are historical cases of kelp entangled in submarines. Although Director Zhang is nicknamed the Strategic Deceiver by netizens, everything he says is well-founded and can be verified by cases.
It was also the first time that Xiang Yang saw this legendary "strategic weapon" on the seabed, so naturally he couldn't help but think too far ahead.
But I was really lucky to encounter kelp.
Even though kelp is sold at a cheap price of only a dozen or twenty yuan per pound in the market, and at a more expensive price of only thirty or forty yuan per pound, and those kelps have already been dehydrated and dried, in fact, kelp is far from being as cheap as most people imagine.
Firstly, most of the kelp on the market is kelp thrown by coastal villagers on the beach. This kind of kelp can be regarded as cultivated kelp, which is much cheaper than ordinary pure wild kelp.
Secondly, there are clumps of kelp on the seabed that stretch as far as the eye can see. God knows how much kelp there is in this sea area. Even if it is sold by ton like sand, it will be profitable, let alone by kilogram.
For Xiang Yang, if he could sell these kelp for five yuan per pound, he could make a lot of money, which was even more profitable than catching swimming crabs.
After all, swimming crabs have to be caught one by one, but these kelps grow here, and he just needs to cut them with a knife like cutting grass for pigs, and each one he cuts will weigh at least several kilograms.
Xiang Yang immediately took Chen Qingsheng back to the boat to organize people to collect kelp.
Chen Qingsheng also knew how to do the math. Xiang Yang's fishing boat had a displacement of 207 tons. As long as a 200-ton fishing boat could tow back a hundred tons of kelp, it would make at least one million in profit.
However, collecting kelp is not easy. Firstly, the crew needs to dive to the bottom of the sea to collect it.
Secondly, kelp can even entangle submarines. If a crew member gets entangled in it while collecting kelp, the consequences would be disastrous.