Time passes quietly.
Chen Qingsheng felt that it was almost done, "Captain, can we close the net now?"
Xiang Yang nodded. He felt that it was about enough and there was no point in dragging the net as long as possible.
With Xiang Yang's order, the fishing net was quickly pulled up and a large bag of sea fish was dragged out of the sea.
After untying the fishing net, Chen Qingsheng led his men to use harpoons to dig out the sea fish.
"Yes, the harvest of this net is quite good. Most of them are dock fish. There are not many squids and octopuses, but there are also quite a few saury and sardines. I made a profit from this net." Xu Fang said excitedly.
Xiang Yang smiled. They were all not very valuable sea fish, but they were also very popular sea fish. This catch could be considered a good harvest.
Xiang Yang ordered that the bamboo saury, dock fish and the like be stored in frozen warehouses, and the rest be processed into fish meal, canned food and fish balls.
"Huh? What is this?" Xiang Yang suddenly narrowed his eyes and saw the tails of two large gray-black fish.
"It turns out to be salmon." Xiang Yang rushed over, dragged the two fish out of the school of fish, and immediately smiled with excitement.
Salmon are carnivorous fish. They are ferocious by nature and survive by preying on other fish when they arrive in the sea.
Salmon is large and fat, with delicious meat. It can be eaten fresh, or processed into gelatin, smoked, or canned, all of which have a special flavor. The salted fish roe, the famous "red seeds", has high nutritional value and enjoys a high reputation in the international market.
In the past, salmon was a very famous export variety. As Chinese people generally could not afford such precious seafood, it was exported to foreign countries from Liaoning and Heilongjiang.
In the past decade or so, the domestic economy has been changing with each passing day, and people's consumption levels have risen by countless levels. Today, salmon is considered a very famous dish in China.
"Salmon is a very precious large economic fish. Look around to see if there are any salmon left. If there are, put them all in the live water tank." Xiang Yang shouted loudly.
The largest salmon can grow to over 6.5 kilograms. It is extremely rich in fat and has delicious meat. Its roe is one of the most precious aquatic products in Northeast my country and has high nutritional value.
They have many nicknames, such as "Northern trout", "hunchback fish", "ma cake fish", "maha fish" and so on.
The two salmon discovered by Xiang Yang are both adults, more than one meter long, with relatively flat, spindle-shaped bodies, relatively large mouths, and upper jaws extending to the back of the eyes, which are also very large. The back is yellow-green and the abdomen is silvery white. At first glance, it looks like an obese grass carp.
Speaking of salmon, there is one thing that is worth mentioning.
When salmon are born, they live in freshwater rivers, but there is a shortage of food in freshwater rivers. In order to find food and reproduce, salmon have to swim downstream and into the ocean to find food and grow.
There is abundant food in the ocean, and only the ocean can feed salmon.
However, the long years have not allowed salmon to fully adapt to life in the ocean. As salmon grow older and mature, their homesickness becomes stronger and stronger.
When it is time to reproduce, salmon will return to their hometown to raise their children no matter how far they are away from their birthplace, because young salmon cannot leave the nourishment of their hometown.
Salmon that have lived in the ocean for four or five years will embark on the most spectacular migration journey on the planet.
Adult salmon have to go through a lot of hardships and it may take months or even a year to return home.
Whenever salmon migrate, schools of salmon cross the ocean, leap over waterfalls, cross the vast ocean, swim into inland rivers, and begin their journey towards their goals.
They have an extraordinary sense of smell and can distinguish the water from their native river among millions of liters of seawater.
The salmon's journey home is long and full of hardships, and they have to pass through meter-high waterfalls and other obstacles along the way.
How salmon cross the vast ocean and return accurately to their birthplace remains a mystery.
After research, biologists discovered that there is a kind of iron particles in the salmon's brain that can help the salmon find the direction accurately like a compass.
Scientists have discovered that when salmon first start their migration, they are plump, have fair skin, are full of energy, and swim very fast, able to travel 40 kilometers upstream a day and night.
When salmon migrate to rivers, their kidneys and other organs have to adapt to the sudden salt-deficient environment due to the sudden contact with fresh water.
This is a life-and-death test for salmon.
Generally speaking, salmon will stop eating or even drinking water after entering rivers. They will struggle to rush upstream, relying on the energy stored in their bodies.
When swimming upstream in rivers, salmon will encounter many high-drop currents, such as waterfalls.
At this time, the salmon will jump over, which is an ability that the salmon has acquired after six million years of evolution.
The maximum jumping ability of salmon is over a 4-story building, which is incredible.
Xiang Yang once watched a precious documentary video.
There is a small river in the forest.
Two big grizzly bears lay on their stomachs upstream of the stream, stretching their heads above the waterfall. Countless salmon jumped from under the waterfall to upstream of the stream, and were then caught in the mouths of the two grizzly bears.
Of course, the two grizzly bears were not trying to be good and help the salmon return home; they were simply hungry.
The taste of salmon after migration is far inferior to that of salmon in the ocean, and the price of the two is also very different.
Because once migratory salmon enter freshwater areas, they have to stop eating.
After they have traveled for who knows how many days and nights and gone through untold hardships, they finally return to their long-lost hometown.
The hungry and cold salmon will become dull and lifeless, with their backs protruding like camel humps, their lower jaws turning inward into hooks, and their large and long teeth exposed, presenting a ferocious face. Such salmon, even if they are wild, usually only cost a few dozen yuan per pound.
"Is salmon valuable?" Fang Youqun was holding a salmon, confused. "This fish seems to be very famous. I've seen it in the supermarket. It's only 20 to 30 yuan per pound."
"That's farmed, there's no astaxanthin in it." Xiang Yang smiled, "There are four types of salmon. One is farmed, and this type of salmon is the least valuable. The second type is the salmon that migrates into rivers. This type of salmon is skinny and also not very valuable. The third type is baby salmon, which is strictly prohibited from being caught. Only the salmon that grow up in the ocean are the most valuable."