The two humpback whales chased the fishing boat for a while before finally leaving. A group of people gathered on the deck and started to eat dinner. The dinner was still the delicious fish, but since they had just encountered the whales, it was clear that no one was thinking about the food.
"Brother Yang, look at this." Fang Youqun took his mobile phone and moved in front of Xiang Yang and opened a video to show Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang took a look and saw that it was a video of himself playing with the two humpback whales. There was also a video of himself helping the two humpback whales clean barnacles, and a video of the two humpback whales jumping out of the water and playing on their backs behind the fishing boat.
"Hey, this is a good shot, right?" Fang Youqun was about to put away his phone after showing it to Xiang Yang.
"Give me a copy of these videos." Xiang Yang said without hesitation.
"Brother Yang also thinks that these videos should be kept as a commemoration, right?" Fang Youqun nodded without thinking too much, and directly copied a copy of the video and sent it to Xiang Yang's mobile phone.
Xiang Yang did have the idea of leaving a copy as a commemoration, but he wanted more to share these precious ocean documents, just like the various precious documents about the ocean left by his predecessors.
He logged back into several well-known domestic marine forums that he hadn't logged into since graduating from college and uploaded the original video.
A few minutes later, these videos were read and forwarded a lot, the attention and popularity of the videos soared, and gradually more and more comments appeared.
"Fuck, Whale Rider!"
"A captain and his crew climbed up the humpback mountain!"
“I didn’t expect humpback whales to be so docile and obedient in the sea, and actually let people climb on them in the sea.”
"They're domesticated, right? Wild whales would have swallowed them whole long ago."
"Who has brains upstairs? Why don't you raise a whale for me? Not only can a humpback whale's mouth be too big and its throat be too small to swallow a human, but humpback whales are also very friendly to most mammals and often play with divers under the sea."
"This video is definitely a composite, if it wasn't for me live-streaming a five-speed electric fan."
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Xiang Yang's forum account was constantly receiving private messages. Some expressed curiosity, some expressed envy, and some wanted to ask about the current situation of the two humpback whales. Of course, more people questioned whether the video was synthesized.
The video shows what happened to the two humpback whales in the end. Those who understand will naturally know whether the video is synthesized, but Xiang Yang doesn't have the time to explain to those who don't understand.
Ignoring no one, Xiang Yang kept refreshing the screen with his fingers, and each time he refreshed the screen, several new comments would appear. Xiang Yang wanted to see if there were any people who were interested in barnacles among so many people.
Seeing the popularity continue to rise, Xiang Yang has keenly realized that this may be an opportunity for him. He split the original video into several short videos, focusing on the close-ups of himself collecting barnacles, and finally put all the split videos on a short video application software.
After doing all this, Xiang Yang opened a shop on the app. There was only one product in the shop: barnacles, priced at 2,000 yuan per catty, with a total of 200 catties, and they would be sold out while stocks last.
The group of crew members surrounding Xiang Yang were all shocked by Xiang Yang's price.
"Xiaoyang, these barnacles are not worth the price." He Mingde reminded.
"I know, but I'm selling it retail, so the price has to be this." Xiang Yang had no intention of changing the price. Selling online was just a whim for Xiang Yang. If someone buys, it's actually quite inconvenient to ship one or two kilograms at a time. If no one buys, it doesn't matter. It's an attempt at a new shipping channel. Anyway, Xiang Yang won't lower the price by a dime.
After doing all this, Xiang Yang and others began to prepare for night fishing.
"Everything is ready. We will turn on the fish attracting lights and then drop the nets after the boat has sailed slowly for a distance. We will take a break after catching the last two nets today." Xiang Yang said.
"Captain, I'll go to the operation room first." Xu Fang pretended to put out his cigarette butt and stood up.
"Yeah." Xiang Yang nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, Master Xu."
Xu Fang waved his hand indifferently. Compared with his previous experience of sailing day and night in two shifts in another fleet, his life was really relaxed now.
Soon, the fishing boat slowed down and entered a slow-speed sailing state.
The moon on the sea is very round tonight, and the moonlight shines on the sea, making silver waves.
Uncle Xiang controlled the power system. He first turned on the four large detection lights on both sides of the fishing boat to illuminate the surrounding sea area, and then turned on the green fish-attracting lights under the fishing boat.
A green light emanated from the bottom of the sea, dyeing the surrounding sea area as beautiful as an emerald.
"Turn off the searchlight and turn on the fish attracting light." Xiang Yang shouted.
Immediately, the snow-white light of the four large searchlights dimmed, and dozens of relatively dim fish-attracting lights were lit on the boat.
These fish-attracting lights are colorful, decorating the entire fishing boat like a flower boat.
On the vast ocean, a gorgeous flower boat is sailing under the moonlight. It is really a very beautiful picture.
The working principle of fish attracting is to utilize the characteristic of fish to produce directional behavioral response to light stimulation. The directional behavior towards the light source is called positive phototaxis, and the behavior away from the light source is called negative phototaxis.
Many fish are positively phototactic, such as saury, sardines, fat-eyed herring, roundtail, mackerel, horse mackerel, spotted kingfish, silverside, needlefish, and cod.
There are many hypotheses about the response of fish to light stimulation, including curiosity, foraging clustering, conditioned reflex, forced movement, confusion and instinct.
The phototaxis process of fish can be roughly divided into two stages. The first stage is that after the fish is stimulated by light, they swim close to the light source.
The second stage is when the fish remain and swim under the light source.
However, after a period of time, phototactic fish will swim away from the light source due to adaptation to the light, fatigue, and environmental changes.
Fish with strong phototaxis are generally those that tend to group together, such as sardines, horse mackerel, mackerel, saury, and sand eel.
Generally, fishes cluster together for defense and foraging at night. On the contrary, some fierce predators usually have negative phototaxis because the strong light will affect their silent hunting.
Soon Xiang Yang and his companions saw a lot of sea fish swimming under the deck, which was emitting a green glow, from the side of the ship.
The light from the fish-attracting lamp and the light reflected from the smooth scales of the marine fish seem to be competing with each other.
"Can you see clearly what kind of fish it is?" Xiang Chen asked in a low voice while lying on the side of the boat.
"The light is too dim to see clearly."
"I just saw that it seemed to be very long."
"If you want to know what kind of fish it is, you can find out once you catch it. Okay, stop clinging to the side of the boat and get ready. Master Zhou is going to cast the net." Xiang Yang shouted to everyone.