"How many hundreds of meters?" Xiang Yang suddenly realized.
It seems that deep-sea fish that specialize in preying on abalone have appeared in the deep sea area outside the reef.
It is impossible for normal humans, even with the help of diving equipment, to go hundreds of meters underwater to deal with those guys who steal abalone.
No wonder Boss Zhang wants to transfer the contract and use rights of this reef.
"I'll go down and take a look. I'd like to borrow one of your diving suits." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Boss Zhang brought Xiang Yang a set of diving equipment. It was not as advanced as the diving equipment on Xiang Yang's own boat, but it was also made of a gelatin shell and was much more advanced than those on the market. "It's okay to give you a diving suit, but you have to do it according to your ability. If you feel any discomfort underwater, you must come up immediately."
"Don't worry, our General Xiang often dives. From a professional point of view, he is an expert in diving." Wu Shiwen said with a smile.
Soon, Xiang Yang put on his diving equipment and walked towards the coast.
Just got into the water.
The water was indeed very shallow, only reaching Xiang Yang's calves.
He kept walking forward until the water finally reached above Xiang Yang's head.
Although this reef is privately contracted, the previous owner only raised abalone, so it is almost indistinguishable from the natural one.
The scenery at the bottom of the sea is beautiful, with all kinds of beautiful colorful fish swimming around in front of Xiang Yang.
In essence, this is still a purely natural sea area, because most of the marine fish grow naturally.
These marine fish swim freely among various rugged coral reefs.
Xiang Yang swam towards the periphery. The sea water began to deepen rapidly and soon reached a depth of more than 20 meters. The temperature of the sea water here was already extremely low.
Here, Xiang Yang finally saw the abalone.
It’s a net abalone, for sure.
But most of them are thirty or forty small abalones. Such abalone, whether wild or farmed, are not very valuable. If sold wholesale, they may only be a few dollars each. In seafood stores, some people even use these abalone to feed lobsters.
But the number of these abalones is not a small number. They are densely packed everywhere, just like the scallops Xiang Yang saw in other sea areas.
What excites Xiang Yang is that these abalones are very healthy and growing very well. From a professional point of view, these abalones are not purely artificially farmed, but should be free-range seafood, and the price is between wild seafood and farmed seafood. If the quantity is sufficient, he can really make a lot of money.
Continue swimming outside the reef.
Xiang Yang finally found the empty abalone shell.
They were net abalones, and they were relatively large. One of the abalone shells was about half the size of Xiang Yang's palm, which meant there were about four or five abalones. According to the market price of net abalones, that one abalone would cost at least a few hundred yuan.
What the hell is this? They don’t even eat small abalone. If they want to eat it, they only pick the big ones.
Xiang Yang muttered in his heart, but his eyes searched around carefully.
Lobsters and crabs also eat abalone.
But abalone is not the staple food of lobsters. Unless there are a large number of lobsters in this sea area, it is impossible for there to be so many abalone shells.
For humans, abalone is a very nutritious seafood and is known as soft gold.
But compared to lobsters and crabs, abalone is not even as delicious as seaweed.
Abalone also has a thick shell, so crabs and lobsters generally have no way to deal with abalone.
Keep swimming forward.
Soon, Xiang Yang was out of the reef.
The sea water here suddenly became drastically deeper, from dozens of meters to hundreds of meters deep.
This level of depth certainly does not pose a problem for Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang swam towards the bottom of the coral reef without hesitation.
After diving more than two hundred meters deep, Xiang Yang finally discovered a large number of purple creatures at the bottom of the reef.
These purple creatures each had five tentacles, their backs were purple and white, and their bottoms were white.
Xiang Yang was stunned when he saw these purple creatures, "Purple starfish?"
Xiang Yang finally understood why Boss Zhang insisted on transferring such a precious piece of land.
All things are interdependent and mutually exclusive.
Even a behemoth like the blue whale has natural enemies like the giant squid.
The natural enemy of abalone is the starfish.
Seafood is a very common marine life, especially when the tide is high, there will be many large and small starfish left on the beach.
Boss Zhang is definitely not completely unaware of these starfish.
After all, if it were Xiang Yang himself, he would never transfer such a precious piece of land without figuring out why the abalone disappeared.
Boss Zhang must have figured out the culprit for the abalone's death, and he had no way to deal with the purple starfish, so he had to give up this precious land with great reluctance.
The shape of the starfish is like a five-pointed star. It has a very beautiful appearance and is loved by many people who don’t know much about the ocean.
In fact, fishermen or people working in aquaculture generally don’t like the magical creature called starfish.
Purple sea stars can grow up to nearly one meter in length. They generally like to hide in deep sea areas, but can also survive in diving areas. They are the biggest natural enemy of abalone. One purple sea star can eat hundreds of abalone a day on average.
The most important thing is that starfish have the ability to reproduce and survive.
It is not possible to use a grappling net on the reef.
If we rely solely on manual labor to salvage them, it would probably cost a huge amount of manpower and resources, and the speed would still not be as fast as the purple starfish's own reproduction.
The color of this purple starfish is very beautiful, but Xiang Yang just can't like it.
Xiang Yang swam over and grabbed the purple starfish in his hand.
This purple starfish has small tentacles all over its body. These small tentacles are its feet and hands. It can move very conveniently and quickly on the seabed. It can hide in the deep sea area under the reef to rest during the day, and then climb onto the reef at night to harm the small abalone raised in the water.
What makes Xiang Yang even more headache is that the purple starfish has a huge appetite.
What’s more, starfish’s favorite food is shelled creatures. Any creature with a shell on its body will be their prey.
After looking carefully for a while, Xiang Yang let go of the purple starfish, then picked up a smaller one and swam towards the water surface.
Xiang Yang wanted to take this purple starfish upstairs to negotiate with Boss Zhang.
As for the big one, why did he let it go instead of killing it or taking it up with him? It was because Xiang Yang was at the bottom of the sea and couldn't even kill it.
The purple starfish has very strong vitality and is very hard. If you tear it into several pieces, it can even turn into several starfish.
He could have brought it with him, but Xiang Yang didn't bring a net bag this time, and it would have been difficult to swim with such a big starfish.