After more than an hour, the swordfish on the deck were finally cleaned up.
Because of the large amount of floating ice in this sea area, the fleet had to detour to the north after setting sail again.
When passing through a very clear sea area, Xiang Yang suddenly heard a very loud roar of machinery coming from the sea not far away.
"What's going on? Where is it so noisy?" Xiang Yang asked Chen Qingsheng.
"Captain, it looks like a fleet." Chen Qingsheng said.
"Fleet?" Xiang Yang hurriedly walked to the deck and looked into the distance.
I saw a fleet of three large ships on the sea not far away.
Of the three ships in that fleet, two were normal, a large fishing trawler and a large ocean-going processing mother ship, but the last ship was a bit strange, and looked a bit like a construction ship.
The loud noise on the sea was made by the construction ship.
I saw the construction ship parked on the sea. A huge bucket-like object at the stern was pumping seawater at full speed, bringing up a large amount of seawater and mud from the seabed and spraying it into the sky several meters high.
"Are they stealing sand?" Xiang Yang asked doubtfully.
No one is allowed to collect any mineral resources in Antarctica, including sand.
But when Xiang Yang looked at the ship, it looked like it was mining sand.
So the word "stealing sand" immediately popped up in Xiang Yang's mind.
"Captain, they are not mining sand, it just looks a bit like mining sand. Besides, who would be so bored as to travel all the way to Antarctica to secretly transport a boatload of sand back?" Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
Xiang Yang nodded. "I said that this is not how sand is mined. What are they doing?"
Chen Qingsheng pointed at the strange ship and said, "Captain, look, that ship has pumped up all the mud from the seabed, and then filtered it out from the stern."
Xiang Yang nodded. Indeed, in addition to the huge unknown machine that looked like a bucket, there was also a very thick pipe at the stern of the ship. The sea sand that was pumped up along with the sea water flowed back into the sea through that huge pipe.
"If I guess correctly, there is a huge wire mesh inside that tube. Some sea water and fine sea sand will flow back to the sea through the mesh holes, while those slightly larger marine fish, crabs, lobsters, scallops and the like will all remain in that tube," said Chen Qingsheng.
Xiang Yang was stunned. "Isn't this even more excessive than scraping the seabed with a net to wipe out the entire family?"
Chen Qingsheng nodded, "Yes, that's right, so this ship is also called the family-destroying ship."
Xiang Yang frowned, "No one cares?"
"How could it be possible that no one is supervising it? It's because the supervision is too strict. So these people don't dare to use this method to fish in other places. They only dare to catch fish secretly a few times in Antarctica." Chen Qingsheng said.
The destructive fishing methods of the family-killing nets and bottom-scraping nets have caused shocking damage to the environment.
Nowadays, countries around the world are paying more and more attention to environmental protection and sustainable development, and are cracking down on family-killing nets, family-killing boats, and bottom-scraping nets.
In a certain area of the Yellow Sea in my country, fishery law enforcement personnel once discovered that some fishing boats were using dozens of nets to illegally fish.
Many of the fish caught by the family-killing nets are young fish, small fish, and shrimps. The damage to fishery resources is shocking.
In our country, if someone is found using a family-killing net, fishery officials can, in accordance with legal procedures, detain the person and his or her fishing boat and take them to the port.
In our country, fishing nets with extremely small meshes, less than two centimeters, can be defined as family-destroying nets.
This type of fishing net will catch all the big and small fish in the sea. Using this type of fishing net for a long time will cause devastating damage to fishery resources.
Our country has issued notices on cleaning up and rectifying the family-killing nets many times, and coastal provinces are also carrying out the cleanup and rectification in full swing to lay the foundation for the construction of marine ecological civilization.
But in foreign countries, this kind of family-destroying nets, and the even more extreme family-destroying ships, are still common.
"Should we report this matter?" Chen Qingsheng asked Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang nodded. "Since we have seen it, of course we have to report it. Protecting the ocean is the duty of every fisherman."
Chen Qingsheng asked, "Are you not going to ask Boss Gao for his opinion?"
"You should communicate with Mr. Gao. If Mr. Gao reports it, then we can avoid trouble. If Mr. Gao does not report it, we should not be afraid of trouble." Xiang Yang said after thinking about it.
"Okay, I'll contact Mr. Gao right away." Chen Qingsheng said quickly.
Xiang Yang nodded and looked at the ship that had destroyed the entire family again.
The people on that ship finally discovered Xiang Yang and his huge fleet.
Perhaps they also knew that their actions were illegal, and after seeing the fleet of Xiang Yang and others, they immediately began to flee in panic.
Xiang Yang had excellent eyesight and could clearly see that there was a group of white people on board, busily dismantling the sand-draining machines and large water pipes on the ship.
Soon, Chen Qingsheng found Xiang Yang and said, "Captain, I have contacted General Gao. General Gao said that he has reported the matter. There are relevant fishery vessels heading here from the Weddell Sea."
Xiang Yang nodded, and when he saw that there were special people coming to deal with it, he suddenly didn't bother to care about the ship that had destroyed his family.
"Are you hungry? Do you want to have something to eat?" Xiang Yang asked Chen Qingsheng.
Chen Qingsheng said: "I don't want to eat anything. I've been eating delicacies from land and sea every day recently. I'm almost hurting myself. I just want to eat some vegetables."
Xiang Yang immediately shook his head, "That won't do. Although we still have a lot of vegetables on the ship, we don't know when the next supply will be. We must eat vegetables sparingly."
"Well, last time you and your men caught a lot of scallops from the bottom of the sea. How about we grill them and eat them?" Xiang Yang asked.
Chen Qingsheng smiled and said, "Grilled scallops are no problem, but Captain, you have to give me two salaries. I am already your personal chef."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes and said, "It's fine to give you two salaries, but the premise is that you don't eat the food you make in the future."
Chen Qingsheng immediately shook his head and said, "That won't do. Even if I didn't contribute anything, I still worked hard. You can't let me eat my own cooking."
Xiang Yang also immediately said: "Don't even think about the two salaries. How can I pay you if all the ingredients are mine? You just show some skills and eat more than me after the food is ready. "
"Okay, then I have to eat more in the future. I have to earn back my salary myself." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head. "Okay, I'm not kidding you anymore. I've never seen you grill Antarctic scallops. I heard that the cooking method of Antarctic scallops is different from that of ordinary scallops. Do you know how to grill them?"