Xiang Yang and others had guessed correctly before. This Steller's sea eagle was indeed a fledgling that had just learned how to hunt not long ago.
Although the newly independent Steller's sea eagle had learned hunting skills, its skills were extremely unfamiliar. This Steller's sea eagle only tried to snatch food from the humpback whale after it had failed in hunting many times and was starving. As a result, after it finally snatched the prey from the humpback whale, it was killed by the prey in the sea. After a desperate fight, not only did it not get a bite of food, but it also consumed a lot of calories and its wings were injured.
Xiang Yang held a chicken in his left hand and waved at the Steller's sea eagle with his right hand with a smile.
When the Steller's sea eagle saw the hen in Xiang Yang's hand, it immediately became restless. It took a few steps towards Xiang Yang, then stood still and looked at Xiang Yang with its head tilted.
Xiang Yang chuckled, tore off a wing from the chicken with force, and threw it towards the Steller's sea eagle.
"Chiu!" The Steller's sea eagle immediately ran over like an ostrich, stepped on the chicken wing with one of its big claws to hold it in place, and then with its blade-like beak, it pecked hard at the chicken wing and tore off a large piece of meat from it.
The Steller's sea eagle tore the meat from the chicken wing and swallowed it without chewing it. Then it used its claws to flip the chicken wing over and pecked it a second time.
After a few bites, only the bones were left on the chicken wing. The Steller's sea eagle tilted its head again and looked at Xiang Yang, or to be more precise, at the hen in Xiang Yang's hand.
Xiang Yang, on the other hand, felt relieved. He had read a paper about eagles before, which said that eagles were extremely aloof creatures. If captured by humans, they would not eat or drink until they died of thirst or starvation. Xiang Yang was worried that this Steller's sea eagle would not eat the food he provided.
Xiang Yang's worries vanished when he saw a Steller's sea eagle pecking at a chicken's wing.
Xiang Yang threw the whole chicken directly to the Steller's sea eagle, which immediately cried out joyfully and ran towards the hen that fell on the deck.
"Have you closed the net? Where's the fish?" After Xiang Yang threw the whole chicken out, he rubbed the grease off his hands and looked at He Mingde.
He Mingde was standing next to Xiang Yang, watching the Steller's sea eagle eating. When he saw Xiang Yang suddenly throw the whole chicken out and look at him, He Mingde was stunned for a moment before he reacted and sighed, "I've pulled up the net, but there's no fish."
"No fish?" Xiang Yang's voice suddenly rose seven or eight degrees. "The net has been dragged for so long and there is not a single fish?"
Xiang Yang immediately looked at Zhou Wang, "What's going on?" Xiang Yang had checked the route of the fishing boat last night. Although there were not many fish, there were still various schools of fish. There was not a single fish after the net was cast. The only reason was that there was a problem with Zhou Wang, who was in charge of the fishing net.
Zhou Wang said: "It's not that there are none, but the number is very small, and it's not worth much. It's almost like falling into an empty net."
"Oh." Xiang Yang nodded. This was within Xiang Yang's expectations. "What kind of sea fish are they?"
Chen Qingsheng said: "Mostly squid, and a few eels, the total amount is probably less than 100 kilograms."
"Is it so miserable?" Xiang Yang twitched the corner of his mouth. With such a catch, he would definitely lose even the money for gas.
He Mingde patted Xiang Yang on the shoulder and said with a smile: "That's how it is to make a living at sea. How can you always return with a full load of nets? We are lucky enough to encounter a fish tide this time. You don't know that the fleet I used to be in often went out with freshwater vegetables and came back with empty fishing boats."
Xiang Yang nodded to show his understanding, and then asked randomly: "Don't eels live in groups? How come you only caught a few?"
Eel is a migratory fish that looks like a long snake, but has some basic fish characteristics in appearance. Although the market price is not very expensive, it is listed among my country's economic fish because of its large number. It is a marine fish with great edible value.
He Mingde shrugged his shoulders. "How would I know?"
Xiang Yang nodded, "Yeah, that's right."
"Should we continue trawling or head straight south at full speed?" asked He Mingde.
Xiang Yang thought for a while before saying, "We are going to the south to look for the Yuanyang Overseas Gas Station. Anyway, we don't know where the Yuanyang Overseas Gas Station is. Instead of looking for them all over the world like headless flies, we might as well wait for them to come to us and continue to drag the net forward."
"Yes, Captain." Xu Fang immediately took the order, put out his cigarette and ran towards the operating room.
When Zhou Wang saw this, he immediately said, "Captain, shall I go cast the net now?"
Xiang Yang shook his head. "Wait a minute. There are two humpback whales making a fuss in this area. Any fish will surely be scared away. Let's sail forward for a distance before casting the net."
"Okay, Captain." Zhou Wang actually meant this. "Those two humpback whales are really cute. When our fishing boat was sailing, they followed us from a distance and did not disturb us fishing. Once our boat stopped, they immediately swam over."
"It would be great if this sea eagle would follow us like this in the future." Fang Youqun pointed at the sea eagle.
Xiang Yang looked in the direction of Fang Youqun's finger at the sea eagle, smiled and said nothing.
The sea eagle had eaten half of the chicken. It did not eat the rest of the chicken, but only swallowed the skin. Then it tore the chicken off the chicken rack bit by bit and piled it on the deck nearby.
Xiang Yang watched curiously, wondering what the Steller's sea eagle was going to do with the chicken.
As far as Xiang Yang knows, Steller's sea eagles do have the habit of tearing food into pieces, but that is a habit only for female Steller's sea eagles when they are breastfeeding their young.
Not long after the young eagle is born, the parent birds will tear the captured food into pieces and place them in the eagle's nest for the young eagle to peck at it by itself. As the young eagle grows older, the pieces of meat the parents tear off from the prey become larger and larger. Until the young eagle grows feathers, the parent birds will throw the whole captured prey in the eagle's nest and let the chicks peck at it by themselves. They no longer have the habit of tearing food off the skeleton.
The fishing boat set sail, and the deck shook. The sea eagle that was tearing food was startled by the sudden movement. It flapped its right wing and its sharp claws made the deck squeak.
“Woo!”
When the two whales in the sea saw the fishing boat setting sail, they consciously stopped playing in the water and swam towards the back of the fishing boat, swaying their tails.
"Chirp!" The sea eagle on the deck immediately cried out when it saw this, picked up a piece of chicken torn from the chicken rack, ran to the stern of the ship with its feet turned outward like an ostrich, and threw the chicken into the sea.
The two humpback whales swam slowly and glanced at the deck, but did not eat the chicken.
When the sea eagle saw this, it stamped its claws anxiously on the stern deck and chirped non-stop.
"Uh, is this guy using chicken to thank the humpback whale for saving it?" Xiang Yang said uncertainly as he looked at the scene in front of him.
Fang Youqun immediately denied it, "Brother Yang, you are wrong. It was you who saved it. If it wants to thank someone, it should thank you!"