Soon, the fleet passed through the angle between the Dongsha Islands and the Philippines and arrived in the South Pacific.
"Captain, how about we cast a net and see? We haven't caught anything so far this time." Zhou Wang suggested to Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang thought about it and nodded, "Okay, let's go here and cast the net."
Xiang Yang had been to this sea area before.
The last time I came here, the water in this area was relatively clear. Standing on the sea, you could vaguely see the fish swimming under the water.
But due to the Kuroshio Current, the visibility of the sea water was extremely low this time.
The sea was pitch black, and waves hit the boat from time to time, which looked very scary.
After receiving Xiang Yang's order, the crew immediately took action. The three fishing boats cast their nets one after another, and then trawled in the nearby waters for more than two hours.
Affected by the fish tide, when the nets were raised, the number of fish caught by the three ships was terrifying.
The total weight of the three networks is conservatively estimated to be at least more than 200 tons.
Among them, the trawler that Xiang Yang had just purchased caught at least a hundred tons of fish with this one net.
Every crew member on the ship had a happy face.
"Boss, boss." At this moment, Chen Qingsheng's voice came from the intercom on Xiang Yang's chest. From the sound of his voice, he seemed quite anxious.
Xiang Yang smiled and asked, "Chen Qingsheng, what's the matter?"
"Boss, the net on my ship has exploded." Chen Qingsheng said anxiously.
"Internet explosion? Isn't that a good thing?" Xiang Yang asked doubtfully.
Chen Qingsheng smiled bitterly and said, "Boss, you should come and take a look."
Xiang Yang hurriedly walked towards the unloading passage on the outside of the ship.
Picking up the telescope, I saw that the fishing net of Chen Qingsheng's fishing boat was filled with a large bag of fish. When the winch was started, the rope broke. Now the fishing net was stuck on the sea, unable to go up or down.
Xiang Yang quickly picked up the intercom and said, "Chen Qingsheng, keep as much of the catch as you can. If you really can't keep it, just abandon the net. Remember, safety is the most important thing."
Many fishermen experience their nets bursting when they go out to sea to fish.
Every time the net explodes, there are actually only two choices: either abandon the net, or send crew members to the sea to add ropes to the fishing net and then take the risk to pull up the net.
Most fishing boats will not choose to abandon their nets when their nets burst.
After all, a fishing net is expensive in itself, and when you add the fish in the net, that’s a huge sum of money.
So most of the time, a net explosion is not a good thing for the crew.
"Okay, I'll take care of it right away, but boss, I can only say that I will try my best. I can't guarantee that I can save the fishing nets." Chen Qingsheng said on the intercom.
Xiang Yang nodded and said in a deep voice: "Your first priority is to ensure the safety of everyone, and then the fishing net. Give it a try, and if it doesn't work, don't hesitate and abandon the net decisively."
"Got it, don't worry, boss."
Soon, Xiang Yang saw two rubber boats being lowered from the trawler, and Chen Qingsheng personally brought a few people, wearing life jackets, and rowed towards the fishing net.
"Brother Yang, look! Those red-crowned cranes are coming down." At this time, Fang Youqun shouted.
Xiang Yang looked up at the sky.
Sure enough, the red-crowned cranes in the sky, probably having discovered the numerous fish on the sea, began to lower their flying altitudes, and some even landed directly onto the fishing boats.
The red-crowned crane's Latin name is translated into Chinese as Japanese crane, which was named by German zoologist Statius Muller in 1776.
Müller taught natural sciences in Erlangen.
From 1773 to 1776, he translated and published Linnaeus's famous work "Systema Naturae" and announced some newly named species.
The creatures named that time included the red-crowned crane.
1776, the year Muller named the red-crowned crane, was the founding year of the United States.
That year was the 41st year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in my country and the 5th year of Emperor Go-Momozono's reign in Japan, both times being a period of seclusion.
At that time, Westerners could only know my country from Guangzhou and Japan from Nagasaki.
The red-crowned cranes migrate southward from my country's northeast region without passing through South China, but instead use Kyushu and Honshu in Japan as their wintering places.
Therefore, Westerners could only see this animal through Japan, and named it the Japanese crane.
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the red-crowned cranes on Japan's Honshu Island became extinct.
Some zoologists believe that this species has become extinct in Japan, and therefore changed its common name from Japanese crane to Manchurian crane, but this usage is not widely accepted.
Later, George Archibald, former chairman of the International Crane Foundation, suggested changing the common name of the red-crowned crane to red-crowned crane.
Despite this, the term Japanese crane remains mainstream in the English-speaking world.
In Google's search engine, the search results for the other two names are only one-tenth of that.
At an international academic symposium on cranes, someone once proposed to correct the name of the red-crowned crane in response to the inconsistency in its name, and the suggestion was passed at the meeting.
Since then, the name red-crowned crane has been used in international academic conferences and literature.
"There's nothing to be surprised about. Red-crowned cranes like to live in open plains or oceans, especially during the migration season and winter," said Xiang Yang.
The red-crowned cranes circled in the low sky, constantly making these sonorous and loud calls.
The high-pitched and loud call of the red-crowned crane is related to its special vocal organs.
The red-crowned crane has a long neck and a long syrinx, which is more than one meter long, five or six times the length of the human trachea. The end is curled into a ring and coiled between the sternum, just like the brass instruments in Western music. When it sounds, it can cause a strong resonance, and the sound can be transmitted three to five kilometers away.
However, the call of the red-crowned crane is very clear, loud but not noisy.
None of the crew members, including Xiang Yang, expressed annoyance at the calls of the red-crowned cranes.
But there was a guy on Xiang Yang's boat who expressed dissatisfaction with these red-crowned cranes.
It's a Steller's sea eagle.
The tiger head poked its head out of the eagle's nest and looked at the sky with great dissatisfaction. The feathers on its neck stood up, as if it was ready to rush into the sky and kill people at any time.
Xiang Yang took a look at the Steller's sea eagle on the top of the cabin. Xin Dao was really a newborn calf that was not afraid of a tiger. Each of those red-crowned cranes, if pulled out individually, was not much worse than the Steller's sea eagle. Although the combat effectiveness of a single red-crowned crane was not as good as that of the Steller's sea eagle, if they attacked together in a group, as long as the Steller's sea eagle dared to take off, it would surely be beaten to the bottom of the sea by the red-crowned cranes.
Perhaps the Steller's sea eagle also knew that these red-crowned cranes were not easy to mess with. Although it kept flapping its wings on the top of the cabin, it never took off, and did not even make its sonorous eagle cry.