Commercial sea urchin fishing has brought a lot of poached abalone, because sea urchins and abalone live in almost the same places and eat the same food.
But compared with abalone, sea urchins have much stronger defenses, so some marine creatures that eat abalone will not eat sea urchins, which makes the number of sea urchins absolutely larger than that of abalone.
For example, fur seals can prey on abalone, but they definitely don't like to eat sea urchins.
In addition to this, sea urchins are more mobile than abalone. They can move around and can go farther. They go out at night and come back in the morning.
The abalone really waits for the kelp leaves to float in front of them before they can eat them. This alone makes the abalone's living environment shrink a lot.
Since they wanted to eat sea urchins at night, Korean peacocks began to pay attention to the sea urchins here, and not all kinds of sea urchins are delicious.
Sea urchin is one of the classes under the phylum Echinodermata. Its official scientific name is eoidea, which means "porcupine-like animal". It is an invertebrate animal, also known as "sea hedgehog".
Sea urchins live in the ocean and are widely distributed in oceans around the world. They can be found from intertidal zones to depths of thousands of meters on the seabed.
There are about 1,000 species of sea urchins existing in the world, and more than 700 species of fossils.
Sea urchin is the earliest model organism used in the history of biological sciences, and its eggs and embryos play a decisive role in the development of early reproductive biology.
Sea urchins are spherical in shape, like prickly purple cactus, so they are known as "assassins in the sea". Fishermen also often call them "undersea tree balls" and "dragon palace hedgehogs". This is quite vivid. They look like sea urchins, so sea urchins are easy to recognize.
Generally, sea urchins weighing seven to two pounds are the best. Sea urchins vary in size. If a sea urchin as big as a basketball and with eyes was placed in front of you, 95% of people would feel like they were in a horror movie and would run away immediately. Let alone eat it.
The information Han Kongque had seen told him that the seven-pound sea urchin is the "standard beauty" among sea urchins, but when the size is the same, the heavier the better.
Except for this, all the sea urchins selected by Korean Peacock are black, because black sea urchins have the best taste.
There are about 800 kinds of sea urchins living in the sea, and they come in all kinds of colors, but usually the colorful sea urchins are poisonous and cannot be eaten. The sea urchins in restaurants are all black, but this kind is the real "inner beauty" .
Of course, among the black sea urchins, which are about the same size, you have to choose the fattest one. In the animal world, the fattest one must be the top grade. This is not a captive-bred animal, it is for fattening. In the wild, the size is about the same. Under the circumstances, the ones that are longer and heavier are naturally the ones with the most vitality and the strongest among them.
Sea urchins are prized for their plumpness. It is actually very simple to choose sea urchins. Short and thick sea urchins are fatter. On the contrary, long and thin sea urchins are definitely thinner.
Han Peacock is picking at the bottom of the sea, specifically choosing good sea urchins, and some bad sea urchins. He won't even move, after all, this thing is not easy to handle.
"Huh? This thorn is long and thin, isn't it a sea urchin?" Looking at something that glowed in three colors on the seabed, which looked like a sea urchin, Han Peacock wasn't sure if it was a sea urchin.
"Is this a sea thorn?" It took a while before Han Peacock thought of what this thing was.
Due to the popularity of sea urchins, some unscrupulous traders use sea thorns to pass them off as sea urchins. The appearance of sea thorns is very similar to that of sea urchins. The spines are long and thin. When they are in the sea, they will glow blue and are very vicious. They will sting if touched.
, unlike sea urchins which are docile.
The most important thing is that the taste of sea thorn is much worse than that of sea urchin, so no one wants this stuff at all.
When most people talk about sea urchins, they say they are fresh and ready to eat. Therefore, freshness is the most important thing when eating sea urchins. If you want to eat them, you must eat real raw sea urchins.
Every year from June to August is the season when sea urchins are most plentiful. The taste of sea urchins is closely related to the waters where they grow. For example, sea urchins in Hokkaido are quite delicious. It is now the rainy season in East Timor, which is considered summer in the South Pacific.
Although Korean Peacock doesn’t know if the rainy season is the same as that in Japan, Korean Peacock still believes that this season is the best time to eat sea urchins in East Timor.
After finding a lot of sea urchins, Han Peacock came to the surface again and again and returned them to the boat. He also checked to see if there were any fishing boats passing by in the surrounding waters.
He would stay at least half an hour every time he went into the water. If a fishing boat passed by and saw no one on his boat, he boarded the boat to check. If no one was found, he would take his boat and the top-quality abalone away.
Well, Han Peacock's work today will be in vain.
After going into the water again and again, Han Peacock stopped until all four pools were almost full. Looking at the rich harvest on the boat, Han Peacock laughed.
If something is too easy to get, you will not cherish it. Now that Han Peacock does not have the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag, if he wants to eat seafood casually, he will have to work harder.
Just like now, after a busy day, he only managed to get a few hundred kilograms of seafood. If Xuanyuan Water Control Flag was there, why would he need to be so busy?
"If there are really those cheating devices, how can I live with the joy after a good harvest today?" Han Peacock sighed with satisfaction while pumping some seawater again and replacing the water in the tank.
Therefore, there are no absolutes in the world, and blessings and misfortunes always depend on each other. If you lose something, you will definitely gain something.
Looking at the four tanks on the boat, one tank was full of abalones. Abalones of all sizes were densely packed into the pool.
Some big ones were specially put aside by the Korean peacocks, so that they could die from lack of oxygen due to overcrowding, while some smaller ones were not given special care and were all piled together.
In addition to abalone, the other tank that was almost full was some sea urchins that were about the same size as abalone.
Compared with abalone, there are more sea urchins, and they are all piled up in a tank by Korean peacocks. The pile is so full that it can be said that one sea urchin is pressing down on another, directly filling the entire tank.
Sea urchins are poisonous and there are few places where they can be eaten, so the Korean peacock found a lot of them. Anyway, it was incidental and it didn't take much effort.
Among the other two tanks, there were more than a dozen groupers in one tank, and in the other tank there were more than a dozen lobsters and more than 20 crabs.
Having harvested so much seafood, Han Peacock's purpose of going to sea this time has almost been achieved. It just depends on how much the abalone on the ship can be sold for when it is transported back to the port.
If the price cannot be met, Han Peacock can only find another speedboat and go out to sea to see if he can hunt tuna.
If you want to make a lot of money as soon as possible, in addition to abalone, you can sell tuna at a higher price. However, the tuna here does not seem to be fishable.
One is that Han Peacock does not have professional tools, and the other is that tuna is too fast.
Now that Han Kongque does not have the help of Xuanyuan's water control flag, his perception ability is only more than thirty meters. For such a small distance, the fast tuna can lose it in the blink of an eye.
So even if Han Peacock sensed the tuna, the tuna ran out of his perception range before he could catch it.
Of course, now Han Peacock doesn't even have much confidence in sensing tuna, because bluefin tuna is a deep-sea fish and usually lives in deep seas with a water depth of more than 200 meters. In this way, without the help of Xuanyuan's water control flag, Han Peacock
Peacocks don't even have the ability to sense the depth of 200 meters.
Therefore, if Han Peacock wants to catch bluefin tuna, he can only enter the deep sea and dive to the bottom of the sea himself to search for bluefin tuna.
And there is another big problem: how to catch bluefin tuna if he actually sees them.
Tuna is the strongest swimmer among fish, with a general speed of 3o-5o kilometers per hour, and a maximum speed of 16o kilometers per hour.
This is entirely because tuna has an exquisite streamlined body, high and narrow tail fins, and its swimming method is extremely unique. It abandons the meandering and twisting of the whole body and relies on clean and effective tail swings to keep the fish's body straight and stable.
Runs with propulsion generated by the tail.
Some other vertebrate marine animals also have "tuna-like" body shapes, including cetaceans and ichthyosaurs. These types of fish are too fast. If a Korean peacock wants to catch them by itself, it still has to be
Very difficult.
Slowly drive the fishing boat back to the port. At this time, the small fishing boats that usually go to sea begin to return to the port, so the port becomes lively.
Lao Wu and Lao Wang were also standing on the dock, waiting for Han Peacock to return.
Although it was Han Kongque's first contact with them, they all could see Han Kongque's ambition, and judging from some clues, Han Kongque was also very capable.
So both Lao Wang and Lao Wu had hope for Han Peacock, so the two of them came to the dock almost coincidentally, wanting to see Han Peacock's performance.
At this time, the fishermen began to return to the port one after another with the day's harvest. Some of these fishermen were happy, some were expressionless, but they were all very fast.
At this time of day, no matter how big or small their harvest is, they all hope to be able to exchange for more money and go home quickly.
Those in the fishing company hope to collect more rare seafood, so at this time, they have the most smiles on their faces.
Compared with fishermen on small fishing boats, these fishing companies will have greater harvests, although they do not go to sea.
So every time a fishing boat returns to port, there are always people surrounding it. If it encounters good seafood, it will immediately become a battle.
The fishermen here do not have a fixed buyer. They sell to whomever offers the highest price, so every time a fishing boat comes back, the buyers will engage in a price war.
Of course, this kind of thing only applies to some rare seafood, such as abalone, sea cucumber, tuna or other rare things.
"I wonder what Xiao Han can gain." Lao Wang said a little worried when he saw a fisherman carrying hundreds of kilograms of red fish on the pier. (To be continued.)