Chapter 432

"Captain, everything is ready. Please give orders!" Roared the bull.

Qin Shiou waved to show that he understood. Then he looked at the sea carefully. Poseidon consciousness had already entered the seabed and was looking for a lobster gathering place in the bay.

Without saying a word, the fishermen looked forward to Qin Shiou, waiting for him to show the magical power of family magic. They are full of confidence. Under the leadership of Qin Shiou, they will make money this time!

Compared with the fishermen who worship blindly, Qin Shiou is a little embarrassed.

His mother's lobster gafki's bacteria are so awesome that Qin Shiou didn't find lobster seedlings all the way. Obviously, the whole Lawrence Bay has been infected by this bacteria. In the next two years, this rich Bay will no longer produce Maine lobsters on a large scale.

Even if the bacteria are removed from the ocean two years later, it will take some years to restore the lobster catch of previous years.

Maine lobsters grow slowly. Their life span is 70 years. It takes four to five years to grow from shrimp seedlings to a pound. It takes 20 to 30 years to grow to 20 pounds, that is, 10 kilograms!

At present, the lobster production in St. Lawrence Bay is reduced. In addition to the extinction of lobster gafki bacteria, there is also the crazy operation of shrimp fishing boats.

After learning that lobster gafki bacteria appeared offshore, major fishing companies and shrimp fishing boats understood that their good days were coming to an end and wanted to go crazy for the last time. Since the lobster fishing season began in November, St. Lawrence Bay was full of ships.

North American lobster fishing, like bluefin tuna fishing, has rigid standards. Small shrimps cannot be caught. Only lobsters up to half a pound, that is, about 227g, can be caught and sold.

Therefore, the gap in the shrimp cage brought by Qin Shiou is the size of a child's fist. This gap can let lobsters below 200g pass through. No matter how big it is.

Generally speaking, it takes 9 to 12 months for Maine lobsters to grow to half a pound. Their mating season is generally from late April to July, and the peak of group mating is in May. Since July every year, North America has entered the lobster harvest season. The United States is earlier, Canada has higher latitude and low temperature, and the harvest season is later.

In fact, lobster shelling in summer means that the lobster season has come. However, the lobsters that have just changed their shells are soft shell lobsters. They are dissatisfied with the meat quality, contain more water and have low value, so no one went fishing at that time.

Since September, as the temperature drops, the lobster's shell will harden and the meat will be better. Lobsters are fattest in November. The Canadian government will start this time until February next year. As the lobster fishing season, lobsters will be left to mate and reproduce in March.

This year's lobster fishing work is extra crazy. A large number of lobsters have been fished away. Fengshou entered the game too late.

However, they were lucky. Last night, they just experienced a terrible storm. All shrimp fishing boats returned and suffered varying degrees of damage. There were few shrimp fishing boats in St. Lawrence Bay, which gave them a chance.

For fishermen, this winter can be called house leakage, but it rains at night.

The lobster gafki bacteria just showed a ferocious figure and encountered the once-in-a-decade cold weather. The storm last night also hit the fishermen hard. Many shrimp cages of shrimp boats were lost in the sea. Qin Shiou saw several strings of shrimp cages in the sea through the consciousness of sea god.

There are occasional lobsters in these shrimp cages, but these sporadic ones are not what Qin Shiou wants. He can only continue to go north.

Smoking guns and others are patient. They smoke and chat together, and even begin to discuss how to spend after making money, what to buy for their wife and children's parents, what to buy at home and so on.

Qin Shiou felt that such aimless search would not work. He began to look at the chart to find the dense reefs in St. Lawrence Bay.

He knows that lobsters are not good at swimming. They usually live in shallow waters with many rocks, and the reef is very suitable for their habitat.

Several areas with dense reefs were identified. Qin Shiou asked shack to drive into this position. After seeing the smoke gun and others, they were a little embarrassed and explained: "Captain, there may be lobsters in these places, but they are very dangerous. There are too many reefs. Do you want to take risks?"

Qin Shiou patted the shoulder of the cigarette gun and said, "we should avoid risks, but we can't be afraid of risks. There is a saying in China that we can't get into a tiger's den and get a tiger's son! Forget it, you don't understand. Go ahead as I say! "

If it was in the past, yangun and others may have to question Qin Shiou's decision. After all, it would be too dangerous to enter the reef waters at low tide in winter. But after what happened last night, the Party firmly believed in him. He said move forward, then move forward!

Fengshou turns to the nearest reef area. Qin Shiou is not afraid of an accident. The sea god is aware of the early warning. If there is a danger, he will turn shack in advance.

It's true that you can't get a tiger without going into the tiger's den. When the fishing boat was more than ten kilometers away from the reef, a group of lobsters appeared in the vision of Poseidon consciousness.

This lobster group consists of about four or five thousand large and small lobsters. Dozens of half meter long super lobsters lead the team in front, and other lobsters follow behind to form a several kilometer long shrimp belt, one after another, in a neat queue and marching forward.

Seeing these lobsters, Qin Shiou was happy. Good people have good news. Yesterday, they risked their lives to save people. Unexpectedly, on the first day of entering St. Lawrence Bay, they met a migratory group of lobsters.

Ethnic migration occurs not only among migratory birds, but also fish and shrimp, such as lobsters. In order to avoid severe cold in winter, they will look for warm ocean currents to migrate.

On the whole, Maine lobsters are lonely and don't like to live in groups, but when they migrate along the warm current in autumn and winter, they will automatically gather together and walk across the seabed.

Why do solitary lobsters move in groups? Very simple, they form a queue, which can well reduce the resistance of water in advance. According to the research of marine biologists and dynamiologists, the resistance of lobsters in a queue can be reduced by 65% compared with single swimming.

In addition, lobsters have many natural enemies, such as sharks and whales. In such groups, they can also deter natural enemies and protect themselves.

However, in this way, it is cheaper for humans. Often, if fishermen are lucky to get stuck in a warm current, they can catch a large number of lobsters.

Qin Shiou waved to shack to anchor, and then shouted, "guys, put down the shrimp cage. There is plenty of lobster smell here. There must be a large group of lobsters nearby!"

Smoking guns and others threw away the cigarette butts in their hands. More than a dozen people shouted and immediately began to get busy.

The shrimp cage is not thrown into the water at will. First, Shaq measured the water depth in the cab. This was done by sonar radar. After observing for a while, he shouted, "the water depth is 110 meters!"

The smoker made a gesture to show his understanding. He let the bull drag a long enough cable, about 140 meters long at both ends of the fish and shrimp. Then from this position, each shrimp cage must be bound. Twenty shrimp cages are on a rope to form a cage string.

After the cage string was tied, two skillful fishermen came up and tied a ball buoy at both ends of the cable. This buoy is a big dark red ball with a diameter of more than one meter. It can be found floating on the sea even far away.

Others put frozen viscera of chickens, ducks, pigs and cattle into shrimp cages as bait. These bait are purchased and cheap, because Canadians don't eat poultry livestock viscera, but they are very attractive to lobsters.

Ready, the rest is throwing the cage.