Golden Fishery

"The satellite computer can count it clearly. I asked about it. There are about 2.2 million birds flying this time. It is a very large-scale short-tailed fulmar flock that has rarely been seen in recent years. You can earn 220,000 yuan a day." Hamley gave you such a lucky look.

Qin Shiou was really happy to hear that, the Canadian government is good, and it protects the fishery owners well. According to Shaq's estimate, these birds will stay for a week, which is about 1.5 million yuan in income, which is much more cost-effective than raising fish.

However, the government did not transfer the money directly to the card, but instead gave him a shopping voucher of equivalent value, allowing him to go to a seafood company to buy fish feed, fish medicine or fish fry, shrimp fry, crab fry, etc.

In short, the Canadian government is also working hard to protect fishing grounds and develop fisheries.

Short-tailed fulmars are fat and small, and they don't look amazing. In fact, they are global travelers, flying twice across the entire earth every year.

Beginning in early May every year, they will gradually wander in small groups to the North Pacific Ocean, from the equator northwards through Japan, the Ogasawara Islands, California to the east coast of Canada, and then fly all the way to the Arctic.

Therefore, Qin Shiou did not see them before, because they did not pass through the Atlantic Ocean because of the transfer in the first half of the year.

In the second half of the year, that is, in November, they will fly east from Alaska to Newfoundland, and then along the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, all the way to the Hawaiian Islands, where they will spend the severe winter.

The short-tailed fulmars are a help to the fish farm owners, and they can ask the government for compensation, but their damage to the fish farm is real, so Shaq will ask later. Do you want to find a way to drive away these seabirds in advance?

Qin Shiou shook his head and refused, migration is the nature of seabirds. Before the fishing grounds were established on Farewell Island, these seabirds left here. You can't be so domineering. In fact, what they occupy is the living space of these seabirds, and it is only natural for them to eat and rest here.

After hearing what he said, Wei Ni hugged him and smiled sweetly, but Qin Shiou didn't know what he was laughing at.

Not only did he not drive away the short-tailed fulmars, but Qin Shiou did not deliberately catch them.

The short-tailed fulmar is a kind of bird with good meat quality, but because they live in either the extreme south or the extreme north, they are usually difficult to catch. Only when they migrate through a place can the people there have a real treat.

Knowing that the group of short-tailed fulmars had arrived at Farewell Island, many people in St. Johns came here with bird nets. The flock of birds is too dense, and a dozen or even dozens of them can be caught in one net. This is the real "sticking roe deer to scoop up fish, and pheasant flying into the rice pot".

Qin Shiou hated this kind of hunting and killing of wild animals.

He and Hamley issued a statement: Private fishing grounds, please do not enter.

Thus, the people of St. Johns had to go to the public fisheries if they wanted to hunt the short-tailed fulmar.

But there are many tourists gathered in the public fishing ground in the town, and the Chinese cameras are snapping there, if they hunt the short-tailed fulmar. That would be embarrassing and thrown out of the country.

I have to say that the quality of the Canadians is still good. A group of people brought bird nets for a walk, and finally left in despair with a few birds.

I stayed in the fishing ground for six or seven days. One morning at the end of November, the group of short-tailed fulmars embarked on an expedition again.

Qin Shiou became a witness, standing on the pier. Countless seabirds seem to have received an order suddenly, and spread their wings to fly from the sea surface. Forming a group of dark clouds that can barely see the edge, it flies towards the south...

The tigers and leopards stayed on the beach with some melancholy. They had a great time playing with the short-tailed fulmars these days. Or, they had so much fun with the fulmars that the birds flew away and the day was going to be dull again.

Watching the figures of the short-tailed fulmars slowly go away, Qin Shiou's shocking mood has not subsided for a long time. He carefully took a photo and sent it to the space, with a name: the greatness of life.

The flock of seabirds disappeared on the sea level, Qin Shiou walked down the pier slowly, walked to the beach and took a look, oh my god, there are so many white things, what are these? Bird poop?

Watching carefully, Qin Shiou was suddenly amused, these are all bird eggs! So many eggs!

Yes, on the vast sandy beach, there are many gray-white bird eggs scattered and piled up. Qin Shiou only found twelve bird eggs on the beach of more than 100 square meters around him. how much?

After the flock of birds left, Shaq Kraken and others took the boxes to the beach, and a group of people lined up to start looking for the eggs.

Qin Shiou ran over and asked, "Is this the gift from the seabird you mentioned? Haha, there are so many eggs, it's really good."

Shaq smiled and said, "This is just a small gift, and there are more important gifts coming later."

"Don't hang your appetite, tell him the truth." Said the sea monster.

Shaq nodded and said, "It's the fish farm doctor. The excrement of the short-tailed fulmar has attracted the fish farm doctor. Peterpine rock shrimp, hedgehog shrimp, mantis shrimp and other shrimps have come to our fish farm."

After listening to Shaq's introduction, Qin Shiou knew that the short-tailed fulmar likes to eat shrimps, but as we all know, shrimps are marine benthos, that is to say, they live on the bottom of the sea.

In this way, it is difficult for short-tailed fulmars to catch these foods, and long-term evolution has made their excrement contain a mineral phosphorus. These mineral phosphorus is an essential substance for the growth of peterpine rock shrimp, hedgehog shrimp, mantis shrimp and other shrimps, and they will follow them to find food.

Every place where a group of short-tailed fulmars stops to rest will slowly attract a large number of shrimps such as Peterpine rock shrimp, hedgehog shrimp, mantis shrimp, etc. This is their compensation to the fishing ground.

Qin Shiou originally wanted to control the sea god's consciousness to go to the sea to see, but Shaq and others were picking up bird eggs, and he also participated in it.

The breeding season of short-tailed fulmars is from the end of September to the beginning of May of the following year. During this time period, they all lay eggs. During these seven days, more than two million short-tailed fulmars laid at least tens of thousands of eggs on the beach of the fishing ground. .

Bird eggs gather in a few relatively concentrated places, which is related to the breeding habits of short-tailed fulmars. They like to nest in caves on the coast or islands, and often form large groups to nest and reproduce together. Therefore, the nests are quite dense, and the average per square meter rice has a nest.

These bird nests are all simple. The mother bird digs a sandy nest with her claws and sits in it to lay her eggs. If it is in the Arctic habitat in September, the short-tailed fulmar will spend a month digging the hole, and then spawning.

In addition to leaving so many eggs, the unqualified parents of the short-tailed fulmar also left behind many old and young birds that could not keep up with the population.

For nature, this is normal, and the birds use this method to eliminate unqualified ones to promote the evolution of the population.

In the morning, all the flocks of birds left, but in the evening, many young birds and old birds came back one after another.

Looking at these birds, Winnie said with some distress: "They will all die. As long as the cold snap comes, they will freeze to death. Even if they can withstand the cold snap, there will be no food for them on the sea in winter, so they will starve to death. "(to be continued...)

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