Agriculture Idol

Chapter 139 Fish Survey · Day Edition

After studying the jellyfish, Li Chengxin continued to look for the "big guy" in the fishing net. In order to reduce the difficulty for Li Chengxin, the fishing net was further pulled up.In this way, he quickly found his target.

The "big guy" is full of energy and swims very fast. Li Chengxin took a lot of effort to catch the fish. During this period, netizens have been swiping the screen with "鶸".

Grab the tail of the big fish and lift it up, as if you caught a fish in Animal Crossing: Friends, and say, "Black Bass".

Several students who were probably also playing the game imitated the appearance of the animal NPCs in the game and clapped and cheered behind Li Chengxin.

Li Chengxin made a gesture: "The fat perch is 60 centimeters long. Supper! Supper!"

Professor Yang nodded: "It's indeed the sea bass season, and the sea bass at this time is delicious!"

After asking the students to put away the big bass, Li Chengxin lifted the net pocket: "I seemed to see other fish when I was catching the bass just now."

After looking around in the net, Li Chengxin picked up the net and caught it.

He lifted the net bag and looked inside: "Ah, I got it successfully this time."

Asking the student to hand over a small bucket, Li Chengxin turned the net bag over and dumped the things caught inside.

"That's it, for nothing." He pointed to the long small fish in the bucket.

"Hey, it's actually an eel!" Professor Yang was very surprised when he leaned over to see it.

Eels are warm-temperate downriver migratory fish. They spawn near the Xiangjiang waters in the south of Huaguo in spring. It takes six months to reach the seas and estuaries near Hongming Village. Before they fully grow and enter inland rivers, eels will live near the sea.

Coastal folk often use it as a nourishing food, and it has the functions of cooling and relieving heat, nourishing and strengthening the body. It is one of the important objects of freshwater aquaculture, and it is also one of the endangered species.

However, juvenile eels can be found in Li Chengxin's experimental coast, which can only show that the environment of this coast is very good.

"Not bad, it seems that those eel grasses have attracted a lot of fish! But eels are an endangered species, and this one is still small, so we won't eat it."

Professor Yang was very satisfied with the discovery of the eel and Li Chengxin's small experimental coast. After the students took photos and recorded the remaining fish in the net, they kept the edible non-endangered fish and put the rest in the net. Return to the sea, then pack up your equipment and wait for supper.

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The next day, Li Chengxin asked for some distiller's grains from his third uncle's house.

The taste of distiller's grains comes from amino acids, which are similar to the taste of small fish and crustaceans, and can attract many marine life that feed on them.

The sea fish bait similar to distiller's grains also has garlic, and the L-serine in garlic can also effectively stimulate the sense of smell of fish.

Therefore, Li Chengxin went to his own kitchen to get a head of garlic, ground the garlic into garlic paste, mixed it with the distiller's grains and pressed it.

Students who were curious about Li Chengxin's preparations came over and took a sip, and they were all suffocated by the pungent smell.

"Senior Zicheng, how do you endure this smell?" A female classmate asked from afar.

Li Chengxin turned his head, and everyone saw that Li Chengxin had a diving nose clip clipped on his nose, and in order to prevent the smell from sticking to his hands, he also wore several layers of disposable gloves on his hands pressing the distiller's lees and garlic mixture.

The mixed distiller's grains were kneaded into softball-sized balls and distributed to several students by Li Chengxin.

At this time, Professor Yang appeared at the upper hand and began to guide the work.

"These baits are to be buried in different locations along the coastal tidal flats, and the smell of the buried baits will be released in the sea little by little to attract bottom-dwelling fish."

The first choice for bottom-dwelling fish is flounder, which is also a common fish in coastal flats. It feeds on mollusks, polychaetes, etc., and usually likes to inhabit tidal flats with rich food.Flounder females lay eggs on the slopes of tidal flats in winter, and the hatched juveniles will come to shallow water at the turn of spring and summer to prey on small fish and small crustaceans. Mullet is one of their foods.

May and June are the seasons when flounder juveniles migrate to the tidal flats. If juveniles came to live on the coast at that time, more flounder can be found at this time in September, but flounder is a bottom-dwelling fish. It cannot be captured using the netting method.

After burying the bait according to Professor Yang's request, the students installed an underwater live camera near the bait with the help of Zhou Hao.

After the preparatory work was completed, the students came to the back of the monitor, and after a while, several fish swam into several live cameras.

"This is yellow snapper, a kind of offshore fish that is particularly greedy and easy to catch." Li Chengxin introduced, after thinking for a while, for the sake of professionalism, he added, "The sea bream belongs to the genus Pyrididae, and the identification method is their fins. It's yellow."

"There are quite a few here." Professor Yang nodded, acknowledging Li Chengxin's identification result, "Yellow snapper's sense of smell is more sensitive than sight."

【Are they smelling?It feels weird to be motionless above the bait. 】

[Probably three questions: What is this smell?Where does this smell come from?Do I want to eat? 】

[Such a cute fish, I want to eat it! 】

As the sun goes down, the tide picks up faster, which can be seen even in the live footage in the sea.

A student sharply pointed to a small lens: "There seems to be something in it."

Zhou Hao immediately zoomed in on the view, a huge fish slid past the corner of the camera, and the huge fins raised the sea sand and muddied the entire screen.

This shot was played back several times, and everyone tried to identify the fish in the video.

"It's so big, it seems that I saw the fisheye part in an instant."

"Bass?"

"Physically it's pretty similar."

Bass is also an offshore carnivorous fish that relies on the sense of smell to find small fish, and its vision is only 0.12.

The one we caught last night kept everyone full, so I thought it would be nice to have another one.Several students were eager to go into the sea to catch fish, but considering that their purpose of surveillance today was other fish, they had to bear with it for now.

When the tide was about to be high, another creature broke into a camera. Everyone took a closer look, but it was a big Brazilian tortoise.

The Brazilian tortoise, an invasive species, is the most common species in the reptile pet market all over the world. If you see it in the wild, everyone will kill it.It happened that the camera was not far from the coast. A student took a long-handled net bag over there, and picked up the Brazilian turtle in one go.

Soon, in another shot, a black figure flew by.

"Huh? What is this?"

After several playbacks, everyone realized that it was a seabird.

Several people looked up at the sea, and a black cormorant jumped out of the water, holding a yellow snapper in its long and curved beak.

"Because they are chasing these fish, cormorants are one of the strongest hunters in the coastal waters. The diving time is as long as 1 minute. The swimming speed in the water is tied with tuna. They can even prey on bass similar in size to themselves... ...swallow it whole."

(End of this chapter)