Employees of the fishing tackle shop are unloading shrimp pots into the open field, and a truck can carry dozens of them, and it will take a long time to get them all done.

In order not to delay going to sea, the necessary tools were sent early, and now it is 9:20, and it is almost debugged and installed.

Captain Robinson was in his forties, with a thin face and a full beard, and those who lived off the sea could not count on luck, and experience was the best way to stay safe in the moody sea.

He was an experienced captain, and the Erna butler offered $80,000 a year to get him from the distant-water fishing fleet.

The sailors on the Great Penguin had never seen such a sturdy bear, and the tortoise did not look like a sea turtle, so they all lay on the edge of the deck and looked around, and when they saw that they were all coming to the ship, they scattered in fright.

"Haha! How dare you say you're a sailor!?" Captain Robinson scoffed, most of them were from the town of Monterey, and they were already familiar with it, and after saying that, he reached out to touch Pooh to show his guts, and when he saw that the brown bear was dissatisfied and turned back and opened his mouth, he immediately shrank back.

"I see!"

Now it was the ship's sailors' turn to laugh at him.

Robinson's face turned red, and he waved his hand and shouted: "Why don't you come down and move the cage quickly, you can put as much as you want!" It's been a long delay!"

Han Xuan walked to the shrimp pot, the boxy cage was connected to a red float with a thick rope, and a funnel-shaped opening was opened next to it, "Captain, that's it?"

?“ That's right, the broken ditch lobster will never be able to escape from it, there are 300,000 such cages in this sea, and their spawning season has passed, and now is the fattest time. ”

"What do lobsters like to eat in it?"

"Yes, little Logan, show him what we prepared yesterday!" exclaimed Robinson as he looked back.

A sailor on the ship made an OK gesture and ran down the stairs with a bucket, and when he approached, Han Xuan hurriedly pinched his nose. Smell-sensitive animals stay away.

"What stinks so much!"

"Fish, pickled fish, covered for a day and a night, this taste of broken ditch lobsters is the favorite, I didn't have time to do more, today bring fifty shrimp fishing pots to try first." Look at the number of shrimp here. ”

"Okay sir, you can take it back, look at my Pooh, it's all smoked to your stomach"

The town's fishermen have a custom of opening a bottle of champagne to celebrate before setting off.

However, Han Xuan felt that the person who created this custom must be a drunkard, because he couldn't drink alcohol at sea, so he came up with this method.

Dad was celebrating with the sailors, and a young man was watching, and when he noticed Han Xuan approaching, he put down what he was holding and stood up. Smiled: "Hello, my name is Langdon." ”

"Hello, I'm Han, why didn't you go drinking?"

"Because I'm still half a month away from reaching adulthood, the captain won't let me drink it. Langdon said helplessly, "You're about to go to sea, you're so nervous, what about you?"

“…… The first time?"

"No, no. I used to go to sea a lot at UC Irvine, but that was for research. It's the first time I've been fishing on my own, and I'm a marine biology major, and I'm working on my graduation thesis. No other fishing boat would take me with me, but I was fortunate to have met Mr. Ernner, otherwise I would have to worry about what to do. ”

The ship was still at the dock, and Robinson shouted for the sailors to start. He headed for the driver's cab.

Langdon continued: "I'm looking at the ecological damage caused by trawling, which sweeps across the oceans that pass by, and there are 3.5 million fishing vessels in the world, of which only 1.7 percent are giant industrial fishing vessels, which catch nearly 60 percent of the world's seafood each year.

You know what. Unfolding a giant trawl in the sea will kill all the marine life in one net, big and small, and there is absolutely no chance of survival.

More than a million sharks, 30,000 cetaceans and dolphins, 10,000 albatrosses, 15,000 endangered sea turtles, and countless other marine creatures were innocently killed last year.

They have no commercial value and are thrown back into the sea, but due to changes in water pressure, the guts of these fish have been destroyed and will soon die, and in the case of bottom trawling, the seabed and corals will be damaged.

I wanted to write a paper for others to take seriously, and if this went on for a hundred years, there would be no fish in the ocean. ”

"No wonder no fishing boat is willing to take you, you are smashing their jobs. Han Xuan casually found a clean place to sit down, the hull of the ship shook violently, black eyes appeared from the chimney, and the sound of water splashing sounded.

The Great Penguin departed.

"HAN, I'm not opposed to fishing from the ocean, but there should be moderation, and the Hokkaido fisheries, the North Sea fisheries, the Newfoundland fisheries, and the Peruvian fisheries, all four of the world's fisheries, are facing depletion.

Newfoundland fisheries are running out of fish anymore, which is a sign of a decline in marine fish, and you may not understand it now, but you will understand it later. ”

Seeing the worried expression on the young man's face, Han Xuan patted him beside him with a smile and let him sit, although this serious look was silly, it was also silly and cute, and he said: "Then you are following the wrong fishing boat, our fishing ground is in the marine conservation area, and we will not fish at will, if I catch protected animals, I would rather stop the boat and let them go away than fish them ashore, is this okay?"

Langdon rolled his eyes when he heard the title, sat down and said, "The Monterey Bay Marine Conservation Area exists in name only, it restricts the fishing season, but when it is open, the fishing boats catch hard, and the rate of reproduction cannot keep up with the speed of fishing.

Our dean has been following the fish here for seven years, and every time we come to the fishermen, the harvest is declining, and compared to the mid-80s, the fish population has more than halved, and the income has decreased, and the fishermen have fished more aggressively, and so on, trawling has destroyed the algae and corals on the bottom of the sea.

Combined with the pollution, I think in a few years this place will be closed like the Newfoundland fishing grounds. ”

"So serious?" Han Xuan was shocked, he had heard about how many fish there were in Monterey Bay, but if he thought about it carefully, it seemed that the canning farms had closed down, and the situation was definitely not much better.

"Well, so your family bought Ganbao Marine Ranch at a big loss, it's better to sell it at this time, the school has communicated with the California government a few times, no one cares, but it doesn't hurt to release the news to the fishermen, and the school handed over the state's fishery resource distribution map, which has also become a map for the fishermen, where the fish go to where there are more fish, and you have to be willing to catch the fish in the sea at one time. ”

Langdon looked disdainful and sighed deeply.

"So there is a way to protect the fishing ground?" recruited the fat ding who ran around, afraid that it would fall into the sea, Han Xuan asked holding the cat.

"The only way to do this is to put in the fry, reduce the number of catches, and restore the seabed ecology here to attract fish to come.

Gray whales, which used to breed in California in February, now know that they will be killed if they stay here, and would rather swim thousands of kilometers to the west coast of Mexico than stay here for ......" (To be continued. )