My Deep-sea Fishery

Sea anemone shrimp is a very valuable shrimp species.

Its value does not lie in its rarity, but in its good looks and in its difficulty in catching.

If it is diving fishing, the super small size allows the anemone shrimp to hide in the sea anemone at any time, and the versatile transparent body color makes it have the ability to "change color". Fishermen usually start from the anemone shrimp when diving. You can't find each other even if you go upstream above your head.

As for trawling, even the most fine-meshed juehu nets can hardly catch sea anemone shrimp with a length of only two or three centimeters.

Xiang Yang carefully observed the group of sea anemone shrimp. This group of sea anemone shrimp is mainly purple-colored sea anemone shrimp, and a small part is white-colored sea anemone shrimp.

Xiang Yang felt a little strange. Although the purple-spotted anemone shrimp and the white-spotted anemone shrimp are both called anemone shrimp, and they are both relatively common species of anemone shrimp, they are actually not the same kind of shrimp at all. In addition to the different colors, the spots on the tail of the shrimp are also different. There are two round spots on the tail of the purple anemone shrimp that resemble eyes, while the tail of the white anemone shrimp has five orange spots with black edges.

Two different types of shrimp can live together harmoniously, blending into a group is really a wonder in the world.

It is worth mentioning that sea anemone shrimp are easy to raise as ornamental fish. Although they are omnivorous creatures, they prefer to eat meat. The staple food is usually the food residue of giant sea anemones, which are typical clean shrimps. Keep them in the tank It can effectively keep the water tank clean.

There was a time when sea anemone shrimp was very popular in the ornamental fish market, but gradually for some reason, not many people like to raise sea anemone shrimp. There is a saying that raising sea anemone shrimp pays and returns Not directly proportional.

Because sea anemone shrimps often appear in groups on the rocky reefs at the bottom of the ocean at a depth of 8 meters to 25 meters, it is difficult for fishermen to find them, and every time they are found, they catch a large group, so even if the sea anemone shrimp grows It is very beautiful, and it can reflect colorful colors under the light, and it is difficult to sell at a good price.

Xiang Yang grabbed a purple-spotted sea anemone shrimp and held it in front of his eyes for a closer look. It was completely different from other shrimps. Its head and eyes were completely transparent. Its head and eyes are not visible at all, but its scalloped tail has a pair of brightly colored false eyes, much like a butterflyfish, which can trick predators into thinking its tail is a head.

Xiang Yang was not interested in this kind of small shrimp-like sea anemone shrimp, but he did not leave immediately, but continued to search carefully on the spot.

Xiang Yang wanted to see if he could find sea anemones nearby.

Sea anemone shrimp is a small shrimp that lives in symbiosis with large sea anemones. The sea anemone provides shelter and food for the sea anemone shrimp, and the sea anemone shrimp is responsible for the cleaning of the sea anemone, so in most cases it is found that the sea anemone Anemone shrimp also means that sea anemones have been discovered.

Compared with sea anemone shrimp, Xiang Yang is obviously more interested in sea anemones. Compared with sea anemone shrimp, which are not very valuable and have a worrying market prospect, the artificially cultivated sea anemones with the lowest quality on the market can be sold for tens of dollars A catty of sea anemones with slightly better quality can be sold for hundreds of dollars per catty, while wild sea anemones can be sold for hundreds of dollars per catty.

Moreover, sea anemones are not the same as abalones. Abalones are too timid and always like to hide in the crevices of rocks. It is really hard to find.

What about sea anemones?

They will be scattered on the bottom of the sea in patches like plants. Once they are found, they don't even need a net bag, just carry a sack to put them in.

Xiang Yang followed the sea anemone shrimp and swam as far as possible to places where there were many sea anemone shrimp.

Swimming further, Xiang Yang found a lot of shells of sea anemone shrimp on the bottom of the sea.

This discovery made Xiang Yang very excited.

Sea anemone shrimp and sea anemone often establish a symbiotic relationship. Since the stinging cells on the tentacles of sea anemones are highly toxic, sea anemone shrimp must cover their whole body with the mucus secreted by the sea anemone to avoid being accidentally injured by the sea anemone. Therefore, every time the sea anemone shrimp shells, it will leave the sea anemone until a new shell grows, and it will be covered with a layer of sea anemone's mucus before returning to the sea anemone again.

Because the sea anemone shrimps that have escaped from the sea anemone are very fragile, they usually do not leave the sea anemone too far when they moult, so Xiang Yang is sure that there must be sea anemones nearby.

Sure enough, when Xiang Yang swam further and passed a huge reef, he immediately found that the bottom of the ocean in front of him was covered with giant sea anemones like small umbrellas.

Xiang Yang was overjoyed immediately when he found out, he picked a sea anemone as big as a millstone and stuffed it into the net bag, stuffing the whole net bag bulging.

Xiang Yang wasn't greedy either. After remembering the location, he went directly to the sea.

Back on the deck, many crew members were resting on the deck. When they saw Xiang Yang coming up, they all smiled and announced the good news to Xiang Yang, telling Xiang Yang how many abalones they had caught.

Xiang Yang was also very excited when he saw the happy faces. Today is definitely a bumper day for him.

Fang Youqun waited for everyone to finish talking before he said, "Brother Yang, you have a bulging net bag, did you catch another one-headed abalone?"

Xiang Yang shook his head, smiled and said, "I didn't catch any more abalone after I went down just now."

"Did you catch abalone?" Everyone looked at Xiang Yang suspiciously, "No way, Captain, there are so many abalones down here, and you even caught a single-headed abalone. Why don't you go down and catch abalones?" ?”

Fang Youqun even reached out to grab the net bag tied around Xiang Yang's waist, "You don't even catch abalone, brother Yang, let me see what you are catching in this net bag, and I will go down and catch this in a while."

"Don't move." Xiang Yang grabbed Fang Youqun's bronzed wrist.

"Uh." Fang Youqun was a little surprised, he didn't expect Xiang Yang's reaction to be so strong, he hurriedly explained: "Brother Yang, I just want to see what's in your net pocket."

Only then did Xiang Yang let go of Fang Youqun's wrist, and said in a low voice, "The thing in my net pocket is highly poisonous, if you want to touch it, put on your gloves first."

"Extremely poisonous?" Chen Qingsheng said, "Captain, you must have caught a net of jellyfish and returned, right? That stuff seems worthless."

"It's not a jellyfish." After Xiang Yang said something, he stopped explaining and untied the net bag directly, exposing the giant sea anemone inside the net bag.

"Hiss!" There was a gasp in the air immediately, "My God, is this a sea anemone? Such a big sea anemone?"

Xiang Yang smiled. He knew why the crew members were so shocked. Everyone on this boat had seen sea anemones, and they often saw them. Everyone was very familiar with sea anemones. Aoi was only the size of a plastic bottle cap, and compared to this sea anemone as big as a small umbrella, it was completely like two kinds of creatures, no wonder they were shocked.