I have a sea in ancient times

Chapter 272
The two boats were floating on the sea. Lu Hai changed the diving site today, and the number of starfish here is relatively small.

On the boat, Lu Hai was reading a book "Illustrated Book of Coastal Benthic Animals". Lu Hai found that there are really few books on the Internet that really introduce marine life in detail.

And the prices are very expensive, and most of them are published by Ocean Publishing House. Lu Hai bought this book, which cost almost 300 yuan, and introduced the growth environment of sea cucumbers in more detail.

Sea cucumbers generally live in places where there are many reefs and fine sand, mud and seaweed.

The most suitable temperature for growth is 10-18 degrees Celsius. If the temperature is higher than 24 degrees Celsius, it will slowly enter aestivation, and if it is lower than 5 degrees Celsius, it will enter hibernation.

After mastering the growth environment of sea cucumbers, it was easier for Lu Hai to find them, and he quickly located an area where reefs mixed with fine sand and mud bottom.

After checking with the underwater camera, I found that there are indeed many sea cucumbers crawling slowly on the seabed, and there are also many sea cucumbers on the nearby reefs.

So the submarine fishing team made its official debut for the first time. Lu Hai divided them into two groups and took turns to rest.

When diving to find white jade sea cucumbers.

Lu Hai asked them to catch sea cucumbers, abalones, sea oysters, lobsters and the like that met the standard by the way.

There are indeed quite a lot of sea cucumbers, but this kind of wild sea cucumbers are not as big as the farmed ones, and the thorns of the sea cucumbers look relatively round and not as sharp as the farmed ones.

Due to the harsh living environment, wild sea cucumbers are always threatened by natural enemies, so they have to crawl on the bottom of the sea. The thorns on their bodies naturally don't look so good.

Most of the farmed seafood is the same as pigs because they are fed. They are the kind that are too lazy to move.

Most of the wild sea cucumbers are gray and black. Because of frequent crawling, the thorns have been smoothed out, coupled with frequent exercise, so they are short, hard and thick.

However, most buyers can't tell the difference, especially after drying. Only Lao Tie knows a little bit about it. If it is sold in the market casually, it may be regarded as a defective product again.

After all, there are fewer and fewer wild sea cucumbers, and there are many varieties. The sea cucumber caught by Lu Hai is sea cucumber, which is considered the best quality in the sea cucumber family.

Speaking of sea cucumbers, Lu Hai couldn't help but want to complain about the miserable state of the breeding industry.

Raising sea cucumbers is high-risk, especially in the geographical location of Xiaqi Island, which is more risky than the Liaodong area. One is the climate. Once the seawater temperature exceeds 33 degrees, sea cucumbers will die collectively.

In the event of red tides, typhoons, etc., there will be great losses, and fishing costs are also very expensive.

There are not many divers in Xiaqi Island. Among them, those who do this kind of work are called "water ghosts". They don't get paid, but they are paid according to the amount they catch.

It costs about two yuan to catch a catty of sea cucumbers, and powerful "water ghosts" can catch more than 500 catties a day. If you come across a good farm, a thousand catties is not a problem.

A monthly income is at least 6 yuan, and a good person can earn [-] to [-] yuan a month.

Compared with the salary of fishing kelp next door, the salary is much higher, but the risk is also very high. I remember that two years ago, a "water ghost" hired by Lao Ma had a problem.

Losing money doesn’t help. Now the whole family of the “water ghost” comes to the factory to cry and make noises from time to time. It’s tiring to say it, but they all belong to the same village.

In short, in the past few years, Lao Ma's farm has been similar to what his son said, and it is good enough to keep its capital. Most of the time, it is losing money.

However, the climate disaster a few months ago completely crushed him. He heard from his father that he would have to die unless he sold the breeding plant. If this continues, he will not even be able to pay the bank interest.

If you insist on it, you will lose in the end, and maybe a good factory manager will become an old man, and eventually it will hurt your family.

Farming is not easy these days.

Lu Hai took several large buckets and filled them with sea cucumbers, abalones and oysters, and at the same time closely watched every move of the underwater divers through underwater cameras.

After a morning of fishing.

A total of more than 1000 sea cucumbers were caught, with an average weight of about one catty. More than 500 oysters were caught, and more than 200 abalones were caught.

More than 1000 catties of fresh sea cucumbers are estimated to be able to process 40 catties of dried sea cucumbers. What Lu Hai uses here are sea cucumbers that are dried in the sun using the "light-dried" method.

Light-dried sea cucumbers are also the most expensive among the sea cucumbers. Generally, light-dried sea cucumbers from Lao Ma cost at least 2000 yuan per catty, and good quality can even sell for four to five thousand yuan.

And those less than one thousand, most of them are a bit tricky. In addition to "light dry", sea cucumbers also have "sugar dry" and "salt dry".

Among them, "dried salt" is generally used to make sea cucumbers of relatively poor quality, and even those dead sea cucumbers, when purchased, the surface looks white with a layer of sea salt.

This kind of sea cucumber is pickled with salt many times in the process of processing, the nutrient loss is serious, and the foaming rate of the low foaming rate is very low.

As a fisherman, Lu Hai would rather eat fresh sea cucumbers than processed ones. After all, he has no way of knowing what kind of salt is being used.

If it is industrial salt, it is not a tonic.

It is possible to eat too much and have to dig into the soil.

In addition to dried salt, there is also dried sugar, which is also a very unfriendly sea cucumber.

Many people have heard the saying that "one catty of sea cucumber has five ounces of sugar". In order to lower the price, some profiteers will secretly add ingredients in the process of making dried sea cucumber.

The ingredients added are sugar, usually 30 catties of sea cucumbers, but after drying alone, there are only about one catty of sea cucumbers.

But sugar-dried sea cucumbers only need about 10 catties to make a whole catty of dried sea cucumbers. The cost price is three times lower, and it is naturally cheaper to sell.

And this kind of sugar-dried sea cucumber is definitely a poison for diabetic patients. Many people who don't understand buy sea cucumbers for patients to improve their health, but the more they eat, the worse their health becomes.

"Ugh."

Lu Hai sighed. Compared with the neighboring countries, our country's processing industry really has too many monsters and ghosts.

But there is no way to do this. This approach has long been a common consensus among processing plants and dealers, because if you don’t do this, you won’t be able to make money.

Rich people eat light dried sea cucumbers, and those who have no money still want to eat, so they eat dried salt and dried sea cucumbers. After all, the price is so high. How can there be so many people who can afford dried sea cucumbers worth two to three thousand a catty.

noon.

As Lu Hai expected, there was still no white jade sea cucumber. This group of divers had been working in the sea for four hours.

Lu Hai pulled them all up and asked them to rest in the cabin. After all, fishing at the bottom of the sea is very exhausting.

Lu Hai gave them some steamed buns, sweet potatoes and other dry food, and by the way, each rewarded them with a bottle of Fat House Happy Water.

Lu Hai changed the fishing location again, and the second batch of divers entered the water to continue searching for white jade sea cucumbers.

After arriving at a new location.

Lu Hai checked it with an underwater camera, yes, just like the previous point, there are a lot of sea cucumbers.

After the land and sea survey, he found that something was wrong with the sea surface. There seemed to be a large number of transparent small fish drifting with the current on the sea surface, and he could vaguely see these transparent small fish with a black line on their body.

"This is?" Lu Hai frowned slightly.

(End of this chapter)