1535. Select the pro-shell
After a day of busy work, along with sea capture and manual picking, the collection of scallops has finally been done almost. A pool of scallops remained on the beach. As long as the water vapor is abundant, they will not be in danger of life. They live well here.
Qin Shiou came over chewing gum, watching the sunset and these mother-sized shrubs, planning tomorrow's work.
The sunset shines gently, the weather in early spring is still a little chilly, the evening breeze blows on people's faces, and tigers, leopards, bears, wolves and other guys are chasing each other on the beach.
Bear loli stared at the scallops curiously, and then while no one was paying attention, it walked up carefully and slapped a few scallops, opened its mouth and exposed its pink tongue and licked it into its mouth.
The umami flavor of scallops quickly conquered its taste buds. The bear loli was very happy and spread its fat claws and slapped the scallops, licking the shell meat and swallowing it together.
Noting this, the silent Evosen immediately ran up, picked up the Bear Loli and dragged it back.
Bear Loli howled unwillingly. When Xiong Da heard it, he roared and showed the majesty of the King of the Mountains. Unfortunately, he turned his head and saw that it was Evosen holding Bear Loli. He was immediately depressed and sat down there in a daze.
Obviously, Evosen left too much impression on Xiong Da when he was young, so he still felt scared.
The seals also targeted scallops. Because they had no claws and only limbs that looked like fish fins, they could not dig shellfish in the mud and sand by themselves. Of course, there were short-tailed gulls and silver gulls in the fishing ground before, and the seals didn't bother to eat scallops.
Now that the short-tailed squid has left and the silver gull has been driven away, the seals have to choose alternatives to food.
There is no doubt that for them, capelin and herring mackerel taste better, but when you catch fish, scallops accumulate here. This way, scallops seem to be good food for seals that can be lazy and do not act as hard as possible.
Qin Shiou saw that this was not good. A group of guys were staring at the scallops. It was easy to say anything else. The scallops had more than 100,000 yuan, so it was nothing to eat, but if the seals were also targeting them, it would be troublesome. Not only were the seals large in number, but they were all big eaters!
So he could only direct the fishermen to eat some food overnight and send the shells around the engineering aquaculture pool.
What we will do the next day is the bay scallop fry work.
The production of bay scallop seedlings is one of the dominant shellfish industries in the Atlantic coastal areas, and has undergone years of improvement. The seedling cultivation technology has been greatly improved, but many fishery farms are still unable to obtain enough scallop larvae because of the low hatching rate, which directly leads to the failure of seedling cultivation.
Therefore, increasing the hatching rate of bay scallops is one of the key technologies for seedling production. Qin Shiou not only needs to input sea god energy to them, but also try to adopt more scientific breeding methods. He cannot rely solely on sea god energy.
The fishermen all went into battle, Shaq, sea monster, bull, and smoke blast each led a team of ten people, selected the mother shells separately, and placed them on different breeding rafts according to the quality of the mother shells.
The last mother scallop is a kind of bay scallop with full gonads, large individuals, and complete appearance. It is sorted and selected and put into different breeding ponds. Adjust the water temperature and oxygen content in the water, and temporarily maintain the mother scallop.
The cultivation of mother scabies is the basis. They are hermaphrodite and reproductive habits are in vitro fertilization and in vitro development. They usually lay eggs in spring and autumn. It is obvious that the maturity of mother scabies' reproductive gonads directly affects the quality of eggs.
In fact, Daqin Fishery is not the most suitable place to breed seashells. Take this scallop for example. They can be harvested for two seasons a year in the South Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico, but only one season is available here.
Of course, there will be gains when there are losses. Compared with scallops in the southern tropical seas, the bay scallops produced in the North Atlantic Ocean, especially in Newfoundland fishery, are of better quality, have lower pollution levels, and can be sold at a higher price.
As he entered the seedling breeding season for various marine aquatic products, Sanders rushed back from the No. 2 Fishery for guidance. He took Qin Shiou one by one to watch the scallops on the breeding raft.
After seeing it, the old professor was a little depressed and said, "The quality of the fishing ground is good."
Kiss means mother beans. Qin Shiou thinks the title behind is more appropriate, but Sanders is academic after all, and uses more accurate words. After hearing this, he feels that he will also call Kisss in the future, which is more stylish.
As for the old professor's depression, he could understand it very well. In fact, although the old man was a genius, he did not play much in the fishing ground. He finally had a black cover giant insect project, but he was stopped by Qin Shiou because of the lack of raw materials. That was his most regrettable.
Hearing the old professor's words, Qin Shiou grinned and said, "These scallops are all high-quality pro-shells I have introduced from other fishing grounds. Of course, the quality is good, and I don't want it even if it is not good."
There are two scallops commonly used in major Canadian fishery, the American Gulf Scallop and the Mexican Gulf Scallop. Both scallops have their own advantages and disadvantages, but they all have one common problem, that is, the decline in quality.
The reasons for this are first of all, the problem of germplasm degradation of this shell; secondly, the problem of breeding environment pollution; thirdly, the problem of operation management, breeding density, etc.; fourthly, there are breeding problems.
The two types of bay scallops have been breeding in North America for more than half a century. The Gulf scallops of Mexico were introduced from Mexico. Because the regime in Laos and Mexico was unstable at the time, the number of introductions between the two countries was limited. Moreover, it has a nightmare that breeds one generation every six months, so after more than half a century of artificial reproduction, incomparable mating is inevitable.
It's like a human being. The quality of children born from close relatives is difficult to guarantee. Over time, the breeding traits of Bei will deteriorate. Sanders initially thought that the fishing ground would encounter this problem, and he wanted to solve this problem to show his strong strength.
As a result, the strong mothers didn't give him a chance!
After seeing the quality of scallops, Sanders suggested that Qin Shiou would not engage in primitive breeding and do a seedling cultivation business, which is more profitable than primitive breeding because it makes money quickly. It would take a year or even years to produce without raising fish, shrimps, and scallops.
Canada's scallop industry is currently facing a crisis of declining quality. There are two ways to solve this crisis. One is to re-introduce the original Gulf of Mexico scallops from the United States and Mexico to breed, which is more expensive.
Another way is to choose excellent seeds to cultivate and reproduce themselves. This is cheap, but difficult to operate, and the cycle is long. Just like manually screening high-quality varieties, it takes several rounds of screening and mating and repeated comparisons to get the results.
Qin Shiou thought about it and said that this was also a good idea for development. He used the consciousness of the sea god to transform the parent body. In this way, the fish, shrimp, and shellfish produced will be of high quality, which can be regarded as the use of gold fingers to contribute to marine life to the greatest extent. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!