Golden Fishery

  Mao Weilong knew that Qin Shiou was also interested in farming, so when he packed his things, he said, “I will go to the farmer’s seminar in Emerald Town tomorrow? You can get in touch with this industry more and you can learn more.”

  Qin Shiou doesn't matter, anyway, he has nothing to do with him recently except for a tour of the owner of the fishery.

  Unfortunately, the plan was not as fast as the change. He still had to rush back the next morning. A call came from home: "Leatherback turtles laid eggs on the fishing ground!"

  Leatherback turtles have little effect on fishing grounds, and their economic value is not high, but it is very important for the marine life chain. They are one of the few species that can restrain the crazy breeding of jellyfish, and they are also children of the sea.

  Qin Shiou protects leatherback turtles purely from a public welfare perspective. Later, after he had the ambition to become a sea god, he felt the importance of this behavior.

The fishermen all know his love for leatherback turtles, so as long as there is any problem with the leatherback turtles, they will be reported to him immediately, and laying eggs is naturally the most important thing, because Qin Shiou once said that the leatherback turtles don’t seem to be Like spawning in fish farms.

  Qin Shiou was overjoyed when he learned that the leatherback turtle had finally laid eggs on the fishing ground, and immediately decided to go back and take a look.

  Last year, Qin Shiou restrained the tortoise within the scope of the fishing ground, but these guys actually stopped laying eggs.

  It is understandable that natural species can quickly form stress changes for protecting themselves. For example, the long teeth of African elephants often cause them to kill, so now the teeth of baby elephants do not grow very long.

   Another example is that antelope fur has always been a treasure in the international fur trade. For this reason, antelopes were slaughtered, and later slowly. The fur of the antelopes is getting rougher and rougher, and they use this method to protect themselves.

  Qin Shiou guessed at the time that the leatherback turtle might have found that it was unable to leave the fishing grounds in order to protect future generations from enslavement. They refused to mate and did not give birth to offspring in the fishery.

  Now, leatherback turtles are finally willing to give birth to offspring in the fishery. What does this mean? It shows that they regard this place as an important survival base. This is a good thing.

The number of leatherback turtles is decreasing day by day. In the two decades from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, the number of them has dropped sharply due to changes in ocean water temperature, illegal fishing by fishermen, marine pollution and local tourism development due to the El Niño phenomenon. About 95%.

  Later, although various countries put leatherback turtles into the ranks of protecting animals and protected their habitats, new killers appeared. People threw plastic bags in the ocean, and leatherback turtles had poor eyesight. I thought it was a jellyfish that would eat it, but I couldn't digest it and died of intestinal infarction.

  Qin Shiou talked to Mao Weilong, had breakfast, and returned by helicopter.

After returning to the fishery, Winnie deliberately did not go to work and waited for him. After seeing him back, she said happily: "It was Shirley who found it. In the morning, they went to the farm to pick up eggs as usual, but they found a leatherback turtle. Go ashore to lay eggs."

  The main spawning season for leatherback turtles is between May and June each year. Females need to climb from the ocean to the beach to burrow and lay eggs. Spawning is usually carried out at night, and the action is very cautious. If they encounter external disturbances, they will immediately return to the ocean.

  The reason why the leatherback turtles in the fishing ground lay their eggs in the morning may be that they have lived in the fishing grounds for a while and feel safer, so they climbed up to the beach in the morning.

  Leatherback turtles lay eggs in groups. When a female turtle takes the lead, other female turtles will climb up the beach to lay eggs in the next few days.

  As early as the 1960s, there were 10,000 leatherback turtles inhabiting and laying eggs in the Lanta Abang area on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. The time is one week.

  Qin Shiou read the relevant information. It was really a grand occasion. During that time, the beach turned blue-black, full of female turtles coming ashore to lay eggs.

  Unfortunately, this grand occasion has become a legend. It has now entered the leatherback turtle spawning season, but according to the Malaysian Fisheries Department. Only three leatherback turtles have come to the Ta Abang area so far this year, and none have laid eggs.

  If risk factors are not considered, the true prime time for laying eggs is noon, because no matter what kind of eggs, they need a suitable temperature to hatch.

  The temperature of the beach at noon is just right, not very high but full of heat, and the tortoise eggs will maintain the highest vitality after being laid in the sand.

  On average, a leatherback turtle can lay about 100 eggs during the spawning season, but at least one tenth cannot hatch. The reason is that the temperature at the time of spawning is not suitable, which causes the eggs to freeze to death.

  Qin Shiou went back to the beach at the mouth of the sea. It was noon, the sun was shining brightly, and the temperature of the sand was a bit hot, but for tortoises, this was a temperature suitable for laying eggs.

  One after another, several female leatherback turtles climbed up the beach. They were all different in size, ranging from one meter to two and a half meters long.

  In addition to the female tortoise, there is also a male tortoise on the beach, that is Nicholas tortoise IV.

  Four masters are patrolling the beach with its hip-hop ghost steps. Although they are trembling while walking, they are really suitable for sentry, because its head can keep turning, and any wind and grass can't avoid its eyes.

  Undoubtedly, these female tortoises came ashore to prepare to lay their eggs. They are very careful in choosing where to lay their eggs. They must not only help the hatching of the eggs, but also be found and destroyed by the predators.

  Seven or eight female tortoises climbed up one after another, and then they divided their troops to find a suitable place to lay eggs on the beach.

  Qin Shiou saw that they hadn’t dig egg holes for a long time, and understood the reason, and took Wei Ni to find some shrubs in the grass behind, and planted them randomly on the beach after pulling out the roots.

  Sure enough, the bushes were found, and the female tortoises crawled over happily. They first dig a hole on the beach next to the shrubs with their oar-like forelimbs, digging a large pit, just about the size of their body, and then their whole body slumped into the sand pit.

  Hiding in the pit, the female tortoise’s eyes stared tightly around her, her hind legs dig down alternately like a shovel, and a vertical egg pit was dug under the genital hole behind the buttocks.

  At this time the female turtles are about to lay eggs.

  A feature of female tortoises laying eggs is that they are extra cautious before laying eggs and return to the sea immediately if there is a slight disturbance. But once spawning starts, no matter how strong the stimulus is encountered, it is completely ignored.

  The real snapping turtle master doesn’t know when it crawled over. It also lived in this place, so he is familiar with everything.

   Lie on the beach, the master first sighed with emotion that the sun and the moon are like a shuttle turtle, and then he saw the female turtle laying eggs and crawled over it curiously to look at it.

  The female tortoises stared at the master nervously, but they were still laying eggs, while Nicholas Guisi quickly rushed over in a ghostly step, and ran into the master!

  As if the Zhiyuan ship hit the little devil’s Yoshino ship, the Fourth Master did not hesitate to move forward bravely! (To be continued~^~)