Chapter 392: Predator

Standing next to the Patriarch Kiri is Nelson of Wharton Fisheries, Xiao Peng's partner in Kamchatka.
At this moment, he was standing next to Patriarch Kiri and others: "Xiao contacted me and said that he would come here to supply supplies, and there was a batch of catches to deal with. But he did not say how long he would be here. Kirimu First, the sea breeze here is too strong, why don't we go to my company and wait for them?"
What else did Patriarch Kiri think about, but an old man in a red robe beside him said: "Mr. Nelson, we understand your kindness. In order to show our sincerity, let's wait here for a while, Ji Chief Li, what do you think?"
"Bishop Augusto, I agree with you. Mr. Nelson, let's wait here a little longer." Patriarch Kiri said.
If Xiao Peng saw this scene, he would definitely be confused. Why did the cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church come? Still standing next to Patriarch Kiri?
Cardinal, this name may be relatively unfamiliar to people, but when it comes to cardinal, everyone knows it.
The cardinal is the cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church!
They were standing on the pier waiting anxiously, Xiao Peng on the Bering Sea and the others were another scene:
"Boss, the bottom net has been changed, when will it be off?" Wang Hu came in and asked.
Xiao Peng just wanted to issue an order, but Yang Meng said, "Xiao Peng, don't worry about getting off the net, the air pressure is not right."
"What's the matter?" Xiao Peng walked to the weather satellite.
Yang Meng pointed to the weather cloud map and said, "There is cold air going south."
Xiao Peng looked at it: "Fuck, so fast? This is the rhythm of a storm, Wang Hu, everyone pays attention, collect the fishing net as fast as possible, strengthen the deck, change the channel, and follow the survey. Canada goes south along the coast. Watch for pressure changes at any time!"
Following Xiao Peng's instructions, everyone began to get busy. The Vladimir headed south along Kamchatka. The waves of the Bering Sea are getting bigger and bigger.
Xiao Peng looked at the shore with a telescope: "The weather in the Nyima Bering Sea is really unpleasant. No wonder fishermen die here every year, and they change to heaven if they don't agree with each other!"
Yang Meng also said: "Nothing is as good as our Huaxia. After walking for so long, I really miss home."
Xiao Peng said: "You are homesick there. Are you missing a girl? Did the girls on your Weibo hook you up?"
Yang Meng looked at Xiao Peng contemptuously: "I suspect you have a problem now. You don't want a woman after being at sea for so long? With Sergey, so many Russian girls don't move your heart?"
Xiao Peng snorted coldly: "Do you think you are all hungry and not choosing food? A little bit of pursuit, OK! I think you can't wait to harm Sergey's sister all over!"
"Why, how many can I harm on that night? Don't ruin my reputation?" Yang Meng retorted.
"Fame? Do you have that stuff?" Xiao Peng said disdainfully, and then handed the binoculars to Yang Meng: "Look at the shore, okay?"
Yang Meng followed the direction of Xiao Peng's finger and looked at the shore. It was a sandy beach with a pile of black or yellow things. Yang Meng saw that there were northern sea dogs everywhere.
"This is the breeding area of ​​the North Sea Dogs. They give birth here for four months each year, and then stay in the sea for eight months, and wait until next year to give birth." Xiao Peng said.
"Didn't you still put a few small things?" Yang Meng asked with the telescope.
"That's not a small thing, they are all adult female fur seals. They are responsible for preying during this breeding season, otherwise how would the fur seal grow up?"
Yang Meng was stunned: "The female fur seal preys on it, what about the male fur seal?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Responsible for making female fur seals pregnant. A strong male fur seal can have more than fifty wives. This thing is much stronger than you!"
Yang Meng was speechless, holding the telescope and continuing to see.
Xiao Peng was using his mind clone to observe the conditions of the seabed. As a result, not long after it was put down, Xiao Peng saw a scene that shocked it: a group of sailfish was preying, and they were besieging a group of herrings.
The status of herring in marine fish is very important. The density of its fish population and the number of individuals is unparalleled. It can be said that it is the largest fish in the world.
This is also related to the terrible reproductive ability of herring. Each female can lay 40,000 eggs, hatch in about two weeks, and have a maturity life of up to 20 years in four years. The reason for herring to reproduce in large numbers is related to herring's ability to adjust light. Herring can smoothly enter various depths of water to obtain food.
The herring swimming in groups is a very magnificent scene. When the fish schools are migrating, some brightly colored large individuals act as the vanguard, followed by dense fish schools, and the team grows stronger.
Almost all migratory fishes like to live in groups. The strong ones, such as tuna, gather for better predation, while the weak ones, such as herring, are grouped to protect themselves.
This is because herrings swim densely into large schools of fish. Their shapes and colors can dazzle the natural enemies. It is difficult to focus on a certain fish, even if the school of fish is washed away and eaten by the fish. There are also few, so group action has this extremely important protective effect in the life of herring.
It's a pity that this school of fish was a bit out of luck and ran into a school of sailfish.
The sailfish is also called the big marlin, and his distant relative, the swordfish, is the fastest fish swimming in a short distance in the ocean. What these two fishes have in common is that they have a long, thin thorn on the front of their mouth. The difference is that the swordfish has a wide dorsal fin, while the swordfish does not. The name sailfish also comes from this. Both of these fish are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world's oceans. They are relatively rare in the Bering Sea, and they should have been foraging and preparing to go south.
This shows that the herring's luck is really bad. I encountered a school of sailfish. Although there were only more than 30 sailfish schools, Xiao Peng could almost conclude that this school of herrings was more ill-informed.
You know, sailfish is one of the fastest fish in the world, and its speed is that it has become one of the most terrifying predators in the ocean, with almost no natural enemies. Sharks will not provoke them, the spikes on their heads are really not a display. The Eagle State ship "Barbara" was once attacked by a sailfish, and the spikes on the head of the sailfish actually penetrated the steel hull of the "Barbara"! This shows its offensive power.
However, it is impossible to attack a dense school of herrings based on speed alone. The sailfish school also maintains full cooperation: a school of sailfish surrounds the herring school to prevent herring from escaping. Then they attacked the herring school one by one in an orderly manner. Because the herring school is too dense, it is too difficult to choose a target. The method of choosing a sailfish is to get close to the school of fish and hit the school with the spikes on the top of the head. Isolated from the group, then swallowed. Of course, this technique is not successful every time, but one swordfish misses, and the other directly keeps up. Such a large group of herrings, except for a small number of herrings, are hunted to death by the orderly predatory school of swordfish.
After watching this scene of hunting, Xiao Peng was only left to lament the wonder of nature. The sailfish were full and ready to leave. Only then did Xiao Peng react and directly enlightened the spirits. Let's go to Qianliyan and stay. Anyway, there are too many herrings in Qianliyan, and now the hunters there can't digest so many herrings. It's nothing to eat more.
Sailfish is also a top delicacy ingredient, and the price is not cheap. In the eyes of Europeans and Americans, it is even more delicious than tuna. The big fish caught by the old man in the famous novel "The Old Man and the Sea" is the sailfish.
Seeing the sailfish group marching towards Qianliyan according to his instructions, Xiao Peng just wanted to withdraw his mind clone, but he saw several round red-brown figures swimming by. Xiao Peng saw the object clearly, his expression was overjoyed, and he directly initiated the spirit spell to fight. You follow the sailfish and march towards Qianliyan!
In fact, these red-brown figures are not a rare species, they are octopuses, but this kind of octopus is a bit big, and it also has a domineering name: Pacific Giant Octopus.
As the three soft brothers, octopus, squid, and squid. In fact, all three have a ‘boss’.
Squid: the squid, their boss is the physalis, living around the Antarctic continent, is the largest mollusk and invertebrate. This thing grows fast and dies fast. It has a life span of almost one and a half years. Its biggest feature is that it has two huge eyes, which are used to deal with its only natural enemy---sperm whale. Their eyes have light-emitting devices, which can produce light and can detect the gleam of other creatures. In the deep sea, they use this big eye to distinguish the flow of luminous microorganisms around sperm whales, to judge the location of sperm whales, and to escape at any time .
The squid's eldest king squid is even more powerful, with a body length of 20 meters. It is the second largest known mollusk. Only smaller than the Physalis Physalis, they mainly live in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Scientists claim that the biggest king squid can reach 80 meters and weigh 50 tons! Is the invincible overlord in the deep sea! However, it is a pity that until now, people can only learn about this kind of animal through the king squid that floated to the surface or washed to the shore after death or injury, or found its remains in the stomach of the sperm whale. It is extremely difficult to catch them. The prototype of the "North Sea Giant Demon Kraken" in the myth is it.
The octopus boss is relatively common, that is, the giant Pacific octopus. However, compared with the first two, this giant squid is really not so big, it can only be similar to the Humboldt squid, the second child of the squid family.
Compared with the size of the king squid and the king physalis squid, the giant Pacific octopus is just like a baby that has not grown up.