Chapter 428: Albatross of Midway Island

There are many countries in the world that eat lampreys, but the one who loves hagfish is a plastic surgery country. No wonder the plastic surgery country does something speechless all day long. It turns out that people in this country are abnormal.
Among other things, the mucus secreted by the hagfish is enough to drink two pots. The viscosity is amazing, it's a mess. I don't know when the bucket had already secreted a lot of mucus, and the two hagfish in the bucket were suffocated to death by their own mucus.
For hagfish, slime is a way to protect yourself when you are in danger. It is also a double-edged sword. If you don't quickly get out of the range of slime, you can suffocate yourself to death.
Xiao Peng washed the mucus from the hagfish, removed the head and viscera, cut the hagfish, took out the onions and garlic from the freezer, and came directly with a spicy fried hagfish with onions.
Let alone the taste of hagfish. . . . . . It's really not good! How do people who have plastic surgery want to eat this stuff?
Really abnormal!
After eating and drinking, Xiao Peng ran to the cockpit and watched the weather satellite cloud picture. There was not much weather change. Look at the location again, it is close to South Bird Island. At this rate, the record can really be increased to more than ten days. On this road, although the wind speed is sometimes not high, the average speed of the'Guochuan' has reached 25 knots. After all, Xiao Peng had no rest all the way, and the sails often changed with the wind direction and speed, and the sailboat was always moving at high speed.
Xiao Peng was not idle on this road. In addition to sailing, he just released his mind clones and searched for various fish schools on the bottom of the sea. He also wanted to enrich the species of Qianliyan fishery, but although he found many fish schools, he really let him Xiao Peng didn't get much excitement, and the giant scaly bass was one of them.
Xiao Peng saw the giant scaly bass, not because of its delicious meat, but the most important reason: it is too rare now. Once faced with extinction.
This has something to do with their living habits. Although they usually live in the deep sea below a kilometer, they swim to shallow waters to lay eggs in summer, and at that time they will become the target of fishing and hunting. Since the 1970s, they were almost on the verge of extinction. Later, the government of the Star-Stripe Countries adopted some measures to protect them, but even so, because their reproduction rate is too low, they are still the highest among the international animal protection levels. Of extreme danger.
To be honest, this fish can be protected in the Star Striped Nation. If it were in China, it would have been eaten clean, because regardless of the giant scaly bass or its large close relative, the scaly bass, it will be in China. Just one name: giant grouper. That means that it's delicious, expensive, and good-looking, so you should catch it first.
As long as it is a large grouper, whether it is a giant scaly perch or a light black grouper, German grouper, Earl's grouper, etc., are all critically endangered species on the animal protection list.
What Xiao Peng found was a small group of giant scaly bass, which looked like six or seven. He didn't know whether the spawning had been completed. Xiao Peng didn't care about it. He applied the Spiritual Revelation technique and lived in the Qianliyan Trench.
Bring them back to Qianliyan, Xiao Peng is really not to make money. After all, the reproduction period of this thing is too long. It takes 14 years to become sexually mature. Xiao Peng just wants to protect them. Isn’t it all said in the movie? The greater, the greater the responsibility? Now that I have such a powerful magic power and still have such a good fishing ground, I should protect more species.
"It seems not bad to get all the extremely endangered species in Qianliyan for protection." With this idea, Xiao Peng went out of control to search for extremely endangered animals in the sea. Many economic fish passed by Xiao Peng and turned a blind eye to it. What snapper fish, mullet, mullet, cichlid, let go, swordfish? Moonfish? Don't let it go, use Spirit Revelation and go to Qianliyan to report. . . . . .
However, if an extremely endangered animal is easy to encounter, it is not called an extremely endangered animal. Sailing all the way to Midway Island, Xiao Peng found only one extremely endangered animal: leatherback turtle!
Leatherback turtles are the largest of all turtles and turtles. They are more than two meters in length and four to five hundred catties.
The biggest reason for the extinction of leatherback turtles is human overfishing, and secondly, it is because of excessive marine debris.
This is because leatherback turtles have very poor eyesight, so they often take waste plastic bags discarded by humans in the ocean as jellyfish and swallow them into their stomachs, causing intestinal blockage and death. What Xiao Peng saw was Pacific leatherback turtles. It is rarer than his brother Atlantic leatherback turtle. There are currently no more than 5,000 in the world, and the number has been declining. According to a report by the Duke University research team in Star-Spangled Nation, the leatherback turtle is likely to become extinct within 20 years.
There were many leatherback turtles in China in the past, but the situation it faced was more miserable than the other extreme sea turtle hawksbill. Hawksbill turtle is facing extinction because it is full of treasures. The tortoise shell can be used as spectacle frames or jewelry, and the shell can be used as medicine. However, with the improvement of protection and artificial breeding technology, the number of tortoiseshells has gradually recovered. However, the reason why leatherback turtles are facing extinction and overfishing is just one word: "Eat!"
Since ancient times in China, tortoises have meant longevity. Leatherback turtles with such a big body are also known as auspicious. Therefore, if fishermen catch leatherback turtles, the first thing they think of is to sell money. Now a pound of leatherback turtle meat is the price Can reach hundreds of RMB! The profit a leatherback turtle brings to the fisherman is tens of thousands!
Under the temptation of money, many fishermen know that sea turtles are state-protected animals, and they still secretly sell money for huge profits. This has also caused leatherback turtles to become scarce.
More importantly, leatherback turtles cannot be cultivated artificially. Because they are ‘Gypsies in the ocean’ and wandering around, someone once caught a leatherback turtle in the mouth of the Yangtze River. It turned out that the markings on its body indicated that it had been caught in the Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles away! This shows its high swimming skills!
Xiao Peng was lucky. What he saw was a group of leatherback turtles, about thirty! Xiao Peng didn't let go of any of them, and all used Spirit Revelation to send them to Qianliyan.
It is impossible for leatherback turtles to settle in Qianliyan, they are used to wandering around.
But let them eat and drink in the Qianliyan Fishing Farm, Xiao Peng can still do this!
At this moment, the sky that was still clear just now suddenly became overcast, and the raindrops fell in less than a minute.
Xiao Peng hurried back to the cabin to take shelter from the rain.
Happiness. . . . . . . Raindrops began to hit the glass. According to weather satellite reports, it was only moderate rain, so Xiao Peng did not reef his sail at all and continued on his way in the rain.
The process of searching for extremely dangerous animals greatly delayed Xiao Peng's time to move forward. He had been at sea for seven days, except for leatherback turtles, but still had nothing to gain, so he had to move on.
Xiao Peng wanted to see how the weather outside changed, but he saw a large group of huge white birds lying on the sea not far ahead.
Xiao Peng took a binoculars and took a look: "Albatross? Is this Midway Island?" Xiao Peng checked the chart. Sure enough, Xiao Peng came to Midway Island, a former military location and a supply depot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. .
When people think of Midway Island, the first thing people think of is World War II. The Star Stripe Nation was here, which severely damaged the Japanese Navy and won the initiative in the Pacific War.
After successfully attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese nation began to attack Midway Island half a year later. If the Midway Island is taken down without this important supply station, the Star-Stripe Kingdom will not be able to attack the Wa country itself, and consequently, the Star-Stripe Kingdom itself will also be threatened by the Wa country.
It's a pity that the Stars and Stripes were prepared here, and with the Wa kingdom in the waters near Midway Island, arguably the largest naval battle in human history occurred. Here, the Wa country lost four aircraft carriers: the Akagi and the Kaga. After this battle, the "Flying Dragon" and the "Canglong", the Japanese navy was no longer able to launch a large-scale offensive in the Pacific, and had to passively defend it, and gave the initiative of the war to the Stars.
To this day, Midway Island is still a very important military machine. Among the triple island chains adopted by the Stars and Stripes countries towards China, the third island chain should be the Polynesian Islands with Midway Island as the center.
However, today's Midway Island, except for the military base, has cancelled regular flights and turned into a wildlife sanctuary, a paradise for albatross! Now on Midway Island, apart from military personnel, only the wildlife service management agencies are permanently stationed here. The purpose is simple, to protect the albatross.
The name "Albatross" is the general term for fourteen species of albatross. All the albatross are very large. The largest can even be more than 1.4 meters in length, and the smallest can be more than 70 cm in length. All albatross are very good at gliding. , In windy weather conditions, it can stay in the sky for several hours without flapping its wings. However, due to the size of the body, it is very difficult to take off. You have to go against the wind to get up. Sometimes you have to run up or even jump from the edge of the cliff. If there is no wind, they are difficult to take off and can only float on the water. on. . . . . .
Because the albatross usually live in the ocean, they behave very docilely on the shore. They are also called ‘stay gulls’, and only return to land when they breed offspring. Moreover, a litter can only lay one egg, and the birds grow slowly, and they can become sexually mature after at least five years of age. All this has led to the slow growth of the albatross population. At present, all 14 species of albatross are listed in the endangered species of the "World Conservation Union".
What is even more pity is that many small albatross do not live to adulthood at all. It was "hid" to death by its parents.
The way that albatross feeds their children is very unique. Parents go out foraging and find food, and then feed the digested or semi-digested food in the stomach to the children by ruminating.
The main food of albatross is squid, fish and shrimp, but because the entire Pacific Ocean is more and more polluted by plastic, it is easy for albatross to mistake plastic garbage for food and feed it to the young, causing them to die. What kind of plastic lighters, bottle caps, combs, toothbrushes, plastic fragments of various shapes, have been found in the belly of albatross baby birds, even a baby albatross baby born a few months old can contain seven or eight kinds of plastic garbage !
When Xiao Peng passed through the flock of birds, he also gave them spiritual enlightenment by the way, hoping that they would have the opportunity to distinguish plastic garbage in the future and not cause such a big tragedy.