Chapter 639: The Mysterious Thraupi Turtle (Part 1)
After finishing speaking, Li Xujue felt quite magical.
Canned tuna is a delicious, easy-to-carry, and very popular delicacy, but most people may not have thought that the tuna they eat every day is actually fake tuna.
In fact, there is nothing we can do about this.
The economically valuable species of tuna include bluefin tuna, masu tuna, big eye tuna, yellowfin tuna, albacore tuna and bonito, a total of six species.
Bombfish is originally called small tuna, and its appearance is very similar to ordinary tuna. If it is sliced and processed, or canned with the skin and bones removed, ordinary consumers will not be able to tell the difference.
All we can say is that good products are not cheap and good products are not cheap.
After all, high-end tuna meat costs over a hundred yuan per catty, and the better ones can even cost thousands of yuan per catty.
As for bomb fish, the price is generally controlled within ten yuan per catty, which is cheaper than grass carp.
Li Xuan thought carefully about the tuna meat he had eaten.
Li Xuan actually had never eaten tuna when he was in Yulong Bay. This kind of fish is difficult to catch and cannot be caught by a small boat.
Li Xuan first came into contact with tuna when he was in college.
Li Xuan didn't eat it at that time, he only watched others eat it.
When he was at Ocean University, many of Li Xuan's classmates felt that eating fish raw was a very honorable thing.
At first, Li Xuan had no money. He saw someone eating salmon in the dormitory. It was extremely expensive, a small piece cost several hundred yuan.
But the look really makes people salivate just looking at it.
The fish meat is orange-red and white, and looks quite appetizing.
Later, Li Xuan gradually earned some income.
Students at Ocean University, no more than students from other majors, actually go to sea often when they are in school. Every time they go to sea, they earn a certain amount of income.
After earning some income, Li Xuan was finally lucky enough to taste sashimi.
But what Li Xuan ate was not salmon, but tuna.
The taste is really soft and plump, and the fragrance lingers on the teeth and cheeks when you eat it, and you feel happy and satisfied in an instant.
Of course, tuna meat also comes in many grades.
Even for the same tuna, there are many ways to subdivide it.
The belly is the softest part of a tuna and is the most expensive.
It is an exaggeration to say that the big belly of bluefin tuna melts in your mouth. What melts in your mouth is a lump of lard. As long as there is lean meat, it cannot be melted. If you hold it in your mouth, it will be empty until the next day.
But it is definitely not an exaggeration to say that it is so delicious that it can even be swallowed by the tongue.
Next is the midsection of the tuna, which is appropriately fat and thin, and the taste is plump but not too overwhelming. Of course, the selling price is second only to the belly, and it is not cheap either.
Then there's the fish.
The flesh of tuna is blood red and has no fat.
Because tuna is an athlete and has high oxygen content in its muscles, its meat is particularly red.
But people will secrete lactic acid when they exercise, and the same goes for tuna. The meat of tuna also has a sour taste, but this sour taste is not objectionable. Instead, it is considered to be a unique flavor of tuna.
After throwing the bomb fish into the sea, the remaining catch on the deck were basically wolf fish.
This kind of fish is very fierce, and the price can only be regarded as average.
Oh, and there's that shrunken turtle.
Li Xuan walked up to the sea turtle and stared at it.
Seeing Li Xuan staring at it, the sea turtle suddenly became more frightened and shrank its head back.
Li Xuan didn't understand why this sea turtle was so afraid of him.
Generally speaking, the vast majority of fishermen do not know how to catch sea turtles.
Even if they are accidentally caught, most fishermen will choose to release them.
Of course, nothing is absolute.
Even if the sea turtle is a protected animal, not all fishermen will not catch this turtle.
In December 2016, a sea turtle was slaughtered and shared by fishermen, which attracted the attention of many people in the industry.
The reporter's preliminary investigation found that according to local traditional customs, the fishermen there will not take the initiative to kill turtles. Even if they accidentally hit the net or swim ashore by mistake, they will release them.
Turtles, regarded as patron saints by fishermen, were slaughtered and sold for food, immediately triggering an investigation by relevant departments.
The entire incident was investigated and soon came to light.
In Shanhai Village, the local villagers, like Yulongwan, have been fishing for a living for generations.
Of course what happened was that the two fishermen went to the fixed net area to collect fish as usual.
Fixed net fishing is a traditional local method. Two ropes are used, one end is tied to a sandbag and sunk to the seabed about fifteen meters deep, and the other end is tied to two buoys. The fishing net is then hung on the buoys and spread out in the sea.
The flow of sea water brings fish and shrimp into the net.
According to the description of the two fishermen, when they arrived that night, they found a big guy in the net when they closed the net. He was more than one meter long and nearly half a meter wide. He was already dead. When they returned to the dock, around ten o'clock in the morning, this
The big stuff is unloaded on the pier.
The villagers who were watching didn't recognize it. Some said it was a turtle, while others said it wasn't, saying that the tortoise's shell should have one pattern after another.
It happened that at that time, there was a fishmonger at the pier buying fish just off the boat.
When the fishmonger saw this big guy, he and two other people pooled together four thousand yuan to buy the dead sea turtle.
Afterwards, the fishmonger dismembered the sea turtle, each weighing half a catty, and sold it to some local villagers.
Because everyone in the local area did not know the sea turtle and had never seen a turtle with this appearance before, they were rarely curious. Many people took photos and videos with their mobile phones. Some people posted the video online, which attracted the attention of netizens.
In fact, according to the customs of local fishermen, turtles are not allowed to be caught. Any caught by accident will be released. In some places, incense will be burned when releasing the turtles, and the name of the person who released the turtles and the time of release will be engraved on the back of the turtles to pray for blessings.
The reason why they hunted the sea turtle was that the local fishermen believed that the sea turtle was not a sea turtle.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
The zanderback turtle is really not a turtle.
Although leatherback turtles live in the ocean and look like sea turtles, they are not members of the family Turtleidae.
All species of turtles have something in common. The carapace is oval or nearly round, and is composed of hard horny scutes. Some of them are very colorful.
The leatherback turtle has a teardrop-shaped body, with a body color of dark blue or dark green, scattered with white spots. The back is made of thin and tough ossified skin, like a leather shield. There are seven ridges arranged on the carapace, and the abdomen is
The oracle bones are incompletely formed and have five longitudinal edges. These characteristics are also the origin of its name.
This is very magical among creatures like turtles.
Chapter completed!