Two ships were floating on the sea. Lu Hai changed a diving spot today, and the number of starfish here was relatively small.

Lu Hai was reading a book called "Coastal Benthien Animals Picture Book" on the ship. Lu Hai found that there are really few books on the Internet that really introduce marine life in detail.

The prices are very expensive, and most of them are published by Ocean Publishing House. This book bought by Lu Hai cost almost 300 yuan, and it introduces the growth environment of sea cucumbers in a more detailed way.

Sea cucumbers generally live in places where there are more reefs and fine sand and mud, and seaweed is growing.

The most suitable temperature for growth is 10~18 degrees Celsius, higher than 24 degrees, and will slowly enter summer hibernation, and will begin to enter winter hibernation below 5 degrees.

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After mastering the growth environment of sea cucumbers, it became easy to find land and sea, and soon locked in an area where a reef mixed with fine sand and mud bottom.

After checking with an underwater camera, I found that there were indeed many sea cucumbers crawling slowly on the seabed, and there were also many nearby reefs.

So the undersea fishing team officially debuted for the first time, Lu Hai divided them into two groups and took turns to rest.

While diving to find white jade sea cucumbers.

Lu Hai asked them to catch all the sea cucumbers, abalone, oysters, lobsters and the like that met the standards.

There are indeed quite a lot of sea cucumbers, but this wild sea cucumber is not as big as farmed, and the thorns of sea cucumbers look relatively round and not as sharp as farmed.

Due to the harsh living environment of wild sea cucumbers, they are always facing the threat of natural enemies, so they have to crawl on the seabed. The thorns on their bodies naturally look less beautiful.

Because people feed seafood, most of them are too lazy to move like pigs. They are bigger, sharper thorns, and a little darker in color.

Most of the wild sea cucumbers are gray-black. Because they often crawl, the thorns are smoothed. In addition, they often exercise, so they are short, hard and thick.

However, buyers cannot tell this thing, especially after drying it, it is even more difficult to tell it. Only Laotie understands it briefly. If he just takes it to the market and sells it, it may be regarded as a defective product again.

After all, there are fewer and fewer wild sea cucumbers, and there are many varieties. The type of sea cucumber caught by Luhai is pistachios. It is the best quality in the sea cucumber family.

When it comes to sea cucumbers, Lu Hai couldn't help but want to complain about the current tragic situation of the breeding industry.

Raising sea cucumbers is high-risk, especially the geographical location of Xiaqi Island, which is more risky than in the Liaodong area. One is because of the climate. Once the sea water temperature exceeds 33 degrees, sea cucumbers will die collectively.

If you encounter red tides, typhoons, etc., you will also suffer a lot of losses, and the fishing cost is also very expensive.

There are not many divers on Xiaqi Island. Here, those who work in this industry are called "water ghosts". They will not get their wages, but will calculate the money based on the amount of fishing.

It costs about two yuan to catch a pound of sea cucumber. A powerful "water ghost" can catch more than 500 kilograms a day. If you encounter a good farm, one thousand kilograms will not be a problem.

The monthly income is at least 20,000 yuan. Awesome people can earn 50,000 or 60,000 yuan a month.

The salary for fishing for kelp next door is much higher, and the risk is also very high. I remember that two years ago, there was a problem with a "water ghost" hired by Lao Ma.

It doesn't work if you lose money. Now the whole family of this "water ghost" comes to the factory from time to time and cry. It's so tired, but they are all from the same village. There is really nothing we can do about it if we look up but we don't look down.

In short, in recent years, Lao Ma’s farm has been almost the same as his son’s words. It’s good to be able to protect the capital. Most of the time, he is losing money.

The climate disaster a few months ago completely crushed him. My father said that he couldn't do anything without selling the breeding plant. If this continues, he can't even pay the bank interest.

If you hold on, you will lose in the end. Maybe a good factory manager will become a deadbeat and will eventually harm your family.

It’s not easy to breed these days.

Lu Hai took several large buckets and filled these sea cucumbers, abalone and oysters respectively. At the same time, he used the underwater camera to closely monitor the underwater diver's every move.

After a morning of fishing.

A total of nearly 1,000 sea cucumbers were caught, with an average weight of about one pound. More than 500 oysters were caught, and more than 200 abalones were caught.

More than 1,000 kilograms of fresh sea cucumbers can be processed, which is estimated to produce 40 kilograms of dried sea cucumbers. Luhai here uses the "light dry" method to dry sea cucumbers.

Light-dried sea cucumbers are also the most expensive among sea cucumbers. Generally, light-dried sea cucumbers produced by Lao Ma start at least 2,000 yuan per catty, and good quality can even be sold for four or five thousand yuan.

Most of the ones that are less than one thousand are a bit tricky. In addition to being "dry light", sea cucumbers also have "dried sugar" and "dried salt".

Among them, "dried salt" is generally used to make sea cucumbers of poor quality, and even those dead sea cucumbers. When purchased, the surface looks white and has a layer of sea salt substance.

During the processing process, this sea cucumber is marinated with salt many times, which causes serious nutrient loss and low soaking rate.

As a fisherman, Lu Hai would rather eat fresh sea cucumber than eat this extra processed one. After all, he is completely unsure what kind of salt he is used.

If it is industrial salt, it will not be supplemented.

Maybe if you eat too much, you have to go to the soil.

In addition to dried salt, there is also dried sugar, which is also a very unfriendly sea cucumber.

Many people have heard of the saying "one pound of sea cucumber and five taels of sugar". In order to lower the price, some profiteers will secretly add ingredients in the process of making dried sea cucumbers.

The ingredients added are sugar. Generally, 30 kilograms of sea cucumbers are only about one kilogram of sea cucumber after being dried alone.

However, if you only have about 10 pounds of sugar-dried sea cucumbers, you can make one pound of dried sea cucumbers. The cost price is three times different, so you can naturally sell it cheaper.

This kind of sugar-dried sea cucumber is definitely a poison for diabetic patients. Many people who don’t understand buy sea cucumbers for their patients to make progress, but the more they eat, the more they suffer.

"well."

Lu Hai sighed. Compared with the country next door, my country's processing industry is really too many monsters and monsters.

But this is impossible. This approach has long been a common consensus among processing factories and dealers, because if you don’t do this, you won’t make money.

Rich people eat light dry food, while those who don’t want to eat it, so they eat dried salt and dried sugar. After all, the price is there, so how many people can afford a pound of dried sea cucumbers of two or three thousand yuan.

At noon.

Just as Lu Hai expected, there was still no white jade sea cucumber. This group of divers have been working in the sea for four hours.

Lu Hai pulled them all up and asked them to rest in the cabin. After all, fishing at the bottom of the sea is very physically exhausting.

Lu Hai gave them some steamed buns, sweet potatoes and other dry food, and each person was rewarded with a bottle of fat house happy water.

Lu Hai changed its fishing location again, changed the second batch of divers to go into the water, and continued to look for white jade sea cucumbers.

Once you arrive at your new location.

Land and sea were detected with underwater cameras, and it was good, just like the previous point, there were quite a lot of sea cucumbers.

Just after the land and sea survey, he found something was wrong on the sea surface. There seemed to be a large number of transparent small fishes drifting with the waves on the sea surface. You could vaguely see these transparent small fish with a black line on their bodies.

"Is this?" Lu Hai frowned slightly.
Chapter completed!