space fisherman

Chapter 71 Moby Dick

The white whale is the best "ventriloquist" expert in the cetacean kingdom. It can make hundreds of sounds, and the sounds it makes are varied.

They can not only imitate the roar of beasts, the lowing of cows, the snoring of pigs, the neighing of horses, the squeaking of birds, the screaming of women, the groans of sick people, and the crying of babies.Also make hinge sounds, bells, steamboat sounds, and more.

The non-stop "singing" of beluga whales is actually for self-entertainment, and it is also a kind of communication between companions, which is an important part of their summer migration.

Every July, tens of thousands of beluga whales depart from the Arctic for their summer migration.

They range from a few to tens of thousands, and they swim to their destinations, playing leisurely along the way.Perform non-stop.

Most of their migration destinations are concentrated in the northern latitudes.

However, some mischievous beluga whales seem to have a habit of roaming independently of the group. Sometimes beluga whales will go south alone and swim hundreds of kilometers.

Beluga whales feast on a variety of prey, including smelt, flounder, sculpin, salmon and cod.
Also eats invertebrates such as crabs, shrimp, clams, worms, octopus, squid, and other marine bottom dwellers.

Since they don't have too many sharp teeth to bite their prey, they generally suck the food into their mouths whole, so the prey can't be too big, otherwise it may be choked.

Whales also have their natural enemies, namely killer whales and polar bears.

Polar bears attack beluga whales in the same way they attack seals. They generally wait to hit the beluga whales hard with their powerful front paws around the air outlet where they are trapped in the ice, and then drag them to the ice to eat.

When killer whales arrive around August, beluga whales can usually recognize their voices. In addition, the protruding flippers of killer whales hinder their flexible movement in the ice, so the way killer whales attack beluga whales is different.

Ye Yuan sensed that this little beluga whale was only two meters long and weighed less than two hundred catties. At first glance, it looked like a newborn cub. It followed its mother not far from the beluga whale, and it was about five meters long. female whale.

Beluga whales generally live in groups, and it is rare for two of them to act alone like this. It should be that the cubs are too young to keep up with the group and get separated from the group.

Ye Yuan took the miscellaneous fish from the boat and fed them to the pair of "mother and child".

The white whale is very smart. While eating the food Ye Yuan and the others put in, they followed the "Yushui" in parade. The crew rarely saw such a scene, so they all took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

Ye Yuan saw that the pair of beluga whales were also playing with each other, jumping into the sea with a single jump, the little beluga whale didn't panic because there was an extra person beside him, on the contrary, it started playing with Ye Yuan in the sea.

After playing with one person and one whale in the sea for a while, Ye Yuan put a little space in the mouth of the little white whale, hoping that the little guy can grow up quickly.

At this moment, the great white whale uttered a loud cry, and the little white whale reluctantly swam to the female whale.

"Boss, come up quickly, there are whales in the distance."

The crew on the ship pointed to the distance and shouted to Ye Yuan in the sea.

Ye Yuan returned to the boat and saw a group of white whales approaching in the distance.

This group of beluga whales looks very spectacular. According to visual inspection, there are more than 50 of them, most of them are female whales, and there are some juvenile whales.

Beluga whales, large and small, on the sea, make sounds like the whistle of a ship from time to time.

Ye Yuan ordered Ding Yi to leave this sea area at full speed.

For nothing else, with this group of white whales by the side of the fishing boat, Ye Yuan and the others don't even think about fishing anymore.

One or two are very cute, but the whales are still very dangerous.

While Ye Yuan's ship was running at full speed, Wang Husheng ran out of the cab and said to Ye Yuan, "Boss, there is a Japanese scientific research ship, saying that we have entered their investigation range, let us leave."

Before Ye Yuan could reply, the crew on the ship exploded
"Fuck the scientific research, this is the open sea, how we drive is none of their business."

Ye Yuan looked to the right front of the ship, a medium-sized ship about 40 meters long, the writing on the body of the ship was written in Japanese, Ye Yuan didn't recognize it.It can be seen from the national flag on the ship that this should be the scientific research ship.

Ye Yuan doesn't want to be troublesome, it's not that Ye Yuan is afraid of the Japanese scientific research ship, but that there is no way to fish in this sea area with the group of white whales, since this is the case, there is no need to conflict with this scientific research ship.

Ye Yuan saw that after he made this decision, Yu Hongbo opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he still didn't speak afterward.

Ye Yuan walked over and patted Yu Hongbo on the shoulder, "Old Yu, just say what you have to say."

Yu Hongbo thought for a while, then said, "I suspect that they are not a scientific research ship, but a whaling ship."

After Yu Hongbo's request, Ye Yuan also thought about whaling.Wa country's whaling industry is the most developed in the whole blue star.

The Japanese whaling industry, that is, the Japanese whaling activities, is a whaling activity carried out by Japanese fishermen under the pretext of "scientific investigation" under the encouragement of the Japanese government.

A few years ago, Wa officially withdrew from the International Whaling Commission and resumed commercial whaling in the summer of the following year.

At that time, Ye Yuan was still in school, and this news caused quite a lot of discussion in Ocean University.

Ye Yuan didn't continue this topic, but let Ding Yi leave the sea as usual.

Just when everyone thought this matter was over, Ye Yuan ordered the ship to stop, and told the crew that everyone can move freely here, and if they want to go to sea, they can also go.

After giving these instructions, Ye Yuan didn't care about the bewildered faces of all the crew members, but changed into diving equipment and jumped into the sea on his own.

After Ye Yuan entered the sea, he swam towards the "scientific research ship" at full speed. After a while, he was under the scientific research ship. Using his perception, Ye Yuan discovered that this "scientific research ship" was just like what Old Yu said. A whaling ship.

The whaling ship was heading in the same sea area where the group of beluga whales were.

Ye Yuan was lurking near the underwater propeller of the whaling ship, and at this time Ye Yuan used his third-layer ability of "Water Control Art".

Many water needles condensed in the water and attacked the propeller of the whaling ship. Soon, the propeller of the fishing boat was damaged by the water needles and stopped working.

At this time, the whaling ship had also noticed this, and took pictures of several crew members to check, Ye Yuan quickly swam towards his own fishing boat.

"I hope those white whales can use this time to escape." Ye Yuan thought to himself.

Soon Ye Yuan returned to the vicinity of his fishing boat, and when he was about to return to the fishing boat, something suddenly appeared in his perception, making him think that he had an illusion.

Below this sea area, there is a piece of fine white sand. Occasionally, some small fish can be seen happily entering and leaving the sand.

Occasionally, some groupers can be seen chasing small fish among them.

Ye Yuan just sensed that when the grouper was chasing it, it brought a mass of seaweed shaking, and vaguely saw the presence of a wooden box in the seaweed.

(End of this chapter)