However, even in such a huge area, some rare element minerals are still in short supply.
If the Federation hadn’t invested a lot of energy in the field of material research and development in recent years, the plight of rare elements would be more severe now.
After all, there is a huge difference between space exploration and real space expansion.
In the old days, it was estimated that we couldn’t afford to sell the United States for such a huge project, and the funds, materials and technology were all difficult problems
In the post-science and technology era, the pre-Matthew effect is gradually expanding, and it is difficult to catch up with it.
At present, it is a problem to find people who can understand, even if the small forces in the federal government have copied it.
This division can be avoided, and the strong will become stronger and stronger. Can the weak maintain the current situation or can the Federation look down on them?
This is also the right choice made by a group of people in Maung Ana who understood the times and the future with Hongshawadi.
Chapter seven hundred and sixty-five Crab story
Time is like the rolling Yangtze River rushing to the future.
Unconsciously, it has come to the year 221. With the rise of the Federation, the importance of the lunar calendar worldwide has become more and more great.
Southern ocean
This is only in recent years that the official name of the ocean location is given. The development of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean around Antarctica is mainly a protective development.
In the process of ball cooling, there are a few areas that have not been hit too much, and it is also lively this year.
A 150,000-ton nuclear-powered ocean-going fishing boat is now on the overseas side of Amundsen in the southern ocean. The average water depth here is 6-1 meters, which is a big basin.
At this time, the Mid-Autumn Festival is in the northern hemisphere, but it is spring in the southern hemisphere. Due to the influence of Yellowstone volcano, the ice sheet expanded before Antarctica has shrunk again, but it has not returned to the ice sheet line 216 years ago.
Fishing boats came here not to catch Antarctic krill, nor to see whales, seals and penguins, but to see king crabs.
There’s nothing wrong. Yes, the king crab
Perhaps many people are very puzzled. Isn’t it that the king crab originated in the Bering Sea? How can it be found in the southern ocean?
In fact, there are not only king crabs in the southern ocean, but also king crabs in the northern Atlantic, which were brought by researchers from the Bering Sea during the Mao period.
At present, the reason for the appearance of the Southern Ocean King Crab is uncertain, but there are two possibilities: one is human stocking; The other is the strange warm current coming from the North Pacific during the warming of the front sphere.
King crabs are typical invasive species in the southern ocean, regardless of whether they are coming here or not.
This nuclear-powered fishing boat named Xinghai 15 is also one of the few fishing boats designed by the Federation after it entered the era of agricultural factories.
The realization of large-scale aquaculture by major aquatic products companies in the Federation is decreasing year by year.
However, a large fishing boat like Xinghai 15 needs to get the quota of the Ministry of Ocean even if it is engaged in fishing, otherwise it can’t catch wild marine animals at will.
This time, getting the fishing quota of the Southern Ocean King Crab is also a sign that the Southern Ocean King Crab is flooding.
The captain and the fishing manager are watching the data returned by the reconnaissance submarine in the cockpit. There are many king crabs in this basin.
Wang Hanbiao, the fishing manager, said with some naively in his face with the survey report of the Ministry of Ocean Affairs.
"The survey data this autumn (southern hemisphere) shows that the king crab in this basin is about 750,000 ~ 90,000. Now the distribution density is estimated to be less than 150,000."
"It seems that I have climbed more than one hundred meters." Captain Zhang Peng woke up.
The actual growth area of king crabs is usually 0 ~1 meter deep in the seabed, and they will not develop unless the temperature of the southern ocean rises.
At present, king crabs have been found in seven basins in the southern ocean, and the population size is large or small.
There is no natural enemy in the southern ocean. Once the king crab takes root here, it will eat up most animals and seaweed on the seabed.
Therefore, it is necessary to artificially reduce the number of king crabs and suppress the size of the southern ocean to a relatively reasonable range.
Actually, Xinghai 15 fishing boat came to the Southern Ocean to fish, which was a loss-making business.
At present, there are farms in the Bering Sea and the South Pacific, with an annual output of 1.5-2 billion kilograms, and the average population in the Federation is about 7 kilograms per person.
Fishing for natural king crabs is much higher than breeding.
At present, the price of the king crab market in the federal territory is only 3-5 credits per kilogram, and Xinghai No.15 has successfully filled the 10,000-ton freezer and sold it out smoothly at the same time, with a total income of up to 1.5 billion credits.
The problem is that ship depreciation, staff salaries, supplies, equipment depreciation, packaging and secondary transportation all add up to about 1.3 billion credit points.
It looks like you can earn about 20 thousand
However, the problem is that the natural growth of king crabs is large and small, and the market is saturated due to road damage. They can’t catch 10 thousand tons of king crabs at all, and the loss base is a problem.
In fact, Xinghai 15 does not make money by selling king crabs, but by financial subsidies from the Ministry of Ocean and the Ministry of Ecology.
Otherwise, there are at most 90,000 to 120,000 king crabs in the Southern Ocean, and there are not necessarily 10,000 tons.
After the reconnaissance submarine detected the number of king crabs in the basin, the fishing manager Wang Hanbiao picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered
"Yec 136 anchor network"
"Roger that"
The mechanical arm throws a huge fishing net into the seabed and then reaches the seabed, and then quickly develops high-strength materials to make the fishing net.
In order to protect the ecology, the federal fishing boats have banned all fishing nets from being changed into high-intensity fishing nets.
This is done because the fishing nets are often broken and remain in the ocean, and these fishing nets are not easy to degrade quickly and easily entangle marine animals.
When the net is successfully laid on the seabed, the workers carry some spheres according to a fishing net, which will send out a special wave to induce the surrounding king crabs to converge here.
At the same time, the workers will put in some special bait to further attract the king crab.
After more than two hours, King Wandi crabs crowded the fishing net.
Wang Hanbiao knows it’s time to close the net. "Close the net!"
The mechanical arm started to pull up the cable connected with the fishing net, and a large net of king crab was pulled to the surface from the bottom of 72 meters.
The weight monitor shows that this net catches 62 tons of king crabs, and it should be about 5 tons if you subtract some seawater and impurities.
At this rate, Wang Hanbiao estimates that% of the king crabs in this basin can be caught in a week or so.
When the time comes, you can call Dapeng ground effect transport plane to send the king crab to nearby Australia and then transport it to all parts of the southern hemisphere.
If the efficiency of the federal fishing boat is subsidized enough minutes, the king crab will be eaten as a protected animal.
What is the reason why the North Atlantic king crab will be flooded? This is a fact and a resource operation.
At that time, the fishing agreement signed between Northern Europe and Lucia limited the annual fishing quota of king crabs.
On the one hand, it’s flooded and on the other hand, it’s severely restricted. What’s the trouble?
Naturally, money causes trouble.
It is necessary to know that the king crab catches relatively high and the total consumption of the market is limited. Once the output of the king crab increases greatly, the market sales price will inevitably plummet.