1148. On TV again
The reason why Sanders applied to Qin Shiou was because he was worried that there would be another racial outbreak in the culturing of luminous sail jellyfish.
Jellyfish have amazing reproductive ability. To breed this thing, you must beware of population outbreaks.
Different jellyfish have different ways of reproduction, but they are all very powerful. Otherwise, they would not have lived on the earth for so long. You should know that in the dinosaur era, jellyfish appeared in the ocean and continued until now. All creatures of its contemporaries were destroyed. They have not seen the changes in the earth and are still alive...
Qin Shiou has been understanding jellyfish these days, so he understands what Sanders means. He said: "It can be cultivated. We have leatherback turtles here, so we are not afraid of their small-scale outbreaks."
In fact, he had the idea of raising jellyfish, one to feed leatherback turtles, and the other to see if new projects can be developed. But if it is him breeding, then he must control the scale. The jellyfish outbreak is indeed not a fun thing.
After approving the research topic for Sanders, Qin Shiou used a small fish tank to hold two luminous sail jellyfish to surprise Winnie.
After thinking about it, he put down the small fish tank again. It would be better to create a dream world for Winnie to show it tonight.
After returning to the villa, Winnie was entertaining several people, who were dressed formally, some holding microphones in their hands and some had cameras at their feet.
Qin Shiou thought it was Guinness World Records and came again. After a closer look at them, they had the logo of Newfoundland Independent Television, which turned out to be a TV reporter.
Seeing Qin Shiou, Winnie said, "Oh, that's great. I'm about to call you back. A TV station is here to interview our fishing ground, come and entertain you."
Qin Shiou shook hands with the reporters, and the reporter in charge of the interview mentioned the purpose of the interview. The topic of their interview was this jellyfish disaster. Because Qin Shiou first discovered the crisis and reported it to the Ministry of Fisheries. Moreover, his fishing ground was the least affected, so it was valued by the TV station.
Canadians pay great attention to the creation of their own brands, so they are welcome to interviews on TV. If watching TV is live broadcast, not post-production editing, you often see young people suddenly appearing in the camera to steal the spotlight.
The two sides first negotiated the interview issue, and then Qin Shiou took them to the beach.
The reporter looked around. The blue sea water was everywhere. Where could there be any jellyfish stranded and dead? He asked subconsciously: "Your fishing ground has not been affected by jellyfish disaster?"
Qin Shiou laughed and said, "No, I just dealt with it overnight after I found the problem. These jellyfish have been sent to the ice warehouse. Later, I plan to deal with it and make fish and shrimp feed and put it into the fishing ground."
After the interview, the reporter said that they would publish a special report to the evening and interview him, so he would pay attention to watch it.
During dinner, Winnie turned on Newfoundland Independent TV, which is a very important local TV station, and its status is equivalent to that of a satellite TV in the Chinese province. It is not easy to log in to the special programs here.
At the beginning of the program, the first thing to introduce is the details of this jellyfish disaster.
This time, the disaster was not only Newfoundland waters, but also Nova Scotia waters, but the worst was Newfoundland. The southeastern wind was strong in spring. The sea breeze blew the jellyfish into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Now, from TV, the bay was full of stranded and dead sail jellyfish.
The original blue jellyfish died of dehydration when sunlight was sunlight, and then the body color reacted chemically and turned into light black, and the snow-white beach turned into light black. It looked shocking.
Qin Shiou sighed: "Fortunately we started early. If the beach in our fishing ground had become like this..."
He shook his head and sighed.
After introducing the disaster situation, the program conducted popular science. First, the types of jellyfish and their reproduction were introduced, and the reproduction problem was explained first.
Jellyfish are reproductive through sacs. After their mother sinks to the bottom of the sea, they can move onto the attached crops. While moving, they will split out the sacs and stay on it.
Time and conditions allow, these foot capsules can reproduce more hydrous bodies. In this way, after self-replication, even if the mother only leaves tens of thousands of fertilized eggs at the beginning, it will eventually evolve into billions of hydrous bodies!
When the hydra body grows further, the small jellyfish will split out one by one, and the final number will reach tens of billions.
The most awesome is a lighthouse jellyfish. This jellyfish is very small, only five millimeters in size. They grow from small to large, and after they mature and maturity, they will not die, but will immediately rejuvenate, become a child, and then grow again, which is incredible...
Many marine scientists from all over the world are now studying this kind of jellyfish. In an environment with qualified resources, this lighthouse jellyfish can live and die forever, and undergo life cycles again and again. From this point of view, it is like the legendary fire phoenix, which is a divine beast.
Another thing is also terrifying, that is, the jellyfish's hydrate bodies are not only huge in number, but they also hibernate.
In other words, when external conditions are not suitable for reproduction and growth, they can fall into dormant and can sleep for up to a hundred years. When will the environment be suitable and when will they re-mov.
But this is not the reason for the outbreak of jellyfish population. Even if their reproductive ability is so awesome, they were only able to survive in the ocean before, but they could not explode like this unscrupulously.
According to the analysis of marine experts invited by the TV station, the cause of the jellyfish outbreak is two reasons: one is the decrease in natural enemies, the other is the greenhouse effect that leads to the idealized living environment, and the seawater is eutrophied and leads to abundant food.
In the past 60 years, humans have obtained 3 billion tons of fish from the ocean, which are all wild animals and not raised by humans. At the same time, humans have discharged more than 3 billion tons of garbage into the ocean, so the entire ocean has undergone great changes.
In addition, human society has developed rapidly, producing a large amount of industrial and domestic waste, and sewage discharge has led to more and more nutrients in the ocean. As a result, algae plants are flooded, red tides and aurora are popular. Therefore, algae plants provide sufficient food for plankton. Plankton reproduces in large quantities, and jellyfish that feed on plankton begin to dominate.
Behind the outbreak of jellyfish is the withering of marine fish resources. The marine food chain has always been in a pyramid structure, from the bottom layer of diatoms, single-celled plants to the top layer of large fish and marine mammals, this structure has been stable for billions of years.
However, the outbreak of jellyfish populations has caused them to snatch plankton, causing fish to lack food sources and the marine food chain has been broken. Therefore, fishing owners attach so much importance to the problem of jellyfish outbreak.
Perhaps for the entire ocean, a large number of jellyfish outbreaks in one area have little impact on the overall situation, but for the breeding farms in that area, it is a disaster.
In the news, the camera kept cutting through various fishing grounds. There were stranded jellyfish on the shore, and there were a large number of dead fish with their belly floating on the sea in the water. Some fishing grounds just stocked fry in spring, and these fry were wiped out! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!