Chapter 40 gossip shark

A few days ago, I came to the restaurant with some friends for dinner. An old man with white beard and hair and walking on a single crutch looked at me without blinking.I also felt that he seemed familiar, and then I remembered that he was the brother of Zhang Kui, an old friend of the financial businessman. Since graduating from school, he went to England for further studies. Later, I only heard that he held a senior position in the National Bank of England.He seldom exchanged news with his domestic classmates, but he unexpectedly met them in Taipei. According to him, in the past twenty years or so, he planned to go to the herring area of ​​the English Channel to catch herring during his summer vacation.Unexpectedly, that sea area is also the most active area for sharks.Schools of fish usually come in early July and return to the Atlantic Ocean at the end of September.That day, he and Frank, a British fishing friend, were driving a fishing boat on Cape Lizard. Just as a large number of sharks were swimming, a group of giant mouth sharks called "pirates" by the fishermen scattered them all at once. The fishing net was smashed.As soon as he pulled in the net in a hurry, the waves were high and the wind was strong, and he was suddenly swept into the sea by the huge waves.At that time, there were as many as five or six hundred sharks in this batch. Although the sailors on the boat rescued him quickly, his right leg was torn off by a tiger shark, including the skin and flesh below the shin bone. It has become a modern Tieguai Lee.Since then, he has been persevering in his research on sharks. For decades, the British fishery industry has respected him as a shark expert. Everyone knows about Fred Zhang.

He said that there are many kinds of sharks. Although their body size, color and shape vary greatly, they all have the same characteristic, and they are all hungry ghosts who eat and eat.It is extremely difficult for people and fish to escape from encountering them, so fishermen do not call them sharks, but "pirates".Sharks are mostly streamlined, so they can speed up and reduce drag when swimming.There are two rows of sharp teeth in their mouths, and they are daunting with blue glowing eyes with thick eye membranes.When eating leisurely, they only swim two or three miles per hour while floating in the sea; when they see their prey and track and catch them, their speed can immediately increase to about 30 miles, which is faster than the speed of ordinary gunboats.

It is said that a member of a shark fishing association in Australia has a Melbourne member who fished in the southern coast of Australia and caught a shark weighing more than 2,400 pounds, which is a rare achievement in modern sea fishing. In the 18th century, a prince of the British royal family caught a purple star shark with a large fishing boat in the English Channel, weighing more than 3,740 pounds.These two records have not yet been broken! Most of the sharks that appeared in large numbers in the British sea were blue sharks. In the old days, Chinese knights and foreign swordsmen liked to use its skin as a scabbard and hilt.The Chinese storyteller said right away that the green sharkskin scabbard hanging from his waist was actually blue.As for the green pack shark, according to experienced fishermen, the longest is no more than five or six inches. The dripping dregs, although its skin is green, but the fish body is too small to be of any use.

There is a kind of hammerhead shark that is active at night and jumps forward when it encounters its prey. It stuns the prey with a hammer, and then it can eat to its heart's content. Fishes as huge as it can't stand the blow. The thresher shark is the most spiritual among the sharks. When it senses a foreign object behind it, it suddenly turns around and curls its long tail. The prey is not spared. If it can't finish eating, it drags it to the cliffs and secluded places on the seabed, and eats it when it is hungry.This kind of shark is probably the only fish that can store food!

There is also a basking shark with a bloated body, weighing seven or eight hundred pounds per tail, and likes to float on the water to bask in the sun.When they saw a ship passing by, they chased after it, and only ate the food discarded by the kitchen on the ship, so the crew called it the lazy shark.There is waste to eat, it will not hurt people. Scotland is a master of sea fishing and can catch the eggs of spotted sharks from time to time.Shark eggs are oval in shape, and they are either attached to the mushroom grass on the seabed or on the cliffs and domes. It takes a year to hatch the baby sharks.At both ends of the egg, there is a small slit, through which the sea water flows in and out continuously. The roe can not only be moistened by the sea water, but also avoid the impact of the sea water and the swallowing of the scales.Fishermen at sea can eat this kind of fried shark roe once or twice a year. .

Although sharks are fierce and cruel, they take care of their young sharks by nature. When the young sharks are in danger, they immediately take them into their mouths to avoid danger.Gas acid is constantly produced in the shark's stomach, so its digestion ability is fast and strong. If a human limb gets a little bit of its stomach acid, it will immediately peel off and corrode.In the fishing industry, sharks are called "scavengers". Wherever the shark's wings pass, seaweed impurities, fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs will be swept away by a thousand scales.A zebra shark was captured near Hong Kong the year before last. After dissection, a whole human skeleton, an unopened tin box of soda crackers, and Roman tiles wrapped in oilcloth were found inside the shark.There is even a sea fishing expert who accidentally caught a seven-star shark in the Dongsha Islands, and there was a case of two dozen Japanese beer in his stomach, which was used for both fish and wine, and it was widely spread.

There are too many types of sharks to enumerate, and the teeth of different types of sharks also have different shapes. Some are wide and thick, like a road roller, and some are sharp and sharp, faster than a steel cone. The steel cable anchor of a giant freighter can Bite off in two or three bites.As a result of head-to-head encounters, its teeth are also easily damaged.Fortunately, sharks lose whole rows of teeth and quickly regenerate whole rows; five or six regrowths are not uncommon for a shark.However, the regenerated teeth are getting smaller and smaller, and of course the sharpness is getting weaker every time, so they are not willing to damage their own teeth unless they have to!

Although the shark is the overlord of the sea, and all living things will suffer, there is also a small fish that clears the way in front of the shark, which is tantamount to the tiger's pawn.On the one hand, it is protected by the shoefish, and on the other hand, it can warn the sharks in case of an enemy attack.This small fish has a very sensitive sense of smell, and can guide sharks to follow wherever there are dangerous and strong enemies or fat prey, so fishermen call it "guide fish". The shark fins considered by the Chinese to be Shangshi delicacy include the so-called large wrapping fins, small wrapping fins, row fins, and loose fins, all of which are cut from different parts of different types of sharks.There is a Spanish friend who wrote a book about shark fins, which is more than 500 pages long. Unfortunately, it is written in Spanish. If someone translates it into Chinese, I think it will be very interesting!When I first came to Taiwan, I went swimming in fresh water with a few friends. I was once attacked by a shark. Fortunately, I escaped quickly and unscathed. However, I still feel a little scared about the shark.If Brother Kuiyi hadn't taught me a lesson, I would never have imagined that sharks are so ferocious and terrifying!