On the day before Mid-Autumn Festival, I had lunch with my best friend. After seven turns and eight turns, I came to a small seafood restaurant on the roadside. As a northerner, the practice of this seafood restaurant is relatively novel: put rice at the bottom of the pot, add a steamer on it, pour in white shrimp, Pipi shrimp, clams, oysters, scallops and abalone, and take them out after steaming. In the gap between eating the finished product of the first pot, add Duobao fish and baby cabbage to the pot and continue steaming. Seafood is fully cooked, and porridge at the bottom of the pot is cooked. The seasoning tastes refreshing.

There is no such seafood in my hometown. When I was a child, the meat I ate was basically red meat such as pigs, cattle and sheep. However, the law of scarcity in the market made seafood a luxury at that time. The related ecological concept is also based on the situation of "seeing cattle and sheep at the slightest sign of trouble".

I was on a business trip a few days ago, and I used to bring my own books, novels or magazines back and forth on the plane. This habit is also forced out. I hoard a lot of books on weekdays, but I have no time to read them. On the contrary, a few hours on the plane became valuable reading time. This time, I brought a Sanlian Life Weekly, the 33rd issue of this year, with the theme of "Seafood Temptation-China People Rebuild Marine Ecology". After careful reading, my understanding of the ocean is not limited to tourist islands, but for seafood, which has surpassed the food stalls in Nandaihe, Beidaihe, and the deep-sea plaice with meatballs, making me a stranger so far away from the sea and a participant in the ecosystem.

The first time I ate abalone was a gift from my friend. I checked the menu, bought spices, chose the method that suits my taste best, and carefully made a plate to eat slowly.

The abalone shark fin in memory does not belong to ordinary people. They are too far from our dining table. Now, these two kinds of seafood have taken different paths: the former has become more and more common and cheaper after artificial breeding, making it easy for us ordinary people to eat; The latter is being resisted by more and more stars and groups because it can't be artificially propagated and its capture method is too bloody.

However, not all marine life can be farmed artificially, which is why today's fishing industry is still prosperous. It is precisely because of the prosperity of fisheries that marine ecology is facing unprecedented destruction.

Teacher Yuan Yue, the author, followed the fishing boat to the seaside. In his article, he described such a scene: the mesh of fishing nets is getting smaller and smaller, the area laid is getting bigger and bigger, and the depth of exploration is getting closer and closer to the seabed. Many fishing nets are "homeless nets", and whatever can be salvaged is fished, regardless of size. There are large and small fish and shrimps salvaged, the big ones are sold for money, and the small ones are kept as fish feed. Of course, not only fish and shrimp are salvaged, but also a lot of daily garbage. Fishermen pick out fish and shrimp from the garbage, then shovel them up and throw them back into the sea.

This is now offshore fishing. There are fewer and fewer fish and shrimp, and even fishermen can hardly eat bigger seafood than they did ten years ago.

In addition to ecology, fishing in the open sea will cause more problems. Due to the division between the high seas and sovereign waters, fishermen who fish on the high seas have to take risks to catch other people's seafood besides fighting the storms of nature. No way, there is really no way at home, but fishermen still have to live.

The ocean accounts for 70% of the earth's surface area, but we know too little about it. With current technology, many deep-sea areas are still undetectable.

Not to mention the deep sea, even the shallow sea area, there are still many unknowns. Yuan Yue mentioned in his article that life on land is visible, so people can have a more scientific judgment on the general survival degree of species. However, the area of the ocean is invisible to human beings, so we can't judge how many species are left in the ocean and how long it will last when we are crazy about fishing for economic benefits. This unpredictable situation, on the contrary, allows fishermen who make a living from it to catch as much as possible, because it is impossible to say when it will be gone.

Finding fish in the sea is different from hunting animals on land, more like finding an oasis in the desert.

According to our common sense, many fish breed seasonally. When they rest in the offshore, they go down with one net and two nets, and marine life really can't reproduce. Moreover, the ocean is also a complete ecosystem, and when some fish are missing or even extinct, it is also a fatal blow to the whole ocean system. What impact will it have on mankind?

China also has a closed fishing season, during which fishermen have to rest and can't fish any more. This is done to give marine life a chance to breathe. However, the market does not allow it. Marine life needs to survive, so do fishermen. This brings us back to the above problem-illegal fishing.

Humans divide marine animals into three categories: edible, inedible and unknown.

What can be eaten can be divided into three categories: delicious and nutritious, not delicious but influential (can be processed), and delicious but not nutritious (can relieve hunger).

China people are immune to all kinds of poisons, probably because they can eat anything. There is an interesting passage in the article, saying that several China crew members are working on foreign fishing boats, and foreigners only need to shave off the fish when making fish chops, so people in China stew the fish heads, making foreigners look silly. This is a real interview. Westerners generally eat boneless fish steaks and canned fish, while China people like to eat whole fish.

Seafood is not a luxury, but a necessity for many people, especially the seaside residents, so it is impossible to quit seafood. What should be resisted is shark fin. Of course, I can't afford it either. Meanwhile, don't throw rubbish into the sea. There are many people in the inland who want to throw it but can't.

According to the article, there are two greatest hopes at present: first, technology has changed life and tried to domesticate marine life, mainly edible parts, just like humans domesticated pigs, cattle and sheep thousands of years ago; The second is legislative protection.

But I know a few good news: one is that there is no shortage of squid at present, and there are as many as you want; Second, hairtail is not cultivated artificially at present, and everyone eats real sea goods; Third, there are basically no antibiotics in mariculture fish and shrimp. "Because many marine organisms have high requirements on water quality, farmers must change water frequently, and antibiotics are useless."

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