After bringing the fishery administration leaders back to the dock, Bai Yu first took them for a walk around the beach.
The main purpose was to take them to see the swarms of flower lobsters, hiding in the crevices of the rocks, one clump after another.
In the end, when the leaders went home with Bai Yu, each of them had a lobster in their hand.
There weren't many fishery administration personnel, only four in total. Each of them took one lobster, so that was four lobsters. Bai Yu also took two, making a total of six flower lobsters.
In just over half an hour, they caught six lobsters.
You know, it takes half an hour to walk from this side of the beach to the other side of the rocky forest and back. They not only walked back and forth, but also caught six lobsters. That's just outrageous.
This alone is enough to illustrate one thing: there are just too many flower lobsters in the reef forest!
As for what Bai Yu wanted to say to the fishery administration, these few lobsters were enough to explain everything; that was, Bai Yu had achieved his goal.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to catch those six lobsters.
According to what the leaders and Bai Yu said, their fishing village will have two days a year to catch crayfish.
However, we can't eat all the flower lobsters we caught these past two days. We can only eat half of them and release the other half to maintain the flower lobster population.
Another point is that these flower lobsters can only be eaten by the people in the fishing village; they cannot be sold on the market, not even one.
As the saying goes, there would be no killing if there were no buying and selling.
As for the date when lobsters can be caught each year, they need to go back and discuss it in a meeting. They should also have a representative from the small fishing village go with them. Only after the discussion can a result be reached.
As for this year, there's only one day left until Chinese New Year, so let's just skip it this year.
The villagers hadn't bothered with the crayfish they caught before this year. Whether the villagers wanted to eat them or give them away, it was fine as long as they weren't sold.
Although the Chinese spiny lobster is listed as a protected animal under the Animal Protection Law, law enforcement these days is often flexible, and different enforcement methods are used for special circumstances.
Flower lobsters are extremely rare in other places, and if they are not protected, they will soon be gone. But in this small fishing village, they are definitely not a rare species.
Rather, it is a species that is about to proliferate and harm the beach ecosystem of the small fishing village, including the reef forest.
This is no exaggeration; an overabundance of lobsters can indeed cause damage to the seabed.
In addition to lobsters, there is another creature that also damages the seabed: crabs.
King crabs, in particular, cause the most severe damage to the seabed, and their population control is the most stringent.
If you don't believe me, you can search online. Every year, the fishing of king crabs in the waters around the world is strictly controlled. In addition to preventing overfishing, it is also necessary to prevent the king crab population from becoming too large and damaging the seabed.
That's why, after learning about the situation in the small fishing village and visiting it in person, the fishery administration officials agreed to Bai Yu's request and granted the village the authority to catch flower lobsters.
Although it only happens for one day a year, and the lobsters they catch can only be eaten by them and cannot be bought or sold.
But that's more than enough for the small fishing village, since they only need to control the number of lobsters, and they don't need to rely on lobsters to get rich.
At most, they might catch a couple of lobsters to add to their own meal, that's all.
They had lunch at Bai Yu's house, where Bai's father, a master chef, personally cooked and gave them a demonstration of what a real feast should be like.
Of course, these leaders from the fisheries administration have seen all sorts of things and been to all sorts of high-end hotels. They don't even know which department they belong to.
In some inland cities, fishery administration departments may not receive much attention, but Bai Yu and his team are currently located in Hainan Province, in Sanya, an island province.
The fisheries administration here is a powerful department with a very wide range of jurisdiction. Many business owners in the market need to maintain good relationships with them.
So no matter what kind of feast Bai Yu and his group prepared to entertain them, they wouldn't be surprised, because they had seen it all before.
Regardless of what these people who came to Bai Yu's house saw or heard, they were still very happy when they left, and said that they would start discussing the flower lobsters when they got back.
After watching the other person leave, Bai Yu went home.
Just as Bai Yu was about to go back to his room to take a nap, his phone rang. He took out his phone and saw that the caller was the head of the company's post-production department.
"Hey Lao Liu, is the video edited yet? Good, that's good. I made you work overtime on New Year's Eve. Just send the edited video to my email, and I'll take a look and then publish it."
Okay, okay, Happy New Year! Have fun at home, see you after the holidays!
Bai Yu is a boss now, no matter what. It's normal for him to send the video he filmed to someone else for editing and pay them.
Besides, Bai Yu was so busy today. He filmed the entire process of the humpback whale's rescue, and he also received the fishery administration personnel and chatted with them about some things.
He didn't even have time to edit videos all day; he hadn't slept at all. He hadn't slept for over thirty hours since he woke up yesterday morning.
He was able to maintain his energy before because he was rescuing humpback whales and talking to others, but now that he has finished everything and has just finished eating, he immediately feels sleepy.
If Lao Liu hadn't called him just in time, he probably would have been asleep by now.
Bai Yu then mustered his strength and checked the video that Lao Liu had sent. After seeing that there were no problems and that all the necessary hazard labels had been placed, he uploaded and published the video.
This time, Bai Yu posted not just one video, but two videos at once: one about their nighttime beachcombing and the other about rescuing a humpback whale.
There's not much to say about the beachcombing video. The whole video is eleven minutes long, and all it shows is Bai Yu picking up all sorts of seafood.
Things like fist-sized conch, hairy clams, slightly smaller pig snails, abalone, and the like.
There are also quite a few blue crabs, orchid crabs, and a lot of lobsters.
The entire video was filled with the implication of money. The number of small green dragons and large crabs that he caught while beachcombing was so large that it would have cost several thousand yuan to acquire them.
Regarding Bai Yu's abundant catch from beachcombing, some netizens who saw the video naturally had doubts, even suspecting that Bai Yu had staged the scene.
Bai Yu was too lazy to explain this situation. Who would use a lobster for a staged photo? That thing is a protected animal.
Although Bai Yu didn't catch any flower lobsters, there are still quite a few shots of flower lobsters in his videos.
He also mentioned in the video that he went beachcombing on a day of high tide, and that the harvest at such times is definitely far greater than usual.
He doesn't need to explain much to those who think Bai Yu's photos were staged, especially since he can't explain them anyway.
After the video was posted, he was already in bed resting, and he was the kind of person who would fall asleep as soon as he got a bed, sleeping very soundly.
Aside from this video of beachcombing, the other video shows the entire process of discovering the humpback whale, including Wang Hai calling him and the whole conversation.
The most exciting part of this video is undoubtedly the moment the humpback whale starts spouting, spraying a mouthful of garbage out of its mouth.
Before this first outburst, Bai Yu specifically instructed the editor that this segment must be sudden enough to catch all viewers off guard.
Then most netizens who watched the video were disgusted. A large amount of garbage was vomited up by the humpback whale, along with a piece of vomit and a large amount of green gastric juice.
Moreover, according to Bai Yu's explanation, this humpback whale vomited over a thousand kilograms of garbage on its first vomiting episode, which is truly astonishing.
As this creature opened its container, the words "Protecting the marine environment is everyone's responsibility" appeared on the screen once again.
At this moment, some netizens also thought about what Bai Yu had said in the live broadcast room that morning and wondered what it meant.
It turns out that the garbage this guy vomited up later was only a small part; the real bulk of it was the garbage he vomited up the first time!
If they still don't care about environmental issues, they really don't know if they will still be able to eat seafood in the future. What if they buy some seafood, take it home, cut it open, and find that there is garbage inside?
Of course, Bai Yu's call for environmental protection is not as extreme as that of Western environmental organizations. It simply means that we should avoid littering and properly sort our trash.
It's just a small request, something we can easily handle. We don't need to worry about anything else.
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