I'm popularizing ecology in the Pokémon world.

As June drew to a close and graduation season arrived, Saki and her cohort of students finally graduated successfully.

During those days, the campus was filled with students in academic gowns taking graduation photos, and every shot captured the vibrant spirit of youth.

Meanwhile, online, Chen Mu's personal social media platform is receiving more and more messages and mentions every day.

Just as Sakura had predicted, netizens were all reminding him to pay attention to the major hot topics that were about to happen during the summer vacation.

The Quartz Alliance's Cerulean Fish Farm, which had been closed for twelve years, is finally reopening this year.

Many netizens who had previously watched Chen Mu's live stream came to remind him to pay attention to this hot topic, and many fans also asked him if he planned to personally go to the outer sea of ​​Hualan City to do a live stream during the summer vacation.

Chen Mu was too busy replying to all the fans and netizens who left messages.

So he simply released a video.

In addition to replying to netizens, he also took the opportunity to continue his old profession—giving a popular science explanation to many fans who are unfamiliar with Hualan Fish Farm.

"Hello everyone, it's been a long time! I've missed you all. I'm your ecological science popularization blogger, Chen Mu."

In another month, the Cerulean Fishing Grounds off the coast of Cerulean City will reopen. Today, I'd like to take this opportunity to share some knowledge about marine fishing grounds.

Chen Mu also added some transitions and post-production effects to the video, smoothly switching the scene to an ocean perspective.

"Friends who like Water-type Pokémon should know that the distribution of Pokémon in the ocean is not equal or random. In some sea areas, fish resources and marine Pokémon are particularly abundant, and such areas are marked as fishing grounds by humans."

The formation of large fishing grounds is almost always related to ocean currents.

Here, Chen Mu added another post-production transition, adding a cool scene of Lugia emerging from the water to the video!

"Ocean currents are seawater that moves continuously in a certain direction."

Generally speaking, ocean currents flowing from the equator to the poles are called warm currents, while ocean currents flowing from the poles to the equator are called cold currents.

When cold and warm currents meet, the difference in their calorific values ​​stirs up the seawater, creating a vertical force that churns up nutrients deposited on the seabed and pushes them to the surface. This fills the entire sea area with organic matter, sustaining a large number of plankton, which in turn supports a vast population of common fish and marine Pokémon.

The legendary beast that controls ocean currents is none other than Lugia, the familiar ruler of the whirlpool seas.

There are a total of five continents and four oceans in this world.

The four oceans are: the Arctic Ocean, the Primordial Ocean, the Whirlpool Ocean, and the Padian Ocean.

The ruler of the Primordial Sea is the legendary Pokémon Kyogre, also known as Kyogre. The name of this sea is just like its original characteristics after its return to its primal state.

The ruler of the Whirlpool Sea is Lugia, the god of ocean currents, whose Pokédex entry is located in the Johto region. Therefore, for viewers of the Indigo League, he can be considered their own god.

However, the Quartz Alliance is actually located in the southeastern corner of the continent, adjacent to both the Whirlpool Sea and the Primordial Sea.

Departing from the port of Kuroba City, one enters the Whirlpool Sea.

However, at the same time, the vast sea area to the east of Cerulean City belongs to the Origin Sea.

The Cerulean Fishing Grounds, located east of Cerulean City, are part of the Primal Sea.

(The map was marked by myself and will be released in the bonus chapter later.)

After the cool transition between mythical beasts, Chen Mu returned to the camera and continued his explanation.

"Our Quartz Alliance's most famous Cerulean fishing grounds were also formed by the convergence of warm and cold currents."

For centuries, this has been Kanto’s largest source of fish and Aquatic Pokémon.

Cerulean City is thus known as the Water City of Kanto, and almost all of the famous Water-type Pokémon trainers in Kanto's history came from here.

During the heyday of Hualan Fishing Grounds, a famous person once left a saying here: "I could fish here all day long!"

However, Chen Mu then changed the subject, and the background music in the video also changed from upbeat to somber.

"The Cerulean Fish Farm has a very glorious past, but I believe many friends also know that it also holds a very sad record of a past event in our Kanto region."

The fishing grounds thrived for centuries, leading people to believe that their fishery resources would never run dry.

However, in the modern era, with the advancement of technology, the techniques for catching marine fish and marine Pokémon have rapidly evolved, and the efficiency of fishing has doubled with the help of technology, eventually exceeding the limits that the natural ecosystem can bear.

Since the beginning of the last century, the fish population in the Hualan Fish Farm has declined significantly due to overfishing by humans, and has been halved several times in a few years.

As the population of ordinary fish plummeted, marine Pokémon living in the local waters began to frequently clash with humans, eventually leading to fierce conflicts.

Because of that conflict, many wild marine Pokémon began to hate humans. Lapras, a type of Water-type Pokémon that was once very popular and sought after in the Kanto region, also left the Kanto sea forever due to the deepening conflict.

Lapras is listed in the Kanto Pokédex, and this Pokémon was first discovered at sea by our ancestors.

But now, wild Lapras can no longer be seen in any of the offshore waters of the Kanto region.

The Lapras, who had lived in harmony with the Kanto people for over a dozen centuries, left this sea forever after that conflict and have never returned.

This has led to the fact that nowadays, if the Quartz people want to buy Lapras Pokémon eggs, they can only rely on importing them from the distant Alola region.

It's heartbreaking that a Pokémon registered in our Pokédex has now multiplied to a massive number in the distant Alola League.

It was for this reason that the alliance ordered the blockade of the Cerberus fishing grounds twelve years ago, suspending all fishing activities in the area, even at the cost of huge losses, in order to restore the natural ecology of this sea area.

This July is the month the alliance plans to reopen the Cerulean Fish Farm.

This matter has now garnered a lot of attention from trainers, especially those who love Water-type Pokémon.

Of course, as an ecological researcher, I will also be personally visiting the Hualan Fishery in July for ecological research and live streaming. For those interested in marine ecology, please follow me!

Chen Mu's video ended there and was posted on his personal social media platform.

Soon, just a few hours later, his video unsurprisingly went viral and became a trending topic!

(One last picture of a dragon~)