"Stop the ship and check!" Several ships surrounded the 'Vladimir', and someone shouted loudly.

Xiao Peng stretched out his head and shouted: "The ship is stopped! Hey, if you want to stop the ship for inspection, you must always tell us the reason for stopping the ship for inspection, right?"

A man in a Colombian military uniform said: "We are a joint law enforcement of the Colombian Ministry of Fisheries and the Department of Drug Enforcement. I'm Moreno-Guarín from the Colombian Ministry of Fisheries, and I suspect that the boat is harboring drugs and IUU fishing, so I have to board the boat for inspection. ”

Xiao Peng turned his head and saw a boat next to him: "Hey, it's you! You check on me once a day!" The person he greeted was none other than the captain of the marine anti-narcotics team who had checked him on the yacht yesterday. What's it called? Julio Rogrigues! Yes, that's the name.

"Captain Rogriggs, you're busy enough, running around every day!" Xiao Peng raised his hand to greet him.

Rogrigues saw that it was Xiao Peng and laughed: "No way." Our AS surveillance has found that your ship has been moored here, and it is suspected that it is here waiting for the drug to be handed over. ”

Xiao Peng replied with a smile: "I don't want to stop here, my fishing net cable is broken, and I want to catch a net here." Okay, don't talk about it, hurry up and get on the boat, what to check. ”

Rodrigues pulled the boat to the side of the boat, and a group of people boarded the boat and saw the hillock and the others busy packing their nets on the back deck.

"Here's what's going on. Guarin asked.

Xiao Peng smiled, "Don't mention it, this person is going to be unlucky, and he will stuff his teeth when he drinks saliva." When I was in the Bay of Alaska, my fishing net was scratched, and today I wanted someone to repair it, but it turned out that the cable broke, and the whole net fell into the sea. This has been fished for a long time and just fished up. ”

Guarin looked left and right: "Can I see the fish cabin?"

"Of course you can!" Xiao Peng took them directly into the cabin and opened the freezer chamber casually: "I only have haddock and Pacific halibut on my boat, as well as several other Arctic fish caught in the Gulf of Alaska, as well as snow crabs and king crabs. There are no Caribbean fish, you can check it. ”

Guarin glanced at the freezer chamber, frowned, and said, "Sir, I want to see the other cabins." ”

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "The other fish cabins are all empty, so there is no need to check." ”

Guarin didn't even look at the freezer cabin, and said to Xiao Peng: "I want to see your other fish cabins." ”

Xiao Peng pointed to the emergency freezer: "Then can I turn off the freezer? ”

Guarin said 'um'. The conductor went to check the other cabins. Xiao Peng blinked, this person is still like this, they don't look at those who take the initiative to show them, and they don't take the initiative to show them one by one curious, what is this.

The inspection by the Department of Fisheries was quickly completed, after all, the only few cabins were empty, the nets had been broken, and the spare nets had not been opened. There is no trace of illegal fishing at all.

However, the anti-narcotics brigade investigated much more carefully, and did not relax the inspection at all because Xiao Peng had been checked yesterday, and did not let go of any bow cabin, stern cabin, cargo hold, machine room, boiler room, and not a single place.

Xiao Peng looked at the inspection for a while and couldn't finish it for a while, so he simply asked Xiaoqiu to prepare something to eat and drink, and beckoned Guarin and said, "Mr. Guarin, Rogrigues, they can't finish checking for a while and a half, come and taste the seafood I brought from the Persian Gulf." These are relatively rare here. And this beer, which I brought with me from our home country, is the best beer in the world. Anyway, the work on your side is done. Come over and have a drink of two. ”

"How embarrassing is that. Guarin said so, but his expression betrayed him. Look at the snow crab and king crab legs on the table on the hill, as well as lobster and cod steak, which are really rare here, and even if they do, they are expensive. It is no exaggeration to say that many of them have never even seen them, let alone eaten.

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, these things are not precious things at all in our place, we have eaten enough." Rest assured, these are all legally fished, na, this is our ration document for legal fishing in the Stars and Stripes Country, these are all legally fished, not IUU fished. Okay, let's eat quickly, I don't know when Rogrigues and they will be busy. Don't worry, I won't poison here, after all, Rogrigues and they haven't eaten it yet, right? Okay, hurry up and eat it boldly! We Huaxia people are your friends, aren't we?"

"In that case, you're welcome. Brothers, come and taste it, don't live up to Mr. Xiao's kindness!" Guarin said to his subordinates.

Sun Pengcheng asked curiously: "Brother Peng, what do they mean by the IUU fishing they are checking here? And we are on the high seas, aren't we? How can they still come here to check?"

Xiao Peng explained: "IUU fishing is illegal fishing. And as for the high seas. This is indeed the high seas, but you must know that there are two definitions of the high seas, one is in the exclusive economic zone of this country, beyond which the 188 nautical miles are the real high seas. The EEZ allows only domestic fishing. ”

Sun Pengcheng scratched his head: "How is this different?"

Xiao Peng said: "According to international management, 200 nautical miles of coastal coastline belong to one country, of which 12 nautical miles are territorial waters, and the remaining 188 nautical miles are exclusive economic zones. Of course, there are sometimes exceptions to this matter, just like our Huaxia, 188 nautical miles have wrapped up the plastic surgery country, so the two sides have been fighting over the exclusive economic zone. ”

Sun Pengcheng suddenly realized after hearing this, looking at the enjoyable melon forest eating over there, he looked angry: "Didn't you see the national flag we were hanging?

Xiao Peng sighed: "To tell the truth, we are only because we are Huaxia fishing boats, and people check us!"

Sun Pengcheng was puzzled: "What do you mean by this?"

Xiao Peng smiled bitterly: "Do you know how many distant-water fishing vessels there are in our country? In 2014, there were 2,460, do you know how many are in the European Union?

Sun Pengcheng shook his head after hearing this, and Xiao Peng gave the answer: "335 ships in the European Union and 225 ships in the Stars and Stripes!"

"What?" Sun Pengcheng's eyes widened: "This number is not mistaken, right?"

Xiao Peng said: "Of course, no mistake, by today, the number is almost three thousand." And there are still so many distant-water fishing vessels in the EU and the Stars and Stripes. ”

Sun Pengcheng's eyes widened: "You are definitely joking." How can our country be as developed as the EU and the Stars and Stripes?"

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "You don't understand, do you? Compared with the distant-water fishing vessels of the European Union and the Stars and Stripes, our 'Vladimir' is a small boat, and from the perspective of safety, they stipulate the specifications of distant-water fishing vessels, and small boats cannot go to the open ocean." Some time ago, I read a news item that several Chinese fishing boats went to Africa to fish, and our country's warships escorted the Gulf of Aden. Although there are many distant-water fishing vessels in our country, most of them are such small boats! The total number of distant-water fishing vessels of more than 1,000 tons may be less than 100. There are less than ten ships of more than 3,000 tons!"

"So little?" Sun Pengcheng suddenly realized after hearing this: "It's like there are more warships in the north than there are warships in our country, right?"

Xiao Peng smiled and nodded, Sun Pengcheng's analogy is really right. Don't look at the small place in the north, the number of warships in the navy is more than that in China----- four-seater runabout is also a 'warship'.

Xiao Peng took out a cigar and said: "Sun Pengcheng, you don't know much about fishery, so let's take the big yellow croaker you eat in my fishing ground? In the past, because our country caught too much fish, it was difficult to store it, and our government had to call on everyone to buy 'patriotic fish' for seven cents a catty, but now what about it? The average price of wild big yellow croaker is 2,001 catty! Why is this happening? It is because our country's fishery resources are getting smaller and smaller. At that time, our country had 'four major fishing grounds', but now the four major fishing grounds have long existed in name only, and now if we don't engage in aquaculture, we only rely on fishing? ”

Sun Pengcheng blinked: "Isn't it difficult for fishermen in our country to mix?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "You're right, but after all, the coastline of our country is too long, and there are too many fishermen who rely on fishing to eat." And not everyone has the ability to engage in marine aquaculture, so what should they do? So the state has also encouraged fishery enterprises to 'go global' through fuel subsidies, ship renovation subsidies, and exemption from import taxes and value-added taxes. So more and more fishermen are taking the risk and going further and further. ”

"It's too dangerous, isn't it?" Sun Pengcheng sighed.

Xiao Peng smiled bitterly: "This is not the most dangerous, the most dangerous is the conflicts and contradictions caused by the expansion of the distant-water fishery. Do you think, who is willing to go all the way and go home empty-handed? That's why there are often cases of entering other countries' exclusive economic zones to fish. You look at the news, what Argentina sank a Chinese fishing boat, Indonesia sank a Chinese fishing boat, and Xiong Guo sank a Chinese fishing boat, all those angry young people in our country hate it to the root of their teeth, and they can't wait to go to war directly, in fact, they are all IUU fishing boats, if someone goes to our country's exclusive economic zone to fish, we won't sink them?"

Sun Pengcheng blinked: "Is it worth it for them to take such a big risk?"

Xiao Peng said with a wry smile: "Fishing itself is hard work, and the fishermen work hard for half a day just to make more money? Anyway, let those IUU fishing boats cause harm, and almost everyone can check where the Chinese fishing boats go. We're okay along the way, there aren't many people checking on us, so it's good to get used to it slowly. ”