Chapter 309 IUU Fishing
After the 'Yan Huang' stops (not a clerical error, stopping on the ship is also called stopping. The captain's command terminology is what left car stops, left car into one, and so on. However, it was a two-car two-rudder ship, and the 'Yan Huang' was a four-car two-rudder car. Two gas engines and two diesel engines provide 94,000 horsepower. That's why the original 'Azam', now the 'Yan Huang', is the fastest superyacht in the world), Xiao Peng rushed out from the stern of the boat: there were eight red custom Ferrari motorboats on the Azzam for guests to use.
Don't think that Ferrari only has cars, Ferrari's motorboats are also famous.
It is not surprising that classic Ferrari cars are now auctioned off by major auction houses around the world, and every single one will be sold at a high price, but it is not a Ferrari car that sets a Ferrari auction price record, but a Ferrari motorboat.
That motorboat once created a myth in 1953 at 243 kilometers per hour on Lake LSEO in Italy, and has since stayed in museums and was later auctioned in Monaco. The specific transaction price is unknown, but according to rumors, the transaction price is $170 million。。。。。。
Xiao Peng asked everyone to wait, and he drove a motorboat out of everyone's field of vision, and not long after, Xiao Peng returned to the boat: "Let's go, go to Tokyo!"
Pan Peiyu asked curiously, "Brother Peng, where have you been?"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "I didn't go anywhere, I went to take a few photos with the dolphins!"
Xiao Peng really didn't go anywhere, he found a bottlenose dolphin, genetically modified it, and gave it a task to lead all the dolphins to escape from Tokyo Bay. As for where to flee, Xiao Peng hesitated for a long time, so he just let them go to their hometown.
To be honest, if Xiao Peng does this, he will definitely make people scold the street.
Xiao Peng's hometown is located in the Yellow Sea, the Yellow Sea fishery resources are scarce, the country's 'four major fishing grounds' are now in name only, so many small dolphins in one go will inevitably cause fishermen to reduce their catch. Whether we want to protect the environment or people's livelihood is a complex issue. After all, there are too many people in China, and 1/4 of the fish in the world are eaten by Chinese people. The countries ranked second to tenth combined, do not consume as much seafood as China.
Huaxia has been thinking about this issue for a long time, so it has been encouraging fishing in the open sea: through fuel subsidies, subsidies for ship modernization, and exemption from import taxes and value-added tax, fishing companies are encouraged to 'go global', and Chinese fishermen have done the same, and now Huaxia fishing boats are all over every corner of the world. At present, China's distant-water fishing fleet has developed into the world's first.
However, in China, the news that is often heard is that the Huaxia fishing boat has been detained, blown up, and sunk by a certain country。。。。。 Then the media exaggerated that 'the fishermen were bullied', and the domestic crowd was excited, and finally the government paid the bill, forming a vicious circle. In the end, it will lead to mutual dislike among the people of the two countries, which in turn will affect the relationship between the two countries.
For example, some time ago, Atingen sank a Chinese fishing boat, and after learning the news, countless domestic netizens were eager to start a war with Atingen immediately! Without asking what really happened.
In fact, it is not only the whaling ships of the Wa Kingdom that give headaches to the countries of the world, but also the Chinese fishing boats, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the practices of some Chinese fishing boats are more unacceptable than the whaling ships of the Wa Kingdom.
It's all because of IUU fishing, which is illegal fishing. Especially in the fishing grounds of West Africa and South America, there are hundreds of cases of IUU fishing by Chinese fishing vessels every year. These illegal fishing vessels often act in groups, and one of them carries the most advanced radar, and when the coast guard arrives, it quickly escapes.
In order to deal with these IUU fishing boats, countries around the world are also trying their best, and plastic surgery countries initially used rubber bullets and electronic attack guns to stop IUU fishing, but it had no effect at all. Therefore, the plastic surgery country passed a decree to allow the coast guard to use guns, and the plastic surgery country coast guard shot and killed Chinese fishermen;
There is also in West Africa, where IUU fishing is rampant, in order to deal with these IUU fishing boats, even many countries have to improve their equipment level, take Côte d'Ivoire as an example, because the country's navy is weak, the patrol ship is slow, and can only watch the IUU fishing boat go away, and finally the country directly purchased a new French ocean-going high-speed patrol boat, specifically to deal with these IUU boats, and soon captured two Chinese IUU fishing boats, hailed as their country's 'historic victory'! And Ettingen opened fire directly and sank the IUU fishing boat.
。 In the final analysis, there are still a small number of 'smart people' who consume the rights and interests that belong to everyone. These 'smart people' on IUU fishing vessels are really doing everything to improve their catches:
For example, the Chinese fishery department stipulates that fishermen should use nets with a diameter of more than 39 millimeters when they go out to sea. However, these IUU fishing vessels use nets with a diameter of less than one centimeter, which are called 'sweeping nets' and 'nets'. The net mouth of this kind of net is open, behind the net is a dense bag, the mesh hole is very small, after entering the water, it sinks deeper and deeper, like a broom with the fishing boat 'sweeping' the sea area through which it passes, with this method of operation at sea, no matter what it is, as long as you go in, do not want to survive;
There is also the so-called 'stone net', which is to add a scratch-resistant nylon cloth to the bottom of the trawl net, and any coral, seaweed, stone, and anything can be dragged together! Someone has made a vivid analogy: This is like catching cattle in the pasture, but people are using helicopters to drag a large net across the pasture. It was not only the cattle that were collected in the net, but also the turf, the big trees, the sheepdogs, the tractors and even the herdsmen. Then people threw away everything except the cows. These huge numbers of trawlers tow back and forth on the seabed every day, causing desertification on the seabed. The depletion of fishery resources near China is caused by this reason.
These are also classified as routine IUU fishing. There are many more bizarre ways to fish. For example, electric trawling.
According to the Chinese "Fishery Law", electric fishing is expressly prohibited, but there are still people against the wind to commit crimes, if a ship has ten hours of operation time a night, 3,700 meters per hour, the radiation area is calculated according to 12 square meters, there are 2.2 square kilometers of sea resources in one night by the destruction of electric trawling, as early as 2011, there have been fishing boats from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the waters of Qindao to fish with power grids, and the fish are almost dead where they pass.
There are also dense eye nets, also known as dense mesh nets, which are anchored in the sea, and the tide in the sea brings the fish into the net, and the mesh of this kind of net is one millimeter! smaller than the mosquito net used in summer.
There is also the notorious light round-up, at night, hundreds of boats are turned on hundreds of lights, looking at the whole sea is white, whiter than the day, and the fish have phototaxis, as soon as they see the light will swim, no matter how big or small the fish, all are caught, this method of fishing is more vicious, only in 2012 alone, the entire East China Sea hairtail fish production, plummeted by 40%.
Later, when the fish were gone, they targeted the shrimp again. And their way of catching shrimp is to sweep the sea with a shrimp trawl net loaded with hundreds of volts of direct current, such a large current, people will be electrocuted if they touch it, let alone shrimp。。。。。
In the final analysis, this is because of interests: the more captures, the more profits it makes, and countless people are blinded in front of interests and do not hesitate to take risks.
This is also related to the reluctance of many traditional fishermen to engage in distant-water fishing. This long-term fishing is protracted, so let's take the fishing grounds of South America or West Africa, for example, for as little as two years and as much as longer. Living a life of isolation and hard work. Despite the considerable income, distant-water fishing often encounters problems such as typhoons, machine breakdowns, piracy, infighting, and high work pressure, and many traditional fishermen are reluctant to participate. This also increases the cost of distant-water fishing. So in order to make money, the shipowner will do everything. Can you mess around like this without being disliked?
The fundamental reason for this situation is that the pattern is insufficient. When there are fewer catches, fishermen will only complain that there are fewer and fewer fishery resources, rather than reflect on the problem: the more fish they catch, the more money they make, and in order to increase the catch, all kinds of new technologies are being developed one after another. In order to make money, without thinking about the consequences, the current situation was created.
Is there a solution? Yes, and that's fish farming, but very few people do it, and the reason is simple, it's a big investment, it's a low return, and it's a long-term investment, and most people now just focus on the quick money in front of them. This slow-return investment is certainly not in sight.
And there is another problem, that is, the fish will run, right? Finally, the good fish that have been invested in have run away with the trend, and all the investment will be in the water.
Moreover, in China, the right to use the sea area is generally 15 years, which is a bit short for fish farming. Who knows what policies will be in 15 years' time? What if the development is finally good, but it cannot be continued, or if there are any policy changes? This worries investors.
All in all, investing in fishing is a high-risk and low-return project, which is why there are so many domestic capital predators, doing everything, such as Lenovo has gone to grow blueberries, NetEase bosses have invested in pig farming, but no one has invested in the ocean, it is precisely for this reason.
However, there is also a favorable situation now, that is, the state supports aquaculture, because China's sea areas are state-owned, and if you want to use the sea area, you need to apply for the right to use the sea area. There is approval authority at all levels. This also creates a cumbersome formality. However, there are regulations in Dongshan Province that if it is for breeding, then you only need to apply at the county level.
The Yanhuang continued to sail towards Tokyo, but Xiao Peng frowned and thought without saying a word. Seeing this, Yang Meng walked over and handed Xiao Peng a cigarette: "Dude, what do you want?"
Xiao Peng lit a cigarette and took a deep breath: "Brother, I'm wondering if I should be a loser." ”