Surrounded by an 18-kilometre-wide lagoon, Butaritari Atoll was once the centre of commerce and trade in the Albert Islands, but has since moved to Tarawa Atoll.

Buta Atoll is now uninhabited, and the island's main economy is plantation, fishing, and tourism.

Fishing should occupy the first place.

Chen Yuan doesn't know much about these small islands in the Pacific Ocean.

From the sea where the phalanx is placed, it will take about a hundred kilometers.

"Is that phalanx we set up useful?" Xu Laosan said.

Chen Yuan said: "I've heard people say before that if you do a good job, you can catch tens of millions of tons of fish at a time."

"Tens of thousands of tons of fish, impossible, right?" Zhou Sheng said.

"I've heard people say it, but tens of thousands of tons, it feels like bragging." Liu Lao Er said.

Chen Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "Tens of thousands of tons, it's not impossible."

"Tens of thousands of tons of tuna?" Zhou Shengdao.

"If you count bonito as tuna...... Chen said.

"What is the total amount of fish caught in a year by the members of the Nauru Agreement?"

"I don't know. However, the annual catch of purse seine operations in the western and central Pacific Oceans, I have seen a statistic before, which seems to be that the tuna purse seine boats here catch more than 1.6 million tons a year. This is a few years of data, and in recent years, all the public data have been more than 1 million tons, and the maximum has reached more than 1.8 million tons." Chen Yuandao.

The main fishery resource areas in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, the members of the Nauru Agreement account for the majority.

Then there is the fact that the Western and Central Pacific occupy a large share of the global tuna industry, with tuna and bonito accounting for 37 percent and 49 percent of the global share respectively. Single-finger tuna purse seine fishing vessels......

This data alone is very revealing.

"By the way, those data only count tuna purse seine fishing vessels. Fishing trawlers, longliners, etc., are not counted." Chen Yuan added.

"More than a million tons, something." Zhou Sheng said.

"Abundant resources are awesome." Chen Yuan said.

"If you want to say that there are abundant resources, it has to be the four major fishing grounds. Here, that is, during the migration period, the density of fish is relatively high, and the density of fish is still very average in normal times." Xu Laosandao.

"It's much stronger than most of the country's seas anyway." Liu Lao Er said: "What's more, there are few fishing boats here, and the sea area is large."

Under the VDS Fisheries Management System, there is a limit to the number of fishing vessels that can enter each country's fisheries EEZ. There is also a no-fishing zone......

The small island countries of the Pacific Ocean have a small land mass and a small population, but the area of the exclusive economic zone in the sea area is very large.

Just like in Kyrgyzstan, the number of fishing boats allowed to enter is full, and as long as they don't run into popular waters, they can't see a single fishing boat for dozens or even hundreds of nautical miles.

This kind of place is equipped with artificial fish collection devices, and a net is often dozens of tons. Hundreds of tons of fish are not unusual......

[In view of the general environment,

When the fish migrate, the harvest is even greater.

However, there is a certain threshold for fishing here, especially tuna purse seine boats. The quota for purse seine vessels is too small, and the threshold for longline fishing vessels is much lower.

But longline fishing boats, looking at Xu Laosan's previous harvest, know that if they are unlucky, or do not find a large school of fish, they will make some hard-earned money.

Purse seine boats are easier to get, but it is especially difficult for small companies to get in because of the large investment.

chatting all the way, and soon, Chen Yuan and the others came to the outside of Buta Atoll.

The atoll has been severely eroded by the sea, and there are no small islands in the northern part of the atoll, except for a white coral rock. The water here is less than 1 meter deep, to several meters deep......

The water color is clear and transparent.

White coral rocks, and the occasional live coral with color......

The inside of the atoll is full of color.

In the distance, Chen Yuan saw several homemade catamarans, on which locals were laying fishing nets and fishing hooks.

Gillnets, and artificial longlines......

There are two small islands to the northwest of the atoll, one large and one small.

The small one is like a desert island. The big one is a plantation with a hotel on it......

"What's the name of that island?" Chen Yuan pointed to the northwest direction, that is, the big island on the left-hand side, and asked.

"It's like it's called Bikati Island, and there's a resort hotel on it, which is quite large in the local area." Xu Qiang said.

Some of the fishing boats that come to fish have interpreters on board, while others don't.

Xu Qiang is a translator, and understanding the local information and customs is the basic work of translation.

"Then go up and play for two days." Chen Yuan said.

"Okay."

"I'll ...... casually"

Entrance to the lagoon.

Close to the islands, the lagoon is shallow and full of reefs.

The water here is so clear and clear that the corals on the bottom of the sea are so colorful that you can look at the water.

It's just the naked eye, and it's not easy to distinguish the reef on the bottom of the sea. Chen Yuan turned on the auxiliary radar, and with the help of the radar, Dabai approached the channel carved out in the lagoon and drove the Diaoyutai to the hotel pier.

There was a staff member at the pier who greeted us.

Xu Qiang stepped forward to negotiate with the other party for a few words, and then turned around and said, "He can speak Chinese."

"Nihao." The aboriginal man on horseback was the reception manager of the Bikati Hotel, greeting them in somewhat broken Mandarin.

There are many Chinese tourists leaving the country every year. As long as there are people, there are Chinese.

There are not particularly many foreigners who can speak Mandarin, but there are quite a few of them. However, in areas where tourism is to be developed, there are not many people who can speak Mandarin among tourism practitioners.

"Hello." Zhou Sheng smiled and put his hands together, and said with a smile, "Can our yacht dock?"

"Yes." The hotel manager also followed Zhou Sheng's example, and his hands were solid.

Xu Qiang asked again about the cost of mooring the yacht.

The reception manager asked them if they were coming to stay on the island, how many people there were, how many days they were staying, and so on.

Chen Yuan There were 7 people on the boat, and several of them discussed it and planned to play on the island for three days.

In this way, the hotel waived the berthing fee for their yacht.

It's a simple pier.

Chen Yuan went back and woke up He Fei and Yang Xun, who were still sleeping: "Get up."

He Fei opened his eyes and looked at Chen Yuan: "Have you eaten?"

"What's wrong?" Yang Xun couldn't open his eyes and looked at his phone.

"Get up, let's go to the island." Chen Yuan said, "Go to the hotel room and sleep."

"Hotel?" He Fei and Yang Xun were a little confused.

"We're on the island." Chen Yuan said.

"Oh." Only then did the two react.

Yang Xun turned over, got up, and went out to wash his face.

He Fei also got up......

"You bring two pieces of clothing, and we'll go to the island for three days." Chen Yuan said.

"Okay." Yang Xun smiled and scratched his head.

Chen Yuan also laughed, went back to pack two things, and came outside.

Zhou Sheng and the others have fixed the fishing boat, talking and laughing, and are preparing to land on the island.

"You don't bring a change of clothes?" Chen Yuan asked.

"I'm going to ......" Liu Lao Er patted his head: "I didn't say that I would come and play for a few days, I didn't bring clothes."

"Wait, I'll go down and get two clothes." Zhou Sheng smiled and ran back to the cabin.

The hotel manager's Mandarin is very average, only a little. Xu Qiang spoke English to the other party and asked about the basic situation on the island and the things to pay attention to.

The island is not big, but it is also hundreds of acres. In addition to hotels, there are also aboriginal people on the island......

It can be bought in the hotel

When it comes to clothes, it's Hawaiian beachwear and swimwear. There are no special things to pay attention to......