Zhou Jianguo also had his own thoughts and wanted to have a good relationship with Chen Yuan and others.
This is what an old prostitute encounters...
Chen Yuan and Zhou Jianguo both laughed.
The fishing boat arrived at the shallow sea area on the leeward side of Xiaoma Jin Island. After it stopped, Chen Yuan took out the hot pot base ingredients and some spices and began to fry the bottom of the pot.
Zhou Sheng brought out a leg of lamb and some vegetables.
The mutton is frozen hard, and it is easy to cut out pieces of mutton using a long tuna knife.
Lin Xinhai and the others were still talking about the US$7 billion tuna industry.
Chen Yuan and the others are considered to be involved in the US$7 billion tuna industry. This is a huge piece of cake, and even a small bite is enough to make a lot of money.
"The upper limit of longline fishing boats is too low." Zhou Jianguo said: "If it is a seine boat, if it is done well, the profit will be high."
"We have thought about buying a seine boat before, but it seems not easy to get into PNA fishing," Lin Xinhai said.
Zhou Jianguo nodded: "The number of domestic tuna purse seine vessels approved to enter the PNA has not yet exceeded double digits. It is indeed not easy for tuna purse seine vessels to enter the PNA, especially domestic tuna purse seine vessels."
Zhou Jianguo didn’t know the specific data.
However, it seems that there were only four domestic tuna purse seine vessels approved by the previous Palau agreement. Dongjiang Fisheries also obtained fishing quotas for three purse purse seine vessels after years of negotiations, and they were all purse purse seine vessels within 50 meters.
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Seine boats charge different fees depending on the length of the boat. The charges are different, and the specifications of the seine nets are also different.
The larger the boat, the larger the seine net that can be used.
It is too difficult for tuna purse seiners to enter PNA fishing.
Longline fishing boats are relatively loose.
"Come to our company after the fishing season is over." Lin Xinhai looked at Zhou Jianguo: "The treatment will definitely be better than that of Dongjiang Fishery in all aspects."
Zhou Jianguo nodded with a smile and looked at Chen Yuan: "Okay. Chen Yuan said before that he wanted to build a large tuna seine boat, the kind that is eighty or ninety meters long."
Lin Xinhai also looked at Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan was frying spices and said: "If you want to build one, build a big one, an ocean-going tuna purse seine ship with its own processing workshop, preferably with an ultra-low temperature refrigeration capacity of over 2,500 tons. Such a ship can be fully loaded for one trip to sea."
Come back and be happy."
"For such a big ship, the cost of a trip to sea is not low," Lin Xinhai said.
"How much investment do we need in the early stage to build a big ship?" Gao He became interested and asked.
"The initial investment is tens of millions. Large tuna seine boats are all custom-made at shipyards. A down payment of 20 to 30 percent is enough. Plus decoration and the like, if you can spend 60 million in the early stage, you can own one.
The world's most advanced tuna purse seiner." Gao He said: "However, it will cost at least more than 20 million to apply for an ocean fishing license and put the fishing vessel into operation."
The equipment of the 76-meter tuna seine boat is close to the world's first-class level, and the price is about 180 million.
Then the cost of building a 100-meter tuna seine boat would start at at least 300 million.
Gao He rubbed his cheeks, chuckled, and said, "If you build a large tuna purse seiner, can you count me in?"
Lin Xinhai looked at Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan smiled: "Master, if you don't have any objections, I don't have any objections either. But now the large tuna purse seine boats feel too risky."
Zhou Jianguo waved his hand and said: "Today's tuna purse seine boats need to be big. The boat is big, the main engine is powerful, and the cabin capacity is big. It is now prohibited to put driftwood and electric buoys on the high seas, so..."
"Although it's prohibited, there are still many people doing this on the high seas," Chen Yuan said.
"Standardization is done step by step. In a few years, supervision on the high seas will be strengthened..." Zhou Jianguo said: "When all these are regulated, tuna purse seine boats within 50 meters will have nothing to do."
Chen Yuan didn't react for a while. He waited for Zhou Jianguo's explanation before he understood.
Driftwood and electric buoys are also commonly known as fish aggregators.
In the high seas, fishing is very difficult if a fish aggregator is not used.
Conducive to fishing with fish aggregators, this belongs to driftwood fish. This was banned a few years ago. That is to say, fish aggregators can be used openly in some exclusive economic zones.
Just like PNA, but these fish aggregation devices are charged.
If high seas fishing regulations become more and more complete in the future, this will mainly depend on the strength of domestic supervision.
It is foreseeable that domestic supervision in this regard will become stronger and stronger in the future. This indicates that in the future, tuna seine vessels will be able to mainly pursue fish that rise from the water, that is, floating fish.
Then it is very necessary to use helicopters to detect fish and powerful radars. Therefore, the tuna seine boat must be large enough.
Chen Yuan cooked the hot pot base, heated the water, and then went back to the cabin to wake up He Fei and the others.
"Want to work?" He Fei was in a daze now, feeling like he hadn't fallen asleep for a while.
Yang Xun looked at the time and saw that it was only after eleven o'clock, but he still lifted the quilt and got up.
"If you don't have any work, get up and eat hot pot." Chen Yuan said with a smile: "Get up quickly."
"good."
Yang Xun ran out of water and fell asleep instantly, so he quickly got up.
Chen Yuan left the bedroom with a smile, went to the single room (now the utility room), and hugged a box of beer.
When they came outside, Chen Yuan opened a beer and each of them had a drink.
There is an induction cooker on the table, which is not yet boiling.
Zhou Sheng opened the beer, took a sip, and pointed at the mutton in the basin: "Is it enough?"
"It should be enough. If not, cut it again." Chen Yuan said.
"Uncle Hai, fourth uncle." Yang Xun shouted.
"Hey." Lin Xinhai responded: "Come here and sit and drink."
Luo Laosi also nodded and got up to get them beer.
Zhou Jianguo picked up the opened beer and raised it: "Have one."
"Let's go." Luo Laosi said with a smile.
"Cheers." Chen Yuan and Zhou Sheng also touched everyone.
After taking a sip of wine, Chen Yuan looked at Zhou Jianguo: "Old Jianguo, do you think it is better for our fishing boats to go east or west?"
"What do you think?" Zhou Jianguo asked.
"I want to go east. But when it comes to the number of fish, there are definitely more fish in the west," Chen Yuan said.
In the Gilbert Islands, the surge in the west is relatively large. This can be seen from the erosion of the Gilbert Islands atoll.
If the surge is large, it means that the ocean current has a strong effect. If the ocean current has a strong effect, there will naturally be more fish.
"Everyone has his own thing," Zhou Jianguo said: "There are more fish in the west, but there are also more fishing boats. There are relatively fewer fish in the east, but there are also fewer fishing boats."
Chen Yuan nodded.
"If you go to the south of the archipelago, the west should be better. Now all the fishing boats are concentrated in the north..." Gao He said.
"The south I'm talking about means that relatively speaking, it's impossible to go too far." Chen Yuandao: "We still have the Phalanx. If the fish flood comes, we still have to focus on the Phalanx."
Gao He nodded.
"You should have detailed information on the distribution of fish in the Gilbert Islands. How many more fish are there in the west than in the east? Probably."
"About... double. In the Gilbert Islands, the main operating area is the west side of the islands. There are fewer fishing boats operating in the east."