412 Unexpected Joy
Zhou Jing went down to get busy. Xiao Feng and Katya didn't intend to leave immediately. At Katja's suggestion, they found a coffee shop outside and sat down.
"Are you really planning to enter the marine industry?"
Katya asked Xiao Feng with a smile. The relationship between the two was very subtle. They met at a young age, when Xiao Feng had not yet made a fortune, and Katya was just a refugee.
Xiao Feng even saved Katya's life and took her in. Later, Katja followed in Xiao Feng's footsteps and accompanied him to start his own business. She was also the one who knew the most about Xiao Feng's secrets.
The relationship between the two has always been very ambiguous. Although the last layer of window paper has not been pierced, they both have a very clear understanding of each other's position.
Katya is currently the person Xiao Feng trusts the most and is also his big housekeeper, and Katja regards Xiao Feng as his future support.
So Xiao Feng has nothing to hide from Katya, no matter what he thinks.
"Yes, the reason why I invested in this Dingmen Island this time is indeed because I have the idea of entering the marine industry. But this matter is not easy to handle!"
"Oh? You never told me before that you wanted to enter the marine industry. Now that you have said so, what are your concerns?"
Xiao Feng glanced at Katya and knew that she was really doing her best, so he smiled and said to Katya.
"You also know that although our country has a long coastline, overfishing by fishermen over the years has made our offshore areas unprofitable at all, and the fish have basically been fished out. As for the marine industry, the only way to make money is
Go fishing in the ocean. I’m from Bincheng, and some of my classmates’ families did this before, so I know very well whether I can make money by fishing in the ocean.”
Katya just listened to Xiao Feng quietly. She wanted to know what Xiao Feng's concerns were.
"As for distant-sea fishing, the Chinese government has many preferential policies to support it. For example, if you build a new fishing boat, the state will give you shipbuilding subsidies. If you go fishing in the distant sea, the state will also give you subsidies. But once you enter this industry,
You really can only go fishing in the open ocean. On the high seas, competition is fierce, and there are various regulations on the annual fishing season. So it is really difficult to make money fishing on the high seas."
Xiao Feng didn't mention this, but Katya really didn't know.
"And which one really makes money? That is, fishing companies that have good relations with other countries can obtain fishing licenses from which countries. Don't worry about the United States and Canada in North America, Australia in the south, etc., these countries have
The control of sea areas in our own country is very strict and we will not easily allow foreigners to fish there, and the same is true in Europe."
Xiao Feng learned all these things from his former classmates, otherwise he would not know so much about offshore fishing.
"And where can we really have room for operation? It's in South America and Africa. Countries like Argentina, Chile, Angola, Namibia, and Gabon all have very famous large-scale fishing grounds near their coastlines. As long as you can get these
You can only make money with a country's offshore fishing license. But the key is that you know which countries are there. If you don't know the local officials in charge of marine fisheries, it is impossible to get a fishing license from other countries."
The coasts of South America and Africa do have large fishing grounds with abundant fishery resources, which are famous all over the world.
Every year, many domestic offshore fishing companies organize fleets to fish in large fishing grounds. In the high seas, almost all fishing companies from around the world come to compete for fishing.
Therefore, fish in some fishing grounds on the high seas are now smarter and will swim along the ocean currents to offshore areas, and offshore areas belong to the territorial waters of these countries.
Countries like Argentina and Chile also have their own fishing companies. When the fishing season comes every year, their fishing companies do not need to go out to the high seas. As long as they fish within their own country's territorial waters, it is enough for them to make a lot of money.
Moreover, their domestic market is limited and they cannot eat all the fish, so they export a large amount of seafood and fish every year.
But even so, there will still be a large amount of remaining unfishable fishery resources in the fishing grounds within their territorial waters.
As for countries like Angola and Namibia, they do not have large-scale fishing companies at all, and they do not go fishing in the ocean at all. Anyway, the output on land alone is enough to feed and drink their citizens.
But they don’t fish for it themselves, but they don’t let others fish for it either. After all, this is a resource that belongs to their country.
Therefore, starting in the past few years, these countries in South America and Africa have opened some offshore fishing licenses every year, providing foreign fishing companies with regulations on their fishing quantities and sea areas, allowing them to fish in their own waters.
Of course, this license is not that easy to get. Firstly, it is very expensive. Secondly, if you don’t know anyone, there is really no way to get it.
If you don't have a license and go fishing in other people's waters, that is considered stealing, and it would be a big deal if you are caught.
A few years ago, a fishing boat from a certain area in China secretly caught fish in Argentinian waters, but was discovered and directly bombarded by warships. Isn't it a big deal?
At first, they were arguing that Argentinians were barbaric, but then why did they just let it go? Don’t they know their own virtues? Do they know that they are in the wrong?
So this kind of offshore fishing is really not something that everyone can do?
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money. If you rush into this industry, you will really lose yourself.
Of course, Xiao Feng, who has the support of other world's fishery resources, does not have to worry about not being able to catch fish at all. The only headache he has is how to get those other world fish into the country through formal channels.
The sailors and captains on fishing boats know very well how many fish their boats have caught. You can't just stuff the fish caught from another world into the warehouse and then tell them that these are all caught by them, right?
?
Once the trip is over, these sailors will tell you to get out. If you don't make sure the boat is ashore, you will be pulled into slices.
So Xiao Feng's biggest headache now is this problem, but after Katya listened to what he said before about offshore fishing, she suddenly smiled and said to him.
"Are you having a headache about the offshore fishing license?"
Xiao Feng couldn't talk to Katya about the regularization of exotic seafood, which was a headache for him, so he could only find this excuse to stall. When Katja asked, he could only nod.
"Yes."
"Haha, why didn't you tell me this earlier so I could help you?"
"Oh? How can you help?"
Xiao Feng's head was full of questions, and Katya laughed: "Have you forgotten, where did our family come from?"
Xiao Feng suddenly paused. Katya's family is a big family in the Russian Far East. Although it suffered a blow from its old rivals in the past few years, in recent years, it has recovered and has resumed its position in the Russian Far East.
We have gained a foothold, but what does this have to do with distant-water fishing?
Katya smiled and took out her mobile phone, searched for a map, and showed it to him. Xiao Feng understood.
"You mean the Sea of Okhotsk?"
"Yes, this is it!"
The Sea of Okhotsk is a sea area between the Russian Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, plus the Kuril Islands north of Hokkaido, Japan. They have all been occupied by Russia after World War II.
In this way, the Sea of Okhotsk has almost become an inland sea of Russia!
Xiao Feng had heard about the fertility of this sea area a long time ago. Because there are some volcanoes in the sea that erupt regularly, the ocean currents below this sea area are warm. It is this constant alternation of hot and cold ocean currents that makes this sea area so fertile.
A very rich variety of microorganisms grow in this sea area.
This has also resulted in an abundance of fishery resources in this sea area. This area was previously a famous large fishing ground in the Far East.
The most frequent fishing boats in this area are Russian, Japanese, and North and South Korean fishing boats, but most of the fishing grounds here are controlled by the Russians.
Coupled with the fierce and domineering behavior of wooly bears, Japan and North and South Korea do not dare to fish excessively here, so the richness of fishery resources here can be described as unimaginable.
Xiao Feng's classmates had thought of fishing here before, but the bear was too unruly, so they gave up.
But Xiao Feng's classmates told him how rich the fishery resources here are. It is said that every year before winter, a large number of fish return in August and September.
In any area of the fishing ground, you can cast down a net and catch fish, which can basically fill your cabin. You don't need a second net at all, and you can sail home.
This shows how rich the fishery resources here are!
But Xiao Feng had never considered this place before. Because of the ferocity of the bears and their unruly habits, even the Japanese who were accustomed to playing rogue people did not dare to provoke them easily, not to mention Xiao Feng's thin arms and legs.
And now Katya took the initiative to mention it to Xiao Feng. Xiao Feng was so happy that he almost jumped up. Why did he forget about this? Katya and Peter, the siblings, aren't they the wealthy people in Russia? This is really
What an unexpected surprise!
Isn't Vladivostok the largest port city near that sea area, and also the largest fishing port!
"... Others may not be able to handle the fishing license, but for us, it doesn't matter at all. Peter can help you get it. Don't worry, if you can't get it, we can also set up a local fishing company. We can
Feel free to go fishing in the waters of Okhotsk..."
Miss Katya said it very confidently, and Xiao Feng also felt that this was true. Mao Xiong was always cruel and unreasonable towards foreigners, but he took great care of his own people. Foreigners were not allowed to go fishing in that fishing ground casually.
Chapter completed!