1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 389: Designating a Deep Sea Ranch

"What method?" Zhong Yongrui waited for Liang Ziqiang to continue.

"I often go out, don't I? I made some friends there, and I learned more than just shrimp farming. I can raise all kinds of snappers, black snappers, bull dung snappers, and even the more valuable purple snappers and thousand-year snappers. In comparison, I'm more confident in raising snappers than shrimp!"

"You're talking about this?" Zhong Yongrui thought for a moment, "But the land in the village is so small. If we raise prawns, we won't be able to raise too many other fish, right?"

"Of course we can't raise them in the village," Liang Ziqiang shook his head. "These snappers won't taste good in a pond. If you want to raise the popular snappers and snappers on the market, there is only one best way, which is to raise them directly in the deep sea! Of course, in addition to going to the deep sea, there are also many breeding tricks. I know all these tricks, so it's not difficult for me!"

"Going to the deep sea to raise snappers?!" Zhong Yongrui gasped. "I'm afraid that's impossible. I've only heard that people raise oysters and abalone on Driftwood Island, but Driftwood Island is just a small island in the shallow sea. If we go to the deep sea, the water is deep and the waves are big. What can we use to raise them? Wooden stakes and wooden fences? I'm afraid they will all be washed apart by the waves, right?!"

Zhong Yongrui was right. For deep-sea aquaculture, ordinary equipment cannot withstand strong waves and will fall apart in a short time.

Later generations developed deep-sea "cage aquaculture". Initially, wooden cages were used, but the scrap rate and replacement frequency were relatively high. Later, they were replaced with cages made of special materials that can be used specifically in deep-sea environments.

But since Liang Ziqiang said this seemingly unintentionally, he must have his own plans.

"It's not easy, but I can still think of a way," Liang Ziqiang replied. "I just don't know yet. I'm farming snappers in the sea, not in the village. But I'm from Changwang Village. If I succeed in farming snappers, will it be blamed on Changwang Village?"

Zhong Yongrui didn't expect that Liang Ziqiang was still focusing on this issue. He was slightly startled, and his tone immediately became affirmative:

“If it’s not the Pomwang Village, then which village can it be counted on? Whether you are on the land or on the sea, you are a fish farmer in Pomwang Village! It’s just like when the villagers go out to sea to fish and make money, isn’t it Pomwang Village that gets rich by going out to sea!”

"That's true. I was thinking that raising only shrimps is like putting all your eggs in one basket. It's better to have another one. Raise shrimps in shrimp ponds and raise snappers in the deep sea. Besides, the deep sea is so vast. If we can raise them, we can really expand the scale!"

"Young people are really enterprising!" Zhong Yongrui sighed. "It sounds difficult anyway. It would be great if you are willing to take the risk and try. Next time I'll report my ideas to the town. But the town can't make a decision on deep-sea issues. They will definitely ask the county and city and give me a reply. Anyway, documents are being issued to encourage aquaculture. Your development of deep-sea aquaculture is a broadening of the path, and the higher-ups will definitely welcome it!"

"Then please report to Uncle Xingrui. Anyway, I still have a way to try this idea!" Liang Ziqiang said affirmatively.

Now that everyone is vigorously promoting aquaculture, it would not be a bad idea to take this opportunity to let Zhong Yongrui ask about it.

But Liang Ziqiang will not place all his hopes on Zhong Yongrui.

Last time at the county fishing port, Wei Pan also expressed his intention to find someone he was familiar with in the relevant department.

In addition, Liang Ziqiang also dealt with people from the county fishery station last year. In July, he participated in the operation training of large steel ships at the Municipal Fisheries Bureau and got to know some people from the Fisheries Bureau. In the future, he may go to find them and promote deep-sea aquaculture.

Try to promote all three channels, and then you will get support from multiple parties, which will certainly make things go more smoothly.

If we want to contract a piece of deep sea for aquaculture, the lower-level departments may not be able to make a decision on this matter, and it is estimated that the final decision will have to be made by the Municipal Fisheries Bureau.

Before today, he was not sure whether he could succeed.

But today, I saw from Zhong Yongrui that there is an opportunity to vigorously promote breeding. If we take advantage of this opportunity, our chances will increase a lot!
Breeding snappers, is this really his next priority?
of course not.

He was going to contract a deep sea area for breeding snappers, and there was no doubt that it would be that special deep sea wintering ground!

When he contracts the special sea area, he will start winter and spring breeding, but more importantly, the wintering fishery will be equated with his breeding farm until the end of the contract period. After talking about this, Liang Ziqiang said:
"Oh, Uncle Rui, there's one more thing. As I said before, the fish ponds and wasteland ponds in the village add up to dozens of acres. I have agreed to contract them to raise shrimp. To be honest, the main reason I can raise shrimp successfully is because of a kind of nutrient powder I made myself. But prawns can't just eat nutrient powder, right? They also need some very cheap things to fill their stomachs, mainly peanut bran and Artemia."

Liang Ziqiang paused and continued:

"Peanut bran is easy to talk about, I can buy it anywhere. If we only have the amount of Artemia in the abandoned salt fields in our village, it won't be enough to feed dozens of acres of shrimp! Although this thing can only fill you up and has no effect on shrimp, I really can't find a cheaper and more cost-effective substitute. I seem to have heard that there is a Yanwan Village in our town, which used to produce a lot of salt, but now a large area of ​​salt land has been abandoned, which is much more than the salt fields east of our village, right?"

Some time ago, while taking a break, Liang Ziqiang actually went to Yanwan Village to take a look. There was a large piece of abandoned salt land there, which was much larger than the areas to the east of Changwang Village. There was no grass growing there, only swarms of Artemia, which were much more numerous than those in Changwang Village.

In the entire Chaoyang Town and even in Pengao County, I'm afraid that's the only place with the most Artemia.

"You want to use the salt fields there? It may be abandoned, but it belongs to someone else's village after all. We can't control it!" Zhong Yongrui felt a little embarrassed after hearing this.

"They shouldn't object to me taking over the land. It's just a wasteland anyway, and if I take it over, it can also increase their village's income. The town should also express its support for this matter!"

In fact, Liang Ziqiang has already talked privately with the person in charge of Yanwan Village, and their village is willing to make some contract fees by reusing the wasteland.

But one thing is that although the contract responsibility system has been fully implemented, most of the time it is still limited to villagers contracting their own land. Yanwan Village is happy for him to contract other people's land as a non-village person, but they still have to see someone in the town nod before they dare to do so.

"I'm going to the town to make a report, right? No problem, I'll definitely go. It's impossible for me to encourage you to become a big breeder, and then you'll just sit there and do nothing when you run into difficulties, right?"

In order to realize the breeding business that his village had announced in the town, Zhong Yongrui felt that he was willing to do this little thing.

“Of course. Let me say this in advance. If you go to other villages to contract waste salt land, it is waste salt land. Don’t secretly contract fish ponds in other villages! If you develop batches of shrimp ponds in other villages, our village will no longer be a model of aquaculture!” Zhong Yongrui thought about it and felt uneasy, so he gave a special reminder.

"Don't worry, Uncle Rui. I won't contract even one acre of fish ponds in other villages!"

Breeding is not the real highlight of Liang Ziqiang's plan, so he has no intention of contracting ponds in other villages to raise shrimps.

"That's good. I'll go to the town to ask about it in a few days. I can't guarantee whether they will agree or not. If it really doesn't work, you can find something else to replace the Artemia. This thing is not that important anyway. The nutrient powder you prepare yourself is the key!" Zhong Yongrui said.

"That's right." Liang Ziqiang replied casually.

But he knew better than anyone that he had to get the land of waste salt from the Artemia.

The so-called "nutritional powder" is nothing more than fish meal made from dried and crushed dragon head fish. When feeding the shrimp pond, the father and his two sons would sprinkle it into the shrimp pond together with peanut bran.

When asked by villagers, the three of them always claimed mysteriously that it was the "nutritional powder" specially formulated by Liang Ziqiang, giving people the illusion that this "nutritional powder" was the technical key to their successful shrimp farming.

The core function of the Artemia was infinitely reduced in his mouth. Until now, everyone thinks that this disgusting thing is of little use, and its only advantage is that it is cheap.

Even if he didn't plan to make shrimp farming his main business, a moderate scale would still be fine. He would naturally make full use of the largest Artemia resources within a radius of dozens of miles...

(End of this chapter)