1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 394 Successfully Obtained Exclusive Fishing Rights

Qi Long is really a hard-working person. In late May, when Liang Ziqiang's dams were about to be completed, news came from the county.

There has been progress in the contracted sea area for aquaculture development. The Municipal Fisheries Bureau will send people to the village to inspect his current aquaculture scale and learn about his aquaculture achievements last year.

A few days later, Qi Long accompanied the Municipal Fisheries Bureau to Changwang Village. Liang Ziqiang saw a familiar face, whom he had met during the large steel ship operation training at the Municipal Fisheries Bureau last July. He could be considered an old acquaintance.

When they returned to the city, the Fisheries Bureau had a full understanding of Liang Ziqiang's breeding performance last year. They also praised Stationmaster Liang and believed that Pengao County had vision and it seemed that it was the right decision to support Liang Ziqiang, a typical breeder.

At the same time, the Fisheries Administration also expressed its position that it would strongly support potential breeders in Pengao County. To expand the breeding industry in the counties below is, in the final analysis, to expand the breeding industry in Yanghai City.

The three parties agreed on a date to survey the sea surface, and Liang Ziqiang suggested that they could do it tomorrow. Not only because they were in a hurry, but more importantly, he had already paid attention to the weather forecast, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow would be cloudy with low temperatures.

Only he knew that low temperature meant that place was safe.

The next day, the group arrived at the special wintering ground and found that it was indeed calm.

There was no steam coming out of the entire body of water. After all, it was no longer winter, and the "wellhead effect" was not evident.

At a glance, it was just like the most ordinary sea surface, without any abnormalities.

Liang Ziqiang was a little worried at first. Now it was only two months away from the appearance of the "dragon sucking water" in July and August. If there was a catastrophic weather outbreak ahead of schedule, they would be in trouble today. Now it seems that he can put his heart at ease.

Gradually we approached the atoll area.

The wintering grounds now are very different from those in winter. There are no fish and shrimps gathering together like before. Even if a few fish occasionally appear, they are sparse.

If it weren't for the atoll in front of him, Liang Ziqiang would have doubted whether this sea surface was the same sea surface where he caught mountains of fish during winter fishing?

"There's nothing special about this sea area, right?" said a staff member from the Fisheries Bureau.

The implication seems to be that Liang Ziqiang traveled a long way and chose an unremarkable sea area for aquaculture, which seems to be a bit of a loss.

"This reef is one of the largest I've ever encountered." Liang Ziqiang pointed to the atoll and said, "There's a lot of natural bait here. I once caught a big snapper weighing over ten pounds. This shows that this place can still produce very fat snappers and groupers!"

"A snapper weighing over ten pounds? It seems like you made the right choice of this place!" The staff members also immediately changed their minds.

"Since we are just starting out this year, we may not be able to expand it too much," Liang Ziqiang planned. "The first step is to set up a whole circle of cages close to the outer edge of the atoll and raise some snappers and groupers to see how it goes!"

"Are you going to contract a small area around the atoll first, or are you going to contract a larger area this time?" the other party asked.

"It's too much trouble to bother you to come here every year. Why don't you contract a larger area at a time? I still have some confidence that we will continue to expand the scale of aquaculture in the future and make full use of the entire sea area. Besides, this time we are trying it out first, and the city has given us very favorable conditions to support us.

If I really wait until I have made a name for myself, I will then apply to expand the contracted area. I am afraid that you will raise the price!" Liang Ziqiang said half-jokingly.

"You have to trust us. We support aquaculture. Even if you expand it, we won't easily increase the contract fee!" The other party was also a little amused. "Just kidding. In fact, what I'm really afraid of is that even if I get the contract, other boats will target my fish and come in every now and then, using the excuse of fishing as an excuse to take away the fish in my cages. This is really hard to prevent!"

"It's not that difficult. If you're doing aquaculture, there must be ships stationed here for a long time. If the scale is large, there will probably be several ships stationed here for a long time. Who dares to come and make trouble? If you didn't contract it, it would be a fight between the two parties; now that you have contracted it, anyone who dares to steal it can be reported to the police and arrested!"

"Of course I know that," Liang Ziqiang explained, "but if he breaks in under the guise of catching wild fish, I think there is still a loophole! Let me think about it, it seems that there is a way to solve it? I am not just a simple fish farmer, I also go out to sea to fish. I have contracted all the breeding and fishing rights of this sea, so that no one can break into my farm under the pretext of fishing. Yes, this is the only way to plug the loophole!"

In fact, after the boss of the fishery company discovered this wintering ground, he quickly contracted the fishing rights here, which enabled the company to achieve soaring profits and grow bigger and bigger.

This method is obviously feasible. The later fishing company was able to do it, and Liang Ziqiang can do the same now that he has taken the lead.

"Is it necessary? Then your contract fee will not be the price for pure breeding, it will be much higher!" The other party looked around and shook his head, "This is just an ordinary deep sea area. There are no more fish and shrimp than other places. It's not worth it for you to spend such a large amount of contract fees!"

"There's no other way. If we want to do aquaculture, we should do it with peace of mind!" Liang Ziqiang decided. "It's worth paying a little more for the contract. If we raise the fish better and expand the scale of aquaculture, we can make money back. It's much better than having someone break in and destroy it!"

"If you are determined to do this, it's not impossible. The Fisheries Bureau can even charge you more for the contract!" The staff had nothing to say.

Since this sea area is very remote and not usually involved in commercial routes, the demarcation process is not complicated.

The nautical miles were determined by the ship's constant speed, and after a full circle, the area that Liang Ziqiang was going to contract was determined.

After the weekend, on Tuesday, Liang Ziqiang received a notice that the Fisheries Administration had called the village and informed him to sign the contract.

Liang Ziqiang took his household registration booklet and ID card and went to the city.

At present, the management departments of marine resources are different in different places. Some places combine marine and fishery administration, some places have established special marine management departments, and some places have unified marine resource management under the land resources department.

Yanghai City currently adopts the first approach, that is, marine resources are managed by the Fisheries Administration, so Liang Ziqiang signed the contract with the Fisheries Administration.

According to what both parties had agreed upon, the aquaculture rights and wild seafood fishing rights in that sea area were all signed into a contract and contracted to Liang Ziqiang.

The only regret is that the Fisheries Administration did not sign the contract for the longest period of fifteen years, but only for ten years.

However, the ten-year period is long enough for Liang Ziqiang.

Given the amount of seafood in that place in winter, as long as we increase the scale of fishing, the harvest will be much more amazing than the previous round.

At least in a relatively short period of time, you will be able to accumulate enough start-up capital to truly grow and develop.

It is not the kind of thing where you are content with a small fortune, but rather the idea of ​​accumulating enough capital to gradually start the journey of building a marine enterprise!

Now that I have a second chance, I must leave a lasting impression between the blue sky and the sea...

(End of this chapter)