Golden Fishery

The purpose of arriving at Binghuo Island this time is to travel around the island and visit the fishing grounds here.

Parry-Lack found five sightseeing cars, which are the kind of battery cars with only a roof. After sitting on them, they can ventilate and enjoy the scenery.

The sightseeing cars are all of the same model, and they are still relatively well preserved, but the style should be a bit old.

When Qin Shiou bought a beach car, he also knew about sightseeing cars. Now this kind of car adopts electric power steering system to improve the portability and stability of vehicle steering control; the chassis structure adopts miniature car chassis technology, with front and rear hydraulic brakes, These five cars use old-fashioned technology.

After seeing the car, Matthew King asked, "Is this your own car in your town?"

Knowing Mr. Minister's doubts, Parry explained with a wry smile: "Yes, I bought it six or seven years ago. At that time, the fishing ground collapsed. We wanted to develop tourism, but no customers were interested."

He didn't say anything later, but just shrugged. No one knows what the result will be.

"Economic transformation is indeed difficult." Hubble patted Parry sympathetically. He is a venture capitalist and knows this area better.

Parry said: "Although it is difficult, there is a chance of success. At the beginning of the year, I heard that Farewell Island in the south had successfully completed its economic transformation. They have cooperated well with Chinese travel agencies. Alas, it is really impressive. envious."

As soon as he said this, everyone including Matthew Jin looked at Qin Shiou who got into the car with strange eyes. They are from St. Johns and know the development of tourism on Farewell Island.

Following a group of people, Parry also set his sights on Qin Shiou, then blinked suspiciously, and asked tentatively, "Mr. Qin Shiou, the owner of the Eastern Fishery?"

Qin Shiou was already in the car, so he had to get out of the car again, and said with a dry smile, "Hello, Mr. Mayor, do you know me?"

After hearing this, Parry showed a joyful expression on his face. He extended his hand enthusiastically to Qin Shiou and said, "Yes, Mr. Qin, I know you, and I can even say that I am your fan. Of course, I only learned about it through the news. You, it is an honor to meet you, to meet you on Binghuo Island!"

Qin Shiou shook hands with him, and Parry began to talk endlessly: "I know the situation in Farewell Town very well. They are all in the government's relocation plan just like us. I am very familiar with your Mayor Hamley. As a result, more than half a year ago , I suddenly learned about the economic transformation of your town, and I was really surprised at that time."

"I've always wanted to go to your island for a survey, but unfortunately I haven't had the chance. It's great to meet you here. I have too many questions that I want to ask you. I hope you can give me some advice."

"Oh, you want to visit our small town and fishery? Come on, I'll be your tour guide. In fact, our town is still very distinctive. Before the cod resources collapsed, it was the most powerful town in the Newfoundland fishing ground. .”

Parry didn't brag, he took the fish farmers to the town government first, a Gothic three-story building with mottled paint on the outside, telling people about its history.

There was a fisherman who was in the paint business and knew a lot about paint, so he asked doubtfully, "Did you use inferior paint? It's impossible for it to fall off like this after so many years."

Parry said with a smile: "Hehe, we specially used this kind of paint in order to create a sense of historical vicissitudes, which can better attract tourists.\

,"Qin Shiou was speechless, Binghuo Island is also working hard to develop tourism.

There is a house in the town government that hangs photos of the past on the walls, ranging from the popular pastel photos in the 1970s and 1980s to normal photos in recent years.

Judging from the photos, Binghuo Island has a glorious past. Many of the photos were taken by aerial photography. The town is like a small town. It is estimated that thousands of houses have appeared, and many deep-sea 10,000-ton fishing boats have docked at the pier of the island.

Qin Shiou saw a series of photos of big fish, which were the souvenirs of the super big fish caught by the fishermen.

Half of them are bluefin tuna, and they are all big fish over three and a half meters long. Now, one can sell for millions of dollars.

Parry walked up to him, looked at the tuna in the photo and exclaimed: "At that time, this kind of fish was very cheap. Many people caught it and fed it to dogs and cats. Who would have thought that they are worth hundreds of thousands now?"

Qin Shiou asked: "Looking at the photos, there should be a lot of bluefin tuna in your fishery. Even if you rely on catching this kind of fish, the fisherman's harvest is not bad, right?"

Parry said with a wry smile: "There used to be a lot of them. As you can see, the west of our fishing ground leads to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It used to be a holy place for tuna, but unfortunately it was also caught extinct."

If it weren't for the collapse of cod resources, the situation of Binghuo Island would be infinitely better than that of Farewell Island, and the strategic positions of the two sides are completely different.

Farewell Island is located at the southernmost tip of the Newfoundland fishing grounds, relying on the cold Labrador current and the warm Mexican currents, while Ice and Fire Island is located in the golden fishing grounds, looking north to the Greenland fishing grounds, southward to the Newfoundland fishing grounds, and west to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Eat the world.

It's a pity that when the fishery resources are exhausted, this kind of place is often in a worse situation, because the residents are used to the flowers and bustle in the past, but now they suddenly become dead and quiet and have no prospects. They will not be able to stand it, and then leave here one after another.

The same is true of what I learned later. After the rapid decline, the town began to decline slowly. The young people left the island a long time ago, and the rest are almost all elderly people. According to Parry, the average age of the town’s population is over 65. age.

Qin Shiou grinned secretly. This is much worse than Farewell Town. At the beginning of Farewell Island, many young people chose to leave, but it was not so serious. Many middle-aged fishermen chose to stay behind.

Somewhat similar to Queen Fishing Village, the houses on both sides of the town's streets are scattered, and even a series of houses in some places are dilapidated and uninhabited.

Parry said that the houses in these vacant places have been towed away or demolished. Five years ago, the provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador proposed a "relocation" plan, if people on the small bay islands are willing to relocate In other places, the provincial government can give compensation.

In this way, the government can save money by interrupting all government services provided to the island.

Unlike in the fishing village, this time the visit was scattered rather than collective. After the town government heard a report from Pali, the fish farm owners were dismissed and they had to stay on the island for three days. Free time.

The Ministry of Fisheries did not arrange accommodation for them this time, so the fishery owners could only go to the fishermen's families to stay overnight. There are two small hotels in the town, the small ones can only accommodate twenty-five people, and they have already been filled.

Qin Shiou dragged his suitcase and wanted to find a place, but Parry held him back and wanted to show him around the island and ask him to give some opinions and suggestions. He still wanted to develop the town's tourism industry.

How could Qin Shiou be so capable? Said quickly that he was going to find a place to live.

Parry said happily: "You don't have a place to live yet? That's great."

Qin Shiou felt that this was not right. If Serge or Buck had said that, he would have already slapped him.

Facts have proved that impulsiveness is the devil, and Parry continued to say happily: "Then you can stay at my house, and we can have a good talk about the island's tourism development at night."

Qin Shiou laughed along with him, thinking that this choice seems to be inferior to him pulling up a tent to stay in the wild, right? R1152

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