My Deep-sea Fishery

A group of people surfaced.

Fang Youqun was the first to be disappointed and said: Brother Yang, you are a dirtbag.

That's not some dirt bag, it's an island. Xiang Yang said with a smile.

Island? Fang Youqun's eyes widened, and he said directly, Impossible.

Nothing is impossible. There are countless islands disappearing and newly born on the sea every year. This is just a newly born dark island. Xiang Yang said.

What? The island will disappear? Now, everyone was surprised.

This is completely unscientific.

On the contrary, this is science. Xiang Yang smiled, If the earth is divided into four hemispheres, the south, east, and north, then the center of the earth should be at the junction of the Pacific Ocean across the north-south latitude and the east-west longitude. The unlucky Kiribati is surrounded. Although Kiribati only has a land area of ​​800 square kilometers, it has a sea area of ​​more than 3.5 million square kilometers. Let’s take Kiribati as an example.”

Unlucky? Why is Kiribati so unlucky? Also, why do we use it as an example? Fang Youqun asked puzzled.

It is said that Kiribati is unlucky because other island countries are trying to expand their land area as much as possible, even if there is no condition, they will reclaim land from the sea. Only Kiribati, when it became independent 40 years ago, still had a land area of ​​813 square kilometers. Today, 40 years later, 13 square kilometers have been lost, leaving only a territorial area of ​​800 square kilometers. Xiang Yang replied.

Kiribati has a very special status in the world.

About 5,000 years ago, Austronesian people began to live in the Kiribati area. In the early 19th century, Britain took advantage of the opportunity of laying Pacific cables to incorporate it into the Empire on which the sun never sets, and later gave it to the United States.

It is a pity that the United States does not regard Kiribati as an overseas territory. After World War II, a series of hydrogen bomb tests were conducted in Kiribati.

Everyone knows that the principle of the hydrogen bomb has many similarities with the atomic bomb, and the most similar place is that they both have nuclear radiation.

A series of hydrogen bomb tests have turned Kiribati, which was originally blue and blue, into at least 10% of the land that is uninhabitable.

Although these islands where nuclear tests were conducted are relatively remote, the spread of nuclear radiation has caused many surrounding islands and reefs to be polluted.

What is even more unfortunate is that due to climate warming, two islands where Kiribati conducted nuclear tests were submerged by sea water, and now even fishermen dare not go to the nearby waters.

Of course, it's just that the fishermen are afraid to go, it doesn't mean that there is no life under that sea area.

Unmanned underwater cameras found many creatures in that sea area.

Among them, there are two most representative ones. One is a kind of strange crab that cannot be eaten. This kind of crab has great strength and extremely long limbs. They are more bloodthirsty and fierce than ordinary crabs. Some biologists suspect that it is Mutated organisms after nuclear radiation, but this statement has not been accepted by the mainstream scientific community.

Another kind of creature is a white worm. Their habits are the same as sea cucumbers. They also aestivate in summer. The colder they grow, the faster they grow. If the temperature rises, they will turn into a puddle of water and disappear. Prunus ginseng is roughly similar.

This creature is also considered to be a mutated sea cucumber born after being affected by nuclear radiation.

Of course, people in Kiribati still live a comfortable life, thanks to world peace.

As a remote island country in the Pacific Ocean.

Kiribati's only source of income is fishing.

But people in their own country basically don't fish, and their fishing skills can't even catch up with Qinglong Bend.

Those who fish in Kiribati are basically New Zealanders, Austrians, and people from our country.

The fish caught are all exported to New Zealand, Australia and domestically.

It stands to reason that there is no shortage of seafood in our country, New Zealand or Australia, because we all have very vast territorial waters.

But Kiribati has more than 3 million square kilometers of territorial waters. In exchange for fishing rights in Kiribati's vast waters, everyone has worked hard on it, importing seafood, and providing human and material assistance.

On Wall Street, there used to be a financial giant who wanted to spend a lot of money to turn Kiribati into a second Hawaii.

But when the financial giant poured down billions of dollars, he gave up.

In Kiribati, except for some plants that tolerate extremely high salinity, only coconut trees can survive.

The salinity of all their land soils is very high, and no matter how deep the wells are drilled, fresh water cannot come out. From the early collection of rainwater to the learning of distilled water, and now to the desalination of water, the islanders have been worrying about fresh water for almost generations. .

The financial crocodile found through practice that selling fresh water in Kiribati is more profitable than tourism.

Xiang Yang shook his head and sighed: We all feel that the problem of global warming and melting icebergs is very far away from us, but in Kiribati, this is a very serious problem.

Since 2009, Kiribati has lost nearly 20 islands, with an average of one disappearing a year. The United Nations predicts that by 2100, the entire Kiribati will be submerged by sea water, and they will be the first country to be submerged. .” Xiang Yang said.

What, what? Everyone opened their mouths wide, The whole country is submerged by sea water?

It's entirely possible. The highest altitude in Kiribati is only 2 meters. Xiang Yang said.

Kiribati's leaders publicly admitted more than a decade ago that they had nowhere to go.

With the assistance of the European Union, the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, Kiribati spent US$6.3 million to buy 22 square kilometers of land in Fiji’s Vanua Levu Island. However, most people in Kiribati are unwilling to leave their homes and still stick to the precarious island.

Why don't you go?

A New Zealand reporter once interviewed the islanders there, and the answer they got was that the cultural customs and living habits are difficult to adapt to, and there is even a saying that there are more people and more bacteria, so they are easy to die.

However, the actual reason is that the islanders there have been accustomed to receiving assistance from various countries and charitable foundations for decades, and have developed a mentality of getting something for nothing.

This is actually very understandable. Although the conditions on Kiribati Island are not good, there is still a minimum water and electricity rationing, and food, rice, oil, salt, education, and medical care are also donated by outsiders.

For example, Australia donates 15 million Australian dollars to Kiribati every year, New Zealand donates 6 million Australian dollars, and even our neighbor to the east donates 2 million Australian dollars.

Including aid from the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Asian Bank, Kiribati, with a population of 110,000, receives hundreds of millions of Australian dollars in aid every year. Calculated at 500 million yuan, an average person can get more than 20,000 Huaxia currency a year, which is almost directly catching up with the basic wages of small counties, and this does not include food, medicine and other assistance.