The area of the Huating Reservoir is thousands of times larger than that of Shuijun Lake, and the part of the reservoir used for fish farming alone is over a hundred times larger than Shuijun Lake. It is almost impossible to keep it completely under watch.
In the past, when Zhou Jin raised fish in the reservoir, he adopted rather extreme measures, keeping a bunch of thugs who would beat up anyone coming to fish, adding a 'fine' on top of a beating, and for those who were actually stealing fish... well, if they beat up those who were just fishing, the fate of the real thieves was even worse.
Suming once asked the bald guy, who had supposedly 'gone straight,'—at least he appeared to have on the surface— and he spoke hesitantly about breaking legs, detaining people, and demanding a 'compensation' from the thief's family.
