Deposit on potential Joint Venture as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 consisted of the following:

		December 31,
		2013			2012
Deposit for an asset interest acquisition and investment     in a proposed Indonesia joint venture		$	-		$	6,090,302

Pursuant to a Cooperative Agreement and a Joint-Venture Contract dated March 1, 2006 entered into between the Company’s VIE, Pingtan Fishing and PT. Avona Mina Lestari (“Avona”), a related party, and an Indonesian enterprise engaged in fishing base management and fishing vessel operations, Pingtan Fishing agreed to acquire 80% controlling interest in a fishing base owned by Avona. A joint venture company that would be controlled by Pingtan Fishing was to be established between Pingtan Fishing and Avona following Pingtan Fishing’s acquisition of controlling interest in Avona’s fishing base. Total investment for the acquisition of Avona fishing base 80% interest and establishment of a joint venture company was $7,200,000, comprising $5,470,000 cash and 14 fishing vessels to be valued at $1,730,000.

 

In the first quarter of 2013, Pingtan Fishing and Avona, as a result of non-approved of the proposed Joint Venture, entered into an agreement in which  the deposit on setting up of joint venture would be used for settling the accounts payable of Avona that who provided ship agency, maintenance and other services to Pingtan Fishing. If the Indonesian Government authority subsequently approved the proposed Joint Venture, both companies would reconsider this investment.