According to the Book of Min, the tidal flats distributed near the sea area are fishing. The people of the sea area like to catch cucumber fish and hairtail fish, which the fishermen call "gold and silver fishing", and the fish obtained from the fishing will be kept for the "rest season" to maintain the family's life.
After arriving at the **, the fishing industry of the Tan people has developed vigorously, and the fishing boats not only have large and small fishing boats, but also have Mong. Boats are fished by laying nets. The seine boat is mainly used for fish fishing, through the use of double boat purse seine fishing operations, most of which are concentrated in the offshore area of production, and some also have the production of fishing grounds in eastern Zhejiang; Cuttlefish and yellow croaker are mainly caught in spring and summer, and hairtail fish is mainly caught in autumn and winter. The development of the fishery has brought considerable income to the local fishermen, and has also changed the fate of the Tan people, exacerbating the division within the Tan people.
The Tan people culture is rich and colorful, with strong regional characteristics and population characteristics, is a very important cultural heritage of our country, the Tan people have accumulated distinctive local culture and customs in the long river of history, but with the development of the Shenhui economy, the Tan people have come ashore to live, many habits and customs have slowly disappeared, left in the long river of historical development.