Full Coverage Of The Closed Fishing System In Key River Basins In China - News

On the morning of the 21st, the press conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a press conference. Yu Kangzhen, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, banned the fishing system in four river basins including Haihe, Liaohe, Songhuajiang and Qiantangjiang and the key waters in the Yangtze River Basin. Introduce the relevant situation and answer questions from reporters. The role of the Yangtze River Basin is an important basis for safeguarding national ecological security. In order to strengthen the protection of aquatic living resources, the “Fisheries Law” clearly requires the fishery authorities to implement a no-fishing zone and a no-fishing period system in important fishery waters. The no-fishing period system is a protection period for the prohibition of fishing operations during the critical period of concentrated spawning and breeding of fish.

At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs actively coordinated relevant ministries and commissions to vigorously promote the ban on the Yangtze River. In conjunction with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly formulated the “Implementation Plan for the Prohibition of the Key Waters in the Yangtze River Basin and the Establishment of Compensation Systems”. In the process of promoting the ban, the fishermen of 332 aquatic life reserves will be arrested in 2019. In the future, production fishing in the protected areas will be completely banned. In 2020, the fishermen will be arrested in the Yangtze River and important tributaries in the Yangtze River. The key waters shall be subject to a perennial ban for a reasonable period of time, and separate protection and management policies shall be formulated according to the restoration of resources and environment; the Tongjiang Lakes (mainly Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake) shall be subject to differential management by the relevant provincial people's governments. The use of resources is subject to special management; other waters are managed by relevant local governments.

At present, there are 79 aquatic life reserves in the Three River Basin, including one national nature reserve and 78 national aquatic germplasm resources conservation areas. The provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the three basins have carried out different levels of prohibition of fisheries. However, in general, the no-fishing system is still not perfect, and the provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) prohibit the fishing operations from fighting each other, lacking organized unity. Deployment, especially in some waters across provinces and counties, is easy to become a blind spot for management.

The ban on the Yangtze River Basin will promote the classification of swordfish, anchovies and hairy crabs in phases.

The Yangtze River is the first long river in China. It has a unique ecosystem with more than 4,300 aquatic organisms, including 424 species of fish and 177 species of endemic fish in the Yangtze River. Therefore, the Yangtze River is also known as the cradle of freshwater fisheries in China. The original base of treasure trove and economic fish. In order to protect the resources of these rare species, China has established 332 aquatic biological protection areas in the Yangtze River Basin. These protected areas are the bases and base camps for the Yangtze River aquatic life to survive and stabilize.

In response to a question raised by the reporter about why the Yangtze River swordfish was transferred from special fishing to full implementation of the ban, Ma Yi said that the knife knives (ie, swordfish), phoenix carp (ie anchovies), Chinese mitten crabs (ie, hairy crabs) They are important economic species in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In 2003, the Yangtze River Basin began to implement a closed fishing system, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs decided to implement special management of the fishing of the above three species during the ban. It can be said that the special fishing system is a supporting measure for the Yangtze River fishing system and plays an important role in promoting the sustainable development of the Yangtze River fishery.

Affected by human activities such as water pollution, ecological environment damage, especially the competitive fishing of conical fishing species such as the Yangtze River knives, phoenix phoenix, and Chinese mitten crabs, these resources have been seriously overfished, resources are significantly declining, fishing The output has plummeted. Every year before and after the Ching Ming Festival, the "high price of swordfish" has caused great repercussions in the society. It just shows that the development and utilization of the razor clam, the phoenix phoenix and the Chinese mitten crab have exceeded the carrying capacity of the species resources, and the related special fishing system. Need to adjust and improve.

According to reports, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued a “Notice on Adjusting the Special Fishing Management System of the Yangtze River Basin” after scientific argumentation and extensive solicitation of opinions, from the perspectives of special fishing management, fishery resource protection and restoration of the Yangtze River ecosystem. Starting from February 1 this year, the special fishing licenses for Knife, Phoenix and Chinese mitten crabs will be discontinued. This is also the policy requirement for the complete ban on key waters in the Yangtze River Basin. In the future, with the improvement of the Yangtze River ecological environment and the gradual emergence of the ban, the fishery resources of the Yangtze River will also achieve recovery growth after a certain period of time. At that time, the fishing area will be closed according to the resource status and monitoring conditions. Specialized concession fishing and other means to organize and implement the effective protection and rational utilization of the Yangtze River fishery resources.