Xinhua News Agency, Haikou, March 8th, Topic: Full-cooked sea fish returns to the fish market—review of Hainan Wanning fishing port resumed production

Xinhua News Agency reporters Tu Chaohua and Liu Bo

The city is still asleep, and the fishing port has long woken up.

At 5 am, the motors in the Wuchang fishing port of Wanning City, Hainan Province, one after another, and the voice on the pier was full of enthusiasm. Boats full of catches docked one after another, and the fish merchants waiting on the shore were busy: inspecting and unloading, bargaining, weighing too ... a dozen baskets of seafood on a boat will be snapped up in a few minutes Empty. After being quiet for almost a month, the Wuchang fishing port has resumed the hustle and bustle of the past.

Wuchang fishing port is one of the few natural fishing ports in Hainan. The nearby sea area is also a famous fishing ground in the South China Sea. The grouper, mackerel, belt fish, squid and other seafood are well known. Affected by the epidemic of new crown pneumonia, in addition to the fishing season, the continuous Wuchang fishing port in the fish market throughout the year has also been closed since the Spring Festival.

“Fishing boats require the cooperation of multiple people to go out to sea, which is prone to gathering risks.” Xu Yongfei, a staff member of the Wuchang Squadron of the Marine Fishery Supervision Brigade of Wanning City, said that with the periodic results of the epidemic prevention and control work, the local government has comprehensively promoted resumption of work and production. Actively guide fishing boats within 12 meters to resume production, and encourage fishermen to operate offshore.

The epidemic prevention production is correct. In order to ensure the safety and orderliness of fishery resumption and resumption, the local fishery administration department conducted a survey of the crew before resumption and resumption of production. Every day, it checked the health information of people entering and leaving the fishing port, registered the status of the health code, measured the body temperature on site, and helped the fishermen solve Some of the actual difficulties of returning to work and production.

A few hundred pounds of squid from a Guangdong Dianbai fishing boat were sold out as soon as they arrived at the dock. The owner Chen Songxue made more than 2,000 yuan on this trip. Just the other day, because he couldn't buy a mask, his boat almost couldn't go to sea.

"Internet-purchased masks are late for delivery. I ca n’t buy them all over the city's pharmacies and hospitals. I ’m anxious to see other people ’s ships can go to sea normally.” Chen Songxue said, thankfully, local cadres sent masks to save the anxiety.

Chen Songxue's ship was transferred from Guangdong to Wuchang Fishing Port a few years ago, and there are still many daily catches in the past few days. He said that if such a harvest can be achieved in the future, the losses that can not go to the sea due to the delay of the epidemic for a month can be gradually recovered.

What has made fishermen more and more confident is that more foreign merchants have come to buy seafood, which also means that sales are smoother and the impact of the epidemic on fishery production is slowly fading.

"In our fish market, the number of foreign acquirers is an important signal." Ji Yongfei, who is doing seafood sales in fishing ports, told reporters that if only local merchants in Wanning bought seafood, it means that there are more seafood. It is only sold in the local market. After all, the local market has limited space, and the price of seafood is certainly not high.

Ji Yongfei is a villager in Wuchang Village, where the fishing port is located. He has a flexible mind and signed underwriting contracts with several shipowners in the fishing port.

"My seafood was sold in less than an hour, and the buyers were all foreign buyers ..." Ji Yongfei said.

The sky was getting brighter, the sea outside the fishing port became clearer, and the busyness on the pier continued. Several citizens also came to the fish market to "pick up leaks". The sea breeze blew from the sea, and the fishing port was full of the smell of the sea.