China News Service, Shiyan, March 23 (Hu Chuanlin, Zhou Yujuan, Liu Chenxin) With the ban on cage farming and the implementation of the Yangtze River fishing ban, Li Rutao, a retired fisherman in Danjiangkou City, Shiyan, Hubei, bid farewell to cage fish farming and started a smart farming model.

  The reporter walked into Li Rutao's breeding base on the 22nd and saw more than 10 circular pools with a volume of 30 cubic meters standing on the ground.

  According to Li Rutao, the breeding base covers an area of ​​only 1.8 mu, and nearly 40,000 sea bass have been cultivated in 13 ponds. It only takes more than half a year from seedling to sale.

Each finished fish is about 1 jin, about 40,000 jin can be harvested, and the net profit is 200,000 yuan.

  Li Rutao used to be a big farmer in cages. With the ban on cage farming, with the support of the village committee, he switched production and went ashore to introduce "smart farming".

  He introduced that this set of "smart fish ponds" introduced from Beijing consists of aquaculture ponds and an intelligent circulating water system.

The aquaculture wastewater is collected into the integrated water treatment system through the drainage pipeline, and filtered and purified layer by layer, so that the wastewater can reach the standard of recycling and reuse, which can achieve no pollution and zero discharge.

  It is understood that perch has high requirements on water quality, and generally cannot be cultured in weir ponds.

This set of "smart fish ponds" introduced by Li Rutao is the first in Shiyan City.

In its breeding base, he also absorbed 4 fishermen who returned from fishing.

After more than a year of operation, he has tasted the sweetness and is preparing to expand the scale of breeding, enrich the breeding species and optimize the breeding system.

  In December 2014, the first phase of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project was officially put into operation.

In order to ensure the "sustainable delivery of clean water from one reservoir to the north", Shiyan began to comprehensively clean up fish cages. After more than three years of continuous efforts, by the end of 2017, more than 168,000 cages for aquaculture in Shiyan, Danjiangkou Reservoir Area. clear".

  In January 2020, with the official launch of the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin, Shiyan once again actively responded to the national call. All fishing-related vessels in the territory were dismantled and dismantled. Thousands of fishermen who depended on fishing for a living went ashore, opening a new era. lifestyle.

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