China News Agency Yueyang, May 19 (Wang Haolong New Year) The 12-day 2020 Dongting Lake "Clear Lake Action" was launched on the 19th in Yueyang, Hunan. The Yangtze River Basin Fisheries Supervision and Administration Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Agricultural and Rural Area of Hunan Province The Office will work with the public security and maritime departments to organize Yueyang, Changde, Yiyang, 3 counties, 16 counties and cities, mobilize 12 ships to conduct centralized patrol and law enforcement, and conduct inspections on the entire waters of Dongting Lake in the east, south and west.
The action will strictly follow the requirements of “dismantling of illegal net gears, arresting and dismantling of fishing vessels involved in the“ three noes ”, illegal arrest of fishing vessels for port investigation, and transfer of suspected crimes to public security authorities for criminal responsibility”, and severely crack down on the law For all kinds of illegal fishing and other acts, comprehensively clean up and rectify prohibited fishing gear and illegal fishing vessels, and protect the water environment and environment.
Hunan is a major inland fishery province. Dongting Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in China. The four major rivers of Xiangjiang, Zijiang, Yuanshui, and Lishui run through the province, with a total water area of 20.43 million mu. difficult. In order to protect the clear water of the Yangtze River, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government attach great importance to the ban and arrest of key waters in the Yangtze River Basin. They have always adhered to the development orientation of "grasping together great protection and not carrying out major development", and promoted the green and efficient development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. At present, the ban on and withdrawal of the aquatic germplasm resources protection zone in the province has been completed as scheduled.
On January 1 of this year, the Notice of the Hunan Provincial People ’s Government on Prohibition of Fishing in Key Waters of the Yangtze River Basin in Hunan Province was issued, and from now on, the province ’s 44 aquatic germplasm resource protection areas and natural protection areas will completely prohibit productive fishing. From 0:00 on January 1, 2021, the natural waters other than the aquatic biological nature reserve and aquatic germplasm resource protection area will be banned from the natural waters of the "Four Waters" main stream of the southern section of the Yangtze Lake, Dongting Lake and Xiangziyuan Lake, and natural fishery resources will be banned. For productive fishing, a tentative 10-year perennial ban is imposed.
In order to strengthen joint law enforcement and severely crack down on all kinds of fishing-related violations of laws and regulations, Hunan this year also formulated a series of special law enforcement action plans for the "China (Hunan) Fishery Bright Sword 2020" and launched special law enforcement actions against illegal fishing. In the first quarter of this year, Hunan investigated and dealt with 171 illegal fishing cases, confiscated 1,662 sets of illegal nets, 83 administrative penalties, 42 judicial transfers, and 53 criminal liabilities. (Finish)