At noon on August 1, after a three-month fishing moratorium, a total of 387 fishing boats in Dongshan County, Fujian Province started fishing and started a new round of fishing operations. On the same day, a total of 7,756 fishing boats in the waters of Fujian Province started fishing as scheduled, including fishing boats of light-fencing (laying) nets, nets, gillnets, cage pots, and truss shrimp towing operations.
On the same day, the marine and fishery administrative departments at all levels in Fujian Province and their law enforcement agencies effectively strengthened the management and control of fishing vessels, strengthened law enforcement inspections, and law enforcement officers boarded fishing vessels to carry out fishermen’s publicity and education work. Fishermen were required to pay attention to safe production while fishing in accordance with the law and operating legally. Maintain the normal fishery production order at sea.
Wu Shengwei and Ye Yulin report from Fujian
Editor in charge: [Song Fangcan]