China News Service, Hefei, November 24 (Reporter Zhao Qiang) The reporter learned from the Anhui police on the 24th that the province’s public security organs have rapidly deployed and promoted the "Yangtze River ban on fishing" and achieved significant results since the "Yangtze River ban on fishing".

At present, the province’s public security organs have filed a total of 628 criminal cases of illegal fishing and prosecuted and sentenced 231 people.

A total of 130 illegal vessels of various kinds, 3420 illegal fishing gears and more than 4,800 kilograms of fish were seized.

  In July 2020, the Huaining police received a report from the public that someone was fishing in the Hongpu section of the Wanhe River, and the Huaining County Public Security Bureau quickly filed a case for investigation.

At 10 o'clock in the evening on July 15, when the police were waiting on the road section of Hongpu Town in the main river basin of the Anhui River, they seized more than 200 catties of wild fish from a red van on the spot and captured Wang Moufei, the suspect of illegal fishing of aquatic products. , After investigation, another suspect Wang Mouhong was arrested.

After searching the rented place of Wang Mouhong, the police found 456.52 kilograms of wild fish that had not been sold in a large freezer.

Photo courtesy of Anhui police seized illegal fishing gear

  On July 16, the policemen who handled the case took advantage of the victory and further fixed the evidence, and successively detained tricycles, fishing boats, gasoline engines, diesel engines, high-power batteries, boosters, electric trawl nets, wire nets, twine nets, "house nets", and ground cages. Other tools of crime, and 228.26 kg of various wild fish.

The police handling the case judged that there should be an "underground chain" besides the suspects of illegal fishing, and immediately launched a more in-depth investigation.

  In September, the case of Wang Mouhong and others illegally fishing aquatic products was successively supervised by the Provincial Yangtze River Leading Group Office for the Prohibition and Retirement of Catch and the Ministry of Public Security. The Huaining County Public Security Bureau invited agriculture and rural areas, market supervision and other departments to conduct project scheduling. A task force was set up by mobilizing elite police forces to focus on tackling tough problems. It successively arrested 29 criminal suspects suspected of illegal fishing of aquatic products and concealing and concealing criminal proceeds and proceeds of criminal proceeds, 28 criminals were detained, and 1 was released on bail. The funds involved were nearly 500,000 yuan.

  According to the investigation by the public security organs, since January this year, the suspect Wang Mouhong knew that the waters of the Hongpu section of the main stream of the Anqing River was the Anqing Yangtze River Longsnout Catfish National Aquatic Germplasm Resource Reserve and the Yangtze River finless porpoise protection In order to seek personal gains, the Yangtze River’s "fishing ban" was ignored, and prohibited fishing tools such as electric trawl nets and "extreme nets" ground cages were secretly used at night to illegally fish water in the prohibited areas. product.

And sell the fish to Hongpu, Anqing and other places for profit.

The suspect Wang Moufei and others helped him buy fishing nets, participated in illegal fishing, provided vehicle transshipment and sales, and actively became the king when he knew that the suspect Wang Mouhong used prohibited fishing tools to illegally fish aquatic products in the prohibited area. A certain red illegal fishing provides conditions to obtain illegal benefits.

  At present, eight criminal suspects including Wang Mouhong and Wang Moufei have been brought to prosecution.

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