China News Service, March 29. In response to reports that “fishing in the Yangtze River is suspected of disguised productive fishing”, Ma Yi, director of the Fisheries Administration Office of the Yangtze River Basin, responded on the 29th, saying that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is actively promoting local development. The fishing management measures include recreational and recreational fishing behaviors into the scope of supervision, resolutely blocking productive and destructive fishing behaviors from the door of the law, and earnestly maintain the order of bans on fishing, and protect the ecology of the waters.

  The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a press conference on the 29th to introduce the "China Fishery Policy Liangjian" fishery policy enforcement work.

In response to questions related to fishing in the Yangtze River, Ma Yi said: “Traditional recreational fishing should be said to have extremely limited damage to fishery resources. Therefore, the ten-year ban on fishing in the Yangtze River, the so-called ban on fishing is productive fishing. Fishing is not for profit.” He said that under strict fishing bans, destructive fishing gear such as explosive hooks, string hooks, and visual anchors have appeared in some places. There are also multiple rods per person and multiple lines. These irregular fishing behaviors such as hooks, multiple lines and multiple hooks.

"The so-called fishing catches two to three hundred catties a day. This is changed. This contradicts our fishing ban."

  Ma Yi pointed out that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has taken a series of measures in this regard, and many local governments have also successively introduced some regulations to regulate.

The main methods are embodied in the following aspects: First, delimit fishing areas, and clearly consider the protection of aquatic biological resources and the public's recreational fishing needs.

Fishing should be prohibited in protected areas. Fishing should be strictly controlled in the Yangtze River and major tributaries, as well as large lakes along the river such as Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake. In other waters, fishing prohibited and permitted fishing areas should be scientifically delineated.

  The second is to standardize the fishing method of fishing tackle.

All localities are required to formulate a list of permitted fishing tackles based on actual conditions, limit the number of fishing tackles, strictly prohibit the use of fishing tackles, fishing methods, various fish-finding equipment, and video aids that seriously damage aquatic biological resources, and prohibit the use of boats, rafts and other floating objects on the water Go fishing.

  The third is to regulate the type of bait.

It is forbidden to use bait, nest material and additives containing toxic and harmful substances, as well as bait for live aquatic organisms like fish and shrimp. We encourage the use of artificial bait or bionic bait.

The management of bait is to prevent fishing bait from polluting the water.

  The fourth is to regulate the disposal of fishing catches.

Strictly prohibit the buying and selling of fishing catches, and any trading activities shall be regarded as illegal fishing, so as to ensure that fishing returns to the position of leisure and entertainment.

  The fifth is to clarify the fishing time.

According to local fishing conditions and water conditions, ban fishing periods shall be established to avoid key stages of life history such as the reproduction and migration of aquatic organisms, and to avoid damage to aquatic biological resources.

  Ma Yi emphasized that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized a series of special law enforcement actions for the "China Fishery Policy Liangjian 2021", requiring all localities to resolutely crack down on the use or disguised use of fishing for fishing production.

At the same time, speed up the revision of the Fisheries Law and the Regulations on the Protection and Management of Aquatic Organisms of the Yangtze River, actively promote the formulation of fishing management measures in various places, include recreational and recreational fishing behaviors into the scope of supervision, and resolutely take productive and destructive fishing Acts are blocked outside the door of the law, effectively maintaining the order of bans on fishing, and protecting the ecology of the waters.