China News Service, Chongqing, July 21st (Liu Xianglin and Pu Wenlu) A reporter learned from the Chongqing Public Security Bureau on the 21st that the Chongqing police have conducted a special operation against illegal fishing in the Yangtze River Basin for a year, and have detected more than 820 illegal fishing cases and eliminated illegal fishing gangs. 114, more than 1,400 suspects were seized.
In the special operation to combat illegal fishing in the Yangtze River Basin, the Chongqing Police established a special operation leading group led by the Environmental Protection Corps of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, with 15 police departments including marine police and public security as member units, and continued to advance, focusing on the main attack direction. On "Fighting Gangs, Ending Sites, and Chopping Chains", 114 criminal gangs were destroyed, and the 18-member Chen Moyi gang’s illegal fishing chain case was listed by the Ministry of Public Security as the top ten typical cases of illegal fishing in the Yangtze River Basin.
At the same time, the Chongqing police also cooperated with agricultural and rural areas, market supervision and other departments to carry out the "two rounds of simultaneous inspection and law enforcement operations", "100-day fishing-related visits", and "100-day tackling operations" in the high-risk waters of the Yangtze River basin for illegal fishing in stages and steps. A series of operations such as "joint unannounced visits and inspections", "special work for combating electric drug bombings," "special law enforcement during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival," and "May 1st Centralized Inventory" have maintained a high-pressure deterrent situation of "zero tolerance" against illegal fishing.
The relevant person in charge of the Chongqing police stated that the Chongqing public security organs will further comprehensively strengthen various measures to combat, prevent, manage, control, and publicize, and continue to organize and carry out multiple rounds of concentrated combat operations in stages and steps to effectively protect the ecological environment of the Yangtze River Basin.
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