China News Service, Dalian, May 1 (Reporter Yang Yi) The four-month fishing moratorium in China's Yellow and Bohai Sea area officially started at 12:00 noon on May 1.

Fishing auxiliary vessels and fishing vessels in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea area north of 35 degrees north latitude are suspended simultaneously.

  Summer is a critical period for marine fish breeding and juvenile growth. Choosing to suspend fishing from May to September can protect the growth of juvenile fish.

Since 1995, China has implemented the low-season fishing moratorium in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. This year marks the 28th year that the Yellow and Bohai Sea has implemented the marine low-season fishing moratorium.

Dalian Public Security Bureau Coastal Security Director Hai Brigade police carried out propaganda and education activities.

Photo by Li Xinlong

  This year's fishing ban in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea is from 12:00 on May 1 to 12:00 on September 1.

The scope of fishing moratorium and the types of fishing moratorium operations are all coastal waters, all types of operations except fishing gear, and fishing auxiliary vessels that serve fishing vessels.

  In order to comprehensively maintain the order of the fishing moratorium and protect the marine fishery resources, since May 1, the Liaoning Coast Guard has concentrated its capable law enforcement forces and superior duty ships to fully launch the special law enforcement action of the marine fishing moratorium.

It is reported that this law enforcement action aims to strengthen the management of marine fisheries, standardize the order of marine production, rectify the chaos of marine operations, and crack down on various illegal and criminal acts.

  During the rest period, the Liaoning Coast Guard Bureau at all levels will carry out multiple batches of net-type patrols and law enforcement in the Bohai Sea and the northern Yellow Sea, and resolutely rectify the lack of special (special) fishing licenses and failure to comply with the prescribed time, place, variety and operation. Types of violations of laws and regulations that engage in special fishing for special species; Severely crack down on fishing-related vessels violating the regulations on resting, not installing intelligent supervision systems, using prohibited fishing gear, and fishing-related “three noes”, “fake cards”, and “duplicate” vessels going to sea, etc. Resolutely punish illegal fishing activities that take the lead in violation of regulations, group, and large-scale illegal fishing, increase the crackdown on overfishing behaviors of foreign provinces and foreign ships across regions, and cut off the sea import channels of the epidemic from the root cause.

The picture shows the fishing boats coming to sea one after another.

Photo courtesy of Liaoning Coast Guard

  In Changhai County, Dalian, in the past few days, the police from the Hai Brigade, Director of Coastal Security of the Dalian Public Security Bureau, went to the docks in the jurisdiction to learn about the current production and living conditions of the fishermen. , go deep into the shipyards and docks in the jurisdiction to carry out epidemic prevention and control supervision and inspection, preach to the heads of sea-related units the importance of strictly preventing the import of epidemics at sea, and require all sea-related units to seriously implement relevant epidemic prevention and control policies.

(Finish)