Judging from the frequent jumping of the Yangtze finless porpoise in Nanjing, is it necessary to permanently ban fishing in the Yangtze River?

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the Implementation Plan of Fishing Ban and Compensation System in Key Waters of the Yangtze River Basin. The "Plan" clearly requires: "Complete the withdrawal of fishermen from the aquatic biological reserve and take the lead in implementing a comprehensive fishing ban" and "Complete the withdrawal of fishermen from the main stream and important tributaries of the Yangtze River except the waters outside the reserve and temporarily implement a fishing ban for 10 years".

Illegal fishing still exists under the ban, and some people still take risks and illegally fish wild river fresh.

"I grew up by the river, and now there are people engaged in illegal fishing along the Yangtze River." A fishmonger told reporters that poaching activities are often carried out at night and sold privately, which is hidden and difficult to be discovered by fishery administration.

When the reporter asked where I could buy saury, another fishmonger gave the reporter the phone number of a foreign vendor. Immediately, the reporter dialed the phone and got in touch with the other party. On the phone, foreign vendors told reporters that the Yangtze River has been banned from fishing, and it is illegal to steal swordfish, and they are very careful not to let reporters mention the word "Jiangxian".

After some "bargaining", vendors told reporters through WeChat that they could arrange fishermen on the riverside to catch fish. If you want to buy it, you can deliver it from a city along the river the next morning. But now only saury, below 1.5, costs several hundred yuan per catty. According to reports, after this, the price of saury will be higher, about 3.5 Liang, which can be sold for several thousand yuan a catty.

The reporter's investigation found that under the ban, although various localities have intensified their crackdown, illegal fishing of wild river fish still occurs from time to time.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Jiangsu Province, this year, the province seized 25 illegal cases 125 persons 175 persons, and cleared and banned more than 600 illegal fishing gear 1600 pieces.

A reporter was patrolling the Jiang Xinzhou River with the police in Dantu District, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, when he met Chen Laobo, the leader of the villagers' group. Under the leadership of Chen Laobo, the police seized a cage net in an inconspicuous inlet. The cage net is made of iron wire or bamboo, and is made of screen window. Once the fish and shrimp swim into the cage, no matter how big or small, they can't escape.

The Agricultural Comprehensive Law Enforcement Inspector Corps of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, together with the Water Branch of Wuhan Public Security Bureau, seized an illegal case of fishing and selling river fish by itself in the waters of Wuhan section of the Yangtze River. Two suspects, a speedboat, a set of high-voltage batteries and a set of electric catching equipment were seized on the spot, and 7.85 kilograms were caught. According to reports, the suspect runs a Jiangyu hotel, and part of the catch is used for the hotel's self-sale and part is sold to the bazaar.

"According to law enforcement investigation and analysis, there are still a few cases in which restaurants in our city catch and sell wild river fish by themselves." Wang, head of the Agricultural Comprehensive Law Enforcement Supervision Corps in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, said that the promulgation of the fishing ban has played an important role in protecting fishery resources in the Yangtze River. However, due to the consumption habits of a few people, illegal fishing of wild river fish is profitable, and some people are driven by interests to take risks.

There has been a new situation in which the crew of merchant ships use small boats for fishing and productive fishing. "My friends and I saw someone boating on the river. When we saw it, it was illegal fishing!" At the Wuhu Branch of the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau and the county police station, the reporter Mr. Xing recalled: "We persuaded two electric fishermen to stop illegal fishing immediately. They not only took it seriously, but also rushed to insult us. "

"Illegal fishing of aquatic products during the fishing season will not be tolerated! At present, two suspects have been arrested and tools such as electric fish boats and electric fish equipment have been seized. " Xia Dejun, deputy detachment leader of agricultural comprehensive administrative law enforcement detachment in Maanshan City, Anhui Province, said: "No matter how much is caught, we must resolutely investigate and deal with illegal fishing of aquatic products during the fishing ban."

"These poaching behaviors are mainly concentrated at night, even in the early hours of the morning, which brings great difficulties to inspections and law enforcement." Xia Dejun said that once illegal fishing at night is discovered by fishery law enforcement officers, criminals will try their best to escape. Compared with poachers' ships, law enforcement ships have a larger tonnage. Once forced to approach, it is easy to cause capsizing accidents, and the personal safety of fishery law enforcement officers and poachers is difficult to guarantee.

It is worth noting that in the daily supervision process, especially since this year, some new situations and new means have been discovered in illegal fishing. Xia Dejun said that after some merchant ships and transport ships docked in the designated waters, the crew would use the boats on board to engage in illegal fishing in their spare time. Liao Xiaohong, chief agronomist of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Wuhu City, Anhui Province, said that there are also some coastal residents who regard their own agricultural boats as fishing boats and even use plastic pots and motors for illegal fishing.

The reporter learned from the relevant departments of Anqing City, Anhui Province that after the comprehensive ban on fishing in the key waters of the Yangtze River Basin in Anqing City, the fishery resources recovered obviously. However, what followed was that recreational fishery rapidly evolved into group productive fishery, which had a great impact on natural fishery resources. What is worrying is that at present, there are no relevant penalties for productive fishing behaviors such as using multi-line and multi-hook, long-line and multi-hook, single-line and explosive multi-hook.

In addition, the group composition of illegal fishing is becoming more and more complicated. Timmy Tan, director of the Fishery Law Enforcement Division of Jiangsu Provincial Corps patrolling in China, said that the proportion of illegal fishing cases by professional fishermen has declined. On the contrary, some people who are not fishermen began to steal under the drive of interests, and they were well organized, with clear division of labor and hidden means. Some social idlers often use simple fishing devices to take risks and steal, which is random, mobile and decentralized.

There are many waters, law enforcement is facing new challenges, and the shortage of manpower and equipment highlights the necessity of the Yangtze River to recuperate. The implementation of the ten-year "fishing ban" has put forward higher requirements for fishery law enforcement departments, and some shortcomings exposed from it deserve attention. The reporter interviewed several fishery law enforcement departments, and it is a common problem that the law enforcement power is weak and the equipment is insufficient.

"Wuhu Fishery and Fishery Center is responsible for both fishery administration and fishery production. One * * * only has 10 staff, and fishery administration doesn't even have half. " For example, Liao Xiaohong said that the Yangtze River is more than 50 kilometers in Wuwei City, but there are only four or five people in charge of fishery administration in Wuwei City. In the past, fishing was banned in stages. Now it is necessary to set a ten-year fishing ban on key waters, which requires normalized supervision and manpower is stretched.

Fishery departments are relatively weak, and other cities along the Yangtze River have similar situations. Xia Dejun introduced that there are 10 fishery law enforcement posts in Ma 'anshan, but there are only two people at present, and there are even fewer people below the county level, and they are responsible for a wide range of waters, including the main stream of the Yangtze River and the tributaries of Tongjiang River, which is even more inadequate.

Lack of law enforcement equipment is also a problem. Liao Xiaohong introduced that many counties and districts do not have exclusive law enforcement vessels. Many times, when they carry out fishery law enforcement actions, they have to join forces with the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau and other departments to borrow their equipment. In addition, illegal fishing boats are mostly small in size and shallow in draft. Traditional law enforcement ships have large tonnage and deep water, so it is not easy to get close to fishing boats. Therefore, it is very necessary to strengthen fishery law enforcement with speedboats with small size and convenient operation.

Wang said that most illegal fishing cases occurred in remote villages, tributaries of Tongjiang River and border waters. These areas usually have complex rivers and are at the junction of law enforcement and administration. If law enforcement personnel and equipment are insufficient, it will be difficult to effectively supervise.

In view of the difficulty of fishery administrative law enforcement, some places actively mobilize the masses to protect fisheries. Chen Yilin, a volunteer of Yangzhou finless porpoise protection association, Jiangsu Province, has been engaged in Yangtze River protection for 10 years. Chen Yilin said, "We have two boats that patrol the river irregularly. Anyone who finds a thief will immediately notify the fishery administration to investigate and deal with it. "

In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs also suggested that the mechanism of group prevention and treatment should be fully implemented. Counties (cities, districts) along the Yangtze River and Lake in Hubei Province, which undertake the task of law enforcement and supervision, need to rationally allocate law enforcement forces and enhance the professionalism of administrative law enforcement. At the same time, combined with the actual situation of fishing ban enforcement, strengthen the equipment and capacity building of fishery law enforcement docks, remote monitoring of key waters, law enforcement drones, fishery boats, etc., and form a regulatory capacity that is compatible with the protection and management tasks.

Strengthening departmental cooperation and regional linkage, forming a joint force to ban fishing, and realizing the normal supervision of the Yangtze River ban on fishing can not rely solely on the fishery administration department. The relevant person in charge of the Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that there are many problems in the current ban on fishing in the Yangtze River. For example, some fishermen face difficulties in life because of the resettlement of fishermen after landing; The benefits of sneaking around fishing are attractive, and the law enforcement power is insufficient; From fishing, transportation, sales to dining table, illegal fishing has formed an underground industrial chain. Therefore, the ban on fishing is a systematic project, which needs to take multiple measures simultaneously, strengthen departmental cooperation and regional linkage, and form a joint force for the ban on fishing.

"My father is over 60 years old and can't go out to work any more. I have a primary school education and can only do odd jobs nearby to help my family. My income is unstable, and it is good to earn two or three thousand a month. " Li Shifu said that there are dozens of fishermen like him in their village, most of them are people in their fifties and sixties, and it is difficult for them to find their own livelihood after landing. These people have no other skills except fishing, and it is inevitable that someone will secretly start an "old job."

To ban fishing in the Yangtze River, we should not only strengthen supervision and strictly enforce the law, but also do a good job in resettling fishermen after landing. Anqing Fishing Port, located in Daguan District, Anqing City, used to be the place where the fishing boats docked the most. Nowadays, only a cargo merchant ship sailing on the "golden waterway" is in sight, and the scene of several fishing boats gathering on the river to fish together is gone forever.

He Guangsheng, director of the Daguan District Fishery Station in Anqing City, said that according to the national policy, the fishermen who had retired from fishing were compensated. The subsidy for dismantling fishing boats was close to 70,000 yuan, the subsidy for re-fishing was 34,000 yuan, and the subsidy for collecting nets was 20,000 yuan. At the same time, there is also a subsidy of 80,000 yuan in the form of "living difficulties subsidy", 10 year, 8,000 yuan per year.

Of course, the existing policies should be constantly improved, because the employment and living conditions of fishermen are dynamic. In the future, we can explore the establishment of a contact person assistance system, grasp the situation of difficult families in a timely manner, and provide accurate assistance.

With the deepening of Yangtze River protection, fishery administration and fishery law enforcement have many contents, heavy tasks and high requirements, which put forward higher requirements for improving relevant fishery laws and regulations and improving the ability of fishery law enforcement personnel. Timmy Tan suggested that the law enforcement and supervision mode of "from catching to protecting" should be popularized, and fishermen returning from fishing in the Yangtze River should be recruited to change jobs and join the Yangtze River fishing protection team. At the same time, strengthen joint linkage with public security, maritime affairs, market supervision and other departments, investigate and deal with illegal fishing together, severely crack down on illegal fishing in the Yangtze River, and strive to build a long-term mechanism for Yangtze River governance.

If there is a ban, it must be implemented for a long time now and in the future. We should put the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position, attach great importance to protection and refrain from large-scale development. The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and an important barrier to maintain the ecological security of China. For a long time, affected by water pollution and overfishing, the living environment of aquatic organisms in the Yangtze River has been deteriorating, the biodiversity index has been declining, and fishery resources have been seriously declining. The less resources are caught, the worse the ecology is and the poorer the fishermen are. It is imperative to leave more space and time for the Yangtze River to recuperate and benefit future generations after ten years of fishing ban.

However, the reporter's investigation found that under the ban, there are still people who illegally fish and sell wild "Jiangxian" privately. This reflects that in the process of enforcing the ban in some places, the responsibility is not implemented in place and the work is not solidly promoted.

The ban on fishing in the Yangtze River is a systematic project. From the whole chain supervision of fishing, transportation, sales and catering to the realization of fishermen's landing and changing jobs, every link must be kept up and done well. How to improve the law enforcement cooperation mechanism and enhance the law enforcement ability? How to strengthen inter-provincial cooperation and achieve full supervision? How to strengthen the ecological awareness of the whole people and give play to the role of people along the Yangtze River in protecting fishing? How to effectively solve the production and living difficulties of fishermen ashore? All these require a certain amount of embroidery, which must be considered comprehensively, and the stitches should be sewed more densely and tightly.

For the sake of the overall situation and future generations, the "no fishing order" must be implemented. All areas along the Yangtze River and relevant functional departments should fully understand the importance and complexity of the work of banning fishing and retreating from the Yangtze River, do solid work, and make due contributions to the implementation of the great protection of the Yangtze River and the promotion of the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.