Can I fish during the fishing ban period in Chongqing?

1. Can I fish during the fishing ban period in Chongqing?

No fishing.

During the fishing ban, it is illegal for citizens to fish along the banks of the above-mentioned river basins. For general recreational fishing behaviors, law enforcement officers will use verbal education to persuade them. For serious cases, fines ranging from 50 to 200 yuan will be imposed.

2. Chongqing’s closed fishing zones and closed periods

Chongqing police will launch a three-year special operation to crack down on illegal fishing. Public security agencies at all levels in the city will adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude and comply with the law. Severely crack down on illegal fishing crimes, persist in striking hard, resolutely cut off the underground industrial chain of illegal fishing, transportation, and operation, detect a number of illegal fishing criminal cases, dismantle a number of professional gang-based criminal networks, and rectify a number of illegal fishing transportation and sales Equipment and catch dens create a strong and high-pressure deterrent effect.

As of July 8, 2020, our city’s aquatic life reserves (including 4 aquatic life nature reserves: the Chongqing section of the Rare and Endemic Fish National Nature Reserve in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Wujiang-Changxi River Fish Municipal Nature Reserve, Youyang Sandaigou Giant Salamander County Nature Reserve, and Hechuan Dakou Catfish County Nature Reserve; 3 aquatic germplasm resource reserves: the national aquatic germplasm resource reserve in the Hechuan section of the Jialing River, The four domestic fish national-level aquatic germplasm resource reserves in the Chongqing section of the Yangtze River, the Fengjie Jiupanhe municipal aquatic germplasm resource reserve), the two rivers and four banks of the main urban area of ??Chongqing and related waters have implemented year-round fishing bans, involving Jiangjin District and Yongchuan District , Banan District, Nan'an District, Jiulongpo District, Dadukou District, Yuzhong District, Shapingba District, Jiangbei District, Yubei District, Beibei District, Liangjiang New District, High-tech Zone, Fuling District, Changshou District, Hechuan District, Pengshui, There are 20 districts and counties in Youyang, Fengjie and Chengkou. As the de-fishing work accelerates, a tentative ten-year fishing ban is gradually implemented in other waters.