Preamble:
With the improvement of people's living standards, fish on the table has gradually become an indispensable ingredient, and hairtail fish is even more popular. However, due to overfishing, pollution and other reasons, the number of hairtail fish is decreasing at a visible rate, which also poses a huge challenge to its future survival and reproduction. In order to protect fish resources such as hairtail, the mainland government has initiated a 10-year fishing ban, which is also one of the most representative conservation measures on the mainland. In addition to the fishing ban, what else can we do to protect fish stocks and achieve a harmonious coexistence between humans and nature?
First, overfishing has caused the production of hairtail fish to begin to decline
Hairtail is a small and medium-sized fish that lives in the ocean, and it is loved for its delicate meat, delicious taste, and rich nutrition. According to relevant data, the number of ribbon fish eaten by Chinese has exceeded 1 million tons every year, and it can be said that ribbon fish has become one of the essential fish on the Chinese table.
Due to the very strong reproductive ability of the hairtail fish, coupled with its rapid growth rate, its number has been able to maintain a relatively stable state in the past period, and the annual catch is about 1.1 million tons, which even accounts for three-quarters of the global hairtail catch.
However, with the increasing demand for hairtail fish and the deterioration of the marine environment, the living space of hairtail fish has also been affected to a certain extent, and its number has begun to decline.
2. The Chinese Government protects fish stocks through measures such as fishing closures
The mainland government has begun to take a series of measures to protect important marine fish resources such as hairtail, including the 10-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River basin. As early as 2017, the mainland government began to pilot the Yangtze River fishing ban policy, and the policy is also very extensive, not only to protect hairtail fish resources, but also to other important fish resources, such as the Chinese white sturgeon.
Through the fishing ban period, it can effectively curb the illegal fishing behavior of some lawbreakers, protect fish resources, and allow these fish to have a relatively quiet living environment, so as to achieve sustainable use of fish resources.
In addition, the mainland government has also carried out strict control methods such as fishing moratorium, fishing moratorium, and inventory management of some important marine fish resources, and once anyone is found to have violated the relevant protection regulations, they will be subject to certain legal sanctions, which also provides a strong guarantee for the protection of fish resources.
3. How to better protect fish stocks?
Although conservation measures such as fishing closures have achieved some results, we need to work on more aspects to achieve the true sustainable development of fish stocks than by a single conservation measure.
At first, it should be realized that overfishing is one of the important reasons for the decline of fish resources, but it is not the only reason, and the deterioration of the marine environment also has a great impact on the survival and reproduction of fish.
Then, more attention should be paid to the artificial breeding of fish resources, through artificial breeding, can make up for the problem of fish resources reduction caused by overfishing to a certain extent, but it should be noted that artificial breeding is not simply artificial release, but according to the characteristics of the local ecological environment, select the appropriate release object and location, and protect fish resources from the source.
In addition, water ecological reserves can also be established in some important waters, such as the Yangtze River estuary, which can be used as important habitats and breeding grounds for fish, which can effectively protect the survival and reproduction of fish, and the biological resources in the reserve will also be effectively protected.
In addition to the government should increase investment in the protection of fish resources, the general public also needs to strengthen the cultivation of protection awareness, can no longer blindly fish, especially some of the protection objects during the fishing ban period, when found that someone is illegally fishing, but also actively report, so that more people understand the importance of fish resource protection.
Conclusion: Protecting fish resources and realizing the harmonious coexistence of man and nature is a long-term and arduous project, which requires the joint efforts of the government, scientific research institutions, enterprises and the whole society.
It is hoped that through the 10-year fishing ban, more people can realize the importance of fish resource protection, and also hope that the government can continue to explore more and more effective fish resource protection measures in the future work, so as to create a better living environment for the survival and reproduction of fish, and also contribute to the sustainable development of human beings.