Xi'an, December 29 (Reporter Liu Tao, correspondent Tang Bo, Chen Changmei) In the cold Lujia Village, there was a rumbling mechanical sound, and Lai Shengying, a fisherman in Maoba Town, Ziyang County, Shaanxi Province, watched as the fishing boat that had accompanied him for many years was being dismantled by a gas welding and cutting machine. "After 13 years of fishing, I am certainly reluctant to do so, but in order to support the national policy of banning fishing and retiring fishing, I still decided to give up my small family and take care of everyone and retire from fishing to the shore." Lai Sheng should say.
On December 24, Maoba Town, Ziyang County, held a meeting on the implementation of the ban on fishing and retiring fishing and the dismantling of the "three no boats", and 35 shipowners, including Lai Shengying, signed the "three no boats" dismantling consent on the spot and received fishing boat dismantling subsidies ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 yuan. This is a microcosm of Ziyang County's comprehensive work of banning fishing and retiring fishing.
The Han River is the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, the Han River flows through Ziyang for 75 kilometers, aquatic biological resources are very rich, the Han River Basin Ziyang living in the multi-scale shovel jawfish, giant salamander, mandarin fish, yellow jaw fish, catfish, fine body of the catfish (yellow spicy ding) and other species, the protection of aquatic life in the Han River, especially rare and endangered species is urgent and imminent.
After the campaign to ban fishing and retreat from fishing was launched, Ziyang County coordinated the strength of counties, towns, and villages, focused on target tasks, hung up maps, and vigorously promoted the work of banning and retiring from fishing. In the key aquatic biological reserves within the administrative area of Ziyang County, the natural waters of the entire main stream of the Han River and other natural waters, productive fishing is completely prohibited, and comprehensive surveys are carried out for families involved in fishing withdrawal and living difficulties, special groups of people, and key areas, so that there are no fishing boats, no fishing nets, no fishing fishermen, and no fishing production.
Ziyang County immediately formulated the "ban on fishing and retiring fishing" plan, and announced the "timetable": productive fishing will be banned from the key aquatic biological reserves from January 1, 2020; all natural waters of the main stream of the Han River will be temporarily banned from fishing for a period of 10 years, and the fishing ban period will be implemented from January 1, 2021; and the Renhe Multi-scaled Shovel Jaw National Aquatic Germplasm Resources Conservation Area will implement a perennial ban on fishing.
The county has dispatched personnel from public security, agriculture and rural areas, market supervision, transportation, water conservancy, and other departments to set up special work classes to organize and carry out the work of banning fishing and retiring fishing; for areas where illegal fishing is frequent and during key periods, strengthen daily law enforcement supervision, severely crack down on fishing-related "three no boats," "electric poison bombings," "exterminated nets," and illegal fishing for precious and endangered aquatic wildlife, strengthen the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and pursue criminal responsibility for those constituting crimes according to law.
The county has also improved the 24-hour emergency duty and rewarded reporting supervision system of the fishery administration, set up and published a reporting telephone, promoted the joint logistics linkage with the public security 110, timely accepted and investigated cases of fishing violations and violations, so as to achieve source investigation, water fighting, shore management, and mass correction, improve the long-term supervision mechanism for the perennial ban on fishing, and ensure the implementation of the "fishing ban order".
Up to now, the county has posted more than 1,300 fishing ban notices, distributed more than 500 propaganda color pages, hung more than 40 anti-fishing slogans, and produced more than 30 publicity notice boards. There are 487 "three no boats" registered, 445 fishing personnel, 254 ship dismantling agreements, 254 "three no boats" dismantled, and 190 pledges for the self-use of ships.
The county has handed over a one-time subsidy to all retired fishermen to the government to dismantle fishing boats, and the reward funds for retiring fishermen to sign a withdrawal agreement within a specified period of time totaling 2 million yuan, which have all been distributed in place. In addition, in view of the different characteristics of fishermen's age level and employment skills, skills training, industrial poverty alleviation, employment services, and the implementation of social security are carried out to ensure that fishermen can retire, stay stable and guaranteed.