A man in Sihong, Jiangsu Province, was sentenced to seven months in prison during the ban on fishing in Hongze Lake

Recently, many snail-loving foodies are very uneasy, because some people have found that in the latest national key protected wild, snails are planned to be listed in the national second-level protection list. Can you still happily snail in the future?

On July 2, a judgment document released by the judgment document network showed that in April and May 2015, Sihong self-employed person Piao knew that the waters of Hongze Lake belonged to the closed lake and closed fishing period, but still through the introduction of others, organized many people to use screw nets to illegally catch more than 1,160 kilograms of snails. In addition, Xiao Mou also organized two other people to use snail nets to illegally catch more than 150 kilograms of snails. The Xuyi Court of Jiangsu Province held that the defendant Xiao X violated the laws and regulations on the protection of aquatic resources by fishing for aquatic products during the fishing ban period, and the circumstances were serious, and his conduct constituted the crime of illegal fishing for aquatic products. Defendant Xiao X and others jointly carrying out illegal fishing for aquatic products is a joint crime, and defendant Xiao X plays a major role in the joint crime and is the main offender. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law, the Xuyi court convicted the defendant Xiao X of illegal fishing for aquatic products and sentenced him to seven months' imprisonment.

Judging from the verdict, the man broke the law by fishing for water products in violation of the fishing ban period, and it was not the reason for the protection of the animal list snails.

Experts also said that the "snails" to be included in the protection list belong to the field snail family and snail genus, mainly distributed in the plateau lakes in Yunnan, such as Dianchi Lake. And most of the country to eat the "snail", including the Guangxi snail powder in the "snail", is actually a common name, called the square ring snail, also known as the square field snail, is Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other southern people love to eat food, is not included in the list of protected animals "snail", but everyone is accustomed to using the "snail" this popular name to call it, the two are not the same species, experts said that this can be assured.