Since before the Spring Festival, several waves of cold currents have hit the coastal catch of Taoyuan City, and many fishermen have gone out to sea to catch not as good as expected, so they simply suspended going to sea for recuperation. Chen Yicheng, director general of the Taoyuan Fishery Association, said that at the beginning of this year, the more fish caught of afternoon fish, bass and eel fry along the coast of Taoyuan were sharply reduced by half compared with last year, and the mullet was also reduced by 10% to 20%, and the fishermen spent a small month.
At the end of last year, after the Bamboo Wai Fishing Port in Dayuan Entered the winter, the mullet migrated to the coast of Taoyuan, and the fishermen of the Taoyuan Garden Fishery Association went out to sea to catch a great increase. Unexpectedly, since January this year, several waves of cold snaps have struck, and fishermen's catches have been greatly reduced, and even the largest local catch of afternoon fish and bass fish is not as good as last year.
According to statistics from the Taoyuan Urban Fishery Association in January and February last year, the coastal fishermen in Taoyuan caught more than 2,400 kilograms of afternoon fish, about 1,330 kilograms of bass, and fishermen caught about 1,800 kilograms of eel fry along the coast. Chen Yicheng said that in the same period of this year, affected by the cold snap, not only the catch of noon, catfish and eel fry has been sharply reduced by half, but even the catch of white pomfret and eel (white belly) has also decreased.
At the end of last year, the weather was warmer, and fishermen went out to sea to catch migratory mullet, often 1, 2,000, and about 4,400 kilograms of mullet were caught in the same period last year, but this year it was about 10% or 20% less.
Fisherman Liu Tongjiao said that in addition to being affected by the cold current, the weather is poor, the sea surface is windy and waves, it is not easy for fishing boats to go to sea, coupled with industrial pollution along the coast, the catch is relatively bad, unlike last December, the weather is better, which is conducive to fishing boat operations, and even mullet catches are more.