▲The Gulin River joins the Chishui River in Taiping Town ▲ The Gulin River joins the Chishui River in Taiping Town
"Release" – the good deeds that are most likely to do bad things with good intentions
Dai Yuanxing
The release of fish in natural waters is called aquatic biological proliferation and stocking in fishery administration. Folk release habits have their deep-rooted traditions in traditional culture, which are deeply rooted in the lives of many of us.
According to inquiries: The Buddhist "Brahman Net Precept Sutra" and "Golden Light Sutra" say that release is in the spirit of equal compassion for all sentient beings, abstaining from killing and releasing life, loving life and evil death, praying for physical and mental health, smooth career, and family happiness. People have a general psychology of accumulating good fortunes, and expect to achieve great merits such as swordless robbery, gathering auspiciousness, no disasters, rejoicing of the Buddhas, longevity and health, and having many children and men, and implementing the act of release.
According to the Taoist philosophy: Xiandao Guisheng, loving everything and not harming life. According to the List of Wenchang Emperor Jun's Yin Qiwen of the Wenchang Emperor's "Wenchang Emperor's Yin Qiwen" in charge of the Imperial Examination and Si Lu, such as: Song Jiaodu Ant, Sun Shu'ao Buried Snake, First Aid Exhausted Fish, Righteous Liberation Net Sleeve Bird, and so on, the near report of their own blessings, the distant reward of their descendants, and all the auspiciousness of all things are yin and moral.
It can be seen that the release of life is a common traditional act of kindness in traditional Chinese culture. It is also in line with the psychological needs of the public for repentance.
▲Yanjing River (Jiuxi River)
However, in recent years, due to changes in the living environment of natural species, people's economic conditions, hybrid improvement of farmed species, and unregulated release have produced many unsafe hidden dangers, formed genetic confusion of natural species, and even formed invasion of alien species.
For example, UC Browser reprinted the report of Sannong Encyclopedia on April 9 that there are 21 species of exotic fish in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and 17 species can reproduce naturally. There are only 16 species of indigenous fish. The 17 indigenous fish species of the Erhai Sea are also endangered by the introduction of 13 economic fish species. The middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River carp appear in populations that are hybridized with the German mirror carp. Situations that pose harm to the conservation of natural species diversity continue to occur.
In connection with the fish diversity of our Gulinxi River and the ecological protection of the waters, alien species are also a great hazard. For example, at the beginning of the century, folk Buddhists set up a "release pond" in the Gulin River, and regularly held release activities under the supervision of fishery authorities every year. However, some people quietly released snakeheads and trout in the hilly areas when there was no event.
Around 2006, Huang Moumou in Yongle Town bred 5300 hybrid yellow jaw fish, all of which missed to "release" to the Gulin River, forming an invasion of the yellow jaw fish that everyone figuratively called "camouflage clothing", and the population of the local dominant species of the Gulin River, the striped breasted catfish and the garden tail of the catfish, gradually declined.
The Baisha River has formed as the dominant species of the river due to the "release" of farmed willow root fish (pointed tuna, Lasson), and has also brought two exotic species, the northern loach and the stick flower fish. Once because of the Lujia River breeding Russian sturgeon escaped the "release" tail, the formation of local explosive news: there are "Chinese sturgeon".
There have also been alarming reports of farmed ornamental fish ponds in the Dongxin area of "scavengers" (multi-spoke winged catfish) being released from streams to about a pound.
Yanjing River and Baisha River appeared in the fish species, such as salmon and Xingkai carp. Baby fish (giant salamander) appear many times in the Gulin River, and occasionally hybrid catfish, bearded catfish, and tilapia appear.
We are well aware that alien species can encroach on the living space of indigenous species, and even eat the eggs and fry of indigenous species, forming a risk of population decay and extinction.
This may be the case in other regions as well. In order to strengthen the protection of natural original species and ecology, the former Ministry of Agriculture issued the Regulations on the Management of The Proliferation and Stocking of Aquatic Organisms in 2009, which came into force on May 1, 2009.
Article 9 stipulates that artificially propagated aquatic biological species used for breeding and stocking shall come from qualified production units. Among them, those belonging to economic species shall come from seedling production units holding the "Aquatic Fry Production License"; those belonging to rare and endangered species shall come from the fry production units holding the "Aquatic Wild Animal Domestication and Breeding License".
Article 10: Aquatic organisms such as broodstock and seedlings used for breeding and stocking shall be native species. ...... The use of alien species, hybrids, genetically modified species and other aquatic species that do not meet ecological requirements for proliferation and stocking is prohibited.
Article 13 Where units and individuals carry out large-scale aquatic biological enhancement and stocking activities on their own, they shall report to the competent fishery administrative department of the local people's government at the county level or above 15 days in advance on matters such as the type, quantity, specifications, time and place of stocking, and accept supervision and inspection.
The lower reaches of the river in Gulin are the core areas of the Rare and Endemic Fish National Nature Reserve in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is an area that needs strict protection. In order to conscientiously implement the above regulations, we have learned that the current carp and crucian carp are hybrid combinations of nearly 80 species and should not be released. Species such as four large fish and sturgeon that are not native to us should not be released. Including chishui river bream fish distribution is less, the mouth of the bream should not be released.
The cultured yellow jaw fish species are basically hybrid combinations of "Yellow Jaw Fish Huang You No. 1", once also had "Glossy Yellow Jaw", "Watt's Yellow Jaw Fish", "Ussuri Trevally", which can be called more than 50 kinds of anchovy fish, are they indigenous species distributed in the Chishui River? Is it suitable for release? There are also cases to be studied one by one.
If we want to manage, we have to learn. There are 250 species of fish originally distributed in Sichuan, and there are about 120 species in our Chishui River. Many fish species cannot be artificially bred to produce fry, and their protection is the real meaning of species diversity conservation. The purpose of the protection of fish resources is not to protect the more economic fish such as carp and crucian carp. Rather, it is the conservation of diversity of entire natural species. In particular, it is more important to protect those rare species that were originally rare, or even those that have no economic and edible value.
▲ The small river of Gulin
Therefore, managing the breeding and stocking activities of release is indeed a technical work. We have constantly dissuaded some people who are willing to "release" from "releasing" them. Criticized some people who acted in "release" at will, and did bad things with good intentions. Even fry producers are not allowed to "release" them into the river by selling surplus products.
We should realize that the best way to protect the ecological environment in the actual waters is to stop eating wild fish and stop fishing wild fish. Allow them to quietly and slowly and naturally restore their populations, individual sizes, breeding and growth, and restore species diversity. In the case of the need for breeding and stocking, the state will take the lead in selecting suitable species for release.
Hopefully, we have people who are willing and in need of release, and everyone will provide awareness and abide by the law. Our real environment is not the original environment in history, the release of biological species is not the original genetic endowment, fish release must be carried out scientifically, do not "do bad things with good intentions", and even violate departmental regulations.
Protecting our environment cannot be done with "passion over wisdom."
Text | Dai Yuanxing
Picture | Network