Answer: it is necessary.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "Yangtze River Basin Key Waters Fishing Ban and the Establishment of Compensation System Implementation Program". The program clearly requires: "complete the aquatic life protection zone fishermen retreat, take the lead in the implementation of a comprehensive ban on fishing" "complete the Yangtze River main stream and important tributaries in addition to the protection zone in addition to the waters of the fishermen retreat, the tentative implementation of the 10-year ban on fishing".

Illegal fishing still exists

Under the ban, there are still people who are desperate to illegally fish for wild river food.

"I grew up on the river since I was a child, and there are still some people along the Yangtze River who are fishing illegally." A fishmonger told reporters that poaching activities are often carried out at night, sold privately, hidden and not easy to be discovered by the fisheries department.

When the reporter asked where he could buy swordfish, another fishmonger gave the reporter the phone number of a foreign trader. Immediately, the reporter dialed the phone and got in touch with the other side. On the phone, the foreign vendors told reporters that the Yangtze River is currently closed to fishing, illegal poaching swordfish, and do not allow reporters to mention the word "river food", seem very cautious.

After some "bargaining", the trader told the reporter via WeChat that he could arrange for fishermen to catch the fish on the river. If you want to buy, the next morning can be transported from a city along the river. But now there are only small swordfish, 1.5 two or less, a few hundred dollars per catty. According to reports, after this swordfish prices will be higher, 3.5 two or so, can be sold to a few thousand dollars a catty.

The reporter investigated and found that under the ban, although around the increased crackdown, but the phenomenon of illegal fishing of wild river fish still occurs from time to time.

Jiangsu Province Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department of the relevant person in charge of the province, this year, the province **** seized 125 cases of violations, 175 people, cleaned and banned all kinds of prohibited fishing gear more than 1,600 pieces.

A reporter with the police in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, Dantu District, Jiangxinzhou riverside inspection, met the villagers group leader Chen Laobo. Under the leadership of Mr. Chen, in an inconspicuous small water bay, the police seized a ground cage net. Cage net to wire or bamboo as a skeleton, with a window screen made of long thin tube, fish and shrimp once swam into the cage, regardless of the size of the difficult to escape.

Wuhan City, Hubei Province, agricultural comprehensive law enforcement inspector general team joint Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau Water Branch, in the Yangtze River, Wuhan section of the waters of the seizure of a self-caught self-sale of illegal cases of river fish. The scene seized two suspects involved in the case, a speedboat, a set of high-voltage electric bottles and electrofishing equipment, catch 7.85 kg. According to reports, the suspect operates a river fish hotel, part of the catch used as a hotel self-sale, part sold to the market.

"According to the analysis of law enforcement investigations, there are still a few cases of self-fishing and self-selling of wild river fish for profit in the city's catering hotels." Wuhan City, Hubei comprehensive agricultural law enforcement inspector general chief Wang Wengao introduced, the enactment of the fishing ban for the protection of fishery resources on the Yangtze River has played an important role, but due to the consumption habits of a small number of people, the illegal fishing of wild river fish profitable, some people are driven by the interests of the desperate.

appeared merchant mariners use dinghy fishing, productive angling and other new situations

"My friends and I saw someone rowing on the river, fixed his eyes, but in illegal electrofishing!" In the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau Wuhu Branch and County police station, Mr. Xing, the informant, recalled: "We persuaded two electrofishermen to immediately stop illegal fishing, they not only do not take it seriously, but also rushed forward to abuse us."

"Illegal fishing of aquatic products during the closed season will not be tolerated! At present, two suspects have been arrested and seized tools such as electric fishing boats and electric fishing equipment." Anhui Maanshan city agriculture comprehensive administrative law enforcement detachment deputy detachment Xia Dejun said, "regardless of the number of catches, but any illegal fishing of aquatic products during the closed season, we are determined to investigate and deal with."

"These poaching behaviors are mainly concentrated at night, or even in the early morning, which brings great difficulties to inspection and law enforcement." Xia Dejun said that illegal fishing at night, once discovered by fishery law enforcement officers, the lawbreakers will try to escape by all means. The law enforcement boat is large in tonnage compared to the poachers' skiffs, and once it is forced to approach, it is easy to cause a capsize accident, and it is difficult to guarantee the personal safety of both the fishery law enforcement officers and the poachers.

It is worth noting that in the daily supervision process, especially since this year, also found that illegal fishing appeared some new situations and new means. Xia Dejun said that some commercial ships and transport ships docked in designated waters, the crew will be in their free time, using the dinghy carried on board, engaged in illegal fishing. Liao Xiaohong, chief agronomist at the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development in Wuhu City, Anhui Province, said there are also some coastal residents who use their own farm boats as fishing boats, and even use plastic pots with motors to engage in illegal fishing.

The reporter learned from the relevant departments in Anqing City, Anhui Province, that the recovery of fishery resources has been obvious after a comprehensive ban on fishing in key waters of the Yangtze River basin in Anqing City. But along with this, recreational angling has rapidly evolved into group productive angling, which has a greater impact on natural fishery resources. What is worrying is that there is no penalty for productive angling behavior such as using multiple lines and hooks, long lines and hooks, single lines and hooks, and explosive hooks.

In addition, the composition of illegal fishing groups has become increasingly complex. China Marine Surveillance Jiangsu Provincial Command Fisheries Law Enforcement Division Director Chen Jianrong said, from the investigation and handling of cases involving fishing, professional fishermen illegal fishing cases accounted for less, but instead some of the original people are not fishermen in the interests of the drive to start poaching, and well-organized, clear division of labor, covert means. Some social loiterers also often use simple fishing device risky poaching, randomness, mobility, dispersion is larger.

Waters are many and wide, law enforcement is facing new challenges, manpower, equipment and other issues highlighted

Let the Yangtze River rest and recuperate, ten years of "fishing ban" implementation, which puts forward higher requirements for fisheries law enforcement departments, thus exposing some of the work of the short boards worthy of attention. The reporter interviewed a number of fisheries law enforcement departments, law enforcement force is weak, inadequate equipment is a common problem.

"Wuhu City Fisheries Fisheries Management Center, both responsible for fisheries management, but also responsible for fisheries production, a **** only 10 on the staff, the real fisheries management on even half." Liao Xiaohong said, for example, the Yangtze River in the territory of Wuwei City **** more than 50 kilometers, but Wuwei City is responsible for fisheries management of only four or five people. Previously it was a phased ban on fishing, but now a decade-long ban is set for key waters, requiring regular supervision, and manpower is stretched thin.

The relative weakness of the fisheries department is similar in other cities along the river. Xia Dejun introduced, Maanshan City, fisheries law enforcement positions, a **** has a 10-strong establishment, but currently only 2 people, the following districts and counties have even less establishment, responsible for a wide range of waters, including the Yangtze River mainstem and the Tongjiang River tributaries and other ban on fishing, the force is even more obvious insufficiency.

Lack of law enforcement equipment is also a problem. Liao Xiaohong explained that many counties and districts do not have exclusive enforcement boats. Very often, they have to join forces with the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau and other departments to borrow their equipment when conducting fisheries enforcement operations. In addition, most of the poaching fishing boats nowadays are smaller in size and shallow in draught, and the traditional law enforcement boats are large in tonnage and deep in draught, so they are not easy to get close to the fishing boats. So it is very necessary to equip smaller, easy-to-operate speedboats to strengthen fisheries law enforcement.

Wang Wengao said that most of the illegal fishing cases occurred in remote villages, tributaries of the river, junction waters. These areas are often complex river currents, but also in the junction of law enforcement management. If the law enforcement officers are not enough, not enough equipment, it is difficult to effectively regulate.

Aiming at the difficulties of fishery administrative law enforcement, some places actively mobilize the masses to protect fisheries. Chen Yilin, a volunteer of the Yangtze River Dolphin Protection Association in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, has been engaged in the protection of the Yangtze River for 10 years. Chen Yilin said: "We have two boats and will patrol along the river from time to time. If we find any poachers, we will immediately notify the fishery department to investigate and deal with them."

In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Hubei Province also suggested that the mechanism of group management and group protection be fully implemented. The counties (cities and districts) along the Yangtze River basin in Hubei Province, along the rivers and lakes that have the task of banning fishing law enforcement and supervision, need to rationalize the allocation of law enforcement forces and enhance the professionalism of administrative law enforcement. At the same time, combined with the actual ban on fishing law enforcement, strengthen the fishery law enforcement wharf, remote monitoring of key waters, law enforcement drones, fishery boats and other equipment and capacity building, and the formation of protection and management tasks in line with the regulatory capacity.

Strengthening sectoral cooperation and geographical linkage, forming a fishing ban synergy, and realizing normalized supervision

The Yangtze River fishing ban cannot rely solely on the fisheries department. The relevant person in charge of the Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that at present there are many ****ing difficulties in the Yangtze River fishing ban. For example, the resettlement of fishermen after landing, some fishermen face difficulties in life; the temptation of the benefits of sneaky fishing is great, and the law enforcement force is insufficient; from catching, transportation, marketing to the table, illegal fishing has formed an underground industrial chain. Therefore, the fishing ban is a systematic project, need to take multiple measures to strengthen sectoral cooperation, geographical linkage, the formation of fishing ban synergy.

"My father is in his 60s and it is impossible for him to go out to work. I have an elementary school education and can only do odd jobs around the neighborhood to subsidize my family, my income is unstable, and it's good to earn two or three thousand a month." Master Li said that there are dozens of other fishermen like him in their village, most of whom are in their fifties and sixties, and it is very difficult for them to earn their own living after going ashore. These people in addition to fishing has no other skills, it is inevitable that some people will secretly dry up the "old business".

The Yangtze River fishing ban, not only to strengthen supervision and strict law enforcement, but also to do a good job of landing fishermen resettlement. Located in Anqing City, Daguan District of Anqing fishing port, was once the largest number of fishing boats docked in Anqing City. Today, only a ship traveling in the "golden waterway" in the eyes of the freight transport commercial ships, several fishing boats gathered in the river together with the scene of fishing is gone.

He Guangsheng, head of the fishery administration station in Daguan District, Anqing City, said that according to national policy to compensate fishermen for the withdrawal of fishing, cracking fishing boats have close to 70,000 yuan of subsidies, withdrawal of fishing subsidies of 34,000 yuan, and 20,000 yuan of subsidies for the recycling of fishing gear. At the same time, there are 80,000 yuan subsidies in the form of "living difficulties" in 10 years, 8,000 yuan per year.

Of course, the existing policy should be continuously improved, because the fishermen's employment and living conditions are dynamic changes. In the future, we can explore the establishment of a contact person support system, timely grasp of the situation of families in difficulty, accurate help.

With the deepening of the protection of the Yangtze River, fisheries management and fisheries law enforcement have many contents, heavy tasks and high requirements, which put forward higher requirements for improving relevant fisheries laws and regulations and enhancing the capacity of fisheries law enforcement personnel. Chen Jianrong suggests promoting the law enforcement and supervision mode of "from fishing to protection", and absorbing fishermen who have returned to the shore of the Yangtze River to switch to employment and join the fishery protection team of the Yangtze River. At the same time, to strengthen and public security, maritime, market supervision and other departments of the joint linkage, illegal fishing found together with the investigation and punishment, crack down on illegal fishing behavior on the Yangtze River, and strive to build the Yangtze River fishing ban on the management of long-term mechanism.

There is a ban, we have to grasp the implementation of

Current and future quite a long period of time, ? To repair the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position, *** grasp the great protection, do not engage in large-scale development. The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, but also to maintain China's ecological security is an important barrier. For a long time, by the waters of pollution, overfishing and other impacts, the living environment of aquatic organisms in the Yangtze River is deteriorating, the biodiversity index continues to decline, and fishery resources are in serious decline. The less resources are caught, the worse the ecology is, and the poorer the fishermen are. Ten years of fishing ban, leaving more space and time for the Yangtze River to recuperate, for the benefit of future generations, is imperative.

However, the reporter investigated and found that under the ban, poaching has not stopped, there are still people fishing illegally, private peddling of wild "river food". This reflects some places in the implementation of the ban in the process of responsibility is not in place, the work is not solid.

The ban on fishing on the Yangtze River is a systematic project, from the whole chain of regulation of fishing, transportation, sales and catering to the realization of the fishermen's return to the shore and employment, each link must be followed up and done. How to improve the law enforcement cooperation mechanism and enhance the law enforcement capacity? How to strengthen inter-provincial collaboration and realize full-time supervision? How to strengthen the ecological awareness of the whole population and give full play to the role of the people along the river in protecting fisheries? How to effectively solve the production and living difficulties of landed fishermen? All of these have to put some embroidery efforts, must be considered more thorough, the needle sewing a little closer, more solid.

For the sake of the whole situation, for the sake of future generations, we must put the "fishing ban" into practice. Every region along the river, every relevant functional departments, should fully recognize the importance and complexity of the Yangtze River fishing ban and retreat work, solid work, for the implementation of the protection of the Yangtze River, promote the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt to make its due contribution.