CCTV News:In fact, it has been 14 years since it was first proposed that the Yangtze River basin should be banned for a long time, and now it has been officially implemented. It can be seen that it is not a simple matter that the policy can be implemented now. It is undoubtedly people, especially fishermen, who are most affected by the ban on fishing.
At the beginning of 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for the Prohibition of Fishing in Key Waters of the Yangtze River Basin and the Establishment of Compensation System", which is an extremely important step to finally realize the prohibition of fishing in the Yangtze River.
Yu Kangzhen, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:The overall goal is to actively and steadily guide the retired fishermen to change jobs and start businesses, effectively protect the basic livelihood of fishermen with employment difficulties, and ensure that the retired fishermen can move out, live steadily and be well-off.
As the longest river in Asia, which flows through 11 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, the former glory of the Yangtze River has been replaced by the sound that "there are no fish in the Yangtze River" and "the Yangtze River is sick". As one of the main tributaries of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is under pressure of no fishing. In Poyang Lake alone, the ban on fishing involves more than 100,000 fishermen. Among them, there are 9,593 professional fishermen who have no land and can only make a living by fishing, accounting for nearly 50% of the whole ban on fishing.
Zhang Jinbao, Director of Fisheries and Fishery Bureau of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:Our fishermen are highly concentrated, and we have 55 professional fishing villages, among which more than 90% of the nine key counties around Poyang Lake have to complete the task of no fishing.
From 2015 to 2017, 100 local fishermen were investigated by professional sampling survey. The results showed that the annual income of each fisherman exceeded 99,000 yuan.
Zhang Jinbao, Director of Fisheries and Fishery Bureau of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:99,000 yuan, according to our farmer and fisherman family of four people, the per capita is 25,000. If there are five people, the per capita income is almost 20 thousand, which is much higher than the per capita income of farmers in Jiangxi. It is difficult for fishermen to change jobs. Because most of our fishermen are between the ages of 45 and 55, they have been fishing all their lives, and sometimes they even walk faster on the boat than on the shore.
Zhang Jinbao, Director of Fisheries and Fishery Bureau of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:For example, we use the funds of the central government. First, we recycle fishermen’s production tools, such as boats, nets and hooks. Second, in social security, we can let professional fishermen and part-time fishermen enjoy appropriate social security as a difficult group according to their different situations. Third, in the first year of the ban, we tried to raise funds to solve their temporary living allowance. Fourth, we should publicize and train every fisherman in social security employment, and provide him with suitable jobs as far as possible according to his specialty and his wishes.
Liu Huanzhang, a researcher at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:One is to let fishermen change fishing into fish farming; On the other hand, in addition to fishing, fishermen have skills to encourage them to start businesses and change careers. There is also a suggestion that they can change from fishing in the past to managing and protecting fishing.