Accelerate the upgrading of fishery technology and equipment levels, and effectively enhance the vitality of fishery development

This website news  Recently, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen stressed during inspections in Shandong and Guangdong that it is necessary to accelerate the advancement of fishery scientific and technological innovation, continuously improve facility and equipment levels, focus on perfecting operating systems and mechanisms, effectively enhance the vitality, quality and efficiency of fishery development, and accelerate the advancement of modern fishery construction.

Yu Kangzhen successively went to Rongcheng, Yantai, Penglai, Laizhou, and Qingdao in Shandong, and Zhuhai, Zhongshan, and Shenzhen in Guangdong and other places to inspect modern fishery construction and fishery and fishery administration management work. At each place, he went deep into enterprises, scientific research institutions, fishing ports, and island fishing villages, and held discussions and exchanges with local governments, fishery departments, enterprises, cooperatives, and fishermen representatives, to gain a detailed understanding of the development situation of local aquatic product processing, aquaculture, scientific research, marine ranch construction, fishing vessel construction, recreational fishery, distant-water fishery and other industries, as well as the construction of fishing ports and distant-water fishery bases, fishermen's transfer to other industries and occupations, crackdown on illegal fishing, safety production, and implementation of diesel subsidy policies. He fully affirmed Shandong Province's implementation of the “Sea Granary” strategy and its vigorous development of marine ranches and artificial reefs, and Guangdong Province's vigorous development of deep-water cage aquaculture and distant-water fishery and its construction of distant-water fishery bases.

Yu Kangzhen pointed out that fishery development is currently in a critical period of transforming development modes and adjusting structure. To advance fishery transformation and upgrading, improve quality and increase efficiency, it is necessary to continuously improve fishery scientific and technological support capacity, continuously innovate fishery operating systems and mechanisms, and strengthen the impetus and vitality of modern fishery construction. He stressed that it is necessary to focus on strengthening fishery scientific and technological innovation and tackling key problems, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in key technologies such as breeding and propagation of aquaculture varieties, aquatic product processing techniques, quality and safety control, fishery informatization, industrial and cage aquaculture technology, and marine ranch construction. It is necessary to focus on strengthening fishery infrastructure and equipment construction, accelerate the renewal and transformation of fishing vessels, and cultivate a number of modern distant-water fishery fleets; accelerate fishing port construction, and build a number of fishing port economic zones and distant-water fishery bases; accelerate the promotion of offshore deep-water cage aquaculture, and reduce the environmental pressure of inshore aquaculture. It is necessary to focus on strengthening innovation in fishery operating systems and mechanisms. While expanding leading fishery enterprises, promote the effective integration of enterprises, scientific research institutions, cooperatives, and fishermen, establish close interest linkage mechanisms, accelerate the transfer of fishing fishermen to other industries and occupations, and mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties to promote modern fishery construction.

During the inspection in Guangdong Province, Yu Kangzhen also made a special point of learning in detail about the disaster situation brought by Typhoon “Caihong” to agriculture, animal husbandry, and fishery. He required agriculture, animal husbandry, and fishery departments to quickly organize production self-rescue, repair damaged facilities as soon as possible, replant seedlings and restock livestock in a timely manner, and strengthen animal disease prevention and control and crop pest monitoring and prevention in disaster areas.