Ministry of Agriculture Establishes Yangtze Office to Strengthen Inland Fisheries Management
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 1 (Reporter Wang Yu) The reporter recently learned from China's Ministry of Agriculture that the Ministry of Agriculture has officially established the Yangtze River Basin Fisheries Supervision and Management Office to further strengthen inland fisheries management.
According to the introduction, the Yangtze Office is China's first inland river basin fisheries supervision and management institution, and also the first dispatched administrative agency established by the Ministry of Agriculture. It is mainly responsible for fisheries management and aquatic biological resource conservation in relevant river basins south of the Yellow River basin, important waters and border waters, covering the Yangtze, Pearl, Yarlung Tsangpo, Huai, Lancang, Nu, Min, Qiantang and other river basins and border waters, as well as Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Taihu Lake, Namtso Lake, Chaohu Lake and other lakes, involving Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
Vice Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun stated that the establishment of the "Yangtze Office" will open a new journey for inland fisheries management, and has important and far-reaching significance for protecting the country's precious rivers and lakes, ensuring the sustainable development of fisheries, and realizing the "Beautiful China" dream.
The Ministry of Agriculture stated that after the establishment of the "Yangtze Office," it is necessary to vigorously advocate the concept of ecological civilization within relevant river basins and waters, strengthen the institutional design and systems and mechanisms for water ecological protection, reinforce fisheries supervision, strictly enforce fisheries law, and curb from the source the trend of ecological environment deterioration and aquatic biological resource decline in inland waters. It is necessary to increase the construction and management of nature reserves, strengthen environmental impact assessment of engineering construction, implement ecological compensation measures, vigorously carry out the proliferation and release of aquatic biological resources, protect and restore important fishery resources and habitats of endangered aquatic wildlife, and promote the organic combination and coordinated advancement of water ecological protection and economic and social development.