China's first domestic large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment made in Zhejiang
Original title: China's first domestic large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment unveiled
On March 16, a technical promotion work meeting for large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment, organized by the Fisheries Vessel Inspection Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. The meeting organized an expert group to review China's first domestic set of "large-scale tuna purse seine fishing complete equipment," jointly developed by Ningbo Jiesheng Marine Equipment Co., Ltd., the Fishery Machinery and Instrument Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, and the National Oceanic Fishery Engineering Technology Research Center.
Through on-site inspection, listening to the project team's research work report, and reviewing relevant technical materials and design drawings, after full discussion, the expert group concluded that the successful development of this set of equipment has changed the situation in which China's large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment was completely dependent on imports, and filled a domestic gap. It has created favorable conditions for the development of China's large-scale tuna purse seine fishing vessels and has excellent value for promotion and application.
Although China's distant-water fishery has achieved great development in terms of the number of fishing vessels, operating areas, operating methods, and main catches, due to the weakening of fishery equipment research, the research, development, and application of fishing vessel equipment have long lacked strong scientific and technological support. As a result, China's fishing vessel fishing equipment technology has not developed along with the development of ship engineering technology and industrial automation and information technology, and the level of automation and informatization is very low. The situation in which important technical equipment of distant-water fishing vessels, especially complete sets of technical equipment, has long depended on imports has not been fundamentally changed. The lack of advanced fishing vessels and their equipment technology has always been a bottleneck restricting the development of China's distant-water fishery. Taking large-scale tuna purse seine fishing vessels as an example, the fishing equipment is entirely dependent on imports, and after-sales technical support for all equipment must rely on the service of foreign equipment suppliers to ensure normal production. The normal operation and development of the industry are severely constrained by others. Therefore, the successful development of this complete set of large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment has broken the foreign monopoly, ended the situation in which this equipment was completely dependent on imports, and will help break through the bottleneck restricting the development of China's oceanic tuna purse seine industry. It will help promote the upgrading and replacement of China's existing old large-scale tuna purse seine fishing vessels and improve their industrial benefits, and can further participate in international competition in this type of equipment, with broad development prospects.
According to He Bo, chairman of Ningbo Jiesheng Marine Equipment Co., Ltd., this complete set of large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment consists of 55 units (sets) of equipment. The key equipment includes power blocks, three-drum winches, buoy hauling machines, and the whole-vessel hydraulic system, and 26 independent patent intellectual property rights have been obtained. He said that in the future, on this basis, they will carry out in-depth research on the mechanisms of large-scale tuna purse seine fishing equipment technology, further enhance the equipment's precision fishing capability, continuously improve the level of integrated application of new processes, new materials, and new technologies, and constantly perfect technical standardization and normalization to form a standards system, contributing to systematically raising the technical level of China's purse seine fishing equipment. (Reporter Kang Cundong)