Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China, Vigorously Develops Pollution-Free Aquaculture

    In recent years, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China, in accordance with the spirit of relevant laws and regulations on strengthening aquatic product quality and safety management, with the goal of improving the quality and safety level of aquatic products and with the focus on promoting pollution-free aquatic product aquaculture, has adopted active and effective measures to implement the Ministry of Agriculture's "Pollution-Free Food Action Plan" throughout the city in a planned and step-by-step manner, and has achieved certain results. At present, the city has obtained certification for 126 pollution-free aquatic product production areas, with a total area of more than 140,000 mu, accounting for about 14% of the city's total aquaculture area; 28 aquatic products have obtained the title of pollution-free agricultural products. The certification of these pollution-free aquatic product aquaculture bases will drive the implementation of various measures for aquatic product quality and safety management throughout the city, improve the quality of aquatic products, enhance the market competitiveness of aquatic products, and promote the sustainable development of the city's fishery industry.

In order to promote pollution-free aquaculture, the Jiangmen City Ocean and Fishery Bureau formulated and organized the implementation of the "Jiangmen City Pollution-Free Aquatic Product Promotion Plan", taking export-registered aquatic product aquaculture bases as the breakthrough point, selecting the relatively influential export eel farms and mullet farms as targets, focusing on using various opportunities such as the review and issuance of aquaculture licenses to actively publicize pollution-free aquatic product production, guiding these key enterprises to apply for pollution-free aquatic product production area certification, so as to drive the comprehensive rollout of pollution-free aquatic product production area certification work and achieve substantive progress in the city's pollution-free aquaculture base certification work.