“2019 Anti-Electric Fishing Convention” was Held in Beijing, China’s “Anti-Electric Fishing Day” was Born- 中国生物多样性保护与绿色发展基金会

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“2019 Anti-Electric Fishing Convention” was Held in Beijing, China’s “Anti-Electric Fishing Day” was Born

2019/3/29 14:29:00 本站

On March 28, 2019, the long-awaited "2019 Anti-Electric Fishing Convention" was finally held in Beijing and ended successfully. Volunteers, government administrations and charitable organizations from the aquatic and biological fields of various rivers and lakes in China gathered together to jointly protect China's aquatic living resources and water environment. At the convention, China's first "Anti-Electric Fishing Day" was also born.

This convention was co-organized by China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) FDY Fish Protection Center and the Flowing Creek and River Environment Protection Public Welfare Center in Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It aims at exploring new ways and new direction for the effective protection of aquatic living resources by the government, social organizations and the public in the new situation, and promote the participation of all sectors of society in biodiversity conservation; Testing the use of information networks to establish a big data platform, providing support for relevant government departments to analyze, research and judge, and make decisions to combat illegal fishing; Exchanging analysis and recommendations in the field of aquatic biological resources protection; Exploring the sustainable development of corporate social responsibility and fisheries. To promote the mainstreaming of biodiversity by demonstrating and communicating typical success stories of conservation of aquatic biodiversity in the Yangtze River Basin, to lay a solid foundation for the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nation’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) will be held in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China in late 2020, and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Moreover, this “Anti-Electric Fishing Convention” is also the CBCGDF’s joint efforts to promote the protection of aquatic biodiversity in order to comprehensively and effectively promote China’s anti-electric fishing work, and to jointly link the relevant departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Aquatic Association, and the environmental protection organization. This is a national exchange event held together with caring enterprises and a large number of anti-electric fishing volunteers across the country. At the convention, representatives from all walks of life carried out full exchanges and discussions on the theme of “Participation of all people, Opposition to electric fishing, Protection of aquatic resource.”

The one-day event of “Anti-Electric Fishing Convention” has many highlights. First of all, the volunteers sang their own song “The Song of Anti-Electric Fishing”, the melody was catchy, and the tune was heated. The first big data application of anti-electric fishing the “RiverEye” App developed by CBCGDF FDY Anti-Electric Fishing Center was also presented at the convention. The film star, as well as the public welfare image ambassador of CBCGDF FDY Fish Protection Center Ms. Yu Haoyang gave a wonderful speech, hope to bring more public attention to anti-electric fishing, pay attention to biodiversity conservation. Last but not least, at the convention, various organizations and enterprise jointly issued an initiative to set March 28 as "National Anti-Electric Fishing Day".

At the convention, leaders from relevant departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs also talked about their points of views on the work of protection of aquatic biodiversity and anti-electric fishing, and at the same time gave recognition and praise to CBCGDF’s anti-electric fishing efforts. In October 2018, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a notice deciding to launch a special enforcement operation against electric fishing activities nationwide from now until November 2019. It is hoped that by the end of the operation, the frequent occurrence of electric fishing activities in various places will be effectively curbed. The social organizations that demand anti-electric fishing play a role in promoting a good social situation in which the government-led, social organizations and fishermen’s civil participation jointly to combat the electric fishing.

The Secretary-General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) Dr. Zhou Jinfeng said in his speech at the convention: Today, due to the rapid development of human industrial civilization, the ecological environment is facing great challenges, and the situation of biodiversity conservation is very serious. In 2015, at the time of examination of the UN Millennium Sustainable Development Goals, China, in addition to the item 7b "Reducing the loss of biodiversity", all met the targets, and of course, the world has not yet completed. He pointed out that since the 18^th CPC National Congress, the Chinese government has paid great attention to ecological protection and actively practiced ecological civilization. The protection work done by the CBCGDF FDY Fish Protection Center is very important. At the same time, these achievements are also inseparable from the central to the local support of the government-related law enforcement agencies. It is also because of the strong support of government departments and caring enterprises that the anti-electric fishing volunteers can work better nationwide.

By the end of 2018, the CBCGDF FDY Fish Protection Center (Oppose Electro Fishing Union) has got more than 14,000 volunteers. It has assisted the local fishery administrations and authorities in cracking down nearly 2,600 illegal electric fishing cases in more than ten provinces. In cooperation with local fishery administrations, joint enforcement actions were carried out. In the whole year, the number of volunteers reached more than 38,000 and the mileage of patrol along the river and the lake reached more than 360,00 kilometers. Moreover, in the process of cracking down on illegal electric fishing, the CBCGDF FDY Fish Protection Center has also widely publicized the knowledge of protecting the fish, protecting water resources, and the sustainable use and development of relevant fishery resources were made popular in the Yangtze River Basin. The number of educated people has reached more than 2 million.

The guests attended the convention include the Secretary-General of CBCGDF, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the Deputy Secretary-General of CBCGDF Xiao Qing, Head of the Division of Fisheries Administration of the Bureau of Fisheries Administration Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Guo Yunfeng, Law enforcement supervision investigator from the Yangtze River Fisheries Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Ji Weibin, Researcher of East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences Yan Liping, as well as heads from the relevant units including China Angling Association, China Recreational Angling Association, China Fishing Club Union, China Culture and Education Sporting Goods Association, and representatives from public welfare organizations and caring enterprises including Hubei Loonva Fishing Tackle Group, Shenzhen Zhongheng Yiyuan Investment Management Co., Ltd., etc. Ms. Tong Ying, a CCTV senior ecological survey reporter, served as the host of the convention.