Yesterday (January 29), it was reported that villagers in Gujiadian Town, Zhijiang City, Yichang City, Hubei Province, found a dead finless porpoise by the Yangtze River with multiple fish hooks in its mouth. On the 30th, the staff of the Yichang Fishery Administration Supervision Detachment told the reporter that the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had intervened in the investigation on the 29th and was waiting for the results. The staff member said that the waters of the Zhijiang River belong to the no-fishing area, and if the finless porpoise is determined to be killed by man, ** will intervene.
Villagers in Gujiadian Town, Zhijiang City, Yichang City, Hubei Province, found a dead finless porpoise on the Yangtze River with multiple hooks in its mouth.
** posted by the villagers shows,There is a dead finless porpoise on the riverside with multiple hooks in its mouth, the body is already decaying. On the 30th, the staff of the Yichang Fishery Administration Supervision Detachment told a reporter from NanduThe Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has intervened in the investigation on the 29th, waiting for the results. "The 60 kilometers below Gezhouba belong to the Chinese sturgeon reserve and are prohibited from fishing, and the waters of the Zhijiang River are prohibited from fishing. ”The staff member also saidIf it is determined that the finless porpoise was killed by man, ** will intervene.
Nandu reporter learned from the Zhijiang City Propaganda Account "Zhijiang Release".After the implementation of the Yangtze River fishing ban, Zhijiang City established the first county-level fishing protection team in the northern section of the Yangtze River in 2021 to carry out the Yangtze River fishing ban.
According to the "Notice on the Implementation of a Comprehensive Fishing Ban in the Zhijiang Section of the Yangtze River Basin", the fishing ban period will start from 0:00 on May 1, 2020 and will be tentatively set for 10 years (the lifting time will be notified separately). In October 2023, the Propaganda Department of the Zhijiang Municipal Party Committee issued a document stating that in recent years, Gujiadian Town has always adhered to the principle of "putting the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position", actively building an "ecological corridor", fighting a "defense battle" against fishing in the Yangtze River, and contributing to the protection of the Yangtze River. In 2021, Zhijiang City established the first large-scale county-level fishing protection team in the northern section of the Yangtze River and Hubei.
The article mentions that Gujiadian Town has 24 kilometers along the river shoreline, which is an important position for Zhijiang City to implement the Yangtze River fishing ban. Gujiadian Town has mapped out the key personnel and key waters involved in fishing in the whole town, registered them by village, established "four ledgers" of fishermen, ships, restaurants and key personnel, set up a town-level fishing protection team, and carried out inspections, publicity and persuasion work on a regular basis.
Gujiadian town along the river shoreline.
According to the reporter of Nandu,The finless porpoise is a first-class key protected wild animal in China, usually inhabiting the sea area at the junction of brackish and fresh waterIt can also live in fresh water such as the lower reaches of large and small rivers, and in the Yangtze River, it can even be traced back to Yichang, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake. On February 28, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the results of the 2022 Yangtze finless porpoise scientific expedition, and the population of the Yangtze finless porpoise was 1,249.