China is scheduled to build 100 artificial fishing banks in 10
years' time in order to improve and restore the oceanic environment
and quality.
As
reported, the coming ten years will see south China's
Guangdong Province to build 12 sea sections with altogether 100
artificial fishing banks along its seacoast. These artificial
fishing banks, to be built in the 3600-mu of seawaters for fry and
shrimp, will improve and resume the oceanic environmental quality
there, according to a Guangdong official at an international forum
held in the coastal city of
Qingdao,
Shandong Province in east China.
Artificial banks mean to put into the water some manmade built-ups
to improve sea areas for the breeding, reproduction and growing-up
of oceanic living beings, thus to protect and better use the
resources and increase benefits as well.
In
the late 1970s and early 1980s, China has made experimentation on
setting up artificial fishing banks but failed. During the Fourth
Session of Ninth Guangdong Provincial People's Congress last
February, the proposal of "Building Artificial Fishing Banks and
Protecting Oceanic Fishing Environment" was put jointly forward by
158 delegates, and fully approved by all members after
discussion.
As
China's important coastal fishing province, Guangdong is of rich
oceanic resources. Although great development in fishing industry
has been achieved since the strategy of "Building Guangdong into
Important Oceanic Economy Province" was set forth some ten years
ago or so, the excessive fishing has damaged the oceanic resource
environment of the province.
(People’s
Daily 09/13/2001)