China to Better Enforce Fishery LawChina will enhance protection of its fishery resources and ecological environment by better enforcing its fishery law, according to today's China Daily.The paper quotes Vice-Minister of Agriculture Qi Jingfa as saying in a report to the National People's Congress that China is trying to keep a sustainable development of the fishery resources through adjusting the industry's structure. He said the output of farmbred aquatic products account for 58 percent of the total output of the aquatic products, raising from 44 percent in 1986. China's fishery law, which came into effect in 1986, put top priority on directing the fishery industry towards increased breeding instead of fishing to protect and make better use of the country's fishery resources. To this end, the ministry has banned fishing between June and September since 1995 and set up a goal of zero growth in sea fishing last year. |
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