subject: Shantou City, took more than a thousand fishermen to abandon the ship ashore poverty alleviation Road [print this page] Shantou City, took more than a thousand fishermen to abandon the ship ashore poverty alleviation Road
Shantou 25,000 fishermen engaged in marine fishing Transferring face
Fishing moratorium this year catchable two months, the city than in previous years the sea fishing vessels catch the "big shrink", the city's 25,000 fishermen engaged in marine fishing Transferring face. Reporter yesterday from the city of Ocean and Fishery Bureau, that since the city earlier in the province to encourage some fishermen to "give up fishing from the support" in the city voluntarily "abandon the ship ashore," the fishermen have been about 1,000, most of them successfully Transferring onto the new poverty alleviation Road.
Urgent need for large numbers of fishermen fishing out of Ocean
Since the South China Sea fishing moratorium in the first capture of this year, the city of various sea fishing production is not ideal, particularly in such high quality and high value of the squid catch too few.
Haimen in Chaoyang, a number of "boatman," told reporters, with the increasing depletion of marine resources, fish and cephalopods lowered reproductive capacity, in particular a significant reduction in high-grade fish, they caught so far this year, open fishing, it is difficult to catch "good stuff." In recent years, coastal eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian part of the illegal fishing operations, but also seriously undermines the inshore juvenile fish, shrimp resources. Long-term cool fishing, over-fishing of marine resources, environmental destruction has caused serious "consequences", the present trend of depletion of fishery resources are still increasing. Economic benefits for several years in the marine fishing obviously declining, many fishing boats caught in the advance and retreat the city of difficult situation, an urgent need for a large number of fishermen out of the marine fishing industry.
Transferring of 5 years will reach more than 2,000 fishermen
Those facing the loss of basic production and living needs of the fishermen became the great support of people with special difficulties, their way out caused the high levels of government concern and attention. In 2002, the city approved by the Ministry of Agriculture, the province had arranged over the first 85 boats voluntary early retirement, and the fishermen abandoned ship ashore training to enable them to successfully transform the role of aquaculture or fish processing industry and so on. To now, the city has more than 200 fishing boats early retirement, involving about 1,000 fishermen out of marine fishing.
The city last year to 2008, plans to use 5 years safe and orderly phase-out fishing vessels 400, and focused on supporting the development of aquaculture, processing and circulation, recreational fishing and boat fishing industry projects such as network build number, driving 2650 Transferring fishermen.
Haimen in Chaoyang, some have tasted the sweetness of the fishermen Transferring told reporters, in addition to compensation for fishing vessels, the city also do everything possible to broaden their employment opportunities, and help them develop marine aquaculture. Transferring fishermen for these concessions do not receive the personnel involved in marine aquaculture operations use the gold to support their business gradually took the road of self-reliance. City of marine and fisheries sector in recent years has been in Chaoyang, tidal south, Chenghai, and Hou fishermen landed on the abandoned train practitioners to improve skills of the fishermen changing products and promote their reemployment.
School children of poor fishermen to solve intellectual problems
In recent days, some fishing areas in Chaoyang reporter interviews also found that the majority of the city are professional fishermen Transferring fishermen, fishing is a means of livelihood for generations, they lack skills in other industries. And these fishermen are often older, has a low level of education, learning new technologies have significant difficulties. These were to some extent, increased the difficulty of job transfer. To this end, government departments and timely training to these fishermen, but also the helping hand extended to all those fishermen's children. As a province, city part of intellectual poverty project, the last two years the city has 37 fishing families Transferring exam-free admission to technical schools their children free of charge, children of fishermen to master these skills, and with jobs after graduation hundred percent no longer needed With the father, "living from the sea."
