Yu Kangzhen stressed: earnestly strengthen the inspection, supervision and management of fishing vessels and strictly prevent fishing

On July 17, a national forum on three major actions for inspection and law enforcement supervision of fishing vessels was held in Dalian, Liaoning Province. Yu Kangzhen, vice minister of agriculture, stressed at the meeting that without the safety of fishing vessels, there would be no fishery safety, and there would be no safety for fishermen. It is necessary to attach great importance to the work of fishery safety production, tighten the "strings" of fishing vessel safety supervision at all times, strengthen the safety inspection of fishing vessels at sea and inland rivers, strengthen the inspection, supervision and management of fishing vessels, and strive to improve the safety and technical status of fishing vessels, give full play to the important basic role of fishing vessel inspection in fishery safety production, and strictly prevent major safety accidents on fishing vessels.

Yu Kangzhen pointed out that fishing vessel inspection is the first pass to ensure the safety of fishing vessels, from drawing design to fishing vessel construction, from ship testing to operational inspection, from ship structure to important marine products, each inspection is effectively reducing the occurrence of fishing vessel safety accidents. Fishing vessel inspection is also the basic work to strengthen and standardize fishing vessel management, an important link to protect fishery resources and water ecological environment, and an effective starting point to promote the modernization of fishing vessel equipment. In the future, we should meet the new requirements of reform and innovation, strengthen the function of fishing vessel inspection supervision and management, speed up the promotion of fishing vessel inspection and supervision informationization, strengthen the supervision of design units of fishing vessel repair and construction enterprises, and cultivate a social support system for fishing vessel inspection work. Improve the ability and level of performance in an all-round way.

Yu Kangzhen called for three major actions to carry out national fishing vessel inspection and law enforcement supervision, aimed at finding out the family background of fishing vessels across the country, eliminating hidden dangers, solving outstanding problems existing in fishing vessel safety management for many years, improving the technical level of fishing vessel safety, and giving full play to the key role of fishing vessel inspection, supervision and management in ensuring the safety of fishery production and the safety of fishermen's lives and property. Fishery administrative departments at all levels and fishing vessel inspection agencies should seize the favorable opportunity of the summer fishing moratorium and the adjustment of fishing oil replenishment policies, form a joint force around the new fishery policy, make breakthroughs at fixed points, speed up progress, and seriously punish fishing vessels with "ship certificates that do not match". Highlight the key points to eliminate hidden dangers, strengthen the investigation and handling of quality and safety problems of marine equipment, strengthen safety education for shipowners and fishermen, and ensure that various action tasks are completed before the end of the year. To establish a long-term mechanism for supervision of fishing vessel inspection and law enforcement.

It is reported that up to now, a general survey of the basic data of 437000 fishing vessels has been completed, and 44000 fishing vessels with "inconsistent certificates,"sets of licenses,"clones," and "licensed and unlicensed" fishing vessels have been identified, 6430 newly built fishing vessels have been inspected, and 1325 rectification notices have been issued.