Supervision of "extinction aquaculture" is not in place the relevant functional departments do not

Pikou Town, Pulandian City, Dalian, Liaoning Province, is the largest area for raising sea cucumbers in the sea area around Dalian. Due to farmers adding a large number of antibiotics and other drugs, offshore species are almost extinct. Some fishermen said that in this sea, other creatures, such as mullet and prawn, have now "wiped out their roots." (Beijing Morning Post, September 10)

The concept of "extinction farming" sounds paradoxical, because aquaculture means breeding, growth and development, while extinction means destruction, injury and destruction. However, as far as the sea cucumber culture area around Dalian, Liaoning is concerned, "extinction culture" is surprisingly "integrated": local farmers use a large number of antibiotics and chemical agents in order to cultivate sea cucumbers and obtain the greatest economic benefits. as a result, other marine and tidal flat organisms in the nearby sea area were pushed to the brink of extinction.

A careful inventory of the antimicrobials and chemicals used by local farmers in the process of raising sea cucumbers can be described as shocking. There are more than ten kinds of quicklime, bleach, penicillin, ceftriaxone sodium, norfloxacin hydrochloride, Liukangdian, insecticides and so on. Many of these antimicrobials are used to treat human diseases, but these drugs that can save human health and lives are deadly poisons for most marine life, and what is even more deadly, in order to prevent other marine life from competing with sea cucumbers for nutrients, some farmers deliberately "kill" other marine life such as pesticides. As a result, in front of the local prosperous sea cucumber aquaculture industry, the nearby sea has almost become a "Dead Sea" or "marine desert". There is a word called "fishing in the pool". It is more appropriate to use it in the local sea cucumber breeding industry.

Regardless of whether the sea cucumbers raised by various potions still have very high nutritional value. It is obvious that the existence of this kind of "extinction farming" has caused a devastating blow to the local marine ecosystem and terrestrial ecosystem. This is not only not in line with the concept of eco-environmental protection, but also does not meet the requirements of sustainable economic development, completely to meet the interests of the minority and harm the interests of the majority, which is tantamount to making the whole ecological environment pay for the families of a small number of people to get rich.

Worryingly, although the situation is becoming more and more serious, there is no department to pay attention to, let alone effective supervision. It is not known whether the illegal use of various antimicrobials and chemical agents in the process of mariculture belongs to the aquaculture department, the environmental protection department or the agricultural department, but what is certain is that since it is suspected of illegal use of antimicrobials and suspected of polluting and destroying the ecological environment, it is certain that functional government departments should come forward to standardize, rectify and prohibit them, and be held accountable and punished in accordance with the law. It is dereliction of duty, that is, inaction.