China's recreational fishery has shown a recovery and recovery trend

Recreational fishery is one of the "five major industries" of fishery, which helps to expand the function of fishery and enrich the industrial form
.
In order to promote the sustainable and healthy development of recreational fisheries, under the guidance of the Fisheries and Fisheries Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Aquatic Technology Extension Station and the Chinese Fisheries Society compiled the Monitoring Report on the Development of Recreational Fisheries in China (2022) (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), which was recently released
.
The report comprehensively summarizes the development of recreational fisheries in 2021 and puts forward development suggestions
for major current issues.

In 2021, the output value of recreational fishery in China exceeded 80 billion yuan

In 2021, China's recreational fishery showed a recovery and recovery trend, with overall stability, steady progress, and good
progress.
Data show that in 2021, the national output value of recreational fishery will be 80.
540 billion yuan (monitoring data does not include Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet, the same below), an increase of 3.
18% year-on-year, but it has not yet recovered to the level
of 94.
318 billion yuan in 2019.

The number of recreational fishery business entities in the country was 134,600, a year-on-year increase of 4.
88%, of which the number of business entities above designated size (referring to business entities with an annual output value of more than 2 million yuan in recreational fishery) was 14,300, accounting for 10.
63% of the total number of business entities; The number of employees was 764,700, a year-on-year increase of 4.
11%; The number of people received was 232 million, a year-on-year increase of 3.
04%, and the per capita consumption expenditure was 347.
04 yuan, basically the same as in 2021; the number of recreational fishing vessels in the country was 7,786, down 6.
15% year-on-year, of which the number of marine recreational fishing vessels remained the same as the previous year, and the number of inland recreational fishing vessels decreased by 9.
40%
year-on-year.

In 2021, there are three provinces with an output value of more than 10 billion yuan, namely Shandong, Guangdong and Hubei, and the output value of the three provinces accounts for 51.
36%
of the national output value.
The total output value of recreational fishery in 11 provinces in coastal areas was 48.
432 billion yuan, and the total output value of recreational fisheries in 19 provinces in inland areas was 32.
108 billion yuan, and the difference between coastal and inland output values was 16.
324 billion yuan, an increase of 3.
29%
year-on-year.

According to the monitoring classification of recreational fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China's recreational fisheries are divided into five types, namely: tourism-oriented recreational fisheries, recreational fishing and gathering industries, fishing tackle fishing bait ornamental fish fishery medicine and aquarium equipment, ornamental fish industry and others
。 Among them, tourism-oriented recreational fishery, recreational fishing and gathering industry are the leading industries, with output values of 32.
545 billion yuan and 25.
221 billion yuan respectively in 2021, accounting for 71.
72% of the national output value; The output value of fishing tackle and bait, ornamental fish, fishery medicine, aquarium equipment and ornamental fish industry was 12.
883 billion yuan and 9.
486 billion yuan respectively, accounting for 16.
00% and 11.
78%
respectively.
Among them, the tourism-oriented recreational fishery and ornamental fish industries recovered rapidly, increasing by 8.
02% and 5.
53%
respectively year-on-year.

Develop recreational fisheries in various localities according to local conditions

Judging from the relevant national and local plans for the 14th Five-Year Plan issued in 2021, the policy support for the development of recreational fisheries in the 14th Five-Year Plan is more powerful
.
The State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Promoting Agricultural and Rural Modernization", which regards the cultivation and expansion of rural leisure tourism as an important part of improving the rural industrial system, and proposes to "promote the integration of agriculture with tourism, education, health care and other industries, and develop new forms of leisure agriculture such as pastoral health care, research and popularization, farming experience, leisure fishing, and homestay health care"; The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Fishery Development Plan, which proposed to "cultivate and expand a variety of business forms, develop recreational fisheries, and protect and inherit fishing culture"
.

Under the impetus of various national policies, the awareness of recreational fishery in various places has been further improved, and recreational fishery
has been developed according to local conditions.
In accordance with the general idea of "going ashore, going to the deep sea, and going to recreational fishery", Hainan Province has set up a special group for recreational fishery under the leading group of Hainan Province to build an international tourism consumption center, established a discussion and coordination mechanism for recreational fishery at the provincial government level, held a fishery transformation on-site promotion meeting, and required the improvement of recreational fishery development planning and supporting programs to create a new fishery format
.

In coastal areas, sea fishing, marine ranching, recreational fisheries, etc
.
are developed in combination with coastal tourism development, marine ranching and artificial reef construction, and the construction of deep-sea aquaculture platforms.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Shandong's provincial-level recreational sea fishing grounds received 6.
2 million tourists every year, with an operating income of 1.
43 billion yuan and tourism consumption of 14.
5 billion yuan, forming a good situation
of "one rod fishing out of the big industry".
Inland areas rely on resources such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs and large-surface ecological fisheries, rice and fishery comprehensive farming and breeding industries to create recreational fishery projects
with different characteristics.
Ice and snow fisheries in Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces with winter fishing and winter fishing as the main content have become a new growth point
for the fishery economy.
Zhejiang Qiandao Lake "giant net fishing" is a beautiful business card of local tourism, Qingtian relies on the rice-fish symbiosis system to promote the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism, and realize the rice field fish farming "both harvest and scenery"
.

All localities regard brand building as an important starting point for making recreational fishery bigger and stronger, accelerate the cultivation of recreational fishery brands, strengthen publicity and promotion, and continuously improve
the market appeal and social influence of recreational fishery brands.
Shandong Province relies on marine ranching to develop the recreational sea fishing industry, create the "fisherman fishing" brand, authorize the use of labels for qualified sea fishing grounds, and create the overall brand of Shandong's recreational sea fishing products and services, and "fish fishing in Shandong" has become a consensus
in the industry.
Fujian has established 14 batches of "Water Town Fishing Village" recreational fishery demonstration bases, supported them in terms of policies and project funds, subsidized 400,000 yuan for a single project, and concentrated publicity and promotion through platforms such as Straits (Fuzhou) Fishery Week and China (Fuzhou) International Fisheries Expo, forming a characteristic brand
of Fujian recreational fishery.
Over the years, Jiangsu Province has successively held the International Lobster Festival, Gucheng Lake Crab Festival and Taihu Lake Fish Release Festival to create a market and stimulate leisure fishery and rural tourism consumption
.
Shanghai has continuously held the Shanghai International Leisure Aquarium Exhibition, which has strongly promoted the development of
the leisure aquarium industry.

Standardized management leads the high-quality development of the industry

In recent years, China's recreational fishery has developed rapidly, and at the same time, we must also see that the development of the industry is still facing many problems
.
First, limited support for industrial development
.
At present, there are no central financial funds and financial and insurance support policies
specifically for recreational fisheries.
Industrial development is still mainly based on the participation and market-oriented operation of various market entities such as fishermen, and only some local governments have provided financial and policy support
.
The development of recreational fishery industry is uneven among regions, backward infrastructure conditions, insufficient cultural connotation mining and other problems are difficult to comprehensively improve
in the short term.
Second, multi-party policies need to be coordinated
.
The recreational fishery industry is diversified and integrated, involving multiple departments in the competent fields
.
The development of recreational fisheries in different regions may have policy coordination problems with environmental protection (fishing moratorium, nature reserve management, etc.
), land use control ("greenhouses" clean-up, etc.
), reservoir management, etc.
, which need to be solved
by various localities according to the actual situation.
Third, the relevant management is not perfect
.
The management of recreational fishing vessels, fishing gear, personnel and fishing ports involves important and sensitive areas such as production safety and resource protection, and at present, only some local governments such as Hainan and Guangdong have formulated local management regulations
in the form of guiding opinions or management measures.

The Report recommends that policy support be increased to standardize the management of
recreational fishery land.
Strictly implement the requirements of the Notice on Safeguarding and Regulating Land for the Integrated Development of Rural Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Industries, and ensure and standardize land
for recreational fisheries.
Promote the inclusion of land for recreational fishery project construction land in local overall land use plans and annual plans, and rational arrangements
.
Increase fiscal and financial support
.
Integrate agriculture-related funds and tilt
towards recreational fishery agglomeration areas.
Explore ways to increase financial support by means of investment subsidies, substitution of awards, financial discounts, and the establishment of industrial investment funds
.
In accordance with the Guidelines for Social Capital Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas (2021), innovate investment and financing models, adopt methods such as franchise, public construction and private operation, and private office assistance through sole proprietorship, joint venture, cooperation, joint operation, leasing, etc.
, improve the effective incentive mechanism for joint farming and agriculture, and guide all types of social capital to invest in recreational fishery
in a sound and orderly manner.
In view of the characteristics of recreational fisheries and loan needs, financial institutions are encouraged to innovate systems and products
in terms of loan conditions, guarantee mechanisms, risk management, etc.

Strengthen guidance services, scientific planning and guidance
.
According to the regional natural and cultural resource endowment, the level of economic and social development, the foundation of the fishery industry and the needs of structural adjustment, focus on high-quality development, scientifically compile the development plan of recreational fishery, clarify the industrial positioning, optimize the industrial layout, promote the deep integration of recreational fishery with tourism, culture, education, health and elderly care and other industries, and create a unique recreational fishery industrial belt and industrial cluster
.
At the same time, we should pay attention to the integration of multiple plans and strengthen the effective connection
with natural resources, urban and rural construction and other plans.
Strengthen new business entities and talent teams
.
Starting from the aspects of optimizing the development environment and improving the level of joint agricultural belt agriculture, we will support the innovative development and expansion and strengthening
of new management entities of recreational fisheries.
Focus on cultivating planning and design talents, operation and management talents, and reception and service talents, strengthen talent training and team building, increase the total supply of talents, and improve the overall quality of
the team.
Increase brand cultivation
.
Encourage and support business entities to create brands
of recreational fishery products and services.
Localities with the conditions should give full play to the leading role of typical demonstrations, create and cultivate a number of recreational fishery demonstration bases with standardized production, business characteristics, standardized services, and diversified functions, and widely carry out publicity and promotion to lead the high-quality development of
the industry.

Strengthen standardized management, and formulate and improve management systems
around the management of recreational fishing vessels, the utilization of fishery resources, and ecological environmental protection.
According to the different types and fields of recreational fishery, formulate technical standards such as recreational fishing and fishing experience, safety standards such as recreational fishing vessels, catering, accommodation, etc.
, product standards such as fishing tackle and aquarium equipment, and related business service standards, build a recreational fishery standard system and strengthen publicity, implementation and application
.
Further give play to the role of industry associations and other social organizations as bridges, and establish and improve the socialized management and service system
of self-management, self-supervision and self-service of business entities.

(Wang Jiayi, Yu Xiujuan)

China Food News(Version 06, December 06, 2022)

(Responsible editor: Wang Jiayi)