Chinese eat fish and raise them on your own! "Little Plum" accuses no

Recently, Leonardo DiCaprio, a Hollywood movie star known as a "little plum" by Chinese fans, tweeted that China has exhausted its coastal fishery resources and that distant-water fishing vessels have sailed to other parts of the world to continue deep-sea fishing, arguing that this practice has sounded the alarm for the local economy and the sustainability of marine species
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The content of its tweet quoted two related articles in the New York Times, "How China Targets Global Fish Supply" and "China's Great Appetite for Fish
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" What do Chinese rely on to eat fish? How many fish do Chinese fishermen catch in the sea? Who is destroying the marine ecology, whether it is Chinese fishing or consumption in developed countries? Does China play a bad role or a good role in the world's aquatic product supply chain and marine ecology? These need to be well discerned
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look at Chinese what does it rely on to eat fish? In 2021, the total output of aquatic products in China is about 66.
9 million tons, and the amount of marine and freshwater aquaculture is about 54 million tons, and the amount of aquaculture accounts for 80%
of consumption and total output.
That is to say, Chinese eat fish mainly on their own
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China is the only major fishing country in the world whose aquaculture production exceeds the catch production, and the production of aquaculture aquatic products accounts for about
60% of the world's total aquatic product aquaculture production.
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Then see how many fish Chinese fishermen catch in the sea? With the increase of mariculture production in China year by year, the amount of marine fishing is declining, and 65% of seafood is farmed
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In 2021, China's mariculture products will be 22.
1114 million tons, marine fishing will be 9.
5146 million tons, and the output of distant-water fisheries will only be 2.
2465 million tons
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Let's look at who is destroying the marine ecology, whether it is Chinese fishing or consumption in developed countries? According to the FAO State of the World's Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 report, per capita aquatic food consumption increased between 1961 and 2019 in most countries, with the highest
annual growth rates in upper-middle-income countries.
In terms of amount, China is the world's largest exporter of aquatic products, the European Union is the largest single import market, and the largest importer of aquatic products is the United States
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Public data show that the EU's fishing output in 2019 was 4.
82 million tons, aquaculture production was 1.
37 million tons, and imported aquatic products reached 6.
15 million tons; The United States produced more than 4.
8 million tons of catches in 2019, farmed 490,000 tons and imported 3.
36 million tons
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who is responsible
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The production of self-sustaining aquatic products in developed countries such as Europe and the United States is very low, mainly relying on marine fishing and imports
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That being the case, the main responsibility for the depletion of marine fishery resources would need to be assumed
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, is China playing a bad role or a good role in the world's aquatic product supply chain and marine ecological environment? Chinese eat fish, not by fishing for unlimited access to nature, but by relying on self-reliance to engage in aquaculture, which in itself is protecting the ocean; At the same time, China has not only solved the problem of 1.
4 billion people eating fish themselves, but also provided a large number of high-quality aquatic products for people around the world, becoming one of the countries with the largest export of aquatic products to the world for many consecutive years, with exports reaching 4.
92 million tons in 2020; Not only to maintain the sea area in front of their own homes, but also to set an example in the independent fishing moratorium on the high seas, calling on all countries to work together to maintain the resources of the high seas
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Look at the sea
in front of your home first.
Since the 1990s, China has successively implemented a seasonal fishing moratorium in the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea and the South China Sea, and the fishing moratorium has been extended from the initial two months to three and a half months to four and a half months
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In addition, measures have been taken to strengthen marine ecological conservation
in coastal provinces such as increasing breeding and stocking, reducing the number of fishing vessels, controlling the power of fishing vessels, limiting fishing, and establishing a marine ecological redline system.
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Looking at distant-water fisheries, China is showing the responsibility and responsibility of a big country and promoting the construction of
a "community of maritime destiny".
It is strictly required that distant-water fishing vessels harvest and produce in the relevant high seas areas in accordance with the management measures of relevant regional fishery organizations, implement vessel position monitoring that is higher than international standards, and actively work with the international community to combat illegal fishing
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Since 2020, for three consecutive years, independent fishing moratoriums on the high seas have been implemented in some areas of the Atlantic and Pacific seas, and in 2022, the fishing moratorium area has been extended to the high seas in the northern Indian Ocean, achieving full coverage of
the high seas area that has not yet been managed by regional fisheries organizations 。 In addition, China has established an international compliance team for distant-water fisheries and fully implemented the performance assessment of distant-water fishery enterprises; For the first time, a professional resource survey vessel was dispatched to carry out an international fishery resources survey and assessment, and to promote a joint survey of squid resources in the high seas of the southwest Atlantic; Actively participate in the COP15 Conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Trade Organization Fisheries Subsidy Negotiation and the negotiation and consultation
of the eight regional fisheries organizations to which China is a party.
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Therefore, we can responsibly say: Chinese fishermen have not fished in the ocean, but have carried out normal fishery operations in a compliant and disciplined manner, and China's fisheries have not affected the sustainable development of the local economy and marine ecology, but have taken effective measures, bravely set an example and cooperated in conservation
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Ac7 China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Serving Animal Husbandry As a world-renowned public figure, "Little Plum
" pays attention to environmental protection and is worthy of recognition
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However, this must be based on scientifically rigorous investigations, supported by objective and detailed data, rather than relying solely on one's own influence to open one's mouth, let alone adulterating other factors and purposes
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Hai Na Bai Chuan, there is tolerance is big
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With the development of human society, our survival and development will become more and more dependent on the ocean
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The world's marine ecology needs to be jointly maintained by every country, and only goodwill consultation and cooperation and joint action can slow down the deterioration of marine ecology and gradually restore
marine resources.
The "stigmatization" of China's normal fishery behavior will not only affect the healthy development of China's fishery economy, but also harm
the cause of global marine ecological protection and sustainable development.
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In the future, China, which is increasingly moving to the center of the world stage, will surely assume more and greater responsibilities for global ocean governance, but we will never carry the pot that should not be carried
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It is also hoped that through this "misunderstanding", more people can understand the significance of marine fishery protection, and inspire the responsibility and responsibility
of global cooperation to jointly protect marine ecology.

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