Tang Qisheng: Let the people eat more and better fish

in today's age when everything is connected, Tang Qisheng
doesn't have a cell phone, and the "most advanced" electronics he carries with him are a business pass purchased in 1998. But that doesn't mean the 77-year-old
rejects new things, on the contrary, don
is familiar with the popular "cloud meetings" and even offered to talk to reporters via video interview.
the 1980s, Tang Qisheng led the research of the Great Marine Ecology Department, which was carried out almost simultaneously with the international academic frontier, making China one of the first countries to intervene in the research and application of the Great Marine Ecology Department. Since then, he put forward the concept of carbon sink fisheries, aquaculture green development, etc. , also have a forward-looking strategic vision.
in Tang Qisheng'
, scientific research must have a "persistent" scientific spirit. "I do one thing, usually more than ten years of accumulation. With a dream, with the pursuit, it is necessary to keep your feet on the ground, step by step a footprint forward, can not be flamboyant, not to be false. Scientific progress is, in most cases, slow, cumulative and often not overnight. The2019 is Tang Qisheng's 50th year of scientific research. In his own scientific year table, the length of time is often measured over a period of ten years.
1969, Qingdao on the taiping road near the sea, fresh catch in a ray of blue crystal silver attracted the attention of Tang Qisheng. Tang Qisheng, who grew up by the sea and engaged in fisheries scientific research, did not know the fish. He was puzzled, and after consulting the data, he found that this is the world-famous mackerel, commonly known in China as herring, distributed in the Yellow Sea. "What excites me is that the population of this fish has a long history of fluctuations in the world, the Pacific Ocean and even the Yellow Sea, i.e. there is a lot of population, a very small period, very different, why?"
with curiosity, Tang Qisheng opened the starting point of scientific research work, research mackerel and its population dynamics, did not expect to do is 12 years.
In order to study the distribution and habits of mackerel, Tang Qisheng collects biological data and investigates visiting fishermen at herring spawning areas for at least one and a half months a year, often walking one or twenty miles, climbing mountains and mountains is a common meal, and the roads are full of scones to feed themselves. Tired and lying on the beach to sleep, wake up and continue to drive, bicycles are luxury tools. "Sometimes when you forget to buy scones, you have to be hungry, but the next time it's not long rememberable." Recalling the hardships of his youth, Tang Qisheng laughed and didn't think bitter.
in this way, Tang Qisheng went all over the Shandong Peninsula and liaodong Peninsula east coast of every mackerel spawning farm. In order to obtain first-hand data, he also organized a survey team of three pairs of 250 horsepower fishing vessels to conduct 28 sea surveys of mackerel baiting and wintering grounds in the deep waters of the Yellow Sea, revealing the distribution of Pacific mackerel (greenfish) in the Yellow Sea and changing population patterns, and promoting the development of new fisheries and the rapid development of fisheries.
to determine the age of the mackerel, the age of the herring needs to be based on the scales and ear stones of the herring to see the characteristics of the wheel. At that time, limited scientific research conditions, Tang Qisheng used a projector to project the scales on the wall, and then hand-painted down, in order to confirm the characteristics of the annual wheel and the difference between the pseudo-wheel. This takes a lot of time, but kung fu is not responsible for people, at that time on the Yellow Sea herring research literature, more than half of the literature is from Tang Qisheng's hand.
research results come out frequently, Tang Qisheng feels that he has entered the bottleneck period of scientific research. "I've always felt that the path of research is getting narrower and narrower, and there are a lot of questions that can't be answered about the reasons for the fluctuations in fishery resources.", the confusion didn't last long. In the early 1980s, Tang Qisheng, as a visiting scholar, went to the Norwegian Institute of Oceans, the Danish National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington and other marine research institutions to carry out "global visits." Here, he finds himself in the same confusion that European and American scientists have encountered after more than 100 years of research on population dynamics, resource assessment and fisheries management.
soon after I arrived in Norway, I found that my confusion was also that of European and American fisheries scientists. The difference is that they've been confused for more than 100 years, I've only been 12 years! I intentionally or unintentionally stepped into the world fisheries science in the new field of research in the ranks of exploration, new impetus, new direction prompted me to redouble my efforts.
In 1984, Tang Qisheng led the first all-sea survey of fishery ecosystem in the Yellow Sea since the 1950s, jumped out of the barrier of more than 100 years of fishery population dynamic research with a single species as the starting point, and began to study population changes from the forward-looking perspective of the great marine ecosystem.
exploration and more than ten years of grinding, Tang Qisheng gradually formed the academic thought of marine ecosystem research. Global Marine Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) is a new subject area that gradually formed in the mid-to-late 1980s, a new subject field which is the cross-development of fishery science and marine science, and also a basic research with important application value. Tang Qisheng made it clear that marine ecosystem research consists of three basic components: theory, observation and application, including marine ecosystem dynamics focusing on basic research, integrated marine survey assessment and routine monitoring of observation systems, and large marine ecosystems focusing on management applications.
theory has greatly promoted the application results. With the deepening of the research, Tang Qisheng, based on the scientific discovery that "the ecological conversion efficiency of important fish at high nutritional level is negatively related to the nutritional level", put forward the strategy of sustainable management of resources (i.e. non-top-level acquisition strategy) different from that of Europe and the United States, and formed the understanding that the restoration of fishery resources is a complex and slow process and the important export of China's offshore ecosystem research is in aquaculture. Focusing on these important new understandings, the Yellow Seawater Production Research Institute of the China Academy of Aquatic Sciences has carried out many related studies, which provide a solid scientific basis for the green development of fisheries.
the efforts of Chinese scientists such as Tang Qisheng, the research of China's Great Marine Ecology Department has made international counterparts look up to each other and occupied a place in the frontiers of world science. "You find the problem and you find a solution to it." Professor Sherman, a well-known scholar in the Global Department of Marine Ecology, highly appraised Tang Qisheng's research results and believed that the combination of innovative assessment methods and management measures provided by China in the research of the Great Marine Ecology Department provided a scientific basis for promoting the reconstruction of fishing fisheries and the introduction of more efficient multi-nutritional integrated farming methods, which should be promoted on a global scale.2000, Tang Qisheng attended the
Conference for the first time, at which he said a word: "Let the people eat more and better fish." "This is The first heart of Tang Qisheng's scientific research, but also his dream of the ocean more specific pursuit of goals and motivation. Surrounded by getting more high-quality protein from the ocean, he grew from a science and technology worker to a strategic scientist, helping to build a maritime powerhouse.
1950, China's per capita share of aquatic products was only 1.7 kg. Today, two of the world's three aquaculture fish are Chinese. "Tang Qisheng is very proud of the achievements of fisheries development over the years. But how to realize the green and sustainable development of aquaculture has become a big problem in Tang Qisheng's mind.
To carry out strategic advisory research on the country's major needs, Tang Qisheng has repeatedly put forward-looking and strategic recommendations to the country, and has put forward 10 expert recommendations, such as
"implementing the strategy of maritime power", which has led to the release of relevant documents such as the Outline of Action for the Conservation of Aquatic Living Resources in China and the Opinions on Promoting the Sustainable and Healthy Development of Marine Fisheries.
Tang Qisheng told reporters: "The exploration of green development of China's fisheries began in the 1980s, we put forward proposals in 2017 to promote the green development of aquaculture industry, on the one hand, in order to solve the contradiction between the sustainable development of aquaculture and the ecological environment, on the other hand, it is hoped that the new era of fisheries can have greater development." "He is pleased that in 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other ten ministries issued "Several Opinions on Accelerating the Green Development of Aquaculture Industry", which has become the current and future period to guide the green development of China's aquaculture industry, indicating the direction for the green development of fisheries in the new era. These policy proposals, which are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, embody the efforts of Tang Qisheng's "Ten Years of Grinding a Sword".
Despite being in his 70s, Tang Qisheng is still in good spirits, working more than 8 hours a day and working tirelessly in the strategic consulting projects of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the national "14th Five-Year Plan" marine planning, the construction and development of fisheries disciplines and other work. Tang Qisheng, who once served as director of the Yellow Seawater Production Research Institute, is still the honorary director of the Institute, and his rigorous discipline and diligence have also been affecting young researchers in the Yellow Sea Water Production Research Institute.
development is the present and future of China's fisheries, and it is my goal to promote the green and high-quality development of modern fisheries. Tang Qisheng, who likens himself to a "sea shepherd", said.