Project of Abandoned Fishing Net Reduction and Pollution Control in Daiquyang-Zhongjieshan Fishing Ground, Zhoushan, Zhejiang

1. Raise public awareness. Through top-down marine environmental protection knowledge popularization and education of typical cases, let fishermen establish consciousness of environmental protection responsibility, and improve environmental protection education for fishermen in general. 2. By setting up anti-pollution links in the production and life of fishing boats, not allowing every production and life link to leave loopholes for generating garbage pollution. 3. Determine the scope of recycling old fishing nets and other garbage. Local governments should include fishing production and life garbage, including old net clothes that are seized, in the scope of graded and sorted acceptance that must be recycled. Women in fishing areas are an important social force in reminding fishermen and supervising implementation, so women's organizations such as "East Sea Fishermen's Wives" in fishing areas should be mobilized to actively participate in the collection of discarded fishing gear in the construction of "beautiful islands" and promote professionalization. 4. Improve the construction of supporting facilities for receiving and transferring garbage at sea. The industrialization of fishing gear waste disposal should be fostered to achieve sustainable development goals. The government should use market means to build a recycling industry chain for used fishing gear (including heavy metal fishing gear parts) with reference to the practice of merchant ship recycling, and form a set of mechanisms including fishing gear garbage receiving (including the configuration of compressed baling devices on fishing vessels); have volunteers responsible for receiving garbage in port areas and contacting third parties for sorting and transferring, harmless treatment and other corresponding supervision mechanisms. 5. Reduce the cost of fishing gear waste transfer. Fishing gear waste is not only an economic and environmental issue, but also a more important issue involving ecological hazards, people's welfare and public safety. Therefore, the government should encourage the implementation of large quantities of low-value recycled items to be processed and utilized in close proximity to minimize the cost of transfer; for items that must be recycled, such as nets, which cost more than the value of the garbage itself, the government should give preferential policies to the fishing tackle recycling industry to support the development of this industry. 6. Recommend more optional fishing gear identification and traceability systems. By checking the fishing gear logo you can see all the registered information of the fishing gear, and when the gear is scrapped it can be traced back to the purchaser through the gear logo, and it is also easy to be located and removed from the water, which is more conducive to promoting the recycling of discarded fishing gear. 7. Promote the standardization of newly built fishing boats. At present, the garbage compression device and special cabin for garbage on board have not been included in the mandatory requirements. In the future, it is necessary for the national fishing boat construction supervision agencies to propose legal standards for the necessary garbage compression and packaging devices and special cabin space for garbage storage on board fishing boats, and gradually push them to the whole industry.