Project of Establishing a Multi-stakeholder Aquacultural Waste Management System for Reducing Land-based Pollution in Sanjiang Bay-Yanzhou River Estuary

Farming practitioners are the beneficiaries of their surrounding environment and the pressurers of their surrounding environment. A good system allows the practitioners to actively participate in and adopt sustainable production behaviours to protect their long-term interests. In the grass-roots community governance, one-way management has moved to two-way interaction. It is necessary to start from the needs of the community, put people first, let aquaculture practitioners participate to give play to their subjective initiative and actively participate in and adopt sustainable production behaviours. We can proceed from the following aspects: 1. Combining with the needs of local governments for watershed management, rural living environment improvement, and farmers’ expectations of improving their production and living environment. Provide farmers with necessary equipment and training, and mobilize them to collect production and domestic waste around the breeding ponds and send it to the nearby special collection point. Coordinated with Sanjiang Town Government and the environmental sanitation company to add new garbage collection and transfer points in the breeding concentrated areas according to the distribution of aquaculture ponds and the garbage generation time slots. Adjust and optimize garbage collection routes and vehicles, jointly solve the problem of relatively scattered aquaculture garbage that is difficult to regulate management with all parties. 2. Investigate the regular pattern of inputs used in aquaculture by analysing the recycled and sorted wastes such as packaging bags of products for animal health and pharmaceuticals. Provide data support and operation suggestions for strengthening the standardized use and management of inputs. 3. Fully mobilize the enthusiasm of female farming practitioners, encourage them to start by collecting garbage, empower them, create opportunities for internal and external communication in the farming community, establish a proper multi-party dialogue mechanism, and lay a foundation for the community to explore more aspects of public affairs management models. 1. Conduct multi-party coordination, optimize the garbage collection and transfer system at the project site, effectively improve the garbage collection and treatment rate in the aquaculture areas, and reduce the amount of potential land-based garbage discharged into the ocean. 2. Accurately collect and analyse the key information of aquaculture community waste, provide first-line data and suggestions for improving the management and standardized use of aquaculture inputs, and improve the sustainable production level of small and medium aquaculture practitioners. 3. With women as the main body, empower the activists in aquaculture waste management to enhance the ability and willingness of the farming community to participate in environmental governance. 4. Carry out publicity and exhibition of spontaneous environmental governance activities in aquaculture communities through multiple channels, enhance the social and self-recognition of community spontaneous management actions, and promote the aquaculture industry to play a more mainstream role in environmental governance.