China is the first country in the world to enact laws and regulations prohibiting electric fishing. As early as 1964, the relevant departments of our country discovered the harm of electric fishing and drafted a draft: prohibiting the abuse of electric fishing. In 2004, China revised the Fisheries Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) for the second time, further prohibiting the revision of electric fish;
Among them, article 30 stipulates that it is forbidden to use methods such as fried fish, poisonous fish and electric fish to destroy fishery resources for fishing; Article 38 stipulates that if fishery resources are destroyed by methods such as fried fish, poisonous fish and electric fish, the catch and illegal income shall be confiscated and a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan shall be imposed. If the circumstances are serious, the fishing gear shall be confiscated and the fishing license shall be revoked. If the circumstances are particularly serious, the fishing boat may be confiscated; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Then, electric fish is also fishing, why is it illegal? In fact, the reason is very simple: electric fish is too destructive and usually irreversible.
0 1 "catch all" method
Fish resources are limited, but people's demands are infinite. How to find a balance? The answer is to catch the big ones and keep the small ones, which is the best way to achieve sustainable development without affecting the fishery. However, the electric fish is different, just like the "homeless net". As long as you put two electrodes into the water, it will attack randomly, and often the smaller the fish, the less resistance it has to electricity, which is also an electric shock. Some slightly larger fish can still live, and small fish will be electrocuted directly.
This "catch all" fishing method will obviously aggravate the depletion of fish resources in the water. At that time, everyone would have no fish to catch, or even no fish to catch.
02 "killing"
Many people think that electric fish is simply taking the fish away from the water, but it is only superficial. Electric fish will not only make the fish in this area "extinct", but also electrocute all the fish eggs. This is the real killing trick. Not only are the small fish gone, but even the eggs that can hatch are electrocuted.
Secondly, electric fish will electrocute shrimps, crabs, aquatic insects and aquatic plants in the water, which is called "total killing". That is to say, electric fish will kill most creatures in the area, making this water "stagnant water", which is no less harmful than poisonous fish. In the waters frequented by electric fishermen, even if some fry are put in compensation, it is extremely difficult to survive because plankton, fish and shrimp in the water are almost completely gone.
Destroy the self-purification ability of water
In nature, water has self-purification ability. The so-called self-purification ability means that they have self-purification ability for some polluted water bodies. This ability mainly depends on biological action, which is what we often call biological purification.
Biological purification mainly depends on microorganisms in water to degrade some pollution in water, but the influence of electric fish on microorganisms is also devastating, which will make the water body gradually lose its self-purification ability, and finally the water body begins to become low in dissolved oxygen, black and smelly.
Especially at present, human beings are polluting water itself more and more. If electric fish are allowed to run wild again, the self-purification ability of water will drop again, water pollution will become more and more serious, and our human survival can not be separated from water. Crops need clean water for irrigation, and we also need clean water for drinking. At the same time, the water on the earth is very interconnected.
Therefore, the harm of electric fish to water quality is actually related to everyone. After all, crops planted with polluted water are still eaten by people, and polluted water cannot be completely harmless after purification.
04 harm to people
Electric fish is a kind of behavior that harms others, because the voltage must be high if electric fish is to be efficient. People operate in water, and water is a conductor. Although people wear waterproof clothes, the underwater situation is very complicated. Once the clothes are accidentally scratched by some glass fragments, once the power is turned on, people will be paralyzed like fish, which may eventually lead to death.
As early as 2065438+February 2008, a man in Guangxi was accidentally electrocuted because he stole an electric fish. Although the man had personal accident insurance, when his family sought compensation from the insurance company, the insurance company refused to pay for it on the grounds of engaging in illegal activities.
abstract
Fish is one of the main sources of human protein, and because of this, there are fewer and fewer fish resources nowadays. In order to protect fishery resources, China has issued a ban on fishing in the Yangtze River for 10, in order to give fish time to recuperate and restore water ecology.
The electric fish just runs counter to this idea, which is an act of harming others and benefiting themselves. Therefore, if you encounter illegal electric fish, don't worry about it and call the police directly.