A two-and-a half month fishing ban will start at noon Wednesday in most part of theSouth China Sea to rehabilitate marine resources, according to fishery authorities.
The Hainan provincial marine and fishing department said all 8,994 locally-registered fishingvessels are all moored, affecting 35,611 people.
The annual fishing ban reinforced since 1999 will last from May 16 to August 1 this year,covering areas north of the 12th parallel of north latitude, including Huangyan Island butexcluding most of the Nansha Islands.
The fishing ban is also applicable to foreign ships.
A spokesman from the South China Fishery Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculturesaid earlier this week that fishing activity of foreign ships in the banned areas will be seen as a"blatant encroachment on China's fishery resources."
A fisherman harvests the last batch of fish before a two-and-ahalf month fishing ban take into effect [Photo/Xinhua]
Fishing boats anchor off Shantou, South China's Guangdong province [Photo/Xinhua]
Vessels anchor at a port in Haikou, the capital of South China's Hainan province [Photo/Xinhua]
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