After the netting of Dongting Lake, the fishermen cried and said that the government had encouraged development.

On December 17, Liu Yang heard that Qianjiang City, Yiyang, Hunan Province had to organize a digging of the purse seine. He had already got up early. In the cold morning mist, four or five excavators waved their long arms, and the 6-meter-high seine net fell down after several hook shovel. Through the opening of the gap around the net, a calm lake is faintly visible, a group of birds flapping their wings on the water. Next to the excavator, the owner of the seine stood with his hand.

According to the official data provided by Lujiang City, around the 17th, 72 short sections and nets with a total area of ​​167,800 mu were demolished.

In late November of this year, the large-scale network surrounding phenomenon in South Dongting Lake caused media attention. The Hunan Provincial Government issued a document requesting the governance of the Dongting Lake ecology. The Dongting Lake waters belonged to Yueyang City and Yiyang City.

Behind the mammoth action is the network of chaos in Dongting Lake for many years: the local government has been encouraged to strike, but it has not been completely attacked, which has caused problems to be difficult to return.

The problem will not end because the wire mesh falls down. The huge compensation costs, the comfort of the people and the livelihood of the fishermen are the thorny issues left to the local government.

â–¡ Xinjing News reporter An Zhongyu reported in Hunan Yiyang

"This is not the original appearance of Dongting Lake."

Liu Yang is a fisherman in Happy Hometown of Huarong County, Yueyang City. His home is on the shore of Dongting Lake and his father is an environmentalist. Influenced by his father, Liu Yang also worked as an environmental volunteer. Every morning, the two men drove an agricultural Wuling van and walked along the dam.

They have been fighting with the nets in the lake for nearly six years. "That is the prisoner of our fishermen and the prisoner of Dongting Lake."

Liu Yang bought a second-hand camera and ran to the Lake District to sneak a shot around the net. He sent it online to appeal to people’s attention and feared being beaten. "Come on and run."

"Because of doing this, many people have been offended. Some people have threatened to cut us. The pressure on the family is also great." Liu Yang said, "A volunteer in the same village did not understand and divorced him because he did this. It is."

On December 7, Liu Yang drove a reporter along the South Dongting Lake Lake Dam for 20 kilometers. From Yiyang Nanxian to the Lancang area, he did not see a complete water surface.

In the southern county, the car drove down the dam, followed a cement road, and walked for several kilometers. Liu Yang said that this is the bottom of the lake. When the water rises, the station will be submerged by the lake.

Standing on the concrete road at the bottom of the lake, you can see the water surface, but through a wire mesh of up to 6 meters.

This is the net circumference of Liu Yangdou for nearly 6 years: a steel pipe of 8 meters high is planted every 30 meters, and dense wire mesh is pulled between the steel pipes, which has been stretched for several kilometers, surrounded by water or wetlands.

The water surface surrounded by steel wire mesh is not all connected into pieces. Most of them are cut into rectangular fish ponds by the soil ridges, and they look far away, like the rice fields in the south.

"These fish ponds are dug by the boss of Lawei. The Dongting Lake will rise in May and June each year, and the water will recede in August. When the water recedes, along with the wild fish, the lake will flow into these fish ponds and become a purse. The private property of the person, after the fishing is clean, put the fry in it, and carry out artificial breeding of crabs, crayfish and other aquatic products in the market."

Liu Yang said that this is not the original appearance of Dongting Lake.

He still remembers Dongting Lake 10 years ago: the lake can't see the side, boating in the lake, sometimes encountering the finless porpoise dancing behind the boat; migratory birds returning this season, flying around the ship, "sometimes It will also fall on the ship's side, not afraid of people at all."

The Dongting Lake, which was cut by the net and engaged in aquaculture, was called "development zone" by Liu Yang. "Where there is space for birds."

Dongting Hunan is near Xiangyin County and Yiyang City, and arrives in Huarong County, Anxiang County and Nan County in the north, Yueyang City and Miluo City in the east, and Jixian County in the west. It is divided into East Dongting Lake, South Dongting Lake and West Dongting Lake. . It is the second largest freshwater lake in China and an important storage lake in the Yangtze River basin. It is also listed as an important wetland in the world.

Liu Chunxiang (a pseudonym) of Qixinghu Protection Station in East Dongting Lake Nature Reserve of Yueyang City introduced that the Dongdong Lake has a good ecological environment, and the network surrounding phenomenon rarely exists. The South Dongting Lake network is the most serious.

South Dongting Lake crosses Yueyang City and Yiyang City. Tang Shunxiang, executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Minjiang Municipal Committee, revealed that there are only 72 nets in the Lancang area of ​​the South Dongting Lake, totaling 167,800 square meters. Among them, 800 square meters of small nets and 30,000 acres of large ones span three counties.

Walking along the dam of the South Dongting Lake, the lake is divided into a wire maze by the purse seine, and it is difficult to see the vast lake.

Clearance action

The purse seine became a "private territory." On one occasion, Liu Yang and his father accidentally entered the purse of a private boss and were almost beaten.

It was the experience that was almost beaten that Liu Yang decided to fight against the net and the boss behind him. "I am a native of this country. It has become our restricted area and it is very sad."

The more serious problem is the damage to the ecological environment caused by the network.

Zhao Qihong, director of the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve Administration, told the Beijing News that the seine network separated the lake, blocked the fish pass, and cut off the food chain in the lake. The ecological damage to the Dongting Lake was enormous, and it also hindered flood control and disaster relief. "Now the media is concerned about the network. In fact, these people have transformed Huzhou within the sphere of influence, and the ecological damage to Dongting Lake is more serious."

The Beijing News reporter saw that some of the wetlands inside the net were opened up, planted vegetables, and the wetlands became cultivated land. One boss said, "This year, the rain is big, there is no fish. In order to make more money, we will plant some wetland vegetables."

Some bosses even built cement roads in the area around the net, and planted green trees on both sides of the road. A boss of Lijiang River built a hardened road 10 kilometers long and 10 meters wide, and built a factory inside.

At the end of November this year, after many media paid attention to the phenomenon of the Dongting Lake network, the Lijiang River and Nanxian County began to set off a "Clearing Network Action" to concentrate on the demolition of the short wall and wire mesh around the Dongting Lake.

On November 25th, the Hunan Provincial Government issued a document requesting that all the short fences around the area of ​​50,000 mu (by the county) be cleaned and demolished. And the demolition target is included in the scope of government assessment.

Yiyang City and Qijiang City and Nan County, which have serious seine phenomenon, have successively introduced plans. The network facilities for aquaculture in the illegal lakes will be completely eliminated, and the natural waters, tidal flats and lakes of Dongting Lake will be restored.

On December 11, the Beijing News reporter saw in the South Dongting Lake area that some nets had been torn open.

Tang Shunxiang said that this Qinghu action should be "destroying" against the barbed wire fence.

On December 13, the Beijing News reporter saw that three excavators were dismantling a wire mesh fence in Nanda Town, Qijiang City. Three excavators pushed down the six-meter-high mesh fence and then fell with a long arm. The wire mesh is twisted into a ball.

According to the official data provided by Lujiang City, 72 short sections and nets with a total area of ​​167,800 mu were demolished, including 65487.2 m mud dike, 323,500 m steel wire and nylon mesh, and more than 150,000 net-column columns. The lake that was artificially "teared" into pieces was restored.

As an environmentalist who has struggled with it for many years, Liu Yang feels that "the heart is bright." "You see, the lake is wide open, and it feels like watching Dongting Lake when I was young."

However, he regrets that many wetlands that have been repaired on the road and dug the fish ponds are still very unsightly. "I don't know how many years to recover."

When talking about the complaints from net farmers, Liu Yang said, "They did not think that they would damage the environment when they set up the network."

Government figure behind the purse seine

In the struggle against the net, Liu Yang persisted for six years, but during these years, the fence was increasing and expanding.

According to public information, the Dongting Lake seine network appeared at least around 2010. After the lakes and wetlands were contracted by some economically powerful bosses, the online seine network became a "private territory."

"Now it is not just the net around the boss. Many bosses contract Huzhou and the wetlands to attract local people to buy shares." Chen Heqing said, "The nets you see, the dozens of shareholders, the more Thousands of households are local ordinary fishermen and untouchables."

Tang Shunxiang told the Beijing News reporter that in the late 1990s, the government contracted some of the reeds in Huzhou to the local people, so that they harvested the reeds to increase their economic income. Slowly, they surrounded the farming.

However, some net farmers believe that it is the local government that encourages them to do purine seine farming.

Jiang Changzhao, a farmer from Huangmaozhou Town, Qijiang City, presented a document issued by Lijiang City in 1997. The document puts forward that "the combination of breeding and breeding will be combined to develop and utilize the resources of the outer lake in all directions. Mainly Wanzi Lake and Wuhu Lake. We will vigorously carry out cages and low-bar high-bar breeding of famous fishes, and propose that "resolutely crack down on destroying farming equipment."

In Jiang Changzhao's view, this is tantamount to "encouraging us to develop the Huzhou aquaculture industry. It is the idea that the government gave us."

Chen Heqing's net area is 10,000 mu, which is one of the earliest contractors to make nets. He said that in 2012, in order to encourage the cultivation of Huzhou, the Minjiang Municipal Fisheries Bureau organized the establishment of the Minjiang City Beach Culture Association.

Chen Heqing is a member of the association. He remembers that the inaugural meeting of the association was held in Xiangyun Hotel, Nanda Town, and the leaders of the government and the Bureau of Fisheries came to the scene.

"Members pay 10,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan per year. The association has helped us to find the market and has done a lot of work." Chen Heqing said, but the association did not carry out activities after two years.

In Chen Heqing’s office, two well-decorated photos were hung up with a leader of the local people’s congress and a leader of the Water Resources Bureau. The latter went to Chen and Qing's breeding base to investigate and investigate.

"You said that I am illegal. I want to dismantle my network. Then, did your government people come to inspect it a few years ago?" Chen Heqing said that before 2013, the government supported them to do net breeding.

Many farmers told the Beijing News reporter that they contracted the lake area to do net breeding, which was paid to the government or relevant departments, and was contracted from the government.

Chen Heqing pays 20,000 yuan in contract fees to the village every year, and gives the town a contract fee of more than 100,000 yuan.

A contractor presented a subcontract. The original contractor of the contract was the People's Government of Huangmaozhou Town, Qijiang City. The subcontracting amount is 30 yuan per mu.

Some farmers have obtained water use certificates for beach tidal flats, which indicate the contracted area and use of the contractor. According to farmers, this means that purse seine farming is “legal”. At present, the nets for their homes to obtain water use for tidal flats have been removed.

An official from Qijiang City said, "Before they were contracted to harvest the reeds in these lakes. Later, they did not ban the nets in time. It was not environmentally conscious at the time, and we also considered the local people's livelihood."

Incomplete clean-up action

In fact, before the large-scale clearing operation, the local government realized the problem and started to take action at least two years ago.

In June 2014, the Hunan Provincial People's Government issued the “Notice on Renovating the Order of Fishery Production in Dongting Lake”, prohibiting any organization, unit or individual from encroaching on the natural waters of Dongting Lake in the form of illegally cutting, contracting and contracting. Clean up and rectify the illegal fishing and breeding of the Dongting Lake in accordance with the law, and ban the "Essence of the Soul", "Buweizi" and other "household nets" and the rivers (net), dense mesh (clothing network, network, ground cage) Harmful fishing gear such as nets, rolling hooks and bottom trawls, severely crack down on illegal activities such as electric fish, poisonous fish and fried fish.

In accordance with the circular requirements of the Hunan Provincial Government, Yiyang City set off a special rectification campaign for illegal and illegal fishing in the dwarf network. "Concentrate on two months, further implement the responsibility, further strengthen the measures, and play a short fence. A tough battle against illegal rectification of fishing and breeding."

"At that time, when I was in action, I took a small net around, and the big net was broken down by a few tens of meters. The wind was over and pulled up."

Just in March of this year, the Yiyang Municipal People's Government Office issued a notice to the People's Government of Minjiang City and the People's Government of Nanxian County, requesting that by the end of 2016, realize the functional destruction of illegal fishing and breeding, and comprehensively eliminate the illegal and illegal circle. The lake carries out the breeding network facilities to restore the natural waters of the Dongting Lake, the tidal flats and the original appearance of Huzhou.

"But as of November 2016, before the media reported, these 'Great Walls' in the lake were stronger than the real 'Great Wall'." Liu Yang said, "In the last two or three years, a similar action has been taken every year, but the network is More than one year a year, year after year is higher."

Another purse farmer in Nanda Town, Qujiang City said, "I started to do netting six years ago. The government didn't see it. I didn't care about it. Now I have invested money and I have to dismantle it. I can't say it."

A staff member of the Qixinghu Protection Station in the East Dongting Lake Ecological Protection Zone said, "The problem of illegally setting up the net surrounding area in the Yidong Lake in the South Dongting Lake is because the problem has accumulated for a long time and it is difficult to return. It will be more difficult to solve after dragging it down."

Tang Shunxiang, executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee of Qujiang City, said that in the past, it was considered that these farmers had invested a lot, and the demolitions would cause strong resistance, so they were not thorough every time.

"This time is a real thing," but he said frankly, "The pressure is great. This is a problem left over from history. In the past, environmental protection did not mention such a high position. I did not pay attention to this problem. Now the net farmers have invested millions or even Tens, they will definitely have resistance."

Tang Shunxiang believes that "no compensation, work is difficult to do, county finance can not afford, now, the demolition will cost 20 million, to compensate, it is more difficult to bear, but the higher level requires the end of the year to complete the demolition work, this is difficult ""

Rice bowl and ecology

In this "Clearnet Action", Guo Jie's purse was removed. In recent days, he has asked for a tidal flat culture certificate that the local government has given him a few years ago. "I am legal. At that time, the government gave me a farming certificate."

But no one cares about him. The person who broke the net told him, "This is the document under the province to be demolished."

Chen Heqing, a big purse seine, was built in 2010. He counted his account. In the past 6 years, he spent 8 million yuan on the net, spent 700,000 yuan on road construction, and spent 600,000 yuan on building a house. "When the net was unpacked, many people burst into tears and how to live in the future."

On December 11th, Xiangyun Hotel in Nanda Town gathered 20 or 30 people. Some of them were net-farming breeding owners, and some were fishermen and untouchables in South Dongting Lake.

They heard that the government had to launch a big break-out action that morning, and gathered here very early. "Don't give us a statement, we don't agree."

Shen Mingjiang (a pseudonym) is a fisherman in the Luhu reed field. Before 1999, he fell a living by cutting down reeds. Before this, Huzhou Reed has been the source of food and clothing for more than 8,000 people in the reed field. After cutting down the reeds, it was sold to the paper mill.

In the 1990s, after a major flood, the reeds were reduced, and some local paper mills were shut down, and local fishermen cut off their sources of income.

In 1999, the reed field could not be maintained. The field was launched. The heavily damaged Lusong Mountain was auctioned and led by one or several people. The contractor re-launched the fishermen in the field.

"In 1997, the Qijiang Municipal Government called on us to transform our economy and develop aquaculture. We have pulled up the net and made aquaculture." Shen Mingjiang said that in the few years just built, there was no experience, and the annual loss, and then went Learning farming experience, in the last two years, crayfish and crabs are tight, they have raised crabs and crayfish, and the lost holes in the past few years have slowly come back.

Shen Mingjiang said, "I just saw hope and I have to tear down our nets. This is the rice bowl that kicked us thousands of people."

It is understood that there are more than 5,000 fishermen in the reed market.

Chen Heqing said, "The news said that we are the rich and powerful, relying on the relationship to spend thousands of acres of Huzhou, but in fact they are local fishermen, I feel wronged."

A villager in Donghu Village where Chen Heqing is located, more than 200 households in the village, 80% of them are in the net farm.

In the face of news reports about the South Dongting Lake network and the documents in the province, as well as the appeal of the fishermen, an official from Qijiang City felt big. He tried to ask the reporter, "You can reflect on it and let the above know. Let's take a hard time and help us to pay attention to the money?" He believes that ensuring the livelihood of local fishermen is a prerequisite for the ecological environment of Dongting Lake.

Liu Yang said, "The government should have a long-term awareness and can't kill chickens and take eggs. If the phenomenon of the Dongting Lake seine is killed in the initial stage, it will not cost so much."

He still remembers the story of a little swan heard 9 days ago: On that day, he participated in an activity called "Following the Wild Goose". Participants spoke of a little swan that flies from Siberia every winter and flies continuously. 31 hours, came to Dongting Lake for the winter.

The animal protection organization wore a tracker on the neck of the little swan and positioned its whereabouts at the right time. Little Swan has been between Siberia and Dongting Lake for three consecutive years. This year, this little swan landed in a wetland in Anhui and did not return to Dongting Lake.

The little swan is one of the main migratory birds that inhabit the Dongting Lake in winter. Liu Yang hopes that this clean-up operation will clean up the big culprits that destroy the ecology of the Dongting Lake and let the bird fly back.