(reporter Zhiwei Yang), the Vice-governor of Hubei Provincial People's Government Yong Wan led a delegation of the deputy secretary general of Hubei Provincial People's Government Deping Fei, the director of theProvincial Agricultural development center Guoxiong Huang, the Deputy Director-general of the Department ofAgriculture andRural Affairs of Hubei Province Changhua Liu,the Deputy Director-general of the Department of Science and Technology of Hubei Province Lin Ge, andotherheads of the relevant units to investigate the research progress of the mechanized chestnut-harvesting equipment and the raising circumstances of distinctive economic fishes in the Yangtze River basin, accompanied by theParty Secretary Chi Gao andVice-Principal Jianglin Yao.They investigated the exhibition garden of conveyors in the mountainous orchards and scientific research base of fishery.
YongWan was listening to the introduction of distinctive economic fishes in the Yangtze River basin
ProfessorZexiaGao was introducing the domesticating circumstances ofwild fish in the Yangtze River basin.
Professors Yong’an Zhang andWeimin Wang introduced theresearchprogress in artificial breedingand aquaculture of distinctive economic fishes in the Yangtze River basin, such as white bream, Odontobutis sinensis, Coreius heterodon, bigmouth grenadier anchovy, Hemibagrus macropterus, Leiocassis longirostris. As Professor Wangintroduced, the artificial breeding technology ofParabramis pekinensis andOdontobutis sinensis had made the great advances, and had already applied to production. The systematic selective breeding ofOdontobutis sinensis has been conducted, and F4 generation showed higher growth speed, which could be a new strain ofOdontobutis sinensis. Yong Wan exchanged ideas extensively on the research progress with the researchers in the fishery research base.
Yong Wan was communicating with the research team of College of Fisheries.
Yong Wan pointed out that the ten-years fishing ban in the Yangtze River basin would certainly transform the industrial structure of aquaculture in Hubei province, and would be also an importantopportunityfor the aquaculture in Hubei province. The domestication ofwild river fishcouldtake account of both the economic benefits and ecological benefits, and meet the demand of people and improve the industrial transformation of fishermen andaquaculturefarmers. Hehoped the college to unite withtherelated research institutions to quicken the research process. Researchers should set out from thefishquality and feeding cost as well as establishing technical specifications, eventually promoting the extensive aquaculture of the selected fish strains. He suggested that the scientific research projects of should derived from the production issues of farmers, and transform the scientific research into realistic productivity. The government was supposed to take a more active part in the scientific research of agriculture from now on.
Reviewer: Yongjun Zhang, Zexia Gao
Translator: Tianyao Nie, Yuan Sun
