Ministry of Agriculture Office of New Year's Day and Spring Festival on ensuring a safe and effective supply of aquatic products to inform

Agriculture and fisheries office [2009] 140

Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and cities with municipal fishing management department (bureau), the Water Conservancy Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, the National Fishery Technical Extension Station, China Aquatic Processing and Marketing Association, the unit:

This year, the fishery economy as a whole to maintain steady and rapid development, an adequate supply of aquatic products, the domestic market operation was stable, there was no ups and downs, the level of quality and safety of aquatic products increased steadily. However, the most recent period, freezing rain and snow in some places are more natural disasters such as breeding disease occur, and aquatic products prices edged higher, in my second organized by the Department to carry out quality and safety supervision and checking of aquatic origin there are still individual product was detected banned substances. In order to ensure effective and safe New Year and Spring Festival period the supply of aquatic products are now on the required notice is as follows:

1, and earnestly strengthen in winter and spring of aquaculture production and management, to ensure that the supply of aquatic products

Fisheries authorities at all levels should formulate and seriously implement the contingency plans for major disasters, pay close attention to weather changes, do a good job against catastrophe, Kang Da disaster preparation, guide fishermen to take effective measures to cope with a variety of severe weather, to ensure the safety of aquaculture products winter, to ensure market supply is stable; guidance at all levels of aquatic seed farm parents to nurture and strengthen the management of seed winter, in order to lay a good foundation for next year's aquaculture production; do a good job of aquaculture disease surveillance and outbreak prevention and control work, to expand the scope of monitoring to increase the frequency of monitoring and timely release disease early warning information as possible to reduce disease losses; multi-channel financing, organization and support the use of the winter fishing ponds drying stages of the standardization of transformation, to improve the conditions for aquaculture production facilities.

Second, earnestly carry out aquatic monitoring and analyzing market operations, scientific and guide the production and sale of

Fisheries authorities at all levels to study and sum up the weather change on the impact of aquatic products market situation and major aquatic products market operation rules during the festive season, early to make forecasts, develop response plans; to make full use of existing fish market information platform, organizations area designated wholesale markets, strengthen the operation of the market monitoring and information dissemination for the majority of producers and consumers to provide timely and accurate information on market operation, reasonable arrangements to guide the fishermen from catching and marketing of aquatic products to keep prices stable; at all levels of fishing management departments and relevant trade associations should actively organize and market aquatic origin docking activities, organization of production and circulation enterprises according to changing market conditions, timely regulate the remaining places, to ensure that the supply of aquatic products during the New Year and Spring Festival is not out of stock, and constantly stalls.

3, and effectively strengthen supervision of quality and safety of aquatic products to ensure the safety of fish consumption,

Fisheries authorities at all levels should further implement the quality and safety supervisory responsibility aquatic products, increase quality and safety supervision and inspection and testing efforts to identify problems and timely rectification; to strengthen the quality and safety supervision in aquatic sampling irregularities found in enterprises and their substandard products supervision, and strengthen law enforcement penalties, ensuring that law enforcement investigate and deal with rate of 100 percent, and resolutely stop the substandard seafood on sale. The Ministry of Fisheries and fishery command center will strengthen the focus of supervision. Fisheries authorities at all levels should strengthen newspapers, websites and other media to monitor public opinion, once the discovery may lead to signs of quality and safety of the event information to the same level government and fisheries authorities on a report at the same time, we should quickly ascertain the facts and organization of specialists confirmed the authority of the mainstream media, positive clarification in order to eliminate unnecessary panic among consumers to maintain normal production and market order.

4, and actively organize the scientific and technological resources to enhance fishery production technical guidance and services for

Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences and the National Fishery Technical Extension Station should be organized to research and extension staff pay close attention to the current aquatic production, according to the seasonal characteristics of aquatic products such as winter cold, the timely provision of targeted technical services; to aquatic overwintering in accordance with during the temperature control, feeding, disease prevention, etc. of the specific requirements to carry out timely and effective, various forms of scientific and technological service activities. Around the fisheries authorities should also true under the extreme climate change, rapid organization of scientific research, teaching and promotion unit personnel, according to scientific and technological disaster contingency plans, in-depth primary first-line technical guidance and services, as far as possible to minimize losses, and strive to ensure that the fishermen income and supply of aquatic products safe and effective.

December 17, 2009