Written by: Xia Qing
Posted on: May 08, 2018 | 
| 中文
Local Fisherman busy with the Fuhai Glacier Grouper
In recent years, Fuhai County of Altay Prefecture, the largest natural fishery base in North Xinjiang, has been breeding and promoting the fine Glacier Grouper to other places in China, with a new industrial pattern, called “landmark brand + characteristic industry and e-commerce.” This will provide relief for poor farmers and herdsmen and increase their income.
In 2016, thanks to its distinct natural and geological advantages, Fuhai County was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture as the first fishery health aquaculture demonstration county.
In the past years, Lake Wulungu Winter Fishing Festival and Luer Fishing Contest have been held in the county to develop fine brands for its fishery industry. In 2017, Lake Wulungu Winter Fishing Cultural Festival was listed as the National Demonstration Fishery Culture Festival by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Lake Wulungu boasts 23 varieties of well-known fish and commercial fish. Moreover, many organic wild fish are widely acknowledged, due to their delicate and tender meat. After long-term research and demonstration, white spot pike was officially renamed as the Glacier Grouper, which was to be developed into a landmark brand among Xinjiang aquatic products.
Falling into the category of world famous game fish, Glacier Grouper is the main fish for recreational fishing industry in countries such as Spain, Portugal and Ireland in Europe, and Ethiopia, Madagascar, Morocco, Tunisia as well as Uganda in Africa.
Fuhai Glacier Grouper is only bred in the Irtysh River of North Xinjiang, and Lake Wulungu is its biggest habitat. Growing upstream in the Irtysh River from Arctic Ocean, it has a breeding migration cycle and is very particular about water and air quality. Thus Fuhai Glacier Grouper has a distinct feature in the aquatic product market which makes it favorable for the consumers.
On November 14th, 2017, Fuhai Glacier Grouper was officially launched in Jingdong Xinjiang Museum, receiving more than 1000 orders within three hours. Meanwhile, about ten dealer representatives were authorized to promote and distribute the Fuhai Glacier Grouper.
Thanks to its unique advantages such as beautiful scenes of Lake Wulungu, rich fish resources and distinct tailor-made brands, combined with a modern electronic distribution model, Fuhai County has focused on supply-side reform. After an in-depth integration of e-commerce and characteristic fish industry, Internet+characteristic fish industry has been developed, bringing a higher output for Fuhai fish industry and a higher income for fishermen.
Construction of a rural e-commerce-demonstration county witnessed continous advancements, with e-commerce tapping into the training system in the rural areas. E-commerce has managed to establish systems for agricultural products, supply chain management and brand promotion services. Currently, a county-level e-commerce public service center, agricultural products supply chain management system and county-township-village three level logistics system have been completed and put into operation. At present, there are six township e-commerce service stations and 20 village-level e-commerce service units.
As the winter fishing festival has been successfully held once a year, Zhu Xiangke, a fisher in Fuhai, confidently said, “We have never had a slack moment for multiplication release in recent years, and the winter fishing festival will certainly witness a great harvest.”
Total fishery production in Fuhai County added up to 8430 tons in 2017, with a total output of 184 million Yuan.
As Fuhai County has enhanced legal protection for fish resources and multiplication release, fish varieties and input fund have increased year by year, with aquatic life resources being protected efficiently. Since 2004, when the large-scale artificial multiplication release was implemented, more than 50 million Yuan have been invested in it and 280 million fry and 5000-ton large-size fingerlings have been put into the lake to protect not only the fishery resources but also the ecological environment.
Through implementation of the development strategy of “ecology comes first,” ecological, green, organic and characteristic fishery brands have been developed in the Fuhai County. With fishery resources, protection and management placed in a more prominent position, a series of fishery resource restoration and ecological environment protection measures have been taken.
Translated by Xin Yuan
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