Reducing the excessive fishing vessels to sustainable exploitation of marine fishery resources in China

Nowadays, more and more countries focus on reducing excessive fishing capacity in order to conserve and manage the fishery resources, and it is a common tendency of international fishery management. This paper analyses the necessity to enforce the scheme of reducing excessive fishing vessels in China as follows: the marine fisheries resources have been depleted; the fishing capacity is excessive and the fishing areas reduced. Based on the analysis, some suggestions are put forward on how to bring the plan into effect: 1. Adjusting the structure of fishery industry; 2. Enforcing the policy of restricting fishing intensity strictly; 3. Implementing fishing vessels de-commission and buy-back scheme.