An Analysis On The Status Of Marine Fishing Boats Of Fujian Province

Investigation shows that there is total number of 32556 varied marine fishing boats nowadays in Fujian Province and the average power is 45.89kW, among which the number of trawlers has reached 4425. Their power accounts for 53.3% of the total power and their catches account for 42.3% of the total catch. Most of them were deficit in their fishing business operations due to continuous raise of the fuel price and the decrease of the fishery resource. There is total number of 7389 trap-net fishing boats registered in Fujian. They are becoming more large-scale. More and more boat structure was made of steel. And they have showed the ability and the tendency of operating towards off-sea. There is total number of 376 purse seine fishing boats in Fujian. Now there are too much fishing boats in Fujian province and the structure of their number is not rational. Controlling the fishing capacity and reducing the number of boats will be a tendency.