ON THE MEASUREMENT OF ‘ZERO INCREASING RATE’OF FISHING CATCH IN CHINA COASTAL WATERS

In this paper,it is pointed out that the sustainable utilization of fishery resources represents a major direction in the world fishery development.In China, the basic marine fishery resources are on the lower level than the world average level and have been damaged seriously. The measurement of ‘Zero Increasing Rate’is the first step to realize the sustainable development of fishery resources in China coastal waters. Even so, there still exists a long distance to meet the requirement of the real sustainable development. Also,some suggestions are put forward, including the tradational opinions about fishery resources, strictly limiting fishing efforts, reducing the number of fishing vessels, carrying out the close time during summer, managing fishery resources with economic methods,gradually building the ‘paid’ system for fishery resources using so to realize the capitalized management, studying and developing gears and methods for sustainable fishing, and making basic study on management of fishery resources. [