New Agricultural Business Network, May 10th, When it comes to seahorses, I believe everyone is familiar with them. The head is like a horse, but the body is very different from the real horse. Its cute appearance is deeply loved by people. The seahorse is an endangered national second-class protected animal. In recent years, a large number of seahorse groups have appeared in the coastal areas of the west coast. This is due to the blue bay remediation action carried out in the new area, and a large number of "Blue Bay guards" who love marine ecological and environmental protection.
Not long ago, Zhang Xiong, head of East Asia of the IUCN Sea Dragon Expert Group and associate professor of Sun Yat-Sen University, led his team to conduct scientific research at the West Yangjiawa Wharf in Langya Town. They come here regularly every year. In addition to diving observations, observing the catch of fishing boats is also an important way to study the seahorse population.
Zhang Xiong, head of East Asia of the IUCN Sea Dragon Expert Group and associate professor of Sun Yat-Sen University, said: "You see, this is what we call the Japanese seahorse, the only one that can be found here, and the number is relatively large. It is an endangered animal that our International Union for Conservation of Nature is very concerned about, and it is a national second-class protected animal. It can be seen in a large area in our Qingdao West Coast New Area. Other sea areas may be within a hundred square meters, and one or two can be found. Not bad, but the density in this sea area is very high, basically ten times or even dozens of times that of other sea areas."
The seahorse species discovered is the Japanese seahorse, which is mainly distributed in the northern waters of China. With different seasons and water temperature, there are inter-annual changes. From October to November every year, the coastal waters of Langya become an important habitat for Japanese seahorses.
Zhang Xiong, head of East Asia of the IUCN Sea Dragon Expert Group and associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, said: "Why are there so many seahorses here? Seahorses and complex habitats provide a good environment for the attachment and settlement of seahorses.”
Seahorses are an indicator species of whether the marine environment is healthy or not. The efforts made to protect the waters include those "Blue Bay Guardians" who have been advocating and protecting the marine ecological environment for many years. Among them, a marine ecological environmental protection public welfare organization established by fishermen has played a great role in marine ecological protection.
District Blue Bay Ecological Environment Public Welfare Service Center Liu Shujie: "After we officially registered, the District Ocean Development Bureau is our supervisory unit. We are doing training to let fishermen know how to protect the marine environment. From the training of fishing captains Select excellent and responsible seahorse habitat patrol teams, discourage and drive away some illegal ships, organize beach and bay cleaning activities, go deep into rural areas, markets, and docks, and conduct some publicity activities."
2018-present, "Blue Bay Guards" They went to more than 40 docks in fishing villages, organized activities to clean up beaches and bays, drove away more than 300 illegal fishing boats, cleaned up more than 10,000 kilograms of marine plastic waste, trained more than 300 fishermen, and encouraged more fishermen to participate. marine ecology protection action.
htmlLiu Shujie, head of the Lanwan Ecological Environment Public Welfare Service Center in District 2, said: "Because fishermen are a large group, the users of the ocean are fishermen, and the beneficiaries are also fishermen, but the protection of the oceans and fishermen are not involved, which is a huge problem. pain points.Our team hopes to start from us, bit by bit, to drive fishermen across the country to participate in the marine conservation cause. Our marine conservation cause in China will definitely do well. "
