HKBWS BBS 香 港 觀 鳥 會 新 聞 組    Discussion Area 討論區    Conservation 自然保育 (Moderators: Webcreeper, BBS Moderators)    BIRDS DINE AT FISHERMEN'S EXPENSE 人鳥爭魚 « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: BIRDS DINE AT FISHERMEN'S EXPENSE 人鳥爭魚  (Read 560 times) 深藍 Owen BBS Administrator LOVE KINGFISHER~!     Gender: Posts: 1358 BIRDS DINE AT FISHERMEN'S EXPENSE 人鳥爭魚 « on: May 19th, 2005, 11:55am » Quote Modify   Song Baoquan, a villager who makes living by breeding spectacular fish in Tangdazhuang Village in Tongzhou District of Beijing, gets up at 5 am to shoot off firecrackers near his ponds. Related Topics   Environment     It is not to celebrate anything, but to frighten away wild birds from having a feast at his fish ponds. However, Song is fully aware his efforts are mostly in vain.   Thousands of villagers who earn a living by breeding spectacular fish in and near Song's village have been afflicted in recent years by the soaring number of egrets and herons - beautiful wild birds under national protection - that have built their homes in a forest in Tongzhou.   It is because the spectacular fish the farmers breed have become the birds' free meals.   When a small number of birds first arrived at the small village in 1983, villagers welcomed them, though they ate the fish. As the number of birds increased rapidly in the past a few years, they could no longer bear the birds.   An egret can eat 30 small fish a day. And the number of egret and heron that dine on the aquatic creatures is estimated to be 3,000 now.   A villager named Wang Jin said he put 10,000 golden fish into his pond last year but had none left three months later. The birds ate all of them.   Song's village has a total pond area of 44 hectares and 10 million fish were eaten by birds last year.   Song said 40 per cent of the fish were eaten by birds in his 1.86 hectares' pond, a loss of 50,000 yuan (US$6,000) last year.   The villagers are now caught in a dilemma: on the one hand they are at their wits' end to drive the birds away, but on the other, killing the birds is against the law.   Local villagers have been warned not to use hunting rifles, sticky networks or clamps to kill the birds. If they did so, they will be faced with a stiff punishments, according to the Wildlife Protection Law.   The villagers have resorted to every means they are allowed to use: scarecrows, kites, electric bells, colourful lamps, but all to no avail.   Even the firecrackers have become just background music for the birds' meals.   Song said the birds enjoy their meals at fixed timetable. Their breakfast time is between 5 to 7 am; lunch time between 11 am to 1 pm; dinner time between 5 to 7 pm. At night a kind of night heron comes to have a meal.   It seemed that misfortunes never come singly.   Some fish died of an incurable disease that was obviously caused by birds, the villagers said. The excrement of birds has polluted the water and caused serious fish disease.   Song said some mysterious fish diseases that were discovered in the South have appeared in their ponds.   For example, some goldfish have been blinded and some fish are decayed with their bones exposed. These infected fish are worthless in the market.   The local wildlife protection authorities seemed resolute in protecting the birds, however.   "We should create a balance between economic interest and the environmental interest. If we cannot protect the latter, we cannot protect the former," said Wang Minzhong, head of Beijing Wildlife Protection Station.   Wang warned once again that the villagers are by no means allowed to kill any birds under China's law on wildlife protection.   Wang suggested villagers put up a net over the ponds to keep the birds out.   "The money spent on protection facilities should be part of their production costs," Wang said.   But the villagers have pointed out that the net would cost a lot of money which they could not afford at all. The cost of net for each hectare was about 4,500 yuan (US$540).   Moreover, a net over the pond will cause great inconvenience in the feeding and fishing.   The villagers have handed in an application for fund to cover the economic loss caused by the egrets and herons but have received no response from the local government.   Local government provided some subsidies, but villagers said it was far from enough.   Xu Xiaodong, a fish breeder in Liyuan Town in Tongzhou said the villagers were quite helpless and were thinking of settling the problem by raising a lawsuit against the local government.   "We have the obligation to protect wild animals but the government should care about the difficult situation we are in. After all it is not easy for farmers to make money," Xu said.   Lack of wild birds is an ecological problem in China, worrying some environmentalists.   (Copyright 2001 by China Daily)   Copyright 2005 China Daily Information Company. All rights reserved.   China Daily « Last Edit: May 19th, 2005, 12:39pm by Webcreeper » Logged ___________________ http://www.i-owen.com 香港昆蟲網 http://hkinsect.net/forum Webcreeper BBS Moderator BBS Member BBS God I'm a webcreeper     Gender: Posts: 1031 Re: BIRDS DINE AT FISHERMEN'S EXPENSE 人鳥爭魚 « Reply #1 on: May 19th, 2005, 12:42pm » Quote Modify 北京青年報   侯毅君 朱虎 陳博    【2005-05-17 09:07:15】   幾千蒼鷺狂撮魚塘霸王餐       蒼鷺是國家二級保護動物，然而，北京通州區台湖鎮唐大莊村、梨園東小馬村等村莊，數千名村民卻為幾千隻蒼鷺頻繁進村“掃蕩”叫苦不迭，原因是村民們魚塘養殖的觀賞魚成了這些鳥兒們的免費大餐。“鳥兒越來越多，我們的損失也越來越大，可捕捉蒼鷺又違法，這可怎麼辦啊？”昨天，通州區的幾名村民給本報打來了求助電話。 Logged 　　　　　　　>}o-}o-　　　>}o-　　　　　　　　　>}o-　　　　.......x Webcreeper BBS Moderator BBS Member BBS God I'm a webcreeper     Gender: Posts: 1031 Re: BIRDS DINE AT FISHERMEN'S EXPENSE 人鳥爭魚 « Reply #2 on: May 19th, 2005, 1:09pm » Quote Modify Perhaps AFCD could teach them the low-cost wiring method used at fish ponds at Deep Bay.   或許漁護署可以教他們用在后海灣一帶漁塘上架起的防鳥線。. Logged 　　　　　　　>}o-}o-　　　>}o-　　　　　　　　　>}o-　　　　.......x Koren BBS Member BBS Full Member I love bird watching!     Gender: Posts: 34 Re: BIRDS DINE AT FISHERMEN'S EXPENSE 人鳥爭魚 « Reply #3 on: May 19th, 2005, 5:15pm » Quote Modify How is it that the fisherman can afford to lose 50000 yuan worth of fish, but can't afford 4500 yuan for a net? It seems like the expense of the net would soon repay itself! I feel sorry for the fish farmers, but after all, the egrets and herons wouldn't be there if they weren't getting free meals from the ponds. 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