date:Mar 29, 2013
a statement this week. Subsidies also go to freshwater fishers: from 1 April to 30 June, the Yangtze River and Hanjiang River basins in Hubei province will be closed to fishing in order to encourage restocking of the rivers with fish.
The fisheries sector gets an impressive share of subsidies compared to some other areas also administered by the Ministry of Agriculture. Compared to RMB 23.9 billion (USD 3.8 billion, EUR 3 billion) for fisheries, grain farmers for instance will only get RMB 15.