Suspected that someone caught a finless porpoise Yueyang public security organ： it is fully verifying it.
On the evening of November 15, a picture of a finless porpoise suspected of being illegally caught was circulated on several online platforms. On the 16th, the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Xiangyin County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province sent a letter of illegal fishing clue transfer to the Xiangyin County Public Security Bureau. The Paper learned that the public security organs in Yueyang are trying their best to verify this clue.
The finless porpoise is suspected of being illegally caught. Image source: Internet
According to the clue transfer letter from the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Xiangyin County, the source of the clue is Xia Wei, deputy director of the Management Committee of Henglinghu Provincial Nature Reserve, which is located in Xiangyin.
Xia Wei told The Paper that after 11pm on the 15th, he received a screenshot forwarded by a friend. That’s a photo of a finless porpoise being caught ashore. In the photo, the finless porpoise has a fishing tackle on his lips, and a man stands behind the finless porpoise. As a staff member of a nature reserve, he immediately became nervous and asked his friends about the source of the pictures. A friend said that he also saw it from a group of fishing friends. The earliest time for this picture to appear in the group was 10: 40 that day. Some screenshots chat that this is "caught by loach".
In Xia Wei’s view, the finless porpoise is very smart. Generally, it only eats half a catty to five catties of fish, so it is unlikely to be lured by loach. But he is still worried that this picture reflects the real situation, and "did you catch it yourself (Xiangyin)?" "If it is, it must be dealt with seriously." He thought to himself.
The next morning, before going to work, Xia Wei reflected the picture clues to the Xiangyin County Agriculture and Rural Bureau.
The transfer letter from the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Xiangyin County showed that at 6: 54 am on the 16th, the bureau received a screenshot of the illegal fishing of finless porpoise released by Xia Wei who forwarded it to the relevant personnel of "Xiangjiang Baiting Actual Combat Group". The finless porpoise is a national first-class protected animal, and fishing and catching finless porpoise are suspected to constitute a crime.
"Our bureau attaches great importance to this, but this photo reflects a small amount of information, and netizens have different opinions on the location of the incident. Therefore, we handed over the clues to the local public security organs at the first time, requesting to trace the key information such as the place where the incident occurred, the shooting time, and the specific personnel reflected in the photo to check whether the incident occurred in our county, so as to carry out the next step. " Tao Feng of Xiangyin Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau told The Paper, and then there was a clue transfer letter that netizens saw.
The Ministry of Public Security has paid attention to
On the afternoon of November 16th, the relevant person in charge of the Propaganda Department of Xiangyin County Committee told The Paper that the public security organ of Xiangyin County attached great importance to it after receiving the clue. Because the information reflected in the picture was extremely limited, it was not certain that it was in Xiangyin, nor could it be sure of the authenticity and source of the picture, so it was reported to Yueyang Public Security Bureau. At present, the public security organs of Yueyang City are fully verifying it.
Xia Wei introduced that after reporting the screenshot information of the finless porpoise, he got a video of the finless porpoise being caught for about 10 seconds.
In the video, a man asked in Mandarin, "What kind of fish is this? What fish? " Some women answered a few words in dialect. Xia Wei feels that this is not Xiangyin dialect, and he is not sure whether the finless porpoise in the video and the picture is the same, but both pictures have iron grilles on the ground. The finless porpoise in the picture is black and wet, and it should have just landed, but the finless porpoise in the video has turned white under the action of light and is obviously dead.
Daming He, a volunteer of Yueyang Dongdongting Ecological Protection Association, told The Paper that he also saw the pictures posted on the Internet. Daming He was a fisherman who had been dealing with finless porpoises for many years. He was not sure whether the finless porpoises were caught ashore, but he introduced that some people in other places used "anchor hooks" to hook the finless porpoises — — Anchoring fish is a prohibited fishing method. This year, the Yangtze River basin has been severely dry, the lakes of Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake have shrunk, the movable area of finless porpoises has also shrunk a lot, and there are more and more anglers. "Even if you catch a finless porpoise, you should release it immediately. Don’t they know that the finless porpoise is a panda in the water? " Daming He said.