Yangshan Port Maritime Authorities Take Multiple Measures to Ensure the Safe Departure of Thousands of Fishing Vessels

At 12:00 on September 16, as the summer fishing moratorium in the East China Sea officially ended, nearly a thousand fishing boats departed from the Zhoushan waters, heading to the Yangtze River estuary fishing grounds. The Yangshan Port Maritime Safety Administration made early arrangements, utilizing intelligent supervision, time-segmented traffic control, and on-site inspections to ensure the safety and smoothness of the waters during the fishing season.

With the end of the fishing moratorium, a large number of fishing boats sounded their horns and set sail, forming a grand fleet heading towards the deep blue sea. The waters of the Yangshan jurisdiction instantly experienced a peak in fishing boat departures. Facing the complex navigation environment, the maritime authorities, in coordination with the fisheries administration, conducted on-site inspections at docks before the fishing season began, offering a "First Lesson on Fishing Safety." They also used digital channels such as the VTS Genie and WeChat groups to precisely deliver safety warnings, enhancing crew awareness of prevention from the source. Additionally, joint patrols were conducted to clear obstructive fishing nets, purifying the navigation water environment.

In terms of intelligent supervision, the Yangshan Port Maritime Safety Administration relies on a dedicated platform for verifying merchant and fishing vessels, integrating multiple technological tools such as the VTS Genie, AIS, and CCTV to implement 24-hour continuous dynamic monitoring of vessels in the jurisdiction. During periods of concentrated fishing boat departures and dense intersections of merchant and fishing vessels, the VTS center broadcasts navigation warnings via VHF high-frequency channels, providing "point-to-point" precise reminders to merchant ships entering crowded waters, guiding them to avoid collisions appropriately. Furthermore, the maritime authorities have deepened information interconnectivity with Zhoushan Fisheries Administration, achieving data sharing and coordinated management.

For core navigation waters, the maritime authorities have scientifically deployed multiple patrol boats for fixed-point guarding and dynamic inspections, while coordinating high-powered emergency tugboats to stand by. To minimize the impact of peak fishing boat departures on main navigation channels, the maritime authorities implemented time-segmented refined traffic control, guiding mainline container ships to adjust their schedules and stagger their passage times in advance. On the opening day of the fishing season, the main leader of the Yangshan Port Maritime Safety Administration led a team to the front lines for on-site command, with the entire administration strictly adhering to a 24-hour duty system to ensure rapid on-site response.