The Coordination of the Policy System of Combating Illegal Fishing in the Estuary of the Yangtze River

Abstract

The prohibition of fishing in the Yangtze River Basin is for the overall purpose and for the benefit of the descendants. However, there are problems of illegal fishing, especially in the estuary of the Yangtze River where fishery resources are relatively rich, which hinders the realization of the policy objectives. Based on the contradictions in reality, this paper selected 24 national and 30 local policy texts on "combating illegal fishing" in the estuary of the Yangtze River to quantitatively analyze and evaluate the coordination of the policy system. The results showed that the policy system of combating illegal fishing in the estuary of the Yangtze River was well coordinated vertically, but there were some problems of discoordination horizontally. This paper innovatively proposed a coordinated and integrated framework of the policy system, which provided an optimization direction for the management of illegal fishing in the estuary of the Yangtze River from the perspective of public policy.

Keywords

• the estuary of the yangtze river
• illegal fishing
• coordination of policy system