Bans help replenish sea fish stocks

Fish stocks off the Chinese coast have been effectively replenished this year due to successful bans, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday.

Surveys conducted in August by institutes including the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences showed resources had increased greatly compared with early May, when the bans were imposed, Zhang Xianliang, head of the ministry's Fishery Administration Bureau, said at a news conference.

Fish resources increased by 190 percent over the period in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, more than tripled in the East China Sea, and increased by 70 percent in the South China Sea, he said.