Page 48 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Innovation Sustainable Management Unit 2: Building Agricultural Models the seas under their jurisdiction. We have already guided the governments of Keelung City and 10 other cities and counties to define the scope of management of the gill-net fishing industry, and have guided 1,400 fishing vessels (rafts) that had been engaged in gill-net fishing to switch over to other forms of shing such as pole-and- line shing and line trawling. The COA has also been clearing away abandoned shing nets in manmade and natural reef areas. In 2018 we cleared 14 reef areas, aiming to maintain the habitat and environment of Taiwan’s coastal seas. (5) Maintaining forest environmental resources combating illegal logging Given the primary condition of preserving the nation’s land resources, the COA continued to do (i) forest resources monitoring and surveys, (ii) inspections and definition of protected forest, (iii) nurturing of manmade forest, and (iv) protection of enterprise zones in national forest. Such measures ensure the service value of forest ecological systems. In 2018 the COA completed 1,276.97 hectares of afforestation, thinned 321.87 hectares of forest, and produced 39,000 cubic meters of lumber. We also set operational norms to promote operations in public and private forest, and reassessed the incentives policy for afforestation in order to raise self-sufciency in wood production. To deter illegal logging, the COA strengthened the horizontal communications of the “police, prosecutors, and Forestry Bureau platform.” We also introduced advanced devices like micro cameras and remote monitoring systems, and worked together with communities and indigenous settlements under the “plan to work with communities to strengthen forest conservation work,” thereby effectively strengthening forest conservation work. The COA’s Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (i) implemented the “research project for monitoring of afforestation”; (ii) promoted management strategies for the effective use and operation of existing afforestation land; (iii) developed a short- rotation afforestation model; (iv) conducted an evaluation of the value of plains afforestation in environmental education and ecological services; and (v) developed non-lumber forestry products, forest sharing, and wood fuel for green energy. B. Developing the under-forest economy Acting within the principles of maintaining forest vegetation and not using weed- or pest-killing pesticides or chemical fertilizers, the Forestry Bureau and the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI) have already listed technical norms for forest byproducts including “forest bee- 46