Studies on the social adaptation of the fishermen retreated from Yangtze River fishing from the respective of empowerment
The fishmen retreated from Yangtze River fishing have been facing many difficulties in adap-ting society,among them losing power is particularly prominent.Enhancing their rights is a key factor to their social adaptation and an important guarantee for the effective implementation of fishing ban-ning.Based on the analysis of the field surveying findings,in this article,we concluded that the with-drawal of fishermen is mainly reflected in economic loss of power,social environmental loss of power and psychological loss of power.Therefore,the fishermen should be assisted as soon as possible from three perspectives,system empowerment,organizational empowerment and individual empowerment,which should aid to realizing social adaptation and finally the goals of retirement,stability and prosperi-ty.
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