Adventures in Communism

Two years ago a small fishing village in China was decimated because of severe industrial pollution runoff. Since all Chinese industry is owned by the Chinese government, this essentially means that the government was the polluter in this case.

The government wanted to make it up to the people since they could no longer eat the polluted fish in their river. So the government showed up with truckloads of fish to restock the river.

From Reuters here:

Chinese efforts to restock a polluted northern river with fish ran into problems when more than 1,000 residents started hauling them out almost as soon as they were put in, state media said on Thursday.

More than 3,000 workers from fishery departments of northeast China’s Jilin and Liaoning provinces on Tuesday released 13 truckloads of carp fry into the Songhua River “in the hope of improving its ecology”, Xinhua news agency said.

“Shortly after the release was completed, more than 1,000 residents in Jilin swarmed to the riverbank with nets and other fishing equipment,” Xinhua said.

A dozen fishery workers patrolling the river confiscated poachers’ nets but no arrests were made.

Ah, it must be nice living in the Workers’ Paradise.