May 31 (Xinhua) --A total of 40,000 fishing boats from south China's Hainan and Guangdong provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will remain in harbor for two months, as the country's summer fishing ban will become effective at noon tomorrow.

Of the total, 17,000 fishing boats are from Guangdong Province, including 1,239 from the city of Zhuhai, and 3,600 are from the island province of Hainan, according to information from the two provinces.

Hainan, Guangdong, and Guangxi have all set up organizations to oversee the execution of the fishing ban.

Preparations for implementing the fishing ban, including public information on the significance of the program, the anchorage and maintenance of the fishing boats, as well as arranging short-term training courses for fishermen and providing poor fishing families with subsidies to guarantee subsistence, all have been completed. China has successively imposed a summer fishing ban in restricted areas of the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea since 1995, and this effort has produced positive results.

For instance, the country first introduced the summer fishing ban in the South China Sea last year, and as a result there was a 16 percent rise in Hainan Province's marine catches last year.

This year's fishing ban in the South China Sea will end at noon on August 1.