"Judge, I didn't have enough legal awareness before, but now I know that my actions violate the law, and I accept punishment.."
Recently, the Qingdao Maritime Court of Shandong Province opened a public hearing to hear a case of public interest litigation for compensation for damage to marine natural resources and ecological environment caused by illegal mining of sea sand. This is also the first such case accepted by Qingdao Maritime Court after the promulgation of the judicial interpretation of the Provisions of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Handling of Public Interest Litigation Cases on Marine Natural Resources and Ecological Environment. At about 1 am on November 25,
2020, the Qingdao Maritime Police Bureau of Shandong Province seized the ships "Jianghai 93" and "Sulianyungang Cargo 1798" which were operating in the waters near Dongjiakou Port in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao. The two ships carried more than 2600 tons of sea sand and could not provide relevant documents, suspected of illegal sand mining. After the trial, the procuratorial organ found that in August 2020, Wang Moulin and other four people, without obtaining the certificate of the right to use the sea area for sea sand mining and the mining license, planned to obtain benefits by excavating sea sand. After that, the "Jianghai 93" was responsible for excavating sea sand, and the "Changyun 1898" ship and the "Sulianyungang Cargo 1798" ship were responsible for purchasing and transporting the stolen sea sand. When captured by the marine police, more than 2000 tons of stolen sea sand had been traded.
Sea sand belongs to mineral deposits and cannot be exploited at will. The ocean is the common property of mankind and belongs to public goods. The public shares the climate mediated by the ocean system and the ecological benefits it brings. The People's Procuratorate of Qingdao City,
Shandong Province, in accordance with the Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Handling of Public Interest Litigation Cases Concerning Marine Natural Resources and Ecological Environment, filed a public interest lawsuit with the Qingdao Maritime Court against 11 people, such as Wang Moulin, who had destroyed the marine ecology. He asked Wang Moulin and others to pay more than 500000 yuan for the cost of marine ecological environment restoration, the cost of loss and preventive measure during the restoration period, and the cost of appraisal, and asked for a public apology in the state-level media.
As a special court, Qingdao Maritime Court of Shandong Province has always attached great importance to the trial of marine ecological environment damage, actively paid attention to relevant cases and actively docked and exchanged with the procuratorates within its jurisdiction on the public interest litigation of marine natural resources and ecological environment, and tried every case of public interest litigation of marine natural resources and ecological environment. Give full play to the judicial functions of maritime courts in protecting the marine environment. To provide strong support for promoting marine construction of ecological civilization and building a powerful marine province.
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