The biological resources of China’s Yangtze River have recovered significantly since a long-term fishing ban was imposed in 2021, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said at a press conference on Monday.
On January 1, 2021, China instituted a 10-year ban on the key waters of the Yangtze River, prohibiting commercial fishing in a bid to replenish fish stocks and preserve endangered species.
Since then, the number of species endemic to the Chishui River in the area bordering southwest China’s Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, as a tributary of the Yangtze River, has increased from 32 to 37, and the volume of biological resources has nearly doubled since before the ban.
One example is Ochetobius elongatus, a species of carp, which was rediscovered in Dongting Lake, which is connected to the Yangtze River basin and is also covered by the ban.
Also, the populations of rare species such as the Yangtze finless porpoise and the Chinese sturgeon have regenerated.
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