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More Chinese Sturgeons Put to Sea for Resource Protection
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2001-12-25
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| Local authorities on Sunday released 7,000 Chinese sturgeon fries to the sea at the mouth of the Minjiang River, in Fujian Province. Since 1998, 11,000 Chinese sturgeon fries, in three batches, have been returned to the sea in this east China province, in order to protect the resource of the rare species, the oldest vertebrate still living and known as a "living fossil." Chinese sturgeons, under first-grade protection under international conventions, live in China's southeastern coast. They return to the mainstream of the Yangtze River as well as the Pearl and Minjiang river areas to spawn. The dramatic decline of their number has caused great concern among local governments and the international community. Chinese scientists have been studying ways to artificially breed the species. Meanwhile, the province also bans catching the fish with electricity or poison, and the use of small-mesh fishnets. |
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