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Yangtze River Restocked During Fishing Ban

At least 280 million fry will be put into China's longest river, the Yangtze, in May while a spring fishing ban is imposed along its middle and lower reaches.


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At least 280 million fry will be put into China's longest river, the Yangtze, in May while a spring fishing ban is imposed along its middle and lower reaches.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the fish of four fresh water fish species most usually seen in China will be put in the Yangtze River on May 28.

The government hopes the restocking will help increase the total number of fish in the river and speed up the recovery of fishery resources, said Zhang Hecheng, deputy-director of the Fishery Bureau under the ministry.

China started the first ever commercial fishing ban along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River on April 1 and the ban will be in place for three months.

The fishing ban creates a favorable environment for fish to spawn and for young fish to develop, Zhang said.

Excessive fishing threatens not only fish stocks but also the livelihood of thousands of fishermen.

The annual take of wild fish from the river has fallen to about 100,000 tons a year, about a quarter of the amount caught in 1954, according to the ministry.

The upper reaches of the Yangtze from southwest China's Yunnan Province to central China's Hubei Province will also have a spring fishing ban from February to April next year, when the fishing ban will cover 4,251 kilometers of the river's mainstream.

From its headwaters high up on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, the Yangtze grows into the world's third-longest river as it flows across China. Its fishing output accounts for 60 percent of the country's total freshwater fish produce.

Since 1995 there has been an annual three-month fishing ban in areas of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea in summer.


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