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Population of Chinese Sturgeons Grows
The population of the Chinese sturgeon, one of the oldest vertebrates in the world considered to be at risk of extinction, has grown, thanks to the successful artificial breeding technology.
More than 250,000 human-bred sturgeon samplings have been released to the major rivers in south China including the Yangtze and Pearl rivers over the past two years. They were born in a dozen breeding farms for Chinese sturgeons in south China's Guangdong Province.
Unlike the giant panda, the endangered fish species has a fairly high reproductive ability, according to Wei Qiwei, a research fellow with the China Association of Fishery Sciences. A mature sturgeon can spawn 630,000 eggs.
China has developed an advanced artificial breeding technology of the Chinese sturgeon, which can increase the eggs' incubation rate to 95 percent, from one percent in natural condition.
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