As overfishing has not been stopped in the Yangtze River, the community of aquatic organisms, for which fish is part of, is suffering from continuous degradation.

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Cao Wenxuan and other experts on freshwater fish hold that it has entered into a critical phase that the government should implement a ten-year fishing ban instead of a temporary moratorium on fishing in the Yangtze River.

These experts argue that the ten-year ban can help restore the aquatic organisms and reverse the trend of the degradation of aquatic resources. Moreover, due to sharply decreased catches of fish in these years, it is difficult for fishermen to make a living by selling the fish they capture. Therefore, the more fish they capture from the water, the more unlikely their way of living can be sustained. Furthermore, the aquatic organisms become increasingly worse because of overfishing.

Given the former circumstances, these experts suggest that the government should relocate these fishermen to other businesses in an orderly way. There are 63,000 families of fishermen along the Yangtze River, according to the Fishery Superintendence Department of the Yangtze River. This department predicts that it will cost less than 10 billion yuan to relocate these fishermen in accordance with a relocation model implemented for the fishermen along a certain section of the Chishui River which flows through southwest China's Guizhou province.