Juvenile sturgeon return to Yangtze

Juvenile Chinese sturgeon have reappeared in the mouth of the Yangtze River after two years of no evidence of spawning.

The first juvenile Chinese sturgeon was discovered to the south of Shanghai's Changxing Island on April 16 by researchers at the East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute. The researchers then found more juvenile fish in the same waters in May, said Zhuang Ping, deputy director of the institute.

This was a major discovery, given that no spawning was observed at the spawning site near the Yangtze River's Gezhou Dam for the past two years.