Sturgeon returning to the Yangtze River
China Daily |
Updated: 2026-06-19 10:05
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China has been working out ways to save the Yangtze sturgeon — through fishing bans, legal protection, captive breeding, releasing fish into the wild, and most recently, encouraging natural reproduction in riverine habitats.
In late 2022, some research institutions launched a series of experiments aimed at inducing wild reproduction of the Yangtze sturgeon.
On April 14 this year, a scientific team announced a breakthrough: for the first time, Yangtze sturgeon had been observed spawning naturally and successfully hatching in an original spawning ground without any human intervention.
