Researchers have debated the best management plan for highly endangered fish species since the 1980s. Researchers have debated the best management plan for highly endangered fish species since the 1980s.
For the first time in more than two decades the rare Yangtze sturgeon, previously considered extinct, has laid eggs in the wild in a development hailed as a major breakthrough for the species by Beijing. The success came after researchers released 20 adult sturgeon 10 males and 10 females into an artificial egg-laying nest earlier this month in Jiangan, in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
Yangtze Sturgeon, an ‘‘extinct in the wild’’ fish living in the Yangtze River, has had eggs laid and hatched in wild waters without artificial intervention for the first time in 23 years, marking an important step of restoring its wild population.
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© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) Chinese researchers are using various science and technology methods to promote the conservation of