China's first large-scale fishery resources in the Yangtze River

Introduction: on the morning of the 10th, the staff of fishery departments in six provinces and cities, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, put more than 6000 kg of the original seedlings of green, grass, silver carp, bighead carp, 50000 River snakeheads and 20000 long snout snakeheads into the spring closed fishing waters in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River This is the first time for China to carry out large-scale fishery resources proliferation and release activities in the Yangtze River According to fishery experts, affected by water conservancy projects, water pollution, reclaiming land from lakes, and excessive fishing, the number of four major fish groups, namely, green, grass, silver carp and bighead carp, has declined sharply in the Yangtze River Basin At the same time, with the formation of the reservoir area after the closure of the Three Gorges project, the rise of the water level in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the change of the water temperature and water flow in the middle and lower reaches, the spawning ground of the four great fishes will also be seriously affected, and its living space will be smaller and smaller River and long snout fish are valuable economic fish and excellent freshwater aquaculture species in the Yangtze River, and their resource situation is also deteriorating Therefore, comprehensive measures such as breeding and releasing must be taken to protect them Fishery experts said that carrying out the activities of increasing and releasing fishery resources in the Yangtze River is of great significance to accelerate the restoration of fishery resources and the protection of aquatic biodiversity in the Yangtze River, as well as to raise the awareness of the whole society to protect fishery resources and ecological environment in the Yangtze River At the same time, the direct beneficiaries of artificial proliferation and release are fishermen along the river Fishermen will benefit from the fishing production after the end of the spring ban and the long-term economic development of the Yangtze River fishery The releasing activity was sponsored by the Fishery Bureau of the Ministry of agriculture, organized by the office of the Yangtze River fishery resources management committee, the fishery administrative departments of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai The relevant national seed farms of provinces and cities along the river provided seedlings The Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute and the Freshwater Fisheries Research Center were responsible for technical guidance and germplasm identification The Ministry of agriculture requires all departments in charge of fisheries administration and relevant scientific research departments to conduct strict germplasm identification, quarantine, detection, marking, tracking and monitoring of the released seedlings when carrying out the activities of proliferation and release, and strengthen the supervision and management work to ensure that the tasks of release are completed with sufficient quality and quantity (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: