Beijing, December 5 (IANS). Compared with 2022, the average resource quantity per unit at monitoring points in the main stream of the Yangtze River in 2023 increased by 16.7 percent, leading to an increase of 34 species of fish and three species of national key protected aquatic wildlife in the Yangtze River Basin. Detected.
On December 4, the Yangtze River Aquatic Biological Resources Conservation Work Conference was held in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, at which the relevant official of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture said that in recent years, various regions and departments along the Yangtze River Strongly promoted the ten-year ban on fishing in the river and systematically implemented protection and restoration measures, so that the Yangtze River aquatic life conservation work has achieved positive results.
According to the official, at present, awareness of aquatic life conservation in the Yangtze River is increasing, fish resources have been rapidly restored, aquatic biodiversity has improved, and habitat restoration work is continuously progressing.
Monitoring shows that in the year 2023, the average resource quantity per unit at the monitoring points in the mainstream of the Yangtze River reached 2.1 kg, there are 227 species of fish and 14 species of aquatic wildlife with national key protection in the river basin, all three numbers There are 16.7 percent, 34 and 3 species more respectively compared to the year 2022.
The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. It is not only an important support for the development of the Chinese nation, but also an important aquatic organism germplasm gene bank in China, which plays an important role in the country’s ecological security pattern.
(Courtesy- China Media Group, Beijing)
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