Reasons for killing Chinese sturgeon

The reason why Chinese sturgeon is listed as a national first-class protected animal is that in the 1960s, Chinese sturgeon was caught in Chongming waters of the Yangtze River estuary in large quantities and became an important fishery resource. After the closure of Gezhouba dam, the spawning migration route of parent fish was blocked and it was impossible to swim back to the upstream spawning ground. Therefore, the number of juvenile fish decreased sharply in three years, and the resources decreased by about 97%. In recent years, the number of parent fish is only about 100. The number of Chinese sturgeon is decreasing day by day. In order to avoid the extinction of this "living fossil" of China specialty, the Chinese sturgeon has been listed as a protected object by the relevant departments.

The Ministry of Agriculture has also taken a series of targeted protection measures: strictly limiting the number, place and time of catching parent sturgeons for artificial breeding and scientific experiments, protecting young sturgeons along the Yangtze River and at the estuary, and expanding the scale of artificial breeding and release of Chinese sturgeon.