Thanks to a series of protection(measure), the Dabry's sturgeon(达氏鲟), an endangered species under China's first-class national protection, can now be spotted again in the Yangtze River.
The Dabry's sturgeon is also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, (name) after its habitat ,the upper Yangtze River. Since 2000, it had lost its natural ability to reproducea result of over fishing and water pollution, among other factors. The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the species extinct in the wild in July 2022.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, underwater cameras have recently shot the natural spawning (产卵) of the Yangtze sturgeon, (indicate) that mature individuals in the artificial Yangtze sturgeon population have the ability to reproduce in the wild.
Overfishing was once a serious challenge, endangered the Yangtze sturgeon and other fish species in the Yangtze River. (recover) the biodiversity along the river, China(carry) out a full fishing ban (禁令) in 332 conservation areas of the Yangtze River basin in January 2020.
(surprising), many fishermen have now become protectors of fish in the Yangtze River. Zhang Song, who had depended on fishing forliving since 2000, volunteered to become a member of the fish protection team in Wanzhou District. The Yangtze River Protection Law came into force on March 1,2021. With this law, Zhang's work became much(easy) than before.
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