The first tiny, no bigger than a grain of rice, half-translucent grey larva of the Yangtze sturgeon hatched on April 16, 2025, in the shallow waters of the Chishui River in SW China’s Guizhou. The adult sturgeons were released into the modified habitat on April 3, 2025, and fertilized eggs were observed on April 12, 2025. It is the first successful natural reproduction of the critically endangered Yangtze sturgeon in the wild in over two decades.
This breakthrough was the culmination of years of painstaking efforts by researchers from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Sturgeon Research Institute under the China Three Gorges Corporation, and other institutions, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. https://www.facebook.com/jeff.mah.5/videos/696948593203867/?__cft__[0]=AZWbE99JbBmmdIpgvVhCCL0cVgglCWlYKTYJ7WKRZZ8XzL7d2v1znxzmcLrXmOuM5QyF-UReevFtGoVW_e3yHQLAjs-3UAtia2mMw_VuGlJPl7umkfor4cmvjckQVNH3nCxzIQgM-9sJ98IHPbx6n11FVFhQ6c-5jgpr2GJuWjOJNQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
