{"id":25704,"date":"2007-01-19T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:34:27","slug":"704-third-of-fish-species-lost-in-china-s-yellow-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/704-third-of-fish-species-lost-in-china-s-yellow-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Third of fish species lost in China&#8217;s Yellow River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>   The 5,464-kilometre river, which supplies water to over 150 million people and irrigates 15% of the country&#8217;s farmland, was once known as &quot;China&#8217;s sorrow&quot; because of its flooding, but in recent years has occasionally run dry before reaching the sea.<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;&quot;The Yellow River used to be host to more than 150 species of fish, but a third of them are now extinct, including some precious ones,&quot; the People&#8217;s Daily quoted an unnamed Agriculture Ministry official as saying.   <\/div>\n<div>\nFishing has also dropped, falling 40% from an annual average of 700 tonnes in the past, the newspaper said.    <\/div>\n<div>\nSee <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/PEK289047.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"\/UserFiles\/Image\/yellowfish.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calydel\/306462436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calydelphoto<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third of all fish species in the Yellow River, China&#8217;s second longest, have become extinct because of dams, shrinking water levels, overfishing and pollution, Reuters said on Thursday, citing state 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