{"id":34269,"date":"2016-09-26T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:58:29","slug":"9269-rare-yangtze-sturgeons-at-risk-from-mass-fish-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/9269-rare-yangtze-sturgeons-at-risk-from-mass-fish-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Yangtze sturgeons at risk from mass fish escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\">In July, water discharged by a hydropower station on the Qing River surged downstream, taking with it almost 10,000 tonnes of sturgeon. The surge blew them out of fish farm cages, and down the Qing, a tributary river, into the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Experts fear a disaster for native sturgeon, and the Yangtze ecosystem, as the farmed fish are either hybrid sturgeon or non-native species.<\/p>\n<p>According to state run news website <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepaper.cn\">The Paper<\/a><\/em>, the number of escaped fish may be greater than that of all surviving native fish populations on the Yangtze combined, and far outstrips the number of Chinese sturgeon remaining in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\"><strong>Tipping the scales<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The new arrivals will compete with native fish for food and territory, putting more pressure on the endangered <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/freshwater\/chinese-sturgeon\/\">Chinese sturgeon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\">Species of sturgeon native to the Yangzte include the Chinese sturgeon and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/details\/231\/0\">Dabry\u2019s sturgeon.<\/a> Both are \u201cred-listed\u201d as endangered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\">International Union for the Conservation of Nature<\/a> (IUCN).<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\">Chinese sturgeon are giant fish, growing to 5 metres long, whose annual 2,000-metre up-river migration from the East China Sea is threatened by dam-building, heavy pollution and injuries from shipping. Dabry\u2019s sturgeon inhabit only in the middle and upper Yangtze. Once plentiful, their population plummeted in the 1980s, and they were listed as critically endangered in 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the hybrid escapees interbreed with pure-bred Chinese or Dabry\u2019s sturgeon then these threatened species will become even rarer.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-ae586f83-65d2-939a-0ba9-6c657e7b9bba\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/1835\/640px-Sturgeon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 309px;\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/1835\/640px-Sturgeon.jpg\" alt=\"a Chinese sturgeon\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">A Chinese sturgeon. Image by\u00a0<a title=\"User:Cacophony\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sturgeon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cacophony<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glimmer of hope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yang Yuanjin, deputy director of the Chinese Sturgeon Research Centre, told <em>chinadialogue<\/em>: \u201cThe fortunate thing is that the escaped fish have only spread downstream. If this had happened on the Jinsha River further upstream, the situation would be even worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\">Yang explained: \u201cThe Chinese sturgeon breeds during autumn, while hybrid sturgeon breed in the spring \u2013 so there\u2019s little chance of interbreeding. But the Dabry\u2019s sturgeon on the Jinsha also breeds in the spring, so if this had happened on the Jinsha there\u2019d be a huge risk of genetic contamination from interbreeding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poorly regulated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cage farming of hybrid sturgeon has been expanding since the 1990s. Yang said regulation is failing to keep up, so risks to the Yangtze ecosystem from non-native species are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Cage farmers raise fish in mesh enclosures placed in a natural body of water \u2013 usually water that is flowing, clean and oxygenated.<\/p>\n<p>Yang thinks better regulation of fish farms is crucial: \u201cCurrently there are no rules on the purity of fish farm stock, or on the types of feed used. Fish farmers add antibiotics to the fish feed to accelerate growth \u2013 but this also pollutes the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-ae586f83-65d2-939a-0ba9-6c657e7b9bba\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 372px;\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/1832\/210952756_c1a69b9e65_z.jpg\" alt=\"cage sturgeon meal\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Cage sturgeons serve\u00a0at restaurants. (Image by\u00a0<a title=\"Go to ulterior epicure's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ulteriorepicure\/210952756\/in\/photolist-jDbUu-8dLXr5-7ptUd3-yxzgse-6p5Xzm-6p23bH-btJKg8-btJKmB-h1tuyM-8dHGKa-7MxnYV-btJKjg-9f5fuo-7MxnQ8-7MBmCC-7MxnRF-7Mxnkk-4fSLUR-6p61DY-7MxnT6-6p5UHG-7MBmGY-J4zp9-7MBn8h-7Mxns8-7MxnGr-6p1FJR-8dHGRg-7Mxo1x-7MBmW1-6p1Vyx-7MxnoK-6p5Shs-8dHHaV-6p67K7-7MBmQf-8dHHjz-8dHEUX-7MxnmX-8dHH16-7Mxnza-4fSM1D-wgfaCj-wvwWuU-wxb8Dd-wxbbGs-sKovxF-wgfbC3-tpBHZA-wgfF17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\">ulterior epicure<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lack of information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, discharges of water from the numerous hydropower stations on the Yangtze basin during flood season can easily result in farmed fish escaping into the river.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why fish farmers are not warned of in advance of discharges, Zhang Boting, deputy secretary of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering, told <em>chinadialogue<\/em> that fish farmers must assess the risks themselves.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\">Villagers were catching hybrid sturgeons on the Yangtze as early as July and August this year, but not in large enough numbers to arouse concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zhu Jiang, director of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wwfchina.org\/en\/\">WWF China\u2019s<\/a> Yangtze project, told <em>chinadialogue<\/em> that previously farmed fish (including sturgeon) have escaped from fish farm ponds or cages in reservoirs during the flood season and then made their way into natural waterways such as the Yangtze. In July this year thousands of fish gathered underneath a dam on the Han River in Hebei province, an event which was linked to large escapes of farmed fish into the river.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-075e8f03-65d5-8189-717b-2e1e850103e7\">But this escape of non-native sturgeon is far bigger than anything before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Big problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many issues in conservation of the original Yangtze species, including others besides the sturgeon,\u201d Zhu said. \u201cAnd China lacks effective policy or measures for protecting those species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wei Qiwei, director of the Ministry of Agriculture\u2019s Key State Laboratory for Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity, told <em>chinadialogue<\/em> that the current remedy is to catch the escaped fish as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But according to <em>The Paper<\/em>, the escaped sturgeon will eventually spread upstream as well as downstream, devastating the entire basin and making recapture harder. The Yangtze River Office at the Ministry of Agriculture has arranged for experts in aquatic life to investigate the incident and assess the ecological impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endangered fish getting closer to extinction as farmed fish flood the river<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":58981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[763,764],"tags":[523,537,545,554],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-34269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-nature","tag-conservation","tag-ecosystems","tag-fisheries","tag-hydropower"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rare Yangtze sturgeons at risk from mass fish 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