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Two Recovered Sturgeons Back to Yangtze on April 22nd

Published : 3:05 A.M. EST, Apr 2, 2007
A grand activity to free the rare Yangtze aquatic animals will be held in Jingzhou City,Hubei Province on April 22nd. Two recovered sturgeons in the Beijing Aquarium are among other species back to the Yangtze River.

In 2005, a shoal of sturgeons got hurt on their migration way to the East China Sea in lower part of the Gezhouba Water Control Project. It is said, five sturgeons are recovered but only two of them reach the body quality to endure the long way transferring from Beijing to Jingzhou. It is the first case to free sturgeon back to Yangtze River.