China’s Yangtze River Rebounds After Fishing Ban and Investment to Reemploy 200,000 Fishermen

The mighty Yangtze river has experienced a dramatic improvement in ecological health halfway through a 10-year fishing moratorium. The focus of a $2.7 billion restoration project, this crucial aquatic artery had been severely degraded by decades of damming, overfishing, fragmentation, pollution, and neglect. Now, a new study reports a tripling of fish biomass, increases in […] The post China’s Yangtze River Rebounds After Fishing Ban and Investment to Reemploy 200,000 Fishermen appeared first on Good News Network.