Say Goodbye To Wild Chinese Sturgeon

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http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-wild-chinese-sturgeon-on-brink-of-extinction-state-media-2014-9



Beijing (AFP) - The wild Chinese sturgeon is at risk of extinction, state media reported, after none of the rare fish were detected reproducing naturally in the polluted and crowded Yangtze river last year.

One of the world's oldest living species, the wild Chinese sturgeon are thought to have existed for more than 140 million years but have seen their numbers crash as China's economic boom brings with it pollution, dams and boat traffic along the world's third-longest river.

For the first time since researchers began keeping records 32 years ago, there was no natural reproduction of wild Chinese sturgeon in 2013, according to a report published by the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences.

No eggs were found to have been laid by wild sturgeons in an area in central China's Hubei province, and no young sturgeons were found swimming along the Yangtze toward the sea in August, the month when they typically do so.



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[postulater]

1. My god. 130,000,000 years. And we are killing off the species.

Another genocide.

[GliderGuider]

2. "See the halibuts and the sturgeons, Being wiped out by detergents"

"Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they won't last long if they try!"