Rescued sturgeon released into wild
( 2003-07-12 09:56) (Xinhua)
Fifty thousand sturgeon fish were released into the Heilongjiang River in
northeast China's Heilongjiang Province Thursday morning.
The sturgeon belongs to a species indigenous to the province and enjoy
state-level protection.
In the first half of the year, local fishery departments seized over 500,000
sturgeon roe in restaurants, market places and airports. The roe were
transferred to provincial wild animal rescue center for artificial incubation.
Some of the roe have developed into fry about 10 centimeters long.
They were released into their original habitat, a river course about 1,000
kilometers from Harbin, capital of the province.
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