LINKTV Asia Insight July 13, 2024
Supported the livelihoods of locacals. More than 270,000 people in the area make their living fishing. But many of them are now facing a serious crisis. By the end of 2020, fishing here will be banned completely. A Chinese Government policy has restricted industrial fishing in the Yangtze River and its main tributaries for at least ten years. The fishing ban was put in place due t to overfishing and Water Pollution caused by y economic develelopment. The catch here has shrunk here to onefifth what it was in the 1950s. And more than 90 aquatic species are now at risk of extinction. The finless ...