More than 1.6 billion larvae of aquatic creatures were released into rivers, coastal waters and lakes across China on Friday, as part of a significant conservation initiative to improve the nation’s fishery stock.
The main event of the nationwide campaign was held in Fuzhou, the capital city of east China's Fujian Province, where 2.85 million marine and freshwater fries such as eel, sea bass, silver carp and bighead carp were released into the estuary of the Minjiang River and the waters around Matsu islands.
Similar activities were held simultaneously across the country, releasing over 1.6 billion aquatic creatures, including 1.28 billion marine species, 300 million freshwater species, and 50 million precious, endangered and freshwater regional species.
Initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the national restocking activity has been organized annually since 2015, contributing to conserving aquatic biological resources and maintaining biodiversity.
"Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), more than 150 billion larvae have been released across China, which has played a significant supplementary role in restoring the country's marine and freshwater fishery resources. Our monitoring shows that over 90 percent of the Chinese prawns caught in the Bohai Sea each year come from restocking, and over 30 percent of the large yellow croakers caught in the East China Sea are artificially restocked resources. The proportion of Chinese sturgeon released from the Yangtze River Basin into the ocean has exceeded 10 percent," said Yuan Xiaochu, deputy director of the Bureau of Fisheries under China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
China's fishery restocked with release of 1.6 billion larvae of aquatic life
Russia said on Sunday that its forces continued striking Ukraine's port infrastructure and maritime vessels used for the interests of the Ukrainian military, and Ukraine reported on the same day of attacking on a Russian large logistics hub and Russian missile system, according to their latest updates on the conflict.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched air strikes on vessels transporting supplies for the Ukrainian forces located in the port of Odessa, and attacked the unmanned boat production workshop near the port, and the mooring area of Ukrainian patrol boats near the Port of Vylkove.
In the Black Sea waters east of Odessa, the Russian forces attacked a dry cargo ship transporting weapons from Western countries to Ukraine.
In addition, Russian forces carried out cluster strikes on military industrial enterprises in Kyiv, a refinery in Poltava Oblast and a metallurgical plant in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, using land-based and air-based high-precision weapons as well as long-range attack drones.
On the same day, Ukraine's Defense Ministry reported early that morning, Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale drone attack on the logistics hub of Russia's large online retailer Wildberries in the Moscow region.
The logistics hub covers an area of 250,000 square meters and is the largest warehouse facility of Wildberries, said the report.
Seven of the 10 large warehouses of Wildberries have so far been shut down.
The Ukrainian Navy said on the same day that it had struck the Russian Bastion missile system and launch positions deployed in Crimea in the early hours of that day.
For a long time, the Russian military has frequently used the Bastion to launch Oniks supersonic missiles and Zircon hypersonic missiles to attack southern Ukraine and other regions, said the Ukrainian Navy.
Russia claims air strikes on Ukrainian ports, Ukraine reports hitting Russian large logistics hub
Russia claims air strikes on Ukrainian ports, Ukraine reports hitting Russian large logistics hub
