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China’s Yangtze fish-rescue plan is a failure, study says

Researchers have debated the best management plan for highly endangered fish species since the 1980s.
  1. Xiaoying You

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Five fish species, including the iconic Chinese sturgeon, have gone extinct, or will soon be extinct, because of dams on the Yangtze River in China, according to a paper released on 10 May in Science Advances1. The findings have reignited a long-running debate among Chinese scientists about the best way to rescue the species in the Yangtze, with some saying that the analysis is flawed.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01444-3

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