Patrol staff stop a fishing boat on the Yangtze River in Yibin, Sichuan province, in January 2021.[Photo provided by Zhuang Geer/For China Daily]
China has made notable progress in improving water quality and ecology, and restoring biodiversity in the Yangtze River Basin, since a 10-year fishing ban took effect in certain stretches of the Yangtze, China's longest river, on Jan 1, 2021.
Juvenile fish are released into a tributary of the Yangtze River in Nanchong, Sichuan province, to help aquatic species recover.[Photo provided by Liu Yonghong/For China Daily]