Morning Post June 18 news Recently, a netizen shot a video of a chance encounter with a "living fossil" Wenchang fish while rushing to the sea in Qingdao recently attracted everyone's attention. The reporter learned from the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences and the Qingdao Municipal Ocean Development Bureau that according to the video content, it was confirmed that it was Wenchang fish. Qingdao sea area is the world-famous Wenchang fish habitat and breeding ground, built Wenchang fish aquatic wildlife municipal nature reserve.
Yuan Wei, assistant researcher of the National Marine Fishery Biological Germplasm Resource Bank Research and Development Center of the Yellow Sea Institute, introduced that Wenchang fish has a slender body, sharp ends, resembles a fish but is not a fish, and its body is flattened and translucent, which belongs to the national second-level protected animal. Due to the transitional type of invertebrates to vertebrates that have lived on Earth for more than 500 million years in the evolutionary system, are models of the ancestors of vertebrates, and have been called "living fossils in the history of biological evolution".
According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Ocean Development Bureau, in China, Wenchang fish is distributed in Qingdao, Xiamen, The Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea and other places. Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay mouth and Qianhai sea is the world-famous Wenchang fish habitat and breeding ground, according to the Yellow Sea Institute in the spring of 2017 survey, its habitat density reached 40 fish per square meter.
Qingdao Wenchang Fish Aquatic Wildlife Municipal Nature Reserve was approved in 2004 to establish a nature reserve with the main purpose of protecting Wenchang fish and its habitat and protecting and restoring biodiversity in the area, integrating species protection, scientific research, publicity and education. The reserve is located outside the mouth of Jiaozhou Bay, northeast of Zhucha Island, and east of Daqiao Island, with an area of 61. 81 km². At present, the protected area is divided into core area, buffer zone and experimental area. The core area is strictly monitored and cared for, and sand mining, fishing and other activities that may affect the survival of Wenchang fish are prohibited; illegal fishing and sand mining activities are prohibited in the buffer zone; and controlled teaching internships, scientific research expeditions and sightseeing tours can be carried out in the experimental area after approval by the management department of the protected area.
(Guanhai News/Qingbao all-media reporter Li Xunxiang)
Source: Qingdao Morning Post