Nowadays, fishing is completely banned in the Yangtze River Basin, and the lack of wild fish resources in the Yellow River Basin has attracted more and more attention, especially the emergence and disappearance of some rare fish, which often become a hot spot on the Internet...
For example, a fishing enthusiast in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, accidentally caught a pike fish that was "thought to have disappeared for decades" when he was on the local river road, causing a lot of attention and heated discussion.....
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Once the Yellow River pike also belonged to the "overlord" level predators, occupying the top of the food chain, but in recent decades, the Yellow River pike has basically disappeared...
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > releasing pikes is controversial</h1>
After taking a souvenir photo, the angler also put the "rare" pike back into the river – catch and release is a common practice in the current fishing circle, especially among Lua fishing enthusiasts.
However, this practice of "putting the pike back into the river" has aroused many people's complaints and questions on the Internet, believing that "the pike is a fierce carnivorous fish, and releasing it is suspected of destroying the ecology of the Yellow River..."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > can pike be released? </h1>
The answer is of course, although the pike is a ferocious predatory fish, it is an authentic "native fish" and an "indigenous fish" of the Yellow River.
In fact, friends who understand the ecological changes of the Yellow River may know that only a few decades ago, wild pike populations in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River were infested, and there were many of them.
Pike was originally a common fish species – infographic
Therefore, releasing pike fish back into the river is not ecological destruction.....
Does the appearance of pike in the zhengzhou river indicate the re-"recovery" of the Yellow River pike?
In fact, the pike fish caught by this Zhengzhou fishing friend in the river is most likely an artificially farmed "aquatic product"...
There are not many pikes in Zhengzhou
In fact, according to The Yangtze River Jun, the breeding of pike fish in Zhengzhou is not a new thing, and it is mainly concentrated in some black pits and paid fish ponds for people to fish (it is said that there are dog fish ponds near the garden mouth of Zhengzhou).
Like the above Luya enthusiast in the river caught pike, most likely from a similar fish pond, of course, it is also possible that someone deliberately released into the river.....
(The Release of life in the Zhengzhou section of the Yellow River is frequent, and there are even nearby compatriots who "regularly" go to the Yellow River to "pick up fish")
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > is it possible for the Yellow River wild pike population to reappear? </h1>
Theoretically, of course, it is possible, after all, in recent decades, the climate environment of the entire Yellow River Basin has not changed much, and many sections of the middle and upper reaches of the river are still suitable for pikes to inhabit.
In fact, in these decades, the biggest change in the Yellow River is actually the overall water quality environment and ecosystem in the Yellow River, and pike, as the predator at the top of the Yellow River's food chain, when the underlying ecological structure changes, it is naturally the most affected...
Therefore, as long as in the future, the water quality of the Yellow River and various types of aquariums and fish schools slowly flourish and enrich, the return of pike fish is not too much of a problem.
Nowadays, China's pike fish are mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other regions - data map
At that time, everyone will have the opportunity to see this kind of "former overlord" in the Yellow River, and even catch them in the Yellow River themselves...
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