The abandoned boats lie on the dried lake bed of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province December 9, 2019. ― Reuters pic
On January 1 2020, China will ban fishing in environmentally sensitive regions along the Yangtze, China’s longest river, and by the start of 2021, fishing throughout the Poyang itself will be prohibited for at least 10 years. The government says excessive fishing has brought stocks down to perilously low levels and put endangered species under threat, including China’s last surviving river mammal, the Yangtze finless porpoise.
“The Three Gorges is blocking off all the water,” said Zhang Yingsheng, a 59-year-old fisherman picking clams from the edge of the lake. “Every winter is like this now, but this year is especially low because of the drought.” According to policy plans seen by Reuters, the local government is already working to reduce mining activity in the Poyang after banning it in the Yangtze River two decades ago.
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