{"id":11067,"date":"2020-02-22T03:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2020-03-28T06:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T22:55:50","slug":"the-king-of-freshwater-fish-in-china-fails-to-enter-2020-after-being-declared-extinct-by-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.envguide.com\/the-king-of-freshwater-fish-in-china-fails-to-enter-2020-after-being-declared-extinct-by-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;King of Freshwater Fish in China&#8221; fails to enter 2020 after being declared extinct by scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated on: February 21, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11070 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/us.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-768x197.png 768w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-600x154.png 600w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish.png 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><em>Figure 1. A Chinese Paddlefish was found near the Gezhouba Dam of the Yangtze River in 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A research paper, Extinction of one of the world&#8217;s largest freshwater fishes: Lessons for conserving the endangered Yangtze fauna, from <em>Science of the Total Environment<\/em>, an international academic journal, was recently released online in which the Chinese Paddlefish, a rare species in the Yangtze River otherwise known as the \u201cKing of Freshwater Fish in China\u201d, was declared extinct. The corresponding author of this paper is Dr. Wei Qiwei, a chief scientist and researcher of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, and the first author of this paper is Dr. Zhang Hui. The researchers predicted in this paper that the Chinese Paddlefish would become extinct between 2005 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11073 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/us.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-Themed-stamp-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-Themed-stamp-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-Themed-stamp-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-Themed-stamp-600x287.png 600w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Chinese-Paddlefish-Themed-stamp.png 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><em>Figure 2. Chinese-Paddlefish-Themed stamp<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On September 17, 2019, the extinction of the Chinese Paddlefish was confirmed by experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at an academic conference in Hangzhou. These experts stated that this result has been reported to the IUCN office and will be officially updated to the IUCN Red List, the IUCN List of Endangered Species.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Paddlefish had very huge body, it is said that it could grow up to thousands of pounds. It was known as the &#8220;Tiger in Water&#8221; and &#8220;the King of Freshwater Fish in China&#8221;. Ten years ago, in 2009, IUCN made the assessment of the endangered level of Chinese Paddlefish as \u201ccritically endangered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">However, in the past 16 years, the Chinese Paddlefish did not appear despite searches made by\u00a0 fishermen and scientists. According to <em>The Paper<\/em>, on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2003, scientists from the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences rescued a Chinese Paddlefish for what became the last time. They then then released and followed it. Unfortunately, the ship hit a reef later, and the radio signal of the released Chinese Paddlefish disappeared. No one imagined that this would be the last time that the Chinese Paddlefish would be seen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11079 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/us.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/02\/Professor-Wei-Qiwei--300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Professor-Wei-Qiwei--300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Professor-Wei-Qiwei--768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Professor-Wei-Qiwei--600x317.png 600w, https:\/\/www.envguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Professor-Wei-Qiwei-.png 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><em> Figure 3. Professor Wei Qiwei participated in the rescue of the Chinese Paddlefish in the Yangtze River in January 2003<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IUCN\u2019s experts have said that there is no evidence to show that the Chinese Paddlefish still exists. If the Chinese Paddlefish is photographed or captured again, the IUCN will reconsider adjusting its species endangerment level.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rt_heading_wrapper style-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"rt_heading  style-1\" >About EnvGuide<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">EnvGuide, an environmental information &amp; e-commerce\u00a0platform, was developed by the US-China Environmental Education Foundation (UCEEF), sponsored by the US Department of Commerce (USDOC) International Trade Administration (ITA) through its Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) and donations from readers like you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"> The EnvGuide\u00a0platform is a bridge between the United States and China so that environment-related organizations are able to share the industry\u2019s latest environmental advice, technologies, and instrumentation\/equipment application on the platform; US environmental products can be introduced to China.\u00a0\u00a0For more information please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/us.envguide.com\/\">EnvGuide\u00a0Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated on: February 21, 2020 Figure 1. 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