The Three Gorges Reservoir has been stored for 20 years and has become a 'paradise' for freshwater fish. How big is the largest fish today?

Everyone is familiar with the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. It is one of the largest hydropower stations in the world. It is 185 meters high and covers an area of ​​1084 square kilometers. Since the water storage in 2003, it has become a paradise for fish. .

So the question is, the dam has been storing water for nearly 20 years, and fishing has been banned for more than ten years. So how big is the biggest fish in it now?

According to statistics, there are 424 species of fish in the Yangtze River, among which there are 183 species of unique fish such as grass carp, silver carp, carp, crucian carp and so on! These fish are more common, and the rarest one is the Chinese sturgeon.

The Chinese sturgeon has a very long life cycle, with a life span of up to more than 40 years. It is also known as a living fossil and a giant panda in water. Because of its huge size, it has always been called the king of fish. According to records: people found The heaviest Chinese sturgeon ever, his weight can reach more than 700 kilograms, and his body length is more than 3.3 meters.

In addition to Chinese sturgeon, some fishermen have caught a herring that is more than two meters long and weighs 526 kilograms. Some people have also caught a 2.18 meters long and weighed 120 kilograms of darter's carp from the Yangtze River. This shows that , There are not many huge fish in the Yangtze River.

So since the fish in the Yangtze River are so big, how big are the fish in the reservoir? No one knows about this problem. After all, it is impossible to drain the reservoir for this purpose. Let's compare them one by one!

But according to what we said above, the largest one in the reservoir should be the Chinese sturgeon, which weighs 700 kilograms and is 3.3 meters long, followed by the silver carp found in the Mekong River, which weighs 293 kilograms more, and then the herring , grass carp, carp, now people catch the largest herring up to 218 kilograms, and the rest can reach more than 150 kilograms.