Chinanews, Guangzhou, Nov. 24 ¨C According to Chongqing Morning News, several fishers in Chongqing claimed on Wednesday that they had captured a wild Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River. Such sturgeon had never appeared in the region for several years.

The 35-cm sturgeon has been sent to a local submarine species protection center. It will be sent back into the river after experts examine on it.

The Chinese sturgeon is a first-class national-protected animal in China, and a large sturgeon can be as long as 20 meters. Because of the building of hydroelectric power station, the sturgeons have lost their inhabitants, so artificial reproductions has been introduced.

Ma Longhua, a local fishery official, took the sturgeon to the center. He revealed that it should be a wild Chinese sturgeon.