The Chinese sturgeon is classified as the national first class key protection catalogue, it is the oldest vertebrate on the earth, it is a descendant of fish s common ancestor s ancient sour jujube fish, that was more than 140 million years ago, have the title of living fossil, it is the biggest and most long-lived fish in the freshwater fish. The adult Chinese sturgeon is as long as more than four meters, weight exceeds very heavily.
Because of the construction of the well known the Changjiang River Ge Zhou Ba project, have stopped breaking Chinese sturgeon s egg-producing migration passway. For not making human production and construction influence the existence of the fish, in 1982, adopted the fish expert s suggestion, the appointed national related departments have examined and approved and established the professional organization which gives first aid the Chinese sturgeon Research institute of Chinese sturgeon of Ge Zhou Ba.
The research institute throws in Chinese sturgeon s specification young sturgeon more than 300,000 to the Changjiang River every year. Since breeding manually for the first time in 1984, have already put 4,440,000 into the young sturgeons of Chinese sturgeon of different specifications to the Changjiang River totally, 6500 blusher fingerlings of the big specification put and flow.
Chinese sturgeon s garden lies in the brook tower of Yichang, it is a fixed tourist unit, set up sturgeon s hall, sample hall, crocodile s hall, the Shui nationality long corridor,etc. in the garden. The sturgeon shows that there are kings of fish of the Changjiang River of extinct plants and animal in the hall Chinese sturgeon, kisses the sturgeon, Russian sturgeon, Heilongjiang history sturgeon and the hybrid sturgeon of the advantage grows most in and the American spoon.
The crocodile is reptile Chinese alligators, large-scale wild animal gulf crocodiles of first-grade state protection in the hall; There is country second that protects water animal s giant salamander, blusher fish in the garden. Sanxia fishing village Suitable for visitor s having a trial test the aquatic products of the Changjiang River.