Chinese-Russian Biologists Release Nearly 500,000 Young Sturgeon into the Amur River

When the BBC visited China's frigid northeastern province of Heilongjiang (Black Dragon River) in 2008 hoping to catch a glimpse of the river's famous giant sturgeon, the English documentarians learned that there were no more giant sturgeon—that the Black Dragon River had been chronically overfished. Yet as China's economic advancements led to greater and greater