UN Summit Highlights 81% Decline in Migratory Freshwater Fish Populations
A UN summit on migratory species has opened, with scientists highlighting that nearly half of these species are in decline. A new UN assessment specifically found an 81% decline in migratory freshwater fish populations over the last 50 years, prompting calls for protection.
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Decline in migratory fish populations prompts fight for protection
The UN assessment of the state of migratory freshwater fish revealed an 81% decline in the last 50 years.
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Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81% “It’s very hard to imagine what’s going on beneath the water when you look at a river – but you have billions of fish making these epic migrations, some of the largest animal migrations on Earth,” said Dr Zeb Hogan, at the University of Nevada in the US. The longest migration of any freshwater fish species is the dorado catfish, which makes a migration of 7,000 miles (11,000km), fr...
By Damian Carrington Environment editor
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