The Kinmen County Government selected Taiwu Pond in Taiwu Mountain "in the deep forest" to carry out the "Release of the Conserved Fish Species Chinook's Bream".

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[Reporter Wu Zhengting/Kinmen Report] The Kinmen County Government conducted the "Conservation of the Fish Species Chinensis bream in the wild" at Taiwu Pond in Taiwu Mountain today. , Jinmen National Park Management Office, Jinhu Town Representative Council and other units, jointly released 80 Chinook bream and 10 golden tortoises, which are also listed as conservation animals, mainly to restore Taiwan's only remaining Chinook bream. Bream to build a conservation base.

Yang Zhenwu said that every autumn and winter in the second half of the year is a dry season in Kinmen. In 2020 and 2021, it will face the worst drought in Kinmen in 50 years, which not only affects agricultural irrigation, but also seriously threatens the habitat of native freshwater fish.

In recent years, the county government has not only increased the water storage space and introduced the reclaimed water system, but also carried out the foundation works of the water area under the funding of the Forestry Bureau of the Agricultural Committee. Actions such as removal, and subsequent creation of a primitive habitat, wait until the environment is suitable, and then return the species to the original habitat.

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Li Youzhong, director of the construction department of the county government, said that "Taiwu Pond" was selected as the conservation base because the water area is the upper reaches of Guangqian River, the natural environment is relatively stable, the degree of disturbance to the surrounding environment is low, and it is not easy to be invaded by alien species; Before, in the dry season, all foreign species of fish and garbage in Taiwu Pond have been removed; in the future, if the water conditions are stable, this area will also naturally overflow to the downstream areas such as Longling Lake. The reproduction mechanism gradually increases the number of groups.

Li Youzhong said that the chinook bream (also known as the chinook bream) has been listed as a national protected wild animal. It used to live in freshwater waters, rivers, lakes and swamps in Taiwan, and the survey of native freshwater fish in recent years has been investigated. no trace of it.

Chen Guangyao, a doctoral student at the Ocean University's Institute of Marine Biology who has been tracking the bream in Kinmen for more than 9 years, said that the bream was once regarded as a mysterious fish that disappeared for 100 years and its origin was a mystery. To the hand-painted images; he said that the bream is one of the few low-altitude fish species that has the function of ecological indicators; only the last survey record on Taiwan's mainland was recorded in 1920, by Japanese biologist Oshima Masato. Collected in Linluo Township, Pingtung County, it was found that there was no trace of the giant bream in more than 100 years, and it was completely extinct on the main island of Taiwan.

Chen Guangyao said that apart from his continuous tracking and repopulation in Kinmen, there are only a few unstable ethnic groups in the waters of Kinmen Island.

Kinmen County Mayor Yang Zhenwu (first from the right) and other representatives from various units jointly released the conservation fish species Chinook bream in Taiwu Pond of Taiwu Mountain.

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Kinmen County Mayor Yang Zhenwu (first from the right) and other representatives from various units released wild beetles for conservation animals at Taiwu Pond in Taiwu Mountain.

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Chen Guangyao, a doctoral student at the Institute of Marine Biology at Ocean University, said that the chinook bream was once regarded as a mysterious fish that disappeared for 100 years and its origin was a mystery. In the past, only hand-painted images could be seen in fish illustrations.

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Yang Zhenwu (left), the mayor of Kinmen County, said that the county government hopes to build Taiwu Pond into a conservation base for the bream species of Larix chinensis.

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