The Three Gorges Dam has been impounded for 20 years, with a depth of over a hundred meters. How big are the fish inside?

Everyone is familiar with the Three Gorges Dam. It is one of the largest water conservancy construction projects in China

Everyone is familiar with the Three Gorges Dam. It is one of the largest water conservancy construction projects in China. Many people may think that the main purpose of the Three Gorges Dam is to generate electricity. In fact, in addition to generating electricity, the Three Gorges Dam is also mainly responsible for flood control, navigation, water resources utilization and other important tasks. Now the Three Gorges Dam has become a famous tourist attraction of the Three Gorges Three Gorges.

Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is a reinforced concrete Gravity dam with a length of 2335m, a height of 185m, a normal water storage level of 175m, a control area of about 1 million Square kilometre of the Yangtze River basin, and a total reservoir capacity of 39.3 billion cubic meters. The Three Gorges Dam has been under construction since 1994 and was first impounded in June 2003. Now that it has been 20 years since the impoundment, one cannot help but ask, how big are the fish inside?

In the Yangtze River water system, there are more than 400 species of Freshwater fish, accounting for 48% of China's Freshwater fish species, including 170 species unique to the Yangtze River. Fishermen on both sides of the Yangtze River have a catchphrase that goes, "A thousand catties of lazi and ten thousand catties of elephant, yellow ribs are too big to look good." This sentence refers to the three types of fish in the Yangtze River.

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Hundreds of large fish in the Three Gorges

In addition to the three kinds of large fish mentioned above, there are many large fish in the Yangtze River, such as the well-known the four famous domestic fishes, and the yellow carp, which can also grow to hundreds of kilograms. A few days ago, a netizen photographed hundreds of fish in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. From the video footage, we can see that these fish are all large fish of hundreds of kilograms, most of which are yellow carp, silver carp and bighead carp.

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Shooting a Shoal of Fish in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Fish Shoal in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

The Yangtze River originates from the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and ends at the east of Chongming Island in Shanghai and flows into the East China Sea. It flows through 11 provinces of China, with a total length of about 6300 kilometers. It has 49 tributaries, mainly the Tuojiang River, the Jialing River, the Wujiang River, the Hanjiang River, the Yalong River, the Minjiang River, the Chishui River, the Ganjiang River, the Qingjiang River, the Xiangjiang River and the Yuanjiang River. The reason why there are so many large fish in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, in addition to the contribution of the national fishing ban policy, is naturally inseparable from the unique ecosystem of the Yangtze River, This has nurtured so many large fish weighing hundreds or even thousands of pounds.

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