Chinanews, Guangzhou, Nov. 24 – According to Chongqing Morning News, several fishers in Chongqing claimed on Wednesday that they had captured a wild Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River. Such sturgeon had never appeared in the region for several years. The 35-cm sturgeon has been sent to a local submarine species protection center. It will be sent back into the river after experts examine on it. The Chinese sturgeon is a first-class national-protected animal in China, and a large sturgeon can be as long as 4 meters. Because of the building of hydroelectric power station, the sturgeons have lost their inhabitants, so artificial reproductions has been introduced. Ma Longhua, a local fishery official, took the sturgeon to the center. He revealed that it should be a wild Chinese sturgeon.