CHINA’S Three Gorges dam isn’t fully operational yet, but it is already threatening one of the world’s biggest fisheries in the East China Sea. A drop in the amount of fresh water and sediment reaching the sea is to blame.
The dam, which is the largest in the world, sits about 2000 kilometres upstream of the mouth of the Yangtze river, which empties into the East China Sea. The dam’s mammoth reservoir was partially filled for the first time in June 2003.
Gwo-Ching Gong and colleagues at the National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung, Taiwan, have been monitoring the ecosystem…
