Can the “10-year fishing ban” rescue biodiversity of the Yangtze River?

• Haijun Wang,
• Puze Wang,
• Chi Xu,
• Yanfeng Sun,
• Lei Shi,
• Long Zhou,
• Erik Jeppesen,
• Jun Chen,
• Ping Xie

Affiliations

Haijun Wang

Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China

Puze Wang

Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China

Chi Xu

School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210033, China

Yanfeng Sun

Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China

Lei Shi

Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China

Long Zhou

Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China

Erik Jeppesen

Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg 8600, Denmark; Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research, Beijing 100039, China; Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Turkey

Jun Chen

Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China

Ping Xie

Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; Corresponding author