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Migratory freshwater fish are in steep decline due to pressures along their paths, including dams, altered flows, habitat degradation, pollution and unsustainable fishing. Restoring rivers and habitats cannot wait. Read the #CMSFreshwaterFishes report: www.cms.int/publication/...

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Impressive as It is, the 81% decilne is an understimation, becauae the 1970 baseline covers only a narrow time Windows By 1970 some migratory fish, such the Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, were already almost completely gone @ebdonana.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chik...

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social

Over 20 female Atlantic sturgeons, Acipenser sturio (sollo in Spanish), await alive for caviar extraction in the Villa Pepita facilities in Coria del Río (Sevilla) The factory was established in 1932 and closed in 1970, due to (or driving) the extinction of the species in the Guadalquivir River