China News Service, Yueyang, May 15th (Zhang Zhiling and He Yongwang) On May 14th, a small finless porpoise about 40 cm long ran aground on the Nanyangzhou beach in the Yueyang Linxiang section of the Yangtze River. The police from the Lucheng Police Station of the Yueyang Branch of the Public Security Bureau made an emergency rescue and successfully helped the finless porpoise to "go home".

  At about 11:35 on the same day, the maritime police carried out a joint patrol by boat "Haixun 12270". In a shoal in the middle of Nanyangzhou, law enforcement officers found a finless porpoise about 40 cm long stranded on the shoal.

The law enforcement officers took a closer look and found that although the finless porpoise had no skin trauma, it was almost exhausted. It twisted its body with difficulty and wanted to swim to the deep water area. Fear of an accident.

Emergency rescue helped the little finless porpoise "go home".

Photo courtesy of Yueyang Maritime Safety Administration

  The law enforcement officers took off their shoes and socks, rolled up their trouser legs, and gently pushed the finless porpoise into the deep water area.

Due to the strong wind and waves on the Yangtze River that day, the small finless porpoise was slapped by the huge waves to the shallow water area.

If the finless porpoise is not towed to the deep water area in the middle of the river, it is very likely that the danger of stranding will occur again.

  At 12:05, with the joint efforts of everyone, the rescuers successfully guided the finless porpoise into the river, and then found two finless porpoises playing in the water. The rescuers realized that the finless porpoise had "returned home".

In the end, the finless porpoise happily swam to the other finless porpoises, only to see the three finless porpoises jumping up and down from time to time, and sometimes playing with each other. in the sight of rescuers.

So far, the stranded finless porpoise has been successfully rescued.

The little finless porpoise successfully returned to the Yangtze River.

Photo courtesy of Yueyang Maritime Safety Administration

  The finless porpoise is a species endemic to the Yangtze River in China and is a national first-class protected animal. In the case of the overall decline in the number of finless porpoises in the Yangtze River Basin, the Yueyang-Linxiang section of the Yangtze River reproduces the picture of finless porpoises playing in the water, which is not only due to the "ten-year fishing ban" action to protect the species in the Yangtze River. Diversity is inseparable from the “zero discharge” Yueyang plan to systematically control ship pollution, and it is also inseparable from the joint efforts of the entire Yangtze River Basin to control pollution, restore water ecology, and protect wetlands, which fully reflects the remarkable achievements of the Yangtze River protection.

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