About 150,000 Tibetan endemic fishes were released into the Yarlung Zangbo River in southeast Tibet's Nyingchi Prefecture on June 24. [Photo/ Chinatibetnews]

About 150,000 Tibetan endemic fishes were released into the Yarlung Zangbo River in southeast Tibet's Nyingchi Prefecture on June 24.

The releasing activity was held in Mailing County of Lyingchi and the Schizothorax o'connori, a kind of native fish species, were released into the river to promote biological resource multiplication.

According to local authorities, 1.060 million fishes have been released into Yarlung Zangbo and Nyang rivers since 2009.

Supported by the provincial marine and fisheries department of southeastern China's Fujian, Tibet started to breed endemic fishes artificially in Nyingchi in 2009.

In 2009, 130,000 artificially cultivated schizothorax o'connori were firstly released into river at the confluence point of Nyang River and Yarlung Zangbo River.

In 2010, 500,000 more endemic fishes were released.

In the meanwhile, the regional animal husbandry station also started breeding native fish, later releasing 25,000 fishes into Lhasa River in 2010 and another 300,000 including schizopygopsis younghusbandi, oxygymnocypris stewartii and other kinds of fish.