全国政协委员、中国科学院院士曹文宣最近撰文呼吁:西部大开发要贯彻可持续发展战略,不要在赤水河干流修建水电工程,以保护长江上游特有鱼类和赤水河沿岸的优势产业——酿酒业。曹文宣是中国科学院水生生物研究所的研究员,著名的鱼类学家。他介绍说,长江上游是我国淡水鱼类种质资源最为丰富的地区之一,共有鱼类261种,其中仅分布于上游水域的特有鱼类多达112种,占上游鱼类种数的42.9%,所占比例之 Cao Wenxuan, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Chinese Academy of Science, recently wrote an appeal: In the large-scale development of the western region, it is necessary to implement the strategy of sustainable development and not to build hydropower projects in the mainstream of the Chishui River in order to protect the unique fish in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the advantageous industries along the Chishui River - . Cao Wenxuan is a researcher at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a famous fish scientist. He said that the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is one of the most abundant freshwater fish germplasm resources in China. There are 261 species of fish, of which 112 species are endemic to the upper reaches only, accounting for 42.9% of the upper-stream fish species %, The proportion of the