Shishou (石首市）is a city with more than 100 000 inhabitants in Jingzhou prefecture of Hubei province of the People's Republic of China. Shishou is in the South of Hubei province, which borders Hunan province. Shishou City National Baiji Reserve for dolphins is nearby. Shishou also is the name of a river flowing to Yangtze River. Shishou was occupied by Japanese troops in 1943. Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hebei Hubei (Chinese: 湖北; pinyin: Húběi; Wade-Giles: Hu-pei, also seen as Hupeh), abbreviated to 鄂 (pinyin: È, WG: O), a province of the Peoples Republic of China, lies to the north of the Dongting Lake, giving it the... Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan and Henan Hunan (湖南; pinyin: Húnán) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the Dongting Lake (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is sometimes called... Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Yangtze River (Chinese: 扬子江; pinyin: ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in...
Shishou Prison
Shishou Prison is a prison with an area of about 10,100 sq. m. .
External link
Government website (in Chinese) (http://www.shishou.gov.cn/)
Second, a group of about ten Finless Porpoises was introduced into the Shishou reserve several years ago to test the feasibility of raising a population of marine mammals in the facility.
Most importantly, the Shishou reserve has successfully housed a small population of Finless Porpoises for several years, while two Finless Porpoises introduced into the Tongling reserve did not survive.
Shishou is such an ideal site for a marine mammal reserve, however, that the status of the Finless Porpoises currently in the reserve has become problematic.
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