Fish farming on dry land nets multiple catches

To support his family of five, Deng Zhongzheng used to spend day and night on the Qingjiang River tending to his floating fish farm. Braving wind and rain, he could hardly spare a single day away from his 30 cages of sturgeons.

If business was good, he could make more than 100,000 yuan ($13,800) a year, but if it was bad, floods could rob him of his entire school of fish.

However, Deng's life living at the mercy of the weather changed in 2016 after the government in Yidu, Hubei province, ordered all floating fish farms to operate onshore.