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Loach Breeding Base

Loach Breeding Base

Villagers set up greenhouses at a loach breeding base to ensure the normal growth of loaches in winter. Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, China on December 2, 2025.

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Loach Breeding Base

Loach Breeding Base

Villagers set up greenhouses at a loach breeding base to ensure the normal growth of loaches in winter. Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, China on December 2, 2025.

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Loach Breeding Base

Loach Breeding Base

Villagers set up greenhouses at a loach breeding base to ensure the normal growth of loaches in winter. Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, China on December 2, 2025.

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Loach Breeding Base

Loach Breeding Base

Villagers set up greenhouses at a loach breeding base to ensure the normal growth of loaches in winter. Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, China on December 2, 2025.

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Loach Breeding Base

Loach Breeding Base

Villagers set up greenhouses at a loach breeding base to ensure the normal growth of loaches in winter. Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, China on December 2, 2025.

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Clown loaches

Clown loaches

Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2024, shows clown loaches at Nagaoka City Teradomari Aquarium in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo.

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Clown loaches

Clown loaches

Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2024, shows clown loaches at Nagaoka City Teradomari Aquarium in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo.

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Children at Yasugi loach festival

Children at Yasugi loach festival

MATSUE, Japan - Children scoop loaches during a loach festival in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, on Sept. 18, 2011. The city known for ''Yasugibushi,'' a folk song and loach-scooping dance, is promoting itself since Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda took office after comparing himself to the fish.

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Crested ibis sanctuary in China

Crested ibis sanctuary in China

BEIJING, China - A farmer is uses cattle to plow a rice field in a sanctuary for crested ibises in Yangxian, Shaanxi Province, in China, on Dec. 22, 2010. The lives of the ibises, which feed on loaches, frogs and insects in rice paddies, depend on farmers in the sanctuary who refrain from using agricultural chemicals.

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Kennedy attempts to catch fish in a net

Kennedy attempts to catch fish in a net

U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, tries to catch pond loaches in Sado, an island on the Sea of Japan, on June 27, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crested ibis sanctuary in China

Crested ibis sanctuary in China

BEIJING, China - A farmer is uses cattle to plow a rice field in a sanctuary for crested ibises in Yangxian, Shaanxi Province, in China, on Dec. 22, 2010. The lives of the ibises, which feed on loaches, frogs and insects in rice paddies, depend on farmers in the sanctuary who refrain from using agricultural chemicals. (Kyodo)

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Children playing in a flume

Children playing in a flume

Children and adults gather to catch river fish and loaches from an irrigation canal. Some of the children have their kimono pulled up to their waist, apparently trying very hard to catch fish.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐1‐2]

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Children at Yasugi loach festival

Children at Yasugi loach festival

MATSUE, Japan - Children scoop loaches during a loach festival in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, on Sept. 18, 2011. The city known for ''Yasugibushi,'' a folk song and loach-scooping dance, is promoting itself since Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda took office after comparing himself to the fish. (Kyodo)

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