Funds from the European Union covered 67pc of the costs of the project and Hungarian co-financing provided the remaining amount.

The seven-year gene conservation project, involving the reintroduction of 1.6m sturgeon fry into the Danube and its tributaries, is a European strategic response to save critically endangered sturgeon species living in the Danube water system, MATE said.

Photo: MATE

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Source: MTI – Hungary’s national news agency since 1881.

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