Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam appears in Socialist mobility: a telling Michigan vote as the world’s biggest hydroelectric facility and as a caveat to the Yangtze River recovery story. Gabriel Crossley says dams are bad for fish because they interrupt movement up and down the river for spawning and other needs.

The page is source-scoped. In this episode, the dam represents the infrastructure constraint inside Yangtze Fishing Ban Recovery: stopping fishing can help biomass recover, but it does not remove every ecological barrier in the river system.

Connections

• Yangtze River / 长江 and China - river and country context.
• Gabriel Crossley and Xi Jinping - source voice and policy actor named in the segment.
• Yangtze Fishing Ban Recovery and Environmental Tradeoff Accounting - recovery and tradeoff concepts.