Two female college students recently dressed themselves in mermaid costumes at a reservoir to raise people’s awareness of sustainable fishing and call for fishing halt in the closed fishing season in Xichuan County of Henan province in central China.

They also freed captive fishes on a boat. All fishing activities are banned from March to June as it is the breeding season for fishes in the reservoir, which is the water source of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion project.