China's northernmost province kicks off ice fishing season

Thousands of fish bumped in a giant fish seine, as fishermen pulled the first haul this winter from an ice lake in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Friday　when the winter fishing season started.

The fishing from chiseled ice holes on the Lianhuan Lake in the Mongolian Autonomous County of Dorbod, Heilongjiang, started　the first shot as ice fishing lakes in the country's northernmost province kicked off the harvesting season.

It is reported thatthe first single net of fish weighed about 175,000 kg.

(Reported by Zhao Yuhang; Edited by Qi Yiling)