In 2020, a fisherman in Cambodia caught a ginormous fish but did not know what it was. Rumors that the Mekong ghost still lurked in the river started to form. When researchers analyzed photos of ...

The bumper catch in the Mekong River Basin has boosted hopes of a revival of the critically endangered species, which is among the world's largest freshwater fish. Fishermen released the fish ...

During their surveys, the team found several unfamiliar-looking brown eels, the study said. They took a closer look at the ...

And though aquaculture is already widely practiced along the Mekong—in many houseboats a trapdoor leads to a watery pen of farmed fish—those fish are fed with smaller wild fish from the river.

The giant freshwater stingray (urogymnus polylepis) was classified as globally endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2021. An ...

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The captured fish were apparently migrating from their floodplain habitats near Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake northward along the Mekong River, likely to spawning grounds in northern Cambodia ...

Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as snake eels, according to a study published March 13 in the peer-reviewed ...

details the extraordinary variety of fish species in the Mekong river. These dazzlingly diverse fishes are critical for the health, food security and livelihoods of tens of millions people across the ...

Juvenile fish normally protected in the river’s ... “The biggest challenge for the Mekong River is really the cumulative development of all these projects,” said Ms Courtney Weatherby ...

A team of intrepid swimmers have embarked on a courageous mission to draw attention to the plight of the Kingdom’s endangered ...