The region, including parts of Vietnam and five other countries, is home to 1,068 species found between ... that have been constructed along the Mekong river, and another 150 are slated to be ...

The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as ...

the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have plummeted so dramatically that the species is on the brink of ...

and invasive species. Nowhere are these challenges more potentially damaging than within Southeast Asia’s multicountry Mekong River system—the world’s biggest freshwater fishery. There ...

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Also known by its scientific name Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, the fish is an invasive species originating from the Mekong river basin. MBSA posted about the event on its Facebook page ...

Trawlers looked at their net; they’d caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City several times in 2023 to search for a group of fish known as snake ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and Global Water Center, in tandem with 24 other local, regional and global Mekong-based organizations, details the extraordinary variety of ...