More than 1,100 species of fish call the Mekong home, making it the third most species-rich river anywhere in the world after the Amazon and Congo basins. Unlike these areas, however, the Mekong ...

Basa fish, a white fish native to Southeast Asia, is a tricky fish to properly source in the U.S. These tips will help you ...

estimates of the decline are based on the fall in the number of fish caught. Some experts think there may be only a few hundred, or even fewer, adults left in the Mekong River. Overfishing is 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.

Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting freshwater species and their habitats, ecologists argue.

were recently discovered and released back into the Mekong River Basin. This unprecedented event offers hope for the species' revival, as conservationists gain crucial information about their ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mekong river runs through six countries According ... The WWF reckons 800 species of fish and one of the largest remaining populations of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, live there.

A newborn Irrawaddy dolphin was sighted by conservationists in Stung Treng province’s Siem Bok district on Thursday (Jan 23).