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.

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 ...

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

Researchers discovered two new species of snake eels in Vietnam, one with "robust" teeth and one with "sharp" teeth.

A big spike in water levels has been detected along the Mekong River which could threaten the livelihoods of tens of thousands of ... Fisherfolk and farmers have also complained that sudden dam ...

VIENTIANE/BERLIN (dpa): Researchers working in the Mekong ... 15 fish species and three mammals. The new finds bring to 3,623 the species discovered along the huge river since 1997.

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 ...