Despite pollution and heavy fishing pressure ... delta fields and feeds fish throughout the Mekong system—which extends beyond the river itself. The boats that fish its enormously productive ...

The rare catch can grow up to 4 feet and weigh more than 66 pounds. Scientists stunned after reeling in mammoth creature once ...

The Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia ... It is being threatened by overfishing, climate change, sand mining, industrial pollution, and the construction of hydropower dams.

But the plight of the fish also spotlights the perils facing all migratory species in the Mekong, which faces industrial pollution and overfishing. More than 700 dams are built along the river and its ...

River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main ... it also faces threats that range from pollution to wetland destruction and overfishing. Of these, it is the ...

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 ...

A 300kg (661lb) stingray caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia is the biggest ... The Mekong is rich in biodiversity but overfishing, dams and pollution threaten its fragile ecosystem.

These fish are threatened with habitat fragmentation, industrial pollution, and overfishing. Many millions of people depend on the Mekong River for sustenance, and river catfish have long been ...

Cambodia has jailed 10 environmental activists who had sounded the alarm on river pollution for plotting against the government - a case critics have decried as politically motivated. Members of ...

This is because pollution, dams, shipping and bycatch have taken their ... This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation in the Mekong River. The initiative will ...

But the plight of the fish also spotlights the perils facing all migratory species in the Mekong, which faces industrial pollution and overfishing. More than 700 dams are built along the river and ...