The Mekong giant catfish is woven into the region's cultural fabric, depicted in 3,000-year-old cave paintings, revered in folklore and considered a symbol of the river, whose fisheries feed ...

The survival of the giant catfish—one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world—underscores the urgent need to protect the river's free-flowing connectivity, a statement by the ...

Six critically endangered Mekong giant catfish, weighing up to 287 pounds each, were recently discovered and released back into the Mekong River Basin. This unprecedented event offers hope for the ...

Four of the six adult Mekong giant catfish were in the Mekong River and the other two were in the Tonle Sap River near Phnom Penh, the capital. All six were spotted within the span of five days ...

In this photo released by Zeb Hogan, USAID Wonders of the Mekong Project, people hold a Mekong giant catfish to release it in Mekong River in Kampong Cham, Cambodia on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (Zeb ...

the current population of the giant Mekong catfish is unknown but it is thought to have declined by around 80% in the past 13 years. They now are only found in some stretches of the Mekong River ...

Conservationists in Cambodia on Friday celebrated the discovery of six highly endangered Mekong giant catfish in the critical Southeast Asian waterway plagued by illegal fishing, habitat loss and ...