This giant catfish caught in May of 2005 was 9 feet long and weighed 646 lbs - more than 5 times the size of the world record catfish caught in North America. It's official! The newworld record holder for the biggest freshwater fish is the Giant Mekong catfish(Pangasius gigas). The b...
This is the world's largest freshwater fish ever documented. 这是有记录以来,世界上最大的淡水鱼。 The 300kg stingray was caught in Cambodia's Mekong river. 这条重达300公斤的黄貂鱼是在柬埔寨的湄公河中被捕获的。 The previous record-holder was a Mekong giant catfish weighing 293kg, caught i...
Mekong seems to have more giant fish than any other river in the world. The lake is filled during the rains and the fish feed in the flooded forests and grasslands. In the dry season, the lake shrinks dramatically and catfish along with millio...
PHNOM PENH, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The world's largest freshwater fish, a 661-pound (300-kilogram) giant stingray, has been found near a remote island in the Mekong River in northeast Cambodia's Stung Treng province, according to a Wonders of the Mekong's press statement released late on ...
The legendary quarter-ton giant Mekong catfish has been fished virtually to extinction, but other freshwater species form the staple diet of some 30 million people. And the fertile silt brought downriver with the rains has made the Mekong's floodplain the ricebasket of Southeast Asia. Punctuated...
steep drop in the flow of water to those living downstream. Nonn Panitvong, an adviser to the Green World Foundation, said plans to build several dams along the Mekong, would transform the river, the world’s second-most biodiverse river after the Amazon, “into a giant freshwater pond”...
When the monsoon rains arrive, they normally produce a flood that brings with it sediments (沉积物) to agriculture as well as enormous amounts of larvae (幼虫) and tiny fish, including many endangered species, such as the Mekong giant catfish, that are swept into the Tonle Sap Lake where...
The previous record-holder for the largest freshwater fish on earth was a 646-pound (293-kilogram) Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005, it added. According to the statement, recognizing the importance of his catch, the fisher quickly contacted a team from the Wonders of the Mekon...
So far, this approach has been successfully used to monitor the effect of a dam on the fish community in a reservoir in Laos [25], and to track the presence of emblematic fish species, such as the Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas [26] or the clown featherback, Chitala ...
So far, this approach has been successfully used to monitor the effect of a dam on the fish community in a reservoir in Laos [25], and to track the presence of emblematic fish species, such as the Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas [26] or the clown featherback, Chitala ...