The 300-kilogram barbed sled broke the previous record, with a 293-kilogram sled caught in Thailand in 2005. catfish.
The Mekong River is rich in biodiversity, but overfishing, dams and pollution threaten its fragile ecosystem. The river writes flowing from the Tibetan Plateau through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam BBC.
It lives in the rivers and lakes of six continents giant fish Biologist Zeb Hogan, who leads the Nature Conservation Project for the Wonders of the Mekong, said that in his 20 years of research, it is the largest freshwater fish we have encountered or documented anywhere in the world.
Finding and documenting this fish is fascinating and hopeful because it happened in the Mekong, a river that currently faces many challenges.
Hogan, a professor at the University of Nevada, added.
The conservation project, in collaboration with the Cambodian Fisheries Authority, will establish a network of fishermen who will inform researchers if they catch huge or endangered fish. On the night of June 13, a local fisherman from the island of Koh Preah contacted researchers to catch a “very large” sled, which turned out to be:
It is 3.98 meters long and 2.2 meters wide.
After the sled was equipped with an acoustic beacon to track its future movement, it was released back into the river. Giant freshwater ski endangered Ocean. This is the second giant sled the team has seen since May – but the previous one weighed “only” 181 pounds.
(Cover Photo: Chhut Chheana / Wonder of the Mekong / Handout / Reuters)
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