In the early 1990s, scientists fished the Mekong River on the hunt for a massive fish. The species was known by local fishers, but it wasn’t until 1991 that it was formally described in the ...

or Sesan River. The Sesan originates in Vietnam and meets the Mekong about 30 miles downstream from the Don Sahong. It’s known to be a key migration route for dozens of fish species, including ...

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The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as ...

details the extraordinary variety of fish species in the Mekong river. These dazzlingly diverse fishes are critical for the health, food security and livelihoods of tens of millions people across the ...

Trawlers looked at their net; they’d caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City several times in 2023 to search for a group of fish known as snake ...