Cambodian fishermen on the Mekong River were surprised when they accidentally
A female of one of the largest and rarest fish species in Southeast Asia was accidentally caught last week in the province of Stung Treng. She swallowed a small fish that caught on a baited hook.
As part of the US-funded MiraclesMekong, an international team of experts worked with fishermen to get the stingray off the hook. After he was weighed and measured, and then returned to the river safe and sound.
The Mekong is an important habitat fora huge number of species large and small, but project leader Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada, said the river's underwater ecosystem is poorly understood.
The research team said in a statement,that in the remote place where the stingray was caught, there are pools up to 80 m deep, in which even larger specimens can live. But they also warned that underwater footage shows plastic waste even in the deepest reaches of the Mekong, as well as "ghost nets" cast by fishermen but still able to catch fish.
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