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Mekong Dams Threaten Extinction of Giant Catfish

19 June 2013
Radio Free Asia
Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Infrastructure / Rivers and lakes / Transport and shipping / Water resources / Waterways and ports
Chinese aid / construction / Dams / Electricity / endangered species / environmental damage / Environmental Protection / Eric Baran / Fish / fish migration / fish passages / Fish Spawning / Fishing / Fishing ban / fishing yields / floodplains / freshwater fish / Giant Mekong Catfish Catfish / Global Freshwater Programme / Hydropower dams / illegal fishing / Infrastructure / Laos / Mekong Basin / Mekong river / Mekong River Commission / MRC / overfishing / rivers / Thailand / tributaries / tributary rivers / University of Nevada / World Fish Centre / World Wildlife Fund / WWF / WWF’s Global Freshwater Programme / Xayaburi dam / Zeb Hogan

The elusive Mekong giant catfish, which the U.S.-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called “one of the world’s largest and rarest freshwater fish,” can reach up to three meters (10 feet) and weigh up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). The Xayaburi dam would prove an “impassable barrier” ...

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/dams-06192013184629.html

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