Southeast Asia is renowned for its remarkable rivers and diversity of unique fish species. Although the Mekong and its hundreds of species often steal the spotlight, a neighboring and less well-known river basin rivals its larger cousin in terms of unique fish species.
In this week’s Flashback Friday, take a look at Fish Conservation Zones (FCZs) Management in the Mekong Basin and how FISHBIO helped facilitate collaborative communication amongst stakeholders. Since 2014, FISHBIO […]
Humans have developed an untold number of ways to catch fish, but no matter how many traps, electrofishers, snorkel surveys, and even good ol’ fashioned fishing poles a fisheries biologist may employ, these sampling methods never guarantee the capture of every individual. This can make it difficult to obtain a complete assessment of a fish community. But while fish may evade fykes, hooks, and nets, they still leave telltale traces in the environment in the form of DNA.
While our field activities have been suspended for the next few months, we managed to get a bit of sampling in earlier last month. Today’s Photo Friday is a pretty Sacramento Pikeminnow from an electrofishing survey of the Stanislaus River. We’re definitely looking forward to when we can get back out on the water again!