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.
