Mekong Adventures with the ARIS
The Mekong River is a challenging place for fisheries research due to its turbid waters, dynamic hydrology, and the often remote location of sampling sites. These challenges Read More…
Mekong River
River Legends: The Irrawaddy River Dolphin
Legends tell of a goddess who lived in the Yangtze River in China. The goddess in these tales is really the Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), a freshwater dolphin Read More…
Bringing Conservation Full Circle
Sometimes it takes a while to see an idea become a reality. We first started working with local fishers in the villages of Ang Noi and Sakai Read More…
Documenting Diversity in Fisheries of the Nam Kading River
Inland small-scale fisheries are notoriously difficult to survey, and as a consequence, their catch is often underestimated or unreported. This is the case in Lao PDR, where Read More…
Film Friday: Catching Fish, Collecting Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLDwuTKJGg&t Today's Film Friday highlights a participatory research project we conducted with fishermen in Laos. With support from the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, we trained Read More…
Film Friday: The Nakasng Fish Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ct-d-X6OY Today's Film Friday is a look at bustling Nakasang Fish Landing, located on the Mekong River in Laos near the border with Cambodia. This site is Read More…
Connected Rivers: Fish Migration in the Mekong Basin
The Mekong River is rich with fish, supporting more than 850 species. As the main freshwater artery of Southeast Asia, the Mekong plays an important role in Read More…
A Fish Conservation Zone Blessing
As our efforts to establish a Fish Conservation Zone (FCZ) at Kengmai Rapids in Laos drew to a close, we marked the milestone with a ceremony, a Read More…
Retracing migrations of Mekong River mud carp
When researchers want to understand where a fish spends its time, they often use tagging techniques to track the fish’s movements, like a detective tailing a suspect Read More…
Riverside gardens
The months of March and April are the height of the dry season in Laos. No rain breaks the persistent heat and the air is hazy with Read More…