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Mekong Giant CatfishEducational resources on Mekong Giant CatfishMekong Giant Catfish or Pangasianodon gigas is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A4bcde. IUCN Profile of the Mekong Giant Catfish Search Is On For World's Biggest Freshwater Fish The Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is considered the most endangered fish in Southeast Asia. Last year the World Conservation Union classified the species as critically www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/largecat2004.html Fun Facts For addition pictures of the Mekong Giant Catfish, visit the National Geographic gallery. For the full story, visit National Geographic News. courses.unt.edu/mburleson/Fun%20Facts.htm Scientists Hunt For Big Freshwater Fish The Mekong giant catfish — which shares the title of largest freshwater fish with a close relative, the dog-eating catfish — was listed as critically endangered last year after www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/largest2004.html The Imperiled Giants of the Mekong T he Guinness Book of World Record s lists the Mekong giant catfish as Earth's largest freshwater fish. This species ( Pangasianodon gigas) , which grows as fast as a bulland looks genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/Publications/Hogan%20Am%20Sci.pdf Zeb Hogan Status and Conservation of Mekong Giant Catfish in the Tonle Sap River, Cambodia; Genetics of Captive-bred Mekong Giant Catfish Pangasianodon gigas genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/People/Alumni/ZebHogan/default.htm UC Davis Magazine, Summer 2004: Big Fish By Sylvia Wright . Graduate student Zeb Hogan works to save the world’s largest freshwater fish—the Mekong giant catfish—and raise the alarm about www-ucdmag.ucdavis.edu/issues/su04/feature_3.html New Page 1 [tiger.towson.edu] The Mekong giant catfish is one of the world's largest freshwater fish. It's up to three meters long. Numbers have dropped by 80 percent in just 13 years because of humans. tiger.towson.edu/users/ebrank1/virtualfieldtrip/VirtualFieldTrippage1.htm The Imperiled Giants of the Mekong Mekong giant catfish (Pangasian-odon gigas) is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. This 153-kilogram specimen weighs roughly half as much as some of the biggest known wfcb.ucdavis.edu/www/Faculty/Peter/petermoyle/publications/MekongCatfish.pdf Overfishing Is Emptying World's Rivers, Lakes, Experts Warn The river is home to the Mekong giant catfish—believed to be the world's largest freshwater fish—and various other huge but increasingly threatened species. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/riverslakes2005.html Giant Catfish Protected From Fishing In Thailand ..."[This] is the most significant development in the conservation of the Mekong giant catfish in the last ten years," said Zeb Hogan, an associate research biologist at the Mekong www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/giantcat2006.html
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