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An Asian catfish
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), June, 2004
An Asian catfish as big as a bear may disappear in the near future, warn University of California, Davis, conservation biologists Zeb Hogan and Peter Moyle from their research base in Cambodia. Pangasianodon gigas, which grows to 10 feet long and 650 pounds, is a migratory species in the rivers of Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
On the Mekong River at Chiang Khong, Thailand, 30 fish were caught in 1995, seven in 1997, two in 1998 and none in 2000 and 2001. "The giant catfish and other fish in this diverse ecosystem are ... threatened by the construction of hydropower dams and other problems," Moyle note.
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