El Niño and Drought and the Mekong Basin
El Niño may have brought some drought relief in parts of the United States in 2016, but the same weather pattern has induced Read More…
Beautiful and endangered
The FISHBIO Laos team caught many different fish species during gill net surveys in Xaysomboun Province, Lao PDR, at the end of 2015, but Read More…
Celebrating Stories of Change
The Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET) celebrated its 10th birthday in January with a daylong meeting that brought together Read More…
Off the beaten path
It has been nearly a year and a half since FISHBIO began working on a collaborative project surveying small wetlands in Cambodia and Read More…
Muddy Buddies
Fish never cease to amaze in their adaptability. FISHBIO did not have high hopes for finding any fish inhabitants when we approached this Read More…
Fish Face: Garra fuliginosa
While it is common for fish biologists to encounter some strange fish throughout our careers (see Got teeth, Jabba the Hutt?, Cute or ugly?, The Read More…
Results of the Mekong Fish Network Pilot Survey
Discussions about work in the Mekong Basin often point to the need for increased communication and collaboration among organizations. One of Read More…
New English translations available of historical French…
The study of fish in the Mekong Basin is an endeavor that stretches back more than 100 years. Dr. Vu Ngoc Ut of Can Tho University in Can Tho, Read More…
A Mekong Symposium at the American Fisheries Society
At the recent American Fisheries Society annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., a full-day symposium titled "Sustaining Diverse Fisheries Read More…
Wetlands coming back to life
It may seem surprising that an interdisciplinary group of researchers spent a week in a Vietnam forest looking for fishes in dry wetlands, but Read More…