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PHNOM PENH-A The 300kg freshwater stingray (Urogymnus polylepis) – present in Koh Preah Municipality, Stung Treng Province on the Mekong River in 2022 – has been formally acknowledged by the Guinness World Data because the world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, in accordance with Wonders of the Mekong.
Wonders of the Mekong, a conservation group supported by the USA Company for Worldwide Improvement, gave the ray an acoustic tag referred to as Boramey earlier than returning it to the Mekong final 12 months.
“Since its launch, now we have collected helpful details about this stunning ray via our acoustic tagging system, which can assist us defend this endangered species,” mentioned a submit on social media.
Officers from the Fisheries Administration’s Stung Treng provincial cantonment labored with a crew from Wonders of the Mekong and the Inland Fisheries Analysis and Improvement Institute of Cambodia to measure the ray, which was caught by fishermen in June 2022.
The specimen was 4 meters lengthy and a pair of.2 meters broad from its head to the top of its tail. It weighed 300 kg. After measurements had been accomplished, an acoustic homing tag was hooked up and launched again into the wild.
Mr Sok Vichea, a Cambodian biodiversity researcher, defined on the time that though the dominion is residence to fifteen species of freshwater and ocean stingrays, the large freshwater ray was virtually extinct, with few identified to stay within the Mekong.
He mentioned this species is one in every of three big fish identified to reside within the Mekong, together with the Mekong big catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) and the Mekong big bard (Catlocarpio siamensis).
“These species are solely discovered within the Mekong in components of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand,” he mentioned. THE PHNOM PENH POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
Guinness Data acknowledges big stingray caught in Cambodia
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