Sam Vichet News Today

During the first month of the closure of the Stung Treng commercial fishing season, the Provincial Fisheries Administration have seized more than 11,000m of floating fishing nets and more than 2,000 hooks and fishing lines.

In the closed fishing season until June 7, the Stung Treng Provincial Fisheries Administration is continuing its crack down on illegal fishing gear.

The Wonders of the Mekong project and the National Fisheries Administration – in collaboration with the Fisheries Administration in Stung Treng province – released 100 endangered fish into the Mekong River on May 16, said a Fisheries Administration official.

Fishermen living in the northern provinces along the Chaktomuk River – including parts of the capital and neighbouring Kandal province – have resumed fishing after it was suspended from June 1 to September 30.

More than 500 electric shock fishing rods and nets weighing more than seven tonnes, as well as a range of other illegal fishing equipment, have been confiscated by Battambang provincial authorities in the past three months, according to Fisheries Administration (FiA) officials.

An almost 4m-long, 300kg giant freshwater stingray was weighed, labelled and DNA tested before being released back into the water after being caught on a fishing line in the Cambodian stretch of the Mekong River in Stung Treng province on June 14.

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): The Mekong River Wonder project – in collaboration with the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (IFREDI) – released a gigantic freshwater stingray back into the river, after it was caught by fishermen on May 22 in Koh Preah commune of Stung Treng province’s Siem Bok district.

The Mekong River Wonder project – in collaboration with the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute (IFREDI) – released a gigantic freshwater stingray back into the river, after it was caught by fishermen on May 22 in Koh Preah commune of Stung Treng province’s Siem Bok district.

Fishermen and villagers in Kbal Romeas commune’s Sre Sranok village of Stung Treng province’s Sesan district have expressed concern over the presence of hundreds of dead fish that were found floating in the Sesan River over a period of several days.

The last freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin living on a section of the Mekong River bordering northeastern Cambodia and Laos has died, reportedly as a result of becoming entangled in a fishing net, reports Laotian Times.