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Why Billions of Fish Are Luring Scientists to This River | National Geographic ctm magazine
Along this Cambodian river, billions of migrating fish attract fishermen and scientists alike.
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Billions of fish migrate southward to the Mekong River in Cambodia each year. This migration attracts fishermen, who take advantage of the abundant harvest. The river is so full that one fishing net can pull in up to 600 pounds of fish. Few studies have been done to track the migrating fish to measure the health of their population. So National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan has joined a fishing crew along the Tonle Sap River, which connects the largest lake in Southeast Asia to the Mekong River, to tag fish and determine how many survive the journey. While massive numbers of fish are on the move during the migration season, overfishing and dam building have taken a heavy toll on fish numbers.
Read “Enormous Fish Make One of the World’s Largest Migrations.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/mekong-river-fish-migrations/
Learn more about Zeb Hogan.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/zeb-hogan/
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Now That's a lot of fish from the Mekong River Valley Region
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people gotta eat. said they use the fish for the cuisine. atleast there not wasting it.
who the hell ever thinks that hauling 600 pounds of fish out the water in a single netting is a good idea?! how is that ever going to be sustainable? seriously, use your head.
Killing innocent animals. Why are these people not in jail??
Hopefully in the future, land based fish farms will become the norm so we dont have to over fish the oceans.
which river?
that tag already killed the fish
Maybe spend less time on glamor shots of the fish as they go extinct too
Also you didn't have anything about science
it's a sea of fish 😅
as long as they dont kill off the fishes and make every fish go extinct too
And there is no more fish in a few years they will change there migration and so will the fisher men
Just like all the conservation stories everywhere: nothing but disaster caused by humans.
As long as its sustainable its acceptable imo
I can't wait for the moment where these fishermen to die because there will be no more fish in the future cause large ships already caught them all
GO VEGAN
Who else is baked
That's my country and it's a disgrace to see them overfishing/overhunting everything they can find.
The only way people will learn to not over fish an area is the hard way, when they go to fish 10 years later and catch little to nothing and end up starving as a result.
The fish are migrating, to feed and breed. The humans catch and kill them all before they get to. Not only are they killing all these fish, but their future generations too that never got the chance to be born. The big fish, just because of their size are a target. Instead of being amazed by the chance they had to get that big, the humans see them as trophies to kill instead of letting them keep growing. If aliens/or whatever killed the tallest humans for their size and killed every other human in the thousands or millions…will that make the humans finally understand their selfish, greedy, ruthless, murdering, polluting, destroying, extinction causing ways?
meanwhile in another paralel world, fish selling humans. and debated how can fish can kill inocent human population like that?.
Looks like people will be on the protein menu soon since nothing is left.
all i saw was over fishing and thats good for science? makes sense to me
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Kinda could have put down the reason!?
As long as sea life has to come up for air, they don't stand a chance. Fucked!
these morons clearly don't think about the future.
At least when the fish are gone, they can scrape the bottom for clams and bottom feeders until those get wiped out too.
things humans will do for meat. sigh 😔
How many fish do they do they need to feed the village just way to many they don't need that many fish they fishing for what they can get out of it, money
I was hoping the fish were consciously luring the fishermen to their deaths or something..
This is blessing
A lot of people in the comments are saying this is overfishing, I'm pretty sure the fish caught here are small asian carp. Which when spawning can produce 1 million eggs every year (if not multiple times a year)
We just get what we need and release the rest. That's how we fish.