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Mekong Mystery: Dwindling Fish

2013-05-23 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Jeff Opperman, a senior freshwater scientist with the Nature Conservancy, is taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip down the Mekong River in Southeast Asia with his wife and two children, ages 8 and 10. Previous posts can be found here. As we traveled down the Mekong River, I kept hearing variations of the same story: There are fewer fish. Our guide in the Four Thousand Island region of Laos relayed that fishermen now work longer hours and catch fewer fish. At a fishing camp just below Khone Falls,...

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