Admire the giant Siamese carp caught in the Mekong River

There was a record of catching Siamese carp with a body length of 3m, weighing up to 300kg.

The Mekong River has many giant fish species, heavy weights, including Siamese carp (also known as black carp, black carp) oil catfish, drowning, pawns, etc. However, anglers are very interested in hunting. Siamese carp.

This species has a scientific name, Catlocarpio siamensis.The Khmer are called barbecues, the largest species of their Cyprinid in the world.

They are present in the Mekong River and the Chao Phraya River basin in Indochina.The rivers in Thailand are present with a lot of giant Siamese species, attracting anglers from all over the world.

In the past, they were crowded in large, deep, watery rivers, large puddles of water did not flow fast.

In Thailand, they are also found in large lakes on both sides of the river.Small Siamese carp are present in small channels, wetlands and swamps.

When large, they find rivers to live, or stay in large lakes, deep water.

They are slow-moving species, mainly eating vegetables such as fruits and algae.They are almost exclusively vegetarian and almost never eat live animals.

Historically there has been a record of catching Siamese carp with a body length of up to 3m, weighing up to 300kg.

However, for many years, there has been no information about the capture of a major Siamese copy in Cambodia.The largest Siamese carp recorded carefully, is in 1994, caught in Cambodia, weighing 150kg.

The anglers from Europe are very passionate about Siamese copy.However, for many years, they have only managed to copy the carp with the maximum length of 1.8m, weighing less than 100kg.

The angels in Indochina also enjoyed the hunt for this fish.Many fishing clubs have organized long trips, to lands along the Mekong River to catch Siamese carp.

While the anglers in Indochina slaughter the meat like a booty, or sell it to a restaurant with a price of tens of millions of VND / copy, weighing a few tens of kilograms, the western anglers often take souvenir photos and release they go to rivers and lakes.

For years, the number of giant Siamese copies has been continuously declining.Siamese copy production has decreased by 90% compared to 20 years ago.

The main threats are habitat loss, pollution, dams, especially overfishing.

In Cambodia, the catch data showed that, in 1964, catching 200 tons of Siamese copy, in 1980, only about 50 giant Siamese fish were captured, in 2000, only 10 were caught in the whole system. Mekong river system flows through Cambodia.

Therefore, the giant Siamese carp was listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List.This species was recorded as extinct in the Chao Phraya River.

It is a slow-moving species mainly eating vegetables like fruits and algae.They are almost exclusively vegetarian and almost never eat live animals.

Currently, Siamese carp is only abundant in Thailand, because the government has good management of limited fishing.