The world’s largest freshwater fishery is drying up - locals look to eels for help - The Mekong Basin is the world’s largest ...

New York scientists review freshwater fish as the state updates its endangered species list, adding new wildlife to it.

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...

A 300kg (661lb) stingray caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented, scientists say. It unseated the previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg) Mekong giant ...

A report has warned of a "catastrophic" decline in freshwater fish, with nearly a third threatened by extinction. Conservation groups said 80 species were known to have gone extinct, 16 in the ...

Health authorities said the 40 people infected with Group B streptococcus were spread across all 18 districts in Hong Kong, and the vast majority of patients had touched raw freshwater fish before ...

Since zebrafish share 82% of the same genes as humans, researchers have been studying the fish in to find ways of lowering the risk of getting the condition. It's well-known that FASD can be ...

Snakeheads, an invasive species of fish, are making more of their presence known in the Upper Delaware River, recently in ...

Health Secretary Lo Chung-mau on Saturday warned people not to touch freshwater fish with their bare hands, after an outbreak of a deadly infection linked to fish. The Centre for Health Protection ...

Hong Kong’s health minister, Lo Chung-mau, has urged residents to be careful when handling freshwater fish after 27 people were infected with the potentially deadly Group B Streptococcus.

Gleriani Ferreira, a researcher and professor at FIA Business School, said the freshwater fish market could be much larger. The main difficulty, she explained, is the lack of federally inspected ...

Dubbed the “King of the River”, the empurau or Tor tambroides, is touted as the most expensive freshwater fish in Malaysia, with prices reaching as high as RM1,800 (HK$3,241) per kg.