World's largest freshwater fish found, released in Cambodia's Mekong River

STORY: World's largest freshwater fish found, released in Cambodia's Mekong River DATELINE: June 22, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:45 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. The giant stingray caught by fisherman in Cambodia 2. Conservationists measuring the giant stingray 3. The giant stingray released back into the Mekong River STORYLINE: The world's largest freshwater fish, a 661-pound (300-kilogram) giant stingray, has been found near a remote island in the Mekong River in northeast Cambodia's Stung Treng province, according to a Wonders of the Mekong's press statement released late on Monday. The record-breaking stingray, which measured over 13 feet (almost 4 meters) from snout to tail, was hooked by a fisher south of the town of Stung Treng on June 13, in the middle stretches of the Mekong River, the statement said. The previous record-holder for the largest freshwater fish on earth was a 646-pound (293-kilogram) Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005, it added. According to the