(2003). A survey of aquatic animal health problems affecting small-scale aquaculture production and fisheries in Lao PDR 84 Proceedings of the 6th Technical Symposium on Mekong Fisheries, Pakse, Lao PDR 26-28 November 2003 We believe that these provinces are representative of the whole country. Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland) is a Swiss ichthyologist specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes.. Kottelat obtained a License in Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel in 1987 and in 1989 a doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam.In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asian and Indonesian fresh water fishes. This knifefish is native to freshwater habitats in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, but it has also been introduced to regions outside its native range. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Despite the huge diversity of fish in Lao PDR, the 11 most important fish species used in aquaculture are all introduced species. But this is misleading, since English speakers would tend to pronounce It is one of world's most invasive species.

More than 481 fish species have been identified, of which 22 species are considered as exotic species. However, Lao PDR has no specific legal provisions with regards to fish escapement or the introduction of alien species. provincial aquaculture development project (lao/97/007) small-scale hatcheries for lao pdr iii list of tables table 1.stocking rates and feeding rates for broodstock 13 table 2.age, weight and fecundity of mature broodstock fish 15 table 3.spawning seasons and optimal egg maturity for common aquacultured fish species 17 table 4.dosage rates, time to spawning and time to hatching for a range of In previous publications, this has been transliterated as " p b a uhn" (ROBERTS, 1993). TRADITIONAL FISHERIES AND FISH ECOLOGY ON THE MEKONG RIVER 221 Among the Lao words that have given particular difficulty is the name for fishes of the genus Probarbus.

In the waters of Lao PDR, there are native fish fauna that comprise 47 families out of the 91 recorded in the 2003 Mekong Fish Database or more than 50 per cent of those recorded in the whole Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) as reported by Coates et al. Wallago attu is a freshwater catfish of the family Siluridae, native to South and Southeast Asia.It is commonly known as helicopter catfish or wallago catfish.Some regional designations, such as the Manipuri Sareng, the Bengal Boal, the Sylheti Gual or the Malaysian and Indonesian Tapah are also occasionally used in English.W.

The clown featherback, clown knifefish, or spotted knifefish, Chitala ornata, is a nocturnal tropical fish with a long, knife-like body.