This handout photo taken on May 5, 2022 and released on May 10 by the US-funded Wonders of the Mekong project shows a female giant freshwater stingray — weighing 400 pounds (181 kg) and measuring 13 feet (3.96 metres) in length — that was caught and released in the Mekong River in Cambodia's Stung Treng province. AFP PHOTO / WONDERS OF THE MEKONG / Chhut Chheana
PHNOM PENH: Cambodian fishermen on the Mekong River got a shock when they inadvertently hooked an endangered giant freshwater stingray four meters long and weighing 180 kilos, scientists said on Wednesday.