Agriculture and fishing
Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture
Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture
![Mekong River fishing. Photograph by Christine Andrada (cropped). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 2.0.](https://pp.opendevelopmentmekong.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/MekongFishing_ChristineAndrada3-cropped-150x150.jpeg)
The Mekong River system maintains the world’s largest inland fishery. 2.2 million tonnes of fish were harvested from it in 2009, with an estimated retail market value between US$4.3 billion and US$7.8 billion. The value of the Mekong’s fish harvest is not simply economic, however, ...