{"id":27488,"date":"2024-10-24T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27488"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:34:04","slug":"giant-salmon-carp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/giant-salmon-carp\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Salmon Carp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Giant Salmon Carp:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>Mekong giant salmon carp<\/strong>, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae and the single species in the monotypic genus Aaptosyax.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> The <strong>predatory fish<\/strong> can grow up to 4 feet in length, and has a conspicuous knob at the tip of its lower jaw. A striking patch of yellow surrounds its large eyes.<\/li>\n<li>It is endemic to the middle reaches of the Mekong River in northern Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.<\/li>\n<li>Its population is much reduced (&gt;90%) as a result of overfishing and habitat degradation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about the Mekong River<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the longest river in Southeast Asia, the 7th longest in Asia, and the 12th longest in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It rises in southeastern <strong>Qinghai province, China.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It originates from the Sanjianyuang in the Tibetan Plateau, with the area designated a national nature reserve to protect the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Mekong Rivers.<\/li>\n<li>It is the river with the most large fish species, including giant freshwater stingrays, giant pangasius, Mekong giant catfish, and giant barb.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>creates a huge delta,<\/strong> or triangular piece of land, in <strong>southern Vietnam.<\/strong> The delta has rich soil and is one of the world\u2019s great producers of rice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a river delta?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a low-lying plain or landform that occurs at the mouth of a river near where it flows into an ocean or another larger body of water. Deltas&#8217; greatest importance to human activities, fish and wildlife lay in their characteristic highly fertile soil and dense, diverse vegetation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/giant-fish-thought-to-be-extinct-is-spotted-in-the-mekong-river-9633689\/lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giant fish thought to be extinct is spotted in the Mekong River<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Salmon Carp  is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae and the single species in the monotypic genus Aaptosyax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}