{"id":45608,"date":"2022-06-21T01:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/20\/largest-freshwater-fish-ever-recorded-caught-in-cambodia"},"modified":"2022-06-21T01:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:43:05","slug":"largest-freshwater-fish-ever-recorded-caught-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45608","title":{"rendered":"Largest freshwater fish ever recorded caught in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giant stingray snagged by local fisher in Mekong River weighs nearly 300kg<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The stingray, captured on 13 June, measured almost four metres from snout to tail and weighed just under 300kg, according to a statement on Monday by Wonders of the Mekong, a joint Cambodian-US research project.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/20\/largest-freshwater-fish-ever-recorded-caught-in-cambodia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant stingray snagged by local fisher in Mekong River weighs nearly 300kgThe world\u2019s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists.The stingray, captured on 13 June, measur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,65,2002,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-environment","category-fish","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45609,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions\/45609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}