Huge and rare #MekongCatfish spotted in Cambodia, raising #conservation hopes https://phys.org/news/2024-12-huge-rare-mekong-catfish-cambodia.html

"Six #CriticallyEndangered #Mekong giant #catfish—one of the largest and rarest freshwater #fish in the world—were caught and released recently in #Cambodia, reviving hopes for the survival of the species... The underwater giants can grow up to 3 m long and weigh up to 300 kg, or as heavy as a grand piano."

time to listen to @KateShaw 's new episode about the electric catfish: https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/12/09/episode-473-electric-catfish/

#fish
#catfish
#electric
#electricFish

ps, Electric Catfish Therapy would make a great band name, if anyone is in search of one.

Gotta keep up my #artadventcalendar streak, so here’s a quick pic of my blue #catfish oil painting that has been on hiatus since 2020 or so. Now that the canvas is out of its box and on display again, my goal is to finish it over the next few months.

It’s the season for the #catfish sweater - I designed it myself a few years ago and had it knitted ”on demand“ by a German sweater company. I have a few more fish and snake related designs I would like to put on clothes and various other items, I just need to get around to it - which sure isn‘t easy if you’re working full time #artadventcalendar #FishArt

"Shit just realised this dating profile could be a scammer. Although I'm not sure....

Welp... better ask them to take a selfie with a spoon on their head or something else wildly random as to make sure the pictures aren't someone elses."

I have not got any sleep so far cus I am still texting and trying to figure it out.... My gawd.

L’amour d’amur - aka two cute Amur #catfish (Silurus asotus) seen in an aquarium in Niigata, Japan. One day I would very much like to see the Japanese lake Biwa catfish (S. biwaensis), a species endemic to the aforementioned lake.

Both species look like a slightly smaller, rounder version of the European #wels catfish (Silurus glanis). Yet, unsurprisingly, they are more closely related to each other than to the European chonker. #fish

Are drying #rivers a warning of #Europe's tomorrow?

by Paul Hokenos
13 September 2022

"Across southern #Romania, much of which relies on the #Danube for fresh #DrinkingWater, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of #farmland that Europe relies upon for #corn, #grain, #sunflowers, and #vegetables. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania's #hydropower utility #Hidroelectrica generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian #wheat farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe's largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia's blockage of much of Ukraine's wheat exports.

"'At towns up and down the Danube, #drought and #ClimateChange take on an existential meaning,' explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the #BlackSea to the #BlackForest. 'In contrast to city dwellers, they're having this disaster unfold before their eyes.'"

[...]

"Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers' decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for #salts and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher #saline content and #HigherWaterTemperatures, which can be lethal for many species of #Riverine life, such as Danube #salmon, b#arbel, and European #grayling, among many others.

"Higher temperatures also feed #AlgaeBlooms, Singer explains, which can be #toxic for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000lbs) of dead fish – among them #perch, #catfish, #pike, and #asp – washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die-off.)"

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220912-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow

"When someone approaching you online has very few friends on Facebook or followers on Instagram, this could be a red flag for catfishing."

https://vpnoverview.com/internet-safety/cybercrime/catfishing/

No point me using normie dating apps then, I don't even *have* FarceBook or IntraGrope accounts. Women are just going to suspect I'm a catfish

In the unlikely scenario that you would want a #keychain or #necklace made with #snake shed, a #rabbit #linoprint or a #catfish #oilpainting - you can now buy all these things and more on my #art store!

With the exception of bulkier items like the #resin #frog* most things can be shipped worldwide!

here's the link:

https://ko-fi.com/cathy_outlet/shop

#craft #handmade #ShopHandMade #FediGiftShop
*the frog is only available in Europe for now, sorry!