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On November 7, 2012, the government of Lao PDR held an official groundbreaking ceremony for the Xayaburi dam, the first mainstream dam on the Lower Mekong River. The Xayaburi dam, the first of eleven dams planned for the mainstream of the lower Mekong River, will likely reduce ecosystem service values and undercut livelihoods of people…
Monster Catfish Found: NG’s Zeb Hogan Explains
Posted by Tasha Eichenseher of National Geographic on July 6, 2011 
The recent capture of North America’s largest recorded Blue catfish–in Virgina in late June–has us thinking about this oversized species and its relatives (like the bagrid catfish seen here). We asked fish expert and National Geographic Fellow Zeb Hogan to put this giant discovery into perspective.
Posted by No one knows more about the giant freshwater fish of the Mekong and the world’s other big rivers than Zen Hogan, an aquatic ecologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Hogan has been featured in dozens of National Geographic stories on the web and on television as a champion of megafishes. In this blog post Hogan comments on…
Hooked on Sawfish: Zeb Hogan
Posted by Ford Cochran on October 19, 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, aquatic ecologist, and megafish-finder Zeb Hogan travels to lakes and rivers the world over to document and protect the planet’s largest freshwater fish. Tonight, the National Geographic Channel premieres a new episode of Hooked that follows Zeb into the Australian outback in search of one of the most critically endangered—and peculiar-looking—fish…
‘Monster’ Stingray the Largest Ever Landed?
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 6, 2009 Biologist, conservationist, and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Zeb Hogan heads to Thailand and lands a giant freshwater stingray, possibly the largest ever caught. See the fish and follow the adventure tonight on the National Geographic Channel.
Hooked on Vampire Fish
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 29, 2009 Megafish-finder and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Zeb Hogan was fired up when I spoke with him at the Explorers Symposium about a new Nat Geo Channel show called Hooked. The series chronicles the quest for some of the world’s most enormous, extraordinary, and downright bizarre fish. Hooked premieres in the United States at 10 et/pt…
