![]() ![]() While the total catch from wild fisheries in all of North America’s lakes and rivers is 160,000 tons, each year the Mekong system produces 2.6 million tons. This annual migration provides tens of millions of households throughout the Mekong Basin with regular protein. Each year life springs from the lake, mostly in the form of a massive fish population that migrates to the far reaches of the Mekong system both upstream and downstream. However, the Mekong has another point of origin: the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia. Maps show it flowing downstream through China’s southwest, and then forming the borders of or flowing through Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, before bisecting Cambodia and Vietnam’s Mekong Delta on its 4,500 kilometre journey from the Himalayas to the sea. ![]() ![]() The Mekong River is often depicted as originating in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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