Asian red-tailed catfish (Hemibagrus wyckioides) is an omnivorous freshwater fish of wide distribution in the Mekong River
Basin (Prasertwattana et al., 2005). Mekong possesses the largest inland fisheries in the world and supports the demand of
protein and food of nearly 40 million riverine people (Rainboth, 1996; Kang et al., 2009).