“…The discovery of them in Vietnamese Giang Thanh River suggests a broader migratory pattern or habitat adaptation within the Indo-Pacific region. The T. ilisha is an indigenous anadromous fish in the Indo-Pacific (Brierley and Kingsford, 2009; Hossain et al ., 2019a), inhabiting the coasts, estuaries and rivers of southern Asia countries (Sahoo et al ., 2018; Ghosh et al ., 2022). Its habitat preferences include extensive continental shelves (Hossain et al ., 2016; Dwivedi, 2019), monsoonal influences, significant precipitation and runoff (Naskar et al ., 2017; Leal Filho et al ., 2022), surface temperatures of 20–30°C (Kundu et al ., 2020), seasonally shifting currents (Hossain et al ., 2019b), moderate organic productivity (Sarker et al ., 2016) and coastal waters with lower salinity (Mohindra et al ., 2023).…”