Posted on 06/29/2005 1:40:15 PM PDT by evets
Thai fishermen netted a catfish as big as a grizzly bear, setting a world record for the largest freshwater fish ever found, according to researchers who studied the 646-pound Mekong giant catfish as part of a project to protect large freshwater fish.
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Absolutely amazing if true. I'm actually sorry to see that it is dead. I love eating fish, don't get me wrong, but something this old and menacing adds more to the world alive.
500 pounds of hush puppies to go with it, and that's some good eatin'!
I agree.
Why is it that if something is the 'biggest' (Tree, animal etc) we feel good if we kill it or cut it down?
It takes a long time for them to get that big, obviously.
I'd like some onion rings to go with that....
Testosterone!!!!!!!!!!!!! that would be my guess!!!!
You gotta love the caption on that photo:
This Mekong giant catfish was weighed at 646 pounds by researchers working on a project to identify, study and conserve large freshwater fish around the world.
Something fishy going on in Thailand.
Bet they used chicken necks.
Always catch good-sized catfish with chicken necks.
That was the same one that got away from me
Hogan's project includes two-dozen other species, including the giant freshwater stingray, the dog-eating catfish, the dinosaur-like arapaima, and the Chinese paddlefish – "all of which remain contenders for the title of the world’s largest fish," the researchers stated, pending the final results of their work.
"Long shots for the title include caviar-producing sturgeon, goliath Amazon catfish, giant lungfish, razor-toothed gars, massive cods, and Mongolian salmon," they added.
Just a cotton-pickin' minute. I recall from my ancient 1972 Guinness book of world records that the biggest-ever freshwater lunker was a gargantuan half-ton behemoth fished from the St. Lawrence river (back when the St. Lawrence had life in it).
HOOLLLLLLLLLLY smoke!!!!!!!! That is unreal! As a city punk, I never knew about these fish believe it or not, and I like to fish. My father has boat but that`s for fish like fluke or flounder off the Long Island shore, but damn I never seen anything like these catfish before. Someone told me once about the size those things get but I never believed it, then I remember stories like Huckleberry Finn and the catfish. That is truly bizarre, loook at the size of that thing! What the hell they got in the water there?
Watch them stingers.
Hey, if we're gonna have fishermen capture 646-pound catfishes at will, then all 646-pound catfishes will become (virtually) extinct. Time to put them on the protected species list.
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