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Old 06-30-2005, 02:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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World's largest Catfish caught



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FISHERMEN in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record – a 293-kg giant the size of a grizzly bear – and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society have said.

The giant catfish, believed to be the largest freshwater fish ever found, was caught along the Mekong River, home to more species of massive fish than any river on Earth.
"We've now confirmed that this catfish is the current record holder, an astonishing find," Dr Zeb Hogan, a WWF Conservation Science Fellow, said.

Project members determined that this new catch was 11 pounds heavier than the previous record holder - another Mekong catfish.

"I expect we're still going to find bigger fish than these," said University of Wisconsin fisheries biologist Zeb Hogan, the project director.

"It's astonishing."

According to Hogan, the Mekong has heretofore been a good habitat for such monsters because it is one of the deepest rivers in the world, reaching depths of more than 200 feet.

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Local environmentalists and government officials tried to negotiate the release of the fish so it could continue its spawning migration in the far north of Thailand but the adult male died and was eaten in a remote village, it said.

The Mekong giant catfish is southeast Asia's largest and rarest fish and the focus of a National Geographic Society project headed by Hogan to study freshwater fish more than two metres long or weighing more than 100 kg.

New contenders for the title of the world's largest freshwater fish include Mongolian salmon, giant sturgeon, giant lungfish, razor-toothed gar, the dinosaur-like arapaima, the giant freshwater sting ray and the ever-popular dog-eating catfish.

Now all they need is the worlds largest bottle of Tabasco...
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Old 06-30-2005, 02:19 PM   #2 (permalink)
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you knew one of these was coming...

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Old 06-30-2005, 02:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Obviously they didn't fish it out using your ordinary canadian tires fishing rods
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Old 06-30-2005, 03:29 PM   #4 (permalink)
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i saw that on the morning tv news.

it's not a catfish. it was a sunken blimp they recovered.
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Old 06-30-2005, 05:44 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Weird. I had fried catfish for lunch.
Co-inky-dink? I think not...
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Old 06-30-2005, 06:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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check your pants. the co-inky dinky might be there... or maybe not.

i didn't say that! who is posting as me???
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Old 06-30-2005, 06:46 PM   #7 (permalink)
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It's a pity they let it die and eat it.

That thing must have been ancient.

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Old 06-30-2005, 07:11 PM   #8 (permalink)
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It's a pity they let it die and eat it.

That thing must have been ancient.

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Yeah, it would be interesting to find out what was its age...
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Old 06-30-2005, 08:35 PM   #9 (permalink)
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No point catchin' it if ya'll ain't goin' ta eats it.
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Old 06-30-2005, 08:42 PM   #10 (permalink)
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No point catchin' it if ya'll ain't goin' ta eats it.
Tell that to the tens of thousands of fishermen and women who release their catch back into the wild.

Some fish for sport.


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Old 06-30-2005, 09:54 PM   #11 (permalink)
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*flings a string with a hook baited with a beefy burrito at Mr Mephisto*

Mr Mephisto snags the bait. rips his jaw a bit. he's bleeding & screaming with pain.

*tosses him back cuz it was all just done in the name of sport*

weeeeeeeeeee such fun
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Old 07-05-2005, 03:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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*flings a string with a hook baited with a beefy burrito at Mr Mephisto*

Mr Mephisto snags the bait. rips his jaw a bit. he's bleeding & screaming with pain.

*tosses him back cuz it was all just done in the name of sport*

weeeeeeeeeee such fun

But if you didn't throw him back -you would eat him -right?
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Old 07-05-2005, 03:27 PM   #13 (permalink)
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that one fish could feed over a thousand people!
that freakin rocks.
it's small whale.
or a cow with underwater breathing apparatus.

i hope they deep fried it and served it with the world's largest hush puppies. mmmmmm.... puppies.

and uh, bern, if you've got any of that mephisto left, i'll take a bite.
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Old 07-08-2005, 12:12 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I figure that while the fishes size may be impressive, in a remote thai village it is FOOD- remote villages being notorious for that whole tendency to fish for food (hell, to do whatever they can for food) rather than sport.....
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