making it the largest exclusively freshwater fish ever recorded. Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native ...

Creatures now are found only in Southeast Asia's Mekong River but in the past inhabited length of 4,900-kilometer waterway ...

Trout, bass, panfish, and catfish are just some of the freshwater fish species that are routinely targeted with grasshoppers and crickets. Some bait shops sell grasshoppers and crickets ...

The survival of the giant catfish -- one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world -- underscores the urgent need to protect the river's free-flowing connectivity, a statement by the ...

some weighing more than 120 kg (265 lbs), has raised hopes of a revival of a critically endangered species that is among the world's largest freshwater fish. Three adult giant catfish were caught ...

It unseated the previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg) Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005. There is no official record-keeping or database of the world's biggest freshwater fish.

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