giant catfish

[VulcanNinja]

http/sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more...ex.html?cnn=yes

Sorry if it was already posted

 

[Erised]

Yup, been posted at least twice before today.

However, I haven't read that exact article yet, and this had some new information in it for me:

The Mekong giant catfish -- which shares the title of largest freshwater fish with a close relative, the dog-eating catfish -- was listed as critically endangered in 2003 after research showed its numbers had fallen by at least 80 percent over the past 13 years.

Real shame this one died then

 

[Fish Buddy]

That's huge!!
Too bad they had to haul that fish out of the water just so it's weight can be measured and for it to die...at least they ate it-no wasted...

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yes the mekong catfish is critically endangered mainly due to the fact that to spawn, it has to swim up many rivers like a salmon does to get to its spawning grounds- unfortunatly though all but a very few of the rivers it uses to get to its spawning grounds are dammed off so can't be accessed by the fish and Thailands goverment has plans to dam off its remaining rivers, fortunatly though there are quite a few countrys attemtping to build giant aquariums to house the fish hopefully breed it and there are many people that are persuading the local people to stop fishing the endangered catfish and to start preserving this amazing creature and learn more about it.
If you consider that it takes a long time to mature though and there are only a couple of thousand of the fish left, many of which end up being caught by fisherman or killed off by water pollution, and the rest end up stuck in dammed off rivers when trying to reach their spawning grounds, its not suprising the fish is going extinct .

 

[Fish Buddy]

Holy crow! I had no idea the fish's condition was so critical! That just makes me sad