BANGKOK, Thailand — This big one did not get away. Thai fishermen netted a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever caught in Thailand, a researcher said Thursday.
The nearly 9-foot-long Mekong giant catfish was landed May 1 by villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote district in northern Thailand, and weighed by Thai fisheries department officials, said Zeb Hogan, who leads an international project to locate and study the world's largest freshwater fish species.
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Wow! (that is not what I really said but sums it up)
Posted by Muddy at July 1, 2005 03:09 PM | TrackBackWell, like I said earlier - This will probably be one of those rare occations when a fisherman can actually throw his arms wide open and say, "I caught a fish THIS BIG!!!" and not be exagerating.:-)
Posted by: mrs. muddy at July 1, 2005 03:22 PM