Thai fishermen catch, eat record-sized catfish

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Thai fishermen catch, eat record-sized catfish

Filed in: Interesting — June 30th, 2005

Thai fishermen catch, eat record-sized catfish

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fishermen in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record — a 646-pound (293-kg) giant the size of a grizzly bear — and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society said on Wednesday.

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.

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Walao… I definately don’t dare to eat it, but I wonder how it taste like.

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fishtail

What a shame! If they had stuffed it and hang it up or something, it would be a great tourists' draw.

twinsmom

ermm...fish mah, why not dare to eat? may be I eat already also don't know it is from a such big fish hehehe...

cccp

is that thing even normal? yikes that is bloody disgusting.

SapiensBryan

Here is the link of some extra photoes of the unlucky fish:-

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06...

Look at the meat, wow, the fish is huge !! What I ate just now was like 1/100 of the fish. LoL ...

LcF

Thanks for the link, SapiensBryan. What I ate just now is 1/1000 of the fish - ikan bilis. :lol:

Ethan Divine

That fish looks fake although it says its a world record..

master of fish facts

the world largest fish ever recorded was in the ohio river it took 5 cranes to get it out and when they put it on a barge its head and tail was still in the water i was there in person it was huge but this was years ago it was printed in an article if you can find it see for your self.

master of something

re: master of fish,

i think maybe the appropriate name should have been, master of jackshit...
provide a link, else stfu...

btw: cat fish are good eats.