The 646 pound catfish pushes a freshwater world record. The fisherman netted the massive catfish setting the world record for the largest freshwater fish every found or caught.
“It’s amazing to think that giants like this still swim in some of the world’s rivers,” project leader Zeb Hogan project leader said in a statement. “We’ve now confirmed now that this catfish is the current record holder, an astonishing find.”
“I’m thrilled that we’ve set a new record, but we need to put this discovery in context: these giant fish are uniformly poorly studied and some are critically endangered," added Hogan, a fellow with the World Wildlife Fund, which is partnering with the National Geographic Society. "Some, like the Mekong giant catfish, face extinction.” This cat fish will go down in history as researches study and practice conservation on freshwater fish. This fish was not wasted, as it was eaten in a nearby village in Thailand.
