#Largest freshwater fish ever caught full#

#Largest freshwater fish ever caught full#

Haling from southeast Asia, the giant freshwater stingray has been subject to water pollution, river damming and over-fishing which has earned it an unfortunate place on the endangered species list. These stingrays are generally caught by fishermen as juveniles, before they reach full adult size due to the difficulty of netting them once full grown. To learn more about the giant freshwater stingray and watch a video of the 5-hour struggle to capture it, look up “Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin” which aired a special on this elusive fish. Driving the news: A 661-pound stingray was caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia, setting a new record for the largest freshwater fish ever caught. Isotopic analysis of the remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. The beluga sturgeon in Russia is the largest freshwater fish in the world. The largest gar ever known, caught in Louisiana in 1925, was 3 m (9.8 ft) in length and weighed. In July 2009 roughly 28,000 days after George Perry’s record catch Manabu Kurita caught a 22 pound, 5 ounce largemouth while fishing Lake Biwa near Kyoto, Japan. Fishing is an ancient practise that dates back to at least the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period about 40,000 years ago. Sturgeon are the largest of the freshwater fish. These fish are sometimes called the largest freshwater fish but sturgeons spend a great deal of time in brackish water and switch back and forth between saltwater and freshwater environments in their life cycle.

The fish, which was identified as a giant. This is a huge step towards learning more about the life cycle of this fascinating fish that has eluded scientific studies ever since its discovery in 1990 although it is likely one of the ancient species, millions of years old. Some eighty years after Perry’s world record largemouth bass was caught in Georgia, a young angler from Japan hauled in a lunker that was actually heavi er. A fisherman in northern Cambodia got quite the surprise when he accidentally hooked what researchers say is the world’s largest freshwater-only fish. The significance of this catch comes from the fact that the same stingray was captured and tagged five years prior, allowing scientists to take blood and tissue samples from the stingray and compare them with the previous specimens. The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the. Very little is known about the giant freshwater stingray including its dietary needs, habitat requirements, maximum size and life span.

So what makes this catch so significant? Quite a few things in fact… To date, the largest freshwater fish ever caught and recorded is a Giant Freshwater Stingray coming in at 14 feet long, 8 feet wide and weighing 600-800 pounds.