The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...
A British angler caught what could be the largest catfish ever recorded in the United Kingdom in September. The big catfish weighed 150 pounds and measured more than 8 feet long, according to a ...
Six critically endangered Mekong giant catfish, weighing up to 287 pounds each, were recently discovered and released back into the Mekong River Basin. This unprecedented event offers hope for the ...
Conservationists in Cambodia on Friday celebrated the discovery of six highly endangered Mekong giant catfish in the critical Southeast Asian waterway plagued by illegal fishing, habitat loss and ...
The survival of the giant catfish -- one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world -- underscores the urgent need to protect the river's free-flowing connectivity, a statement by the ...
The river catfish may be overshadowed by its famed cousin, the Mekong giant catfish, which shares the same river system in Southeast Asia. But this less celebrated species is a remarkable fish in ...