WoW... giant catfish was caught and weighed at 646 pounds
 

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Thai fishermen netted a catfish as big as a grizzly bear, setting a world record for the largest freshwater fish ever found, according to researchers who studied the 646-pound Mekong giant catfish as part of a project to protect large freshwater fish.

?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.?

Dude that can feed the family for a while!

holy shit!

I will bring the cornmeal.

That's worth $1500 in the ghetto.

Fuck!! Really not much more I can say

Fuck!!

I wonder how old that fish is...

holy shit thats one huge fucking fish

As old as that mofo must be, I wouldn't eat it. Yuck.

Now just keep in mind people next time you go for a swim or are dipping your toes off the dock at night in a nearby lake or river. This was a fresh water fish, and more could be in there with you, maybe even bigger.

Damn..that's the size of a shark

That's crazy, I am never swimming again!!! :(

DH

Now if they only find a 80 lb Potato, that would be an awesome Fish and Chips Party.

Me too...damn that's big.

that would feed all of africa!

Where's the source story on it?

that fish can feed an ethiopian family for a week.

OMFG... that's HUGE!!!

That fish would have probably eaten me if I was swimming nearby!
WG

I love how they always say they are studying it to help protect it.. Or I can't believe there are still fish this big.. umm it's dead now.

Zeb Hogan is a retard. Giants like that dont swim in the waters anymore after they have just killed it.

i want some boneless pieces battered and fried up and we got ourselves a party.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh that would be badass, i love patatos :)

Its part of all the processed food , and other industrial waste being dumped in the rivers LOL.

looks tasty.

Old enough where it saddens me to see it tits up in a net.
duke :(

that thing looks unreal.. ok boys grab the greens and the grits :pimp

first bubba the lobster, now this.


hmm whats next

Catfish get crazy big..

Thats crazy i wonder why they didn't let it go!

The thing is probably like 60 years old

wow.. that's huge...too bad it got busted...

that's really HUGE, cool

These idiots need to learn some catch, tag and release research methods.

Well you just brought it one step closer to extinction you fuck! Its sad that this fish managed to live for so long only to die like this.
A better way to go would have been in a battle with a bear...that would have rocked.

Can you say "SuperSize me"?

The fat bastard deserved a better fate than a thread on GFY....

They are asian, they don't care. :disgust

DAMN!!!




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Looks like the project to protect that one failed.

That meat will taste like mud.

:Oh crap That thing must be at least 200 years old, what a shame

LOL I like how they killed it
But then again what else is there to do. No one would believe em.

i cant beleive it is not photochop

?It?s amazing to think that giants like this still swim in some of the world?s rivers,?

I'm never swimming in a fucking river again.

Is it safe to eat?

What the hell they used for fishing pole. A crane?

fucking huge fish....

damn that fucker is huuuuuge

Very fishy! just like a lot of girls i know