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Largest on record: 8 feet, 10 inches | 646 pounds. Lifespan: 60 years. These enormous fish are the largest purely freshwater fish in the world (Sturgeon are larger, but they inhabit both fresh and saltwater). They live mainly in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Mekong river and it’s tributaries.
20 cze 2022 · A 300kg (661lb) stingray caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented, scientists say. It unseated the previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg) Mekong...
24 cze 2022 · Fishermen in the Stung Treng region of northern Cambodia made a historic catch on 13 June 2022 when they hauled in the largest freshwater fish to ever be officially recorded. The female giant freshwater stingray ( Urogymnus polylepis ) weighed approximately 300 kg (661 lb) – about the same as a typical grizzly bear – and had a total length ...
Mekong giant catfish are one of the largest species of freshwater fish. In 2005, the Mekong giant catfish attained the Guinness World Record for the world's largest freshwater fish.
25 lip 2023 · The world’s largest freshwater fish confirmed so far is a stingray caught in the Mekong River. Before releasing the female ray back into the river, Hogan’s research team put an acoustic...
7 kwi 2023 · The ray, as it turned out, measured 13 feet long and weighed 661 pounds, which Guinness World Records recognized as the largest-ever recorded freshwater fish in 2022. The discovery...
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...
