Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand

An anonymous reader writes "Fishermen in northern Thailand have netted a fish as big as a grizzly bear, a 646-pound Mekong giant catfish, the heaviest recorded since Thai officials started keeping records in 1981. The behemoth was caught in the Mekong River and may be the largest freshwater fish ever found."

Comments

Endangered species

[mulhall]

One down, not many left to go:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/05 15_030515_giantcatfish.html

Still who cares about extinction, if you can get a nice photo out of it?

Re:Human Instincts

[patio11]

Its easy for those of us who live in the Western world, where food comes from the supermarket, to say "Hey, thats mildly amusing and useful in no practical way -- why not throw it back?" Would you say the same if it required that *your* kids not have dinner that night?

Re:Human Instincts

[Frogbert]

Well the alternative is to rip out its insides and stuff the thing. Now you tell me which is the bigger waste.

Heal Thyself

[ianscot]

Some organisms just don't fit with our way of life.

Here's hoping those organisms that don't "fit with our way of life" don't eventually include our own species. Natural selection includes you and me, too, however "slightly different" you think we may be. And mass extinctions don't tend to leave the same species at the top of the pyramid, unless you're counting prokaryotic cells or something.

Environmentalism is enlightened self-interest, not some tree-hugging, static-world conceit about spotted owls and condors being awfully kewl.

Re:Give a man a fish...

[karnal]

You forgot to give a man a freezer. So after the 3rd day, he died of food poisoning....

Re:Article on this amazing species

[TheWickedKingJeremy]

First, from your post it is blatantly obvious that you don't read National Geographic. Your post is instead a knee-jerk reaction based on bad information.

Second, National Geographic's statements regarding the catfish are factually correct. Please read and re-read that statement -- "statements regarding the catfish are factually correct". Please stop dismissing factually correct information as some sort of leftist bias...