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

Forget SE Asia for a moment...

[Arker]

This is a catfish. A bottomfeeder. It survives by sucking up the wastes that acrete on the floor of its chosen body of water.

I wouldn't eat it. Well, being a pragmatist, I would actually. If I were the only chance for a meal I had all week. Which, given the current state of the US labour market isn't really so awfully far from the truth. But I digress.

One thing Ariel Sharon and Usama bin Laden agree on is that G-d doesn't want you eating things that eat offal. And, as insane as both of them seem to yours truly, I have to say on this one issue they both seem pretty sane to me. As opposed to every substantial issue, where they come off as a pair of utter loons in my eyes, but never mind all that, let's suppose there is a G-d, and he loves you - would he want you to eat a fish that lives on prematurely harvested coprolites?

Somehow I just don't think so.

Re:sig

[QMO]

I have Sid Meier's Pirates.
It is on a 3.5" floppy (I think DD, not HD, but I'm not at home to check)
It boots to the game.
You need to have a second floppy to save games.
It's cool.
Someday I may buy the new version.