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The maximum size is not assured, but supposedly a fish caught in the Kotui River in Russia in 1943 with a length of 210 cm (83 in) and a weight of 105 kg (231 lb) is the largest size recorded. [7] The IGFA world record is 45.80 kg (101.0 lb) with a length of 150.00 cm (59.06 in). [ 8 ]
Hucho is a genus of large piscivorous salmonid fish known as taimens (from Finnish taimen, 'trout', through Russian: тайме́нь, romanized: taĭménʹ), and is closely related to Pacific trout and lenoks (all belonging to the same tribe in the subfamily Salmoninae).
The Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi, syn. Hucho perryi), also known as the Japanese huchen or stringfish (Japanese: 伊富/イトウ, romanized: itō), is a large species of salmonid freshwater fish in Northeast Asia, found in the lakes and large rivers of Primorsky, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of Far Eastern Russia, as well as Hokkaido of Japan.
Some sources claim the largest is the Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) of America's Pacific Northwest, although this species falls behind the taimen in maximum size. [77] The maximum size of this fish is 61.4 kg (135 lb) and 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long. [134] Sculpins (Scorpaeniformes)
Hucho bleekeri, the Sichuan taimen, is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family , endemic to the Yangtze basin in China. Their typical habitat includes mountain streams and small rivers. They are found in rivers and tributaries in the Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Qinghai Provinces. [3]
Hucho ishikawae, the Korean taimen, is a species of salmonid fish found in the border region between North Korea and China, including the Am-nok or Yalu, Dok-ro, Weon-ju and Jang-jin Rivers. [1] Monitoring of the species has been made very difficult because of the lack of access to the areas in which this species occurs and consequently it is ...
The huchen (Hucho hucho) (/ ˈ h uː x ə n /, from German), also known as Danube salmon or redfish (German: Rotfisch), is a large species of freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae native to the Danube basin in Central and Eastern Europe.
O. rastrosus was possibly the largest member of the family Salmonidae, rivalling or exceeding the largest living salmonid Hucho taimen in size, [5] with estimates varying from standard length (without tail fin) of 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) and 177 kg (390 lb) [1] to total length of 2.4–2.7 m (7 ft 10 in – 8 ft 10 in) and 200 kg (440 lb).