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The wels catfish lives in large, warm lakes and deep, slow-flowing rivers. It prefers to remain in sheltered locations such as holes in the riverbed, sunken trees, etc. It consumes its food in the open water or in the deep, where it can be recognized by its large mouth. Wels catfish are kept in fish ponds as food fish.
These tags are used to evaluate the conservation status of species by criteria of IUCN: EX: ... Wels catfish: Сом європейський ... fish-guide-ukraine.com
The following tags are used to indicate the conservation status of species with IUCN ... Rabbit fish: Seekatze, Spöke: Least concern ... Wels catfish: Flusswels ...
Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught a 280-lb. Wels Catfish Thursday in Italy's Po Delta river, setting a new record. The U.K. Mirror reported that the catch is the world's largest wels catfish ...
This list states if the fish are native or introduced. For clarification, an endemic species is a species that is found only in a specific geographic region. IUCN status represents the extinction risk for each species and the fish found in Spain range from least concern to critically endangered.
Siluriformes, or catfish, are a diverse order of fish distinguished by prominent barbels, which give the image of cat-like whiskers. In Swedish waters, the only species of this order is the wels catfish (Siluris glanis). This very large freshwater fish is common over much of continental Europe, and was once well known in Sweden.
Consideration to whether the fish's weight would be naturally sustainable in that fishery. [13] This is to prevent any attempts to introduce record-size fish via imports, as in the case of the Wels catfish, or manipulate records by cultivating record-size fish as was the case with Big Rig. [13]
Of the subpopulations of fish evaluated by the IUCN, 20 species subpopulations and one subspecies subpopulation have been assessed as critically endangered. Additionally 3191 fish species (21% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient , meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status.