enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of largest fish - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_fish

    A large alligator gar, the largest freshwater fish in North America The largest of the gar, and the largest entirely freshwater fish in North America, is the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula). The largest gar ever known, caught in Louisiana in 1925, was 3 m (9.8 ft) in length and weighed 137 kg (302 lb). [1] Anglerfish (Lophiiformes)

  3. Mekong giant catfish - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong_giant_catfish

    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. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Attaining a length of up to 3 m (9.8 ft), the Mekong giant catfish grows extremely quickly, reaching a mass of 150 to 200 kg (330 to 440 lb) in only six ...

  4. Arapaima - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima

    The fish is an air breather, using its labyrinth organ, which is rich in blood vessels and opens into the fish's mouth, [19] an advantage in oxygen-deprived water that is often found in the Amazon River. This fish is able to survive in oxbow lakes with dissolved oxygen as low as 0.5 ppm.

  5. How the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish Grew to a ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/world-largest-freshwater-fish-grew...

    In fact, the Mekong River is home to many of the world’s largest freshwater fish: giant freshwater stingray, giant barb, giant pangasius, seven-striped bard, giant wallago catfish, and goonch ...

  6. Largest freshwater fish ever caught hooked in Cambodia - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/largest-freshwater-fish-ever...

    A fisherman in northern Cambodia hooked what researchers say is the world’s largest freshwater fish — a giant stingray that scientists know relatively little

  7. ‘World’s largest’ 661-pound freshwater fish caught in Cambodia

    www.aol.com/world-largest-661-pound-freshwater...

    A fisherman in Cambodia is going to need a bigger boat after catching what researchers have identified as the largest-ever freshwater fish. ‘World’s largest’ 661-pound freshwater fish caught ...

  8. Beluga (sturgeon) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_(sturgeon)

    It is the largest freshwater fish in the world. The beluga also rivals the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) for the title of largest actively predatory fish. [10] [11] The largest accepted record is of a female taken in 1827 in the Volga estuary at 1,571 kg (3,463 lb) and 7.2 m (23 ft ...

  9. 661 pounds, 13 feet long and a mouth 'the size of a banana ...

    www.aol.com/news/largest-freshwater-fish-ever...

    A fisherman in northern Cambodia hooked what researchers say is the world’s largest freshwater fish — a giant stingray that scientists know relatively little