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Mongolian legend tells of a giant taimen trapped in river ice. Starving herders were able to survive the winter by hacking off pieces of its flesh. In the spring, the ice melted and the giant taimen climbed onto the land, tracked down the herders, and ate them all. According to Chinese folklore, a type of giant taimen lives in Kanas Lake in ...
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.
An illustration of the Sichuan Taimen (Hucho bleekeri) The Sichuan taimen typically has a dark black, dorsal, and adipose fin; a silvery white underside; and small, irregular dark spots across the body, head, and gill cover. [4] [5] Their coloring can range from a darker orange/red, to a lighter tan/yellow depending on stage of life. [3]
Generally speaking, cats like to eat fish. In fact, at one point, domestic felines were eating more...
Taimen Jeremy Wade had wanted to catch large fish since he was a child. One fish that interested him was the taimen: the world's largest species of trout and a very popular game fish with tourists. Due to heavy fishing for these trophies, their numbers have greatly declined.
It’s no fish tale. Giant goldfish have been appearing in freshwater lakes around the country. It’s a development that has surprised people.
Metzger Marsh, extension program leader and fisheries educator for Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory, is pictured with a giant goldfish found in Ward’s Canal near Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area ...