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Giant stingray reeled in Thailand

February 24, 2009--Fishers and scientists announced this week the catch, and release, of what is likely the world's largest known freshwater giant stingray.

The giant stingray, weighing an estimated 550 to 990 pounds (250 to 450 kilograms) was reeled in on January 28, 2009, as part of a National Geographic expedition in Thailand.

The stringray's body measured 6.6 feet (2 meters) wide by 6.9 feet (2.1) meters long. The tail was missing. If it had been there, the ray's total length would have been between 14.8 and 16.4 feet (4.5 and 5 meters), estimated University of Nevada Biologist Zeb Hogan.

Hogan was in Thailand searching for giant fish as part of the Megafishes Project—an effort to document Earth's 20 or so freshwater giants.

The new find gives Hogan hope that the giant stingray, once overfished, may be more abundant than previously thought. And it may confirm the giant stingray as the heavyweight champ of the Megafishes Project.

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Weird fish with transparent head

February 23, 2009--With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.

The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939--but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.

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Aksi burung menangkap ikan di dalam air

Saje nk shara gambar ni, rasa menarik je aksi burung ni tangkap ikan kat dlm air tu, cekap kemain.

Cameraman yang tangkap gambar ni pun cekap jugak!

Stingray migration

p/s: looks fantastic!

Fisherman cought a 200kg giant halibut

As a fully paid-up monster of the deep, it should have swatted aside any angler with the temerity to try to catch it with a mere rod and line.

But this record-breaking Atlantic halibut bit off more than it could chew when it took on heroic Soren Beck.

As it fought to escape, Mr Beck's small boat had to chase it across the Arctic waters off Norway to prevent either rod or line snapping.

Once the energy-sapping fight was over it took three men to haul the 30-stoner aboard. Back on land, they found it measured 8ft 1in in length, 6ft 4in around the middle and weighed in at 443lb, 24lb more than the previous record for a line-caught halibut.

And if Mr Beck had managed to get it to a British market it would have made around £2,200.

The Dane, who was on holiday, was angling in waters which have given up some giant halibut in recent years.

The biggest, caught by a commercial fisherman, was 63st. Halibut typically reach maturity at ten years and average 3ft 4in in length.

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p/s: 443 pounds = 200.94142 kilograms

Self inflating fish

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Giant whale found dead on SE China beach

The body of a giant sperm whale is seen on a beach near Songxia Port in Changle, East China's Fujian Province Jan. 15, 2008. The giant sperm whale which is measured 16 meters in length, 8.6 meters in diameter and weighed 20 tons, died after becoming stranded on a southeastern China beach Tuesday.

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Anglers hook 100-year-old monster fish weighing over 35 stone

Two British anglers waded waist deep into a river to land a 100-year-old monster fish weighing over 35 stone - after battling with it for over an hour.

Nick Calleya, 36, from Cubert in Cornwall and George Carstairs from Scotland landed the 500lb white Sturgeon while angling from a boat in the Fraser River in British Columbia in Canada.

The 10ft-long giant was snared using a rod and line with salmon eggs as bait.

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35 stone = 222.260261 kilograms

p/s: ikan ape tah nih

Flying fish

Weird fish captured by U.S. fisherman

A young fisherman in U.S. captured a weird fish Wednesday, whose white belly looks like a big balloon. Its body is studded with hairy flesh thorns, fins are translucent in the color of cod-liver oil pill and gray back is specked with white dots. Link

Mobula rays

p/s: not a bird!














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8-foot cambodia giant catfish

• this Mekong giant catfish is 8 feet long (2.4 meters long) ands weighs 450 pounds (204 kilograms).
• the only giant catfish that has been caught this year so far.
• Mekong giant catfish population has declined by 95 to 99 percent, scientists say. Only a few hundred adult giant catfish may remain.
• this fish was released unharmed.
  

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Whale swim to amazon river

Residents of Brazil's Amazon River Basin try to help a minke whale reach deeper water on November 15, 2007, after it swam some 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the Atlantic Ocean up the Amazon River.

Sea creatures rarely venture so far into fresh water. Full story here.


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Giant catfish caught in China

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Shark with 'Webbed Feet'

Mary Looi, 48, a worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, found a baby shark with two webbed feet sticking out from the lower part of the body recently. She was given the 1.7kg fish by a fisherman at the jetty. Looi, who has been working at LKIM for 10 years, said this was the first time she had stumbled upon such an unusual find.

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World's ''monster'' fishes

Biologist Zeb Hogan holds a taimen, a giant member of the salmon family, while searching for megafishes in Mongolia.


Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas). Maximum Size: 118 inches (300 centimeters), 661.4 pounds (300 kilograms). Habitat: Mekong River Basin, Southeast Asia.


Mississippi paddlefish (Polyodon spathula). Maximum Size: 87 inches (221 centimeters) including paddle. Habitat: Mississippi River Basin, North America.


Wels catfish (Silurus glanis). Maximum Size: 197 inches (500 centimeters), 675 pounds (306 kilograms).


Name: Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula). Maximum Size: 120 inches (305 centimeters), 300 pounds (136 kilograms). Habitat: Mississippi River Basin, North America.


Name: Nile perch (Lates niloticus). Maximum Size: 79 inches (200 centimeters), 441 pounds (200 kilograms). Habitat: Nile River Basin, Africa


Name: Giant freshwater stingray (Himantura chaophraya). Maximum Size: 197 inches (500 centimeters), 1,323 pounds (600 kilograms), body diameter 95 inches (240 centimeters). Habitat: Mekong River Basin, Southeast Asia.


Name: Arapaima (Arapaima gigas). Maximum Size: 177 inches (450 centimeters), 441 pounds (200 kilograms). Habitat: Amazon River Basin, South America.


Name: Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii). Maximum Size: 79 inches (200 centimeters), 250 pounds (113.5 kilograms). Habitat: Murray River Basin, Australia.


Name: Giant barb (Catlocarpio siamensis). Maximum Size: 118 inches (300 centimeters), 661.5 pounds (300 kilograms). Habitat: Mekong River Basin, Southeast Asia.

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Fishermen catch big, old Alaska rockfish

Fishermen catch big, old Alaska rockfish

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A commercial fishing boat hauled in what may have been one of the oldest creatures in Alaska — a giant rockfish estimated to be about a century old.

The 44-inch, 60-pound female shortraker rockfish was caught last month by the catcher-processor Kodiak Enterprise as it trawled for pollock 2,100 feet below the surface, south of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.

The Seattle-based vessel, owned by Trident Seafoods, pulled up an estimated 75 tons of pollock and 10 bright-orange rockfish.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle measured, photographed and documented the fish. They removed an ear bone, the otolith, which contains growth rings similar to rings in the trunks of trees.

They estimate the rockfish was 90 to 115 years old.

That's toward the upper end of the known age limit for shortraker rockfish, said Paul Spencer of the science center. Other estimates put the fish's maximum age at 157 years, Spencer said.

The contents of the rockfish's stomach were examined and scientists took tissue samples to measure her reproductive potential. "The belly was large," Spencer said. "The ovaries were full of developing embryos."

Scientists said the specimen is not the biggest on record. A 47-inch shortraker rockfish was recorded, according to the book "Fishes of Alaska."

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Lion fish

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