Either this shows a very big fish or two very small people.
My mind boggles at the idea that this fish was caught. How old would this fish be? What exactly does a fish this big look like swimming around spawning?
How’s this for silly-speak?
This is the largest individual fish of the species that’s listed as the biggest in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Couldn’t he have just said BIGGEST FISH EVAR!!!!!
Updates:
High resolution image
A large stingray from the same area
Apparently these catfish are critically endangered, according to National Geographic, so it makes me a little sad to see something so obviously old and valuable to its species chopped up and fed to a village, no matter how hungry they may be.
He could have. But what if, e.g., Dutch people have the largest average height, but the tallest person in the world is, oh, I don’t know, from Botswana.
😛
I wonder if my blog supports smileys?
Anyway, it’s not the biggest fish, but the biggest freshwater fish. Haven’t you seen “Jaws”?
I’m about to find out if I know anything about html.
Since I didn’t put an entry in my own blog today I’m just rambling a bit on yours. Hope you don’t mind.
I know you commented before the updates were posted, so go check out the updates. Makes the story a little less sensational and a little more real.