Largest fish recorded

Top largest fish recorded

CATFISH

Nearly nine feet long (2.7 meters) and as big as a grizzly bear, a huge catfish caught in northern Thailand may be the largest freshwater fish ever recorded.

Caught last month (May 1) in the Mekong River, a team of fishermen struggled for more than an hour to haul the creature in. It tipped the scales at 646 pounds (293 kilograms).

Despite efforts to keep the Mekong giant catfish alive, it died and was later eaten by villagers.

 STINGRAY

A British man visiting Thailand to help with a stingray tagging program was nearly pulled overboard. Ian Welch just happened to catch the largest freshwater fish ever landed, a 770-pound stingray! The ray was seven feet wide by seven feet long, with a monstrous ten-foot stinger.

It required 13 men in total to finally get the stingray onto the boat for inspection. After tagging and recording the ray, which was actually pregnant, it was released back into the water.

SALMON

You have to see it to believe it, but California Department of Fish and Game biologists think they have come across perhaps the biggest Chinook salmon ever to live in California waters.

During a routine survey of salmon in lower Battle Creek near Red Bluff, biologists came across a Chinook salmon that had died of natural causes.   But this one literally stopped them in their tracks.   Measuring 51 inches long, scientists believe when alive, this fish may have weighed more than 90 pounds.  That would make is the largest Chinook ever recorded in California.   

EEL

The Conger eel is found all round the British Isles, and other Northern European coastlines. It prefers rough ground, preferably a reef or a wreck, in depths down to about 100m. It grows to a maximum of 3m long and about 250-350lb in weight. In fact this weight is just a guess and maybe larger.

 The biggest Conger Eel ever recorded was a gigantic fish of 350lb found trapped in nets off Iceland's Westmann Islands.

WHALE SHARK

The largest specimen was caught on November 11, 1947, near Baba Island, in Karachi, Pakistan. It was 12.65 metres (41.50 ft) long, weighed more than 21.5 tonnes (47,000 lb), and had a girth of 7 metres (23.0 ft).

KING CRAB

 This wopper weighed in over 15 kg.

GIANT SQUID

The squid measured about 33 ft and just accidentally got caught up in a net from a fishing boat.

MARLIN

The largest commercially caught marlin bottomed out a 1000kg scale meaning it weighed in excess of 2200 lbs.

BARRACUDA

BASS

This bass was caught in California in a fishing sports competition. It weighed about 400 lbs and measured 9.52 ft. or 2.9017 mtrs.

GREAT WHITE SHARK

The white shark in the photo below was caught off the coast of Cuba in the mid 1940's. It weighed an incredible 7,100 lbs (3.2 metric tonnes) and measured a length of 21 feet (6.4 meters). Its liver weighed in at 1,500 lbs.