The first was about 400 pounds, per the BBC. These fish are sometimes called the largest freshwater fish but sturgeons spend a great deal of time in brackish water and switch back and forth between saltwater and freshwater environments in their life cycle. "When record fish are found, it means the aquatic environment is still relatively healthy." It was the second giant freshwater stingray researchers had analyzed since May. "Finding and documenting this fish is remarkable, and a rare positive sign of hope, even more so because it occurred in the Mekong, a river that's currently facing many challenges," including overfishing and pollution, says Hogan. They also share a trait in common with sharks: an internal frame made out of cartilage instead of bone.
Instead of having slimy skin like a catfish or a coating of scales like most other fish, the White Sturgeon is covered in hard, bony plates called scutes. The name is often applied to a beautiful female, per the outlet. This aquatic giant is the largest species of freshwater fish in North America.
She's been given the name "Boramy," or "full moon" in the Khmer language "because the round-looking fish was released during a full moon," per NatGeo. The fisherman, 42, caught the 661-pound fish which measured about 13 feet in length near a remote island on the. The record of biggest freshwater fish ever caught goes as far back as 1966 when Dana Deblois caught a 19 pound, 10 ounce brown trout in the Wachusett Reservoir in Worcester County. A fisherman in northern Cambodia hooked what researchers say is the world’s largest freshwater fish a giant stingray that scientists know relatively little about. She was studied, implanted with an acoustic tag that will notify researchers about her movements, behavior, and whether she gives birth, then released back into the river. Largest freshwater fish ever caught hooked in Cambodia. The largest American paddlefish caught on record was 88 inches long, weighed 198 pounds, and was. CNN reports it took "around a dozen men" to bring the apparently healthy female giant stingray to shore. Although the species is regarded as vulnerable in many areas, you can still fish them in 13 states. On June 13, researchers got a call from 42-year-old Moul Thun, who claimed to have accidentally caught an extra large giant stingray, which is also an endangered species, on Koh Preah island, per the BBC and National Geographic. The conservation project, aligned with the Cambodian Fisheries Administration, encourages fishers to report catches of giant or endangered fish. The biggest freshwater fish caught anywhere, ever, was captured and released last week near Koh Preah Island on the Mekong River in the Stung Treng area of northern Cambodia.