"John Fereira" wrote in message
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"riverman" wrote in :


"Bill Tuthill" wrote in message
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Pete Cresswell wrote:

Per riverman:
In fact, the solution to the snakehead and carp invasion in the US
might be to start advertising them as a game fish, and start putting
them on menus. Look what it did for tuna, cod and lobster. :-)

First thing, somebody's got to come up with a sweeter-sounding name
than "snakehead"..... -)

The Latin name is Channa (marulius, micropeltes, lucius, striata,
gachua). That sounds pretty good! Reminds me of Chana Masala.
Picture he

http://www.pattayafishing.com/freshwater.html


Ugh, I hate that site. I've seen it before.....the picture of the Giant
Mekong Catfish bugs the hell out of me. Those are incredibly old,
incredibly rare and incredibly at-risk fish, and its a crime that
Pattaya Fishing advertises that they will take you fishing for them.

That picture is of the largest freshwater fish ever caught and
recorded. Here's a story about the efforts to save these fish:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...5_giantcatfish
.html

The caption said that it was the largest *scaleless" fish and claims they
grow to 650 pounds and 10' long. The white sturgeon, according to several
sites can grow to 1500 pounds and 20' long and are technically scaleless.
They are also endangered.

Well, then its only a matter of time until Pattaya Fishing starts outfitting
trips for them.

Interesting that they claim that the fish caught in northern Thailand might
have been the largest freshwater fish ever caught, as this site
http://www.fws.gov/Endangered/featur...eon/index.html claims that a
1500 pound white sturgeon was caught in 1898. Maybe it has something to do
with recordkeeping?

--riverman