A Ray Fish With a Weight of 300 Kg Captured, New World Record
The amazing record specimen with 300 kilos that a fisherman captured. The piece is considered the largest fish in the world caught in fresh water.
Nature never ceases to amaze us with unique animals for various reasons.
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| A Ray Fish With a Weight of 300 Kg Captured, New World Record |
His latest whim is a 700-pound stingray caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia. This spectacular specimen, weighing 299.8 kilos and measuring almost 4 meters long and 2.2 meters wide, has been considered by scientists to be the largest freshwater fish ever documented.
The ray ousted the previous record holder, a 293kg Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005.
“In 20 years of investigating giant fish in rivers and lakes on six continents, this is the largest freshwater fish we’ve found or been documented anywhere in the world ,” said Zeb Hogan, a biologist who directs Wonders of the Mekong , a USAID-funded conservation project. “Finding and documenting this fish is remarkable, and a rare positive sign of hope,” he said.
The Mekong is rich in biodiversity, but overfishing, dams and pollution threaten its fragile ecosystem. It flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The fisherman who made this unique catch is called Moul Thun and he is 42 years old. He resides on Koh Preah, a remote island on the Mekong River in northern Cambodia. The piece was returned to the waters after being measured and studied by scientists and after being named Boramy , which in the local dialect means full moon .