To be fair we need to look at both freshwater and saltwater records when comparing trophy-sized fish in Florida. Not to mention 7,500 freshwater lakes, ponds and reservoirs and 12,000 miles of rivers and streams for fishing.
With the second longest coastline in the US you can understand how Florida has some of the best fishing in the States. We don’t know about its ecology, about its migration patterns.↓ Continue Reading To See This Amazing Video “It’s found throughout Southeast Asia, but we have almost no information about it.
Its name, even its scientific name, has changed several times in the last 20 years,” Hogan said. “The giant stingray is a very poorly understood fish. AP Photo/Courtesy of Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada-Reno Wonders of the Mekong leader Zeb Hogan (above) said “all of our team was stunned” at finding the stingray. The device will send tracking information for the next year, providing unprecedented data on giant stingray behavior in Cambodia. The scientists who rushed to the site inserted a tagging device near the tail of the hulking fish before releasing it back into the river. “A lot of these big fish are migratory, so they need large areas to survive.” So if they’re fished before they mature, they don’t have a chance to reproduce,” Hogan said. It is home to several species of giant freshwater fish but environmental pressures are rising. The Mekong River runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Chhut Chheana/Wonders of the Mekong via AP About a dozen men were needed to care the stingray ashore. “The fact that the fish can still get this big is a hopeful sign for the Mekong River, ” Hogan said, noting that the waterway faces many environmental challenges, including overfishing pollution and dam building. The stingray shattered the previous record for the largest freshwater fish, which had been held by a 646-pound Mekong giant catfish that was discovered in 2005 in northern Thailand.īut the catch was not just about setting a new record, Hogan said. The stingray was hooked near a remote island on the Mekong River on June 13. “Yeah, when you see a fish this size, especially in freshwater, it is hard to comprehend, so I think all of our team was stunned,” Wonders of the Mekong leader Zeb Hogan said in an online interview from the University of Nevada in Reno. The scientists arrived within hours of getting a post-midnight call with the news, and were amazed at what they saw. research project - which has publicized its conservation work in communities along the river. The next morning, the fisherman alerted a nearby team from the Wonders of the Mekong - a joint Cambodian-U.S. Tank of 12 stingrays die mysteriously in 1 hour at Florida zooįor one lucky fisherman in Cambodia, the catch of the day was the world’s largest recorded freshwater fish - a giant stingray weighing a stunning 660 pounds that took about a dozen men to carry ashore.įisherman Moul Thun, 42, hooked the female stingray, which measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail, near a remote island on the Mekong River on June 13. Tickle me? Hell, no: Stingray videos spark outrage among animal lovers
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