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Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught a 280-lb. Wels Catfish Thursday in Italy's Po Delta river, setting a new record. The U.K. Mirror reported that the catch is the world's largest wels catfish ...
The wels is the largest freshwater fish in Europe and Western Asia, only exceeded by the anadromous Atlantic and beluga sturgeon. Most adult wels catfish are about 1.3–1.6 m (4 ft 3 in – 5 ft 3 in) long; fish longer than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) are a rarity.
Wels Catfish - Europäischer Wels / Mal / Silure glane / Siluro (Silurus glanis) 113.5 kg: 250 lb 3 oz: Roberto Godi: 5 Feb 2010: River Po, Mantua, Lombardy Italy [54] 112 kg: 246 lb 14 oz: Christophe Dubreuil France: September 2009: River Ebro, Mequinenza, Province of Zaragoza Spain [55] 110 kg: 242 lb 5 oz: Jakub Vagner Germany: 5 February ...
On 23 October 2000, The BRFC decided that no further claims would be considered for the Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) to prevent the importation of record sized illegal fish. [8] R Garner's 62lb specimen caught at Withy Pool, Henlow in 1997 has been frozen in time as a snapshot of the record as it stood at that time in 2000. [ 8 ]
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Catfish (Siluriformes) A good-sized wels catfish, such as this specimen of over 200 pounds, is a rival for the title of the largest catfish. Most authorities now give the crown of the largest catfish to the Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, which is also considered the heaviest completely freshwater fish. [1]
An angler said he was "absolutely broken" after landing what he hopes will be confirmed as the largest ever recorded catfish in the UK. Shaun Ing caught the 150lb (68kg) specimen at Chigborough ...