it pales in comparison to the world record for a caught catfish, which goes to the 9.4ft-long beast weighing 280lbs caught by Italian angler Alessandro Biancardi in the River Po, in the Lombardy ...

The river catfish may be overshadowed by its famed cousin, the Mekong giant catfish, which shares the same river system in Southeast Asia. But this less celebrated species is a remarkable fish in ...

Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have ...