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14-feet 800 pound Stingray Largest Freshwater fish - PatrickMorrow - 03-18-2015
Sp reportedly new largest freshwater fish was caught by Jeff Corwin.
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Here is the full story : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/stingray-thailand-jeff-corwin-largest-freshwater-fish_n_6867936.html
But if I search for a biggest freshwater fish in Google it comes up with whole another animal: Beluga Sturgeon -
Quote:The largest recorded beluga sturgeon was almost 20 feet long and over 7,000 pounds
http://www.conservationinstitute.org/10-largest-biggest-fresh-water-fish-in-the-world/
![[Image: beluga.jpg]](http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/styles/featured_blog/public/beluga.jpg)
Anyone knows what`s the deal with that?
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Re: [PatrickMorrow] 14-feet 800 pound Stingray Largest Freshwater fish - wiperhunter2 - 03-18-2015
I saw that as well, it is likely a misprint, it isn't the largest freshwater fish but largest freshwater Stingray caught.
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Re: [PatrickMorrow] 14-feet 800 pound Stingray Largest Freshwater fish - Seaner83639 - 04-05-2015
This because the Beluga isn't considered a true freshwater fish, because it spawns in the rivers and then returns to the ocean and brackish waters
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Re: [Seaner83639] 14-feet 800 pound Stingray Largest Freshwater fish - wiperhunter2 - 04-06-2015
Welcome to the site Sean, here is a link to the Idaho board, in case you haven't found it already:
[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?forum=25"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?forum=25[/url]
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