8-foot giant catfish caught in Cambodia


	8-foot giant catfish caught in Cambodia

onleyone

11-25-2007 9:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f708717-42f1-4286-8a93-48b6685ffe76/D633E64D-E7AE-4220-B8C5-C492CE30D704/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/catfish-pictures/index.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/catfish-pictures/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/catfish-pictures/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/0E49AC61-F1DE-4F96-A9F8-A534B5D72479" alt="Mekong Giant Catfish Photos (Pictures)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/catfish-pictures/index.html"><DIV><B>November 19, 2007—</B>Captured just before midnight on November 13 by fishers in <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_cambodia.html">Cambodia,</A> this <A href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/mekong-giant-catfish.html">Mekong giant catfish</A> is 8 feet long (2.4 meters long) ands weighs 450 pounds (204 kilograms).</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/catfish-pictures/index.html"><DIV>"This is the only giant catfish that has been caught this year so far, making it the worst year on record for catch of giant fish species," said Zeb Hogan (far right), a fisheries biologist at the University of Reno in Nevada.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/catfish-pictures/index.html"><DIV>After collecting data on the fish, Hogan released it unharmed.
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