Thumb’s up on the Mekong Catfish World Record

Well every time we go fishing we are setting a record, here is a interesting species setting a record at 12.90kg and 89cm it comes in as a trophy fish for setting a English name and also with a maximum size of 1.2m it is well over the 50% of length, we don’t know about weigh as there is very little data on this fish
This may shock a few people but the Pangasius  bocourti  does not have a English common name, so we are at a bit of a loss, so we have decided to give it a common name of Mekong Catfish. This is for many reasons, the main one being that it comes from the same river the Mekong Delta.
Also the size it can grow to 1.2meters long
So after having a Giant Mekong Delta Catfish,
we decided we needed a Mekong Catfish, well this one was a fine contender! It is very much like a Swai catfish but more stunning.
There is not much data on this fish with only 6 fish documented through www.fishbase.org that I can find and the pictures are not that good so we hope to update them with some stunning shots in the future no doubt, as no surprise, Fisherman’s Paradise has plenty. So were are looking at collecting a bit more data on these in the future as well, I have been told that they have been known to breed in lakes and this seems to be backed up by fishbase.

This fish is a good contender for our tagging program coming up soon! As we do plan to take the time to gather data on fish stocks so we can monitor fish density and growth rates.