Yet another exotic fishing website i saw!!!! awesome .... look at the Arapaima gigas or Pirarucu ...... COOL!!!!
http://www.carpecarpio.com/exoticfishpictures.html
http://www.carpecarpio.com/exoticfishpictures.html
Big Big Arapaima gigas or Pirarucu !!!!
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i want that emperor sh, the arapima, the giant bigarius, and the mekong giant catfish. how do you find all of these sites. theyre awesome
mon said:Yet another exotic fishing website i saw!!!! awesome .... look at the Arapaima gigas or Pirarucu ...... COOL!!!!
http://www.carpecarpio.com/exoticfishpictures.html
thanks for sharing the link, the giant fishes are awesome!
i hoped they released those fishes after fishing them.. So that they can continue to live and reproduce..
If you ever get a chance to visit the Tennesse Aquarium you can see the giant gigas they have. The last time I was there they had 4 of them averaging about 10 ft a piece.
When they state "fate=released" that just means they let the animals go to die. These animals are stressed to the max and full of lactic acid throughout their bodies after a fight like that and will not survive. Only a dying Arapaima or many of the other large fish they caught would be okay with holding them out of the water for a photo-op. I've worked with adult Arapaima in a public aquarium setting and know first hand these animals would not survive such treatment.
My 2 cents
My 2 cents
Hiya AQ, welcome to MFK, I fish and am not a real fan of the catch and release programs (I prefer catch and eat). I know some fish tolerare it fairly well as long as they are not real young but, with some exceptions like sturgeon and snake heads, many larger fish do build up enough lactic acid to led to dying either from shock or lowered resistance to disease, then the program turns into a case of "kill and release" as with many sharks. Most cats take capture stress pretty well from what I have read but I have seen nothing written about survial rates among line caught carp or A. gigas. I still want to go fishing on the Amazon though.
Aquatic Resource said:
I couldn't agree more. Despite the size and power these fish have, they just don't do well in a stressful situation. I transported an adult from the Ft Worth Zoo to the Dallas World Aquarium (Texas). That's a 30 minute ride in a semi. I ended up spending the night with it in a wet suit making sure it came up for air. Took a week for it to eat, and if it would have encountered that stress level in the wild, there's no way it would live.
Edit: The largest arapaimia on there is 240 lbs (110kg) That's still not a full grown adult. Needs another 100 lbs on there. The first few shown are babies!