It’s a shark... It’s a whale... It’s a catfish, weighing an estimated 125kg and caught illegally in the Ramganga river near Corbett national park in Uttarakhand. But the freshwater monster, probably the biggest catfish ever found in Himalayan rivers, became dinner before it could be weighed on a certified scale and measured. Based on people’s description and the video, we think it will be around 125kg,” Almora divisional forest officer SR Prajapati said. “The weight of the fish is unusual,” said JA Johnson of the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun. According to biologist Anup Sah, a member of the Uttarakhand Wildlife Board, fishing is prohibited in the Ramganga but the river faces rampant poaching.

Source: Hindustan Times July 25, 2017 18:00 UTC