When Human Falls To The Bottom Of The Food Chain: Giant Catfish

I came across these pictures at some sites, story are more or less the same saying that giant man-eating catfish found in a reservoir in Guangdong, China. The article with these pictures also told how they deploy dead and life chickens to catch this so-called giant catfish.

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What I really wanted to say is that the story is a total bullshit (pardon my French)! I think every diver or marine student should know immediately that this is a "Whale Shark" instead of Catfish!! Whale shark is a filter feeder, feeding on phytoplankton, zooplankton, krill or small nektonic life. They are the largest, harmless shark species which lives in open sea instead of some reservoir!! In fact, they are so huge that only a few aquarium in the world can keep them. Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan is one and Georgia Aquarium is the other.

Conclusion is, what I really see from the pictures above is not killing a "reservoir-man-eating-monster"! I bet they didn't know that whale shark is an endangered species and they just showed the whole wide world their crime of killing protected animals. Shame on them!