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Ten Largest & Biggest Freshwater Fishes in THE WORLD

#1 : Beluga Sturgeon

The beluga sturgeon in Russia is the largest freshwater fish in the world. This massive fish can reach over 15 feet long and weigh upwards of 2,500 pounds.These fish also have a long lifespan, living to 100 years and older. Like most sturgeons, the beluga is anadromous, migrating upstream in rivers to spawn.

Scientific name: Huso huso

#2 : White Sturgeon

The white surgeon is the biggest freshwater fish in North America. It can reach 20 feet long and weigh up to 1,500 pounds. These large fish can live in fresh or salt water and can be found in the Western United States and Canada.There existence on this Earth may soon end. There are only an estimated 500 of them left.

Scientific name: Acipenser transmontanus

#3 : Giant Freshwater Stingray

The giant freshwater stingray is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. It is found in large rivers and estuaries in Indochina and Borneo, though historically it may have been more widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia. Giant freshwater stingray can reach 10 feet long and weigh up to 1,300 pounds.

Scientific name: Himantura chaophraya

Fish experts believe the giant stingray, such as this one in Cambodia's Mekong River, is the largest freshwater species on Earth.

#4 : Mekong giant catfish

The Mekong giant catfish, is a large, critically endangered species of catfish in the shark catfish family, native to the Mekong basin in Southeast Asia and adjacent China. It can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh upwards of 600 pounds.

Scientific name: Pangasianodon gigas

#5 : Alligator Gar

The alligator gar may resemble an alligator when you look at its mouth, but rest assured, it is a fish. it can reach 10 feet long and 350 pounds. Gars are often referred to as "primitive fishes", or "living fossils" because they have retained some morphological characteristics of their earliest ancestors. The fossil record traces its existence back to the Early Cretaceous over a hundred million years ago.

Scientific name: Atractosteus spatula

#6 : Arapaima

Arapaima live in the Amazon River basin of South America and can reach 8 feet long and 330 pounds. Arapaima is an obligate air-breather and needs to come to the surface regularly to gulp air.

Scientific name: Arapaima gigas

#7 : Bull Shark

The bull shark, also known as the Zambezi shark in Africa, and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. These sharks can reach 11.5 feet long and can weigh over 500 pounds.

Scientific name: Carcharhinus leucas

#8 : Taimen

Taimen are trout that are found in Mongolia and Russia. These trout are huge. They can grow almost 7 feet long and weigh as much as 230 pounds. however, due to overfishing it's hard to find ones this big anymore.

Scientific name: Hucho taimen

#9 : Nile Perch

The Nile Perch can reach up to 6 feet long and can weigh up to 500 pounds. They are aggressive hunters that can be found in lakes, ponds, rivers and streams throughout the Ethiopian Region of Africa, the Mediterranean Region, the Nile Delta and in the Congo Basin.

Scientific name: Lates niloticus

#10 : Paddlefish

Paddlefish are basal Chondrostean ray-finned fish. They have been referred to as "primitive fish" because they have evolved with few morphological changes since the earliest fossil records of the Late Cretaceous, seventy to seventy-five million years ago. they can grow up to 5 feet long and weigh up to 60 pounds.