Top 10 largest fish in the World (photo and video facts)

Thousands and tens of thousands of fish species live in the seas and oceans, rivers and lakes of the Earth. Many of them amaze people with their unusual abilities or fantastic appearance.

Among the fish there are real record holders for the largest; We included them in our top 10 largest fish in the world. Of course, whales were not included in our top list, because a whale is not a fish, but a mammal. When compiling the rating, we decided to take into account both the body length of the fish and its mass.

Otherwise, this fish is called belt fish. It is found in the warm waters of all oceans except the Arctic. This funny name is explained by its appearance: a large fin resembling a crown grows on its head, and the giant is usually found in schools of herring.

The body of the herring king resembles a ribbon. Its length is about three and a half meters (although there are individuals of five, six and even eleven meters), height - 25 cm, and thickness - 5 cm. The largest belt fish is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, its length is 11 m, and its weight is 272 kg.

The meat is usually not eaten, although it is not poisonous.

9 Common catfish

One of the largest freshwater fish lives in all European reservoirs of Russia, except the Arctic Ocean. The body length of a catfish can reach 5 meters; The weight of such a fish will be at least 400 kg. It is a valuable game fish; There are complex fairy tales, proverbs and riddles about catfish (for example, “There are no two catfish in one pool”).

This is a thick brown fish (also available in black, light yellow and even albino) with a remarkable mustache; Catfish have no scales.

Catfish feed not only on plankton and crustaceans, but also on live fish, shellfish, and can catch waterfowl or small domestic animals.

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There are known cases of catfish attacking humans.

8 Atlantic blue marlin

Tiger sharks are often called leopard sharks: their exquisite coloring is reminiscent of both large cats. These dangerous predators live in tropical or subtropical waters; There are especially many of them in the Pacific Ocean.

It is interesting that these fish are viviparous, sometimes they bring eighty small sharks at once.

Reaching five and a half meters in length, tiger sharks are dangerous even to humans, although the basis of their diet consists of fish, sea snakes, cephalopods, turtles - and everything that comes into the sea!

These predators have a huge mouth, and each tooth is equipped with a jagged blade that can cut through a turtle's shell. Females are larger than males and can reach a weight of one and a half tons with a length of more than five meters. There are reports that there are tiger sharks 9 m in length, but they are not confirmed.

Dangerous predators often attack people. Fortunately, in most cases, victims manage to survive. There are especially many attacks in Hawaii.

However, sharks themselves suffer a lot from humans. Tiger sharks are caught for their meat, as well as their skin and fins; Sometimes they are kept in aquariums, but in captivity sharks do not live very long.

5 The white shark is a huge fish

See photos of the largest fish in the world. This is a whale shark, the size of which can even reach twenty meters! Slow and peaceful, she feeds exclusively on plankton and does not pay any attention to people who may swim around her, touch her and even ride on her back.

The largest fish in the world, the whale shark, is a very rare species, because for a long time they were a commercial fish. And now they are hunted by poachers.

The whale shark has a peculiar flattened muzzle, and in its wide mouth there are up to fifteen thousand small one and a half centimeter teeth. Strangely, the liver of this fish is much smaller than that of other sharks (in a giant shark, for example, the liver makes up one fifth of its total weight, this gives it buoyancy).

The whale shark prefers water with a temperature of 20 to 25 degrees and even cooler. Most of these fish are found near Taiwan and the eastern coast of Africa.