Giant catfish - I wonder if it likes cormorants

[Spindle]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2155462.stm

[Peter Sharpe]

I can't think how they arrived at an estimate of 288lbs. I would have thought 100lbs was nearer the mark.

[Chris Plumb]

If it is that big then it probably would take cormarants!! I study of the stomach contents of large catfish in Spains River Ebro revealed 10% had cormorant remains.

 

Chris

[miasma]

spindle.....dont be so quick to write off the

existance of this fish........miasma..

[Bruno Broughton]

Chaps

 

I think we're entering the world of whackos here - check the Centre for Fortean Zoology website on:

 

www.eclipse.co.uk/cfz

 

and see if you can spot any science. Investigation of the CFZ personnel is especially illuminating!

 

[ 28 July 2002, 11:38 PM: Message edited by: Bruno Broughton ]

[chesters1]

i think its just nessie on her summer hols

[Jim Roper]

Yet another way of attracting paying visitors???

 

I'm surprised that the water is not too polluted after all those spuds they feed to the geese in winter, 200 tons (SORRY!! Tonnes) per year was it??

 

Jim Roper

 

http://www.march-info.org

[Vagabond]

Bruno Broughton:

Investigation of the CFZ personnel is especially illuminating!  

Yes, one of them describes himself as "Leo with Scorpio rising" - says it all!

 

Well it IS the "silly season" after all.........

 

Jim Roper may be right, every time a "saltie" (saltwater crocodile) manages to catch and eat a visitor at Kakadu National Park, the numbers of tourists goes UP as soon as the incident hits the headlines.

 

....and Chesters is wrong, Nessie only takes winter holidays as July/Aug are her busiest months.

[Peter Sharpe]

Excuse my ignorance, but what has the CFZ got to do with the BBC news bulletin.

[Newt]

Peter - probably this (which is the only mention of the qualifications of the "team" that is apparently investigating the situation) from the article:

quote:

---

Although the biggest ever caught was 16-feet long, Jonathan Downes,

one of the team from the Centre for Fortean Zoology in Exeter,

thinks this one is a tiddler by comparison - perhaps seven feet long and weighing 24 stone.

---