An Asian catfish.

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An Asian catfish as big as a bear may disappear in the near future, warn University of California, Davis, conservation biologists Zeb Hogan and Peter Moyle from their research base in Cambodia. Pangasianodon gigas, which grows to 10 feet long and 650 pounds, is a migratory species in the rivers of Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. On the Mekong River at Chiang Khong, Thailand, 30 fish were...