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Announcing itself with four huge whacks of its tail, it thrashed against the net that had trapped it in the pale brown water of the Mekong River. It may have been the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded--a rare giant catfish 9 feet long and weighing 646 pounds. It took five boatmen an hour to pull it in and 10 men to lift it when they reached the shore of Hat Khrai, a village in northern Thailand. When this monster catfish was caught in May, Zeb S. Hogan, an American biologist, rushed to Hat Khrai to take a look. It was his first specimen in a project to study the world's largest freshwater fish, in the hope of slowing their extinction. Hogan says that the Mekong has seven species of giant fish. All are...