28 responses so far ↓

• 1 Tom Tula // Jan 22, 2008 at 1:43 pm

  Wow, those fish are huge! It would be awesome if you had some MegaFishes life-size posters available .

• 2 Indah // Aug 25, 2008 at 3:36 am

  I think one of the reason people is not paying a great attention of these fishes is perhaps their fear of their sizes. They might not think that these fishes are harmless or some of them are (i am lacking knowledge also), so they are not as popular as the cute panda. So i think posting this sort of website and introduce familiarities to community, listing their species and the way they behave might give a more interactive illustration to us. Thanks i think this project is outstanding and there should be more of this. Freshwater giant fishes can be magnified in some kind of TV commercial or something.
  Cheers Good luck with the project.

• 3 Vincent Tan // Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12 pm

  Great effort!!

  We do have lots of pics of the dog eating catfish if you are interested. Let us know if we can be of help!

  Kudos~

• 4 Kimmo K.... // Nov 16, 2008 at 4:22 am

  All my best to all who help this magnificent planet in being the great wonder of the Universe and to preserve it’s beauty in all natures glory.

• 5 ricky toomey // Dec 1, 2008 at 6:42 am

  fantastic work .its great to see someone who cares greatly about these magnificent fish,keep up the good work and great t.v. programme as it shows us who cares most. well done to everyone involved.

• 6 Henry Gilpin // Feb 22, 2009 at 5:53 pm

  Amazing work and idea, there is just not enough focus on the great wonders of the freshwater world, this is an amazing project and I am looking forward to what it has to show the world. Best of luck to the project!

• 7 Anh Tran // Mar 1, 2009 at 7:20 am

  Thank you so much for your wonderful works in protecting these freshwater giants in Southeast Asia. Thanks also for conducting outreach programs by educating the local and international public the importance of these species in our ecosystem.

• 8 Fikret AHSEN-BÖRE // Mar 25, 2009 at 4:13 am

  Yesterday was (24.03.1989) “exxon-valdez” catastrophe 20.anniversary.I can´t forget it from my memory & cordova´s fishermen I lowe you! brave persons!

• 9 andy // Jun 24, 2009 at 6:51 pm

  WOW!!!!i watched Discovery channel about the Mekong megafish..the fish is reaaly huge!!..Mr ZEB HOGAN and those involve in the megafish project..u guys ROCK!!!..keep it up…

• 10 Fikree // Jul 2, 2009 at 10:30 pm

  Man should leave these giants alone, they have been here long before us, why do we have to harm them, lets us make an example to all the others by not buying any giants that we found at our markets, and tell the seller that its wrong to catch theres gentle giants

• 11 Medard Paler // Jul 5, 2009 at 8:21 pm

  This project creates a lot of awareness to many people , for some people they dont know the long term effect of unbalance ecosystem… I do believed this project will have a tremendous impact to our conservation efforts, and the governments of these countries of these fishes live should provide funds to retain this wonderful creatures….

• 12 mrzipperlips // Jul 11, 2009 at 8:14 am

  Ive watched the show, and after spending 25 years of my life learning the art of angling, I have to say Im a bit dissapointed in the fishing abilities of these guys.

• 13 jcromeenes // Jul 12, 2009 at 12:11 pm

  Great work being done here. Anything you can do to understand and protect these magnificent creatures is wonderful. Once they’re gone they’re gone forever.

• 14 Fonzy The Great // Jul 30, 2009 at 3:23 pm

  Just Think If There Are Fish This Big In Freshwater
  Just Think Of How Big Fish In The Ocean Are?
  There is A Giant Ocean Awaiting Us But Not
  Enough People To Help Explore, They Say We Have Only Discovered !% Of Our Ocean, And Look At All We Know, I Can Not Imagine How Many Undiscovered Species Await

• 15 Todd // Sep 16, 2009 at 5:32 am

  I agree with comment number 10. It’s awesome to see them, but I wouldn’t like to see them dead and used for wall ordiments. The stingaray, looks to me like it’s now dead. Since it’s out of the water, so I am guessing you all killed every one in the picture. I’m a fisherman, I love fishing, but trying to go after JUST the giants? Their so rare, how are you going to have any more left to enjoy and look at? Come on now, leave the rares alone, pet them, swim with them, but don’t kill or eat them. I find it laughable at what I wright, if I catched one and was addicted, but it’s not the right reason. Use your sencesse for not killing or eating them. Wall ordiments goes along with killing them. I feel like I’m sticking up for the big guy, “The Iron Giant”. He can relate, rare things always get ruined by greedy assholes. Long Live The Giants, I hope so. -Todd

• 16 Todd // Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 am

  Wait… you guys are lowering the stingaray into the water right? I read the top of the page, found this in google by the way, “time for the bashing from everyone”… My bad, lol keep up the good work, and make sure the giants live a very long time, take care of them, don’t put them in to a to mall or just right tank!!! They need a HUGE tank, you can’t put a baby goldfish into a small tiny tank, HE WONT GROW OR have a good time in there! Stress kills you know? Todd

• 17 Devin Taylor // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:28 pm

  Awesome work Zeb Hogan. What an amazing experience to do the work you do. You are an excellent voice for nature and especially the fish of the planet. I’d put you up there with other heroes who are working to spread the good word of conservation to the people of the world. Very cool stuff you do!!! Love the photography too…

• 18 Loonyfish // Dec 14, 2009 at 2:24 am

  I would give a right arm for a few dozen tiny fingerlings from the Giant Mekong catfish or the Amazon Pirorucu . I’d patiently grow them all out as parent stock for a hatchery, and then proceed to create schools those monsters, feeding them generously as they grow with net-fulls of the fast-multiplying Tilapia that teem in my fish-ponds down by the swamp forest .

  The growth rate of TEN kilos a year that is widely quoted for the Pirarucu is almost beyond belief, and could see that air-breathing species taking the aquaculture world by storm, just as soon as the science of captive breeding is perfected.

  Sustainable hatchery operations devoted to preserving scattered pockets of genetic diversity should be established quickly for these gentle water giants before they vanish from the wild due to over-fishing in the Mekong and Amazon rivers, while also enabling fish farmers to provide a limitless supply of very tasty, boneless fish to consumers worldwide.

  In case you ever read this, Dr. Hogan, I never miss your show on the National Geographic Channel, but thanks to you, I have become OBSESSED with acquiring some Pirarucu or Pangasianodon broodstock.

  The quest continues….

• 19 libby // Dec 18, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  WOW!! these are big fishies any of them would have no prob whatsoever swallowing me whole and alive, crazee huh?yumee though

• 20 Andrew // Feb 4, 2010 at 11:45 am

  I think what Dr. Zeb Hogan and company are doing is absolutely amazing. Keep it up and all the best luck for you

• 21 Loonyfish // Feb 8, 2010 at 11:47 pm

  Having just watched another of Dr. Hogan’s shows on the Giant Mekong Catfish, in which a few adults of that species were netted in a fisherman’s holding pond, so that they could be released back into the wild, I would like suggest that since the Mekong river is now such an unsafe place to live for these gentle giants, any captured speciments should NOT be released into the wild where they may wind up getting caught again and possibly eaten, but should rather be kept in holding ponds where they can be used as brood stock for captive breeding programs for which those fishermen could also be rewarded financially.

  Using captured adult megafish to breed thousands more in controlled settings would to me be a much safer bet to assure the future of the species than would releasing a few adults back into the wild to take their chances of survival in the over-fished habitat that they occupy at increasingly greater risk today than in past decades.

• 22 Dr.N.R.Khamees // Mar 4, 2010 at 1:11 pm

  I am doing my researchs on fishes of Iraq.
  In Mesopotamian Rivers there are many megafishes. Before few months one small
  spciemen of Pangasius catfish was collected.
  This is the first record in Iraqi freshwater.

  Dr. N. R. Khamees
  Department of fisheries
  College of Agriculture/University of Basrah
  Basrah/Iraq

• 23 jazzy cat // Apr 13, 2010 at 2:33 pm

  that mekong giant catfish was the bigest catfish
  i have seen in along time and i cought 100
  pounder and that one was big to me

• 24 dony // Apr 16, 2010 at 12:21 am

  i’m STUNNED!!!

  especially with the giant mekong catfish..

  it is possible that you can find it too at Kalimantan or Borneo Island (like people always call Kalimantan Island)

  i dare you to find it at Kapuas River the longest river in Indonesia, or perhaps in Papua Island rivers, possibly you can find giant catfish too or maybe a GIGANTIC arowana (maybe and i hope for it)…

  keep on the good works mate

• 25 James Hitchins // Jun 27, 2010 at 4:08 am

  I have a great amount of respect for Zeb and what he is doing.

  I am a fishing guide on the Zambezi river here in Zambia and we catch a rare Species or Giant Catfish called a Vundu. Also under Threat due to two massive Dams that have been built on the Zambezi,Kariba and Cahorra Bassa Dams. This catfish has an angling record of 50kgs. But there are bigger specimens in the Zambezi gorge below the Victoria Falls.

  Maybe this is a giant you need to look into. Give me a call if you are interested.

  Believe in catch and release. Our children will be able to fish in the future.

• 26 Loonyfish // Jul 18, 2010 at 12:09 am

  Hi James,

  The Vundu would be Heterobranchus Longifilis or H. Bidorsalis, if my Latin serves me right. I crossbreed both of those with smaller Clarias catfish, to produce fingerlings that grow faster than the Vundu or the Clarias. Sell those fingerlings to fish farmers. Largest pure-bred Vundu I ever saw was 28kg, though I have seen some larger ones on the internet. I wonder if there are any real monsters out there that could rival the European Wells catifsh for bulk.

• 27 Mul // Jul 25, 2010 at 2:19 pm

  Hi Zeb, i was wondering with your interest to ‘catch’ the giant catfish in Mekong River about 13 yrs ago when we stay and play in Chiang Mai … but sure i thought you had something to think to preserve the giant freshwater fishes. Now you have been attracting the world attention with your project. Keep moving !!

• 28 nat // Aug 18, 2010 at 12:47 pm

  thats just wicked, the alligator gar to me is the most mejestic , and i am very intersted in them. well i have always been interested in big fish, but i live in ontario canada , so i realy dont get the chance to see monsters like that.. i have seen a huge stergion in lake ontario that was about 10 feet long!

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