Amazon's Biggest Fish Arapaima Faces Threat of Extinction


Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing. But these huge fish are quickly disappearing from Brazilian waterways, according to a new study. The Cosmo News has the story:



British filmmaker Jeremy Wade found this arapaima fish in a lake just off the Madeira River in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The arapaima,or paiche is a living fossil and one of the largest freshwater fish in the world:




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  1. Port Angeles, Wa.

    HERE I COME!!

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    1. Must be Benny the Buzzsaw McNee, I heard a hit was going down today.

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    2. Cobain would hang out at the band practices like all the other neighborhood kids. Can you hear the similarities?

      http://youtu.be/cZiGPckX4Lo

      MMC

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    3. Mid Michigan Cumming and Harry are both "joe" accounts

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    4. Dude 8:36 you may actually need help paranoid delusions are signs of schizophrenia which often manifests suddenly in your 20's on even if you never had a bout before you may really want to see someone seriously my friend whether you like me or not look it up it's true

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    1. Joe when you post as Harry, do you sometimes like to think about jockeys

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    2. ^When you post here as an idiot, do you sometimes wish you hadn't?

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    3. This means you and Joe are the only two on here! :) xx

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  4. I've got the Amazon's biggest fish in my underpants and it certainly doesn't face the threat of extinction anytime soon.

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    1. No...i doubt it ever feels lonely either with all your long term stroking.

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  5. Joe Fitzgerald was so thoroughly smoked by a troll the other day that his fragile ego was left in absolute ruins -- it will take at least a couple weeks for him to recover.

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    1. True, Joe was destroyed. But have no fear, he is now posting under his other 12 accounts, one of which is Harry Bandini

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  6. Jeremy Wade is hot for an older guy! Look at that profile of him lifting that huge fish over his head!!!! DANG!!

    Yes I am a girl so let me enjoy this in peace!!

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    1. jeremy wade lifting that fish?he must have dyed his hair!

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    2. I wouldn't know I just got here.

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    3. HAHAHA!! you are right 6:17! Next time I oogle I will look at the face too! OH well, I guys I had a male moment and never looked above the neck.

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    4. I WANT Jeremy Wade's
      SPERM. !!
      Big Jon!

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    But. . . satellite images shows over 30,000 refuges still starving on the mountain and many are being slaughtered by that WIPED OUT ISSI army, Obama says were defeated!
    And. . . The border is secure!!

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    3. ^^^ i bet you`ve watched every episode

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  9. Monkeys are rioting in Missouri. Just sayin'

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