Towards Domestication Of Largest Fish In Amazon
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 10:42
in Earth & Climate
The Amazon and its tributaries are home to almost one tenth of the world’s freshwater fish biodiversity, 2500 species being recorded. The giant fish Arapaima gigas is one of the most emblematic of these. Better known by the name of paiche in Peru or pirarucu in Brazil, it is one of the word’s largest freshwater fish.