The continent’s largest freshwater fish, native to Eastern Europe, is an invasive species that threatens native fish already in decline. Wels catfish, which are native to Eastern Europe ...

chaos. Feathers hurriedly flap and water splashes. The commotion is all over in seconds, except there's one less bird on shore, snatched up in the gaping clutches of a humongous European catfish, a ...

Catfish is Europe's second largest (after beluga) fish and the largest freshwater fish. It can reach up to 3 metres in length ...

A little English girl hooked and, with a bit of help from her father, landed a 190-pound European wels, a catfish-like creature that grows to enormous size in Spain and Italy. Jessica Wanstall ...

They initially thought the catfish was around 250 centimeters, but final measurements proved it was 280, at the time the longest wels on record. Mystery Fish The first European catfish to break 9 ...

Wels catfish are the largest freshwater fish in Europe, excluding species that migrate inland from the sea to breed, known as anadromous species. The prized fish are native to Central and Eastern ...

European Catfish have developed a taste for pigeon. The 1.5 meter long fish — the largest in the continent — lunge out of the water to grab the feathery feast. They are temporarily stranded on ...

The European Catfish is the largest freshwater fish in Europe, reaching up to 2.8 meters in length and 130 kg in weight. It was first detected in Portugal in 2014. As a top predator, it has no ...

And patrolling the island are European catfish—1 to 1.5 metres long, and the largest freshwater fish on the continent. These particular catfish have taken to lunging out of the water ...

European catfish typically trawl the bottom of freshwater lakes and rivers for food, opening their flat mouths to consume crustaceans, worms, small fish, and even the occasional frog. But along ...

Histological sections of reproductive active ovaries of European catfish Silurus glanis: a) ovary with CA and AVTG oocytes, b) ovary with several PG and AVTG oocytes, c) ovary with EVTG oocyte ...