Tornado Alley (PROG)

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F6, living fossil ..

The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche (Arapaima gigas) is a South American tropical
freshwater fish. It is a living fossil and one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world. [...]

Commercial fishing of the arapaima has been banned by the Brazilian government due to its commercial extinction. Fishing is allowed only in certain remote areas of the Amazon basin, and must be catch-and-release, or harvesting by native peoples for consumption. Because the arapaima produces "large, boneless fish steaks", it is considered a delicacy; some 7000 tons per year were taken from 1918 to 1924, the height of its commercial fishing. The demand for the arapaima has led to farming of the fish by the "ribeirinhos" (as Brazilians call those living on the riverbanks) .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima

In a tv show on the Amazon i just saw a 20 kg one speared by a native.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qutu5BHE_8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyAYzAkSOMQ

Used to catch little brook trout in a wilderness stream .. now even watching the
great spirit of the pirarucu being extinguished was sad .. must be getting old.