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Official and informal world records of freshwater fishes
Record weight
last update: 4th November 2007, by Mr. Heinz
Machacek

| ENGLISH NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME | IGFA | RECORD WEIGHT | WATER | COUNTRY | YEAR | ||
| still valid | kilograms | ~ lbs ozs | ||||||
| PERCH-LIKE FISHES | ||||||||
| Nile Perch | Lates niloticus | S: | approx. 125,00 | approx. 276 lb | Lake Nasser | Egypt | 199_ | |
| F: | 350,00 | 771 lb 10 oz | Lake Victoria | Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya | 19__ | |||
| Murray Cod | Maccullochella peelii | S: | 50,40 | 111 lb 2 oz | Murray River | Australia | 19__ | |
| F: | 113,50 | 250 lb 4 oz | Barwon River | Australia | 1902 | |||
| ?: | 130,00 | 286 lb 10 oz | Murray-Darling-River system | Australia | unknown | |||
| Tanganyika Lates | Lates angustifrons | S: | 6,60 | 14 lb 9 oz | Lake Tanganyika | Zambia | 1998 | |
| F: | 80,00 | 176 lb 6 oz | Lake Tanganyika | Zambia | 196_ | |||
| Barramundi | Lates calcarifer | IGFA | S: | 37,85 | 83 lb 7 oz | Lake Tinaroo | Australia | 1999 |
| F: | 60,78 | 134 lb 0 oz | Northern Territory | Australia | unknown | |||
| ?: | approx. 100,00 | approx. 220 lb | Indonesia | unknown | ||||
| Striped Bass | Morone saxatilis | IGFA | S: | 35,61 | 78 lb 8 oz | Atlantic coast near Atlantic City | USA | 1982 |
| F: | 56,70 | 125 lb 0 oz | North Carolina | USA | 1891 | |||
| ? | Macrospinosa cuja | F: | approx. 50,00 | approx. 110 lb | Ganges River | India | unknown | |
| Clarence River Cod | Maccullochella ikei | F: | 49,50 | 109 lb 2 oz | Clarence River | Australia | unknown | |
| Freshwater Drum | Aplodinotus grunniens | IGFA | S: | 24,72 | 54 lb 8 oz | Nickajack Reservoir | USA | 1972 |
| F: | 45,00 | 99 lb 3 oz | USA | unknown | ||||
| ?: | 90,00 | 198 lb 7 oz | USA | unknown | ||||
| Japanese Lates | Lates japonicus | IGFA | S: | 33,00 | 72 lb 12 oz | Shimanto River | Japan | 1996 |
| F: | approx. 45,00 | approx. 99 lb | Japan | unknown | ||||
| Forktail Lates | Lates microlepis | IGFA | S: | 8,30 | 18 lb 5 oz | Lake Tanganyika | Zambia | 1987 |
| F: | approx. 35,00 | approx. 77 lb | Lake Tanganyika | Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi | unknown | |||
| Giant Snakehead | Channa micropeltes | S: | 15,00 | 33 lb 1 oz | Kwae River system | Thailand | 19__ | |
| F: | over 30,00 | over 66 lb | Temengor Reservoir | Malaysia | 19__ | |||
| Great Snakehead | Channa marulius | S: | 12,15 | 26 lb 13 oz | Liaoning Province | China | 2001 | |
| F: | 30,00 | 66 lb 2 oz | Maharashtra Province | India | unknown | |||
| ?: | over 35,00 | over 77 lb | Pakistan to Indonesia | unknown | ||||
| Golden Perch | Macquaria ambigua | S: | 9,53 | 21 lb 0 oz | Lake Hume | Australia | 1995 | |
| F: | 27,00 | 59 lb 8 oz | Australia | unknown | ||||
| Papuan Black Snapper | Lutjanus goldiei | S: | 22,00 | 48 lb 8 oz | Fly River | Papua New Guinea | 2003 | |
| F: | 22,68 | 50 lb 0 oz | Papua New Guinea | unknown | ||||
| Zander | Sander lucioperca | S: | 19,00 | 41 lb 14 oz | Starnberger Lake | Germany | 1959 | |
| F: | 20,00 | 44 lb 1 oz | Dnyepr River | Belorussia | unknown | |||
| Speckled Peacock | Cichla temensis | IGFA | S: | 12,25 | 27 lb 0 oz | Rio Negro | Brazil | 1994 |
| F: | 20,00 | 44 lb 1 oz | Rio Orinoco, Rio Negro | Venezuela, Brazil | unknown | |||
| Striped Snakehead | Channa striata | S: | 6,00 | 13 lb 4 oz | Prathum Thani Pond | Thailand | 2003 | |
| S: | tie 6,00 | tie 13 lb 4 oz | Bersia Reservoir | Malaysia | 1985 | |||
| F: | approx. 20,00 | approx. 44 lb | reservoir on Oahu, Hawaii | USA | unknown | |||
| Boeseman Croaker | Boesemania microlepis | IGFA | S: | 7,00 | 15 lb 7 oz | Chao Phraya River | Thailand | 1998 |
| F: | 18,00 | 39 lb 11 oz | Mekong River | Laos | unknown | |||
| Trout Cod | Maccullochella macquariensis | S: | 7,71 | 17 lb 0 oz | Talbingo Reservoir | Australia | 2006 | |
| F: | 16,00 | 35 lb 4 oz | Murray-Darling-River system | Australia | unknown | |||
| Giant Gourami | Osphronemus goramy | S: | 6,00 | 13 lb 4 oz | Kuala Kemapan | Malaysia | 1996 | |
| F: | 15,00 | 33 lb 1 oz | Temengor Reservoir | Malaysia | unknown | |||
| Largemouth Bass | Micropterus salmoides | S: | 11,23 | 24 lb 12 oz | Lake Tohopekaliga | USA | 1974 | |
| F: | 12,00 | 26 lb 7 oz | Florida | USA | unknown | |||
| ?: | 15,00 | 33 lb 1 oz | Treasure Lake | Cuba | 19__ | |||
| Barca Snakehead | Channa barca | F: | approx. 12,00 | approx. 26 lb | India, Bangladesh | unknown | ||
| Borna Snakehead | Channa amphibeus | F: | approx. 12,00 | approx. 26 lb | India, Bhutan | unknown | ||
| Turquoise Cichlid | Caquetaia umbrifera | IGFA | S: | 1,81 | 4 lb 0 oz | Rio Claro | Colombia | 2003 |
| F: | approx. 12,00 | approx. 26 lb | Panama, Colombia | unknown | ||||
| Giant Cichlid | Boulengerochromis microlepis | F: | approx. 12,00 | approx. 26 lb | Lake Tanganyika | Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi | unknown | |
| Walleye | Sander vitreus | S: | 10,29 | 22 lb 11 oz | Greer's Ferry Lake | USA | 1982 | |
| IGFA | ?: | 11,34 | 25 lb 0 oz | Old Hickory Lake | USA | 1960 | ||
| Chinese Perch | Siniperca chuatsi | S: | 10,20 | 22 lb 8 oz | Anhui Province | China | 1999 | |
| Volga Zander | Sander volgensis | S: | 3,20 | 7 lb 1 oz | Danube River | Hungary | 19__ | |
| F: | 10,00 | 22 lb 1 oz | tributaries of the Black and Caspian Sea | Hungary to Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine | unknown | |||
| Orinoco Peacock | Cichla orinocensis | IGFA | S: | 6,22 | 13 lb 11 oz | Tiznados Lake | Venezuela | 2002 |
| F: | 10,00 | 22 lb 1 oz | Rio Orinoco, Rio Negro | Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil | unknown | |||
| Estuary Perch | Macquaria colonorum | S: | 3,78 | 8 lb 5 oz | ||||