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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 | |||||||
| HERRING-LIKE FISHES | |||||||||
| Amazon Pellona | Pellona castelnaeana | IGFA | S: | 7,10 | 15 lb 10 oz | Rio Caura | Venezuela | 1999 | |
| F: | 9,00 | 19 lb 13 oz | Rio Caura | Venezuela | unknown | ||||
| American Shad | Alosa sapidissima | IGFA | S: | 5,10 | 11 lb 4 oz | Connecticut River | USA | 1986 | |
| S: | tie 5,07 | tie 11 lb 3 oz | Connecticut River | USA | 2003 | ||||
| F: | 6,80 | 15 lb 0 oz | Atlantic coast | USA | unknown | ||||
| S?: | 6,12 | 13 lb 8 oz | St. John's River | USA | 1992 | ||||
| Yellowfin River Pellona | Pellona flavipinnis | S: | 2,50 | 5 lb 8 oz | Rio Araguaia | Brazil | 200_ | ||
| F: | approx. 6,00 | approx. 13 lb | Venezuela to Argentina | unknown | |||||
| Allis Shad | Alosa alosa | S: | 2,17 | 4 lb 13 oz | Atlantic coast, Chesil Beach | Great Britain | 1977 | ||
| F: | approx. 5,00 | approx. 11 lb | Sebou River | Morocco | unknown | ||||
| Twaite Shad | Alosa fallax | S: | 1,82 | 4 lb 0 oz | Bianco Canal | Italy | 2001 | ||
| F: | 2,50 | 5 lb 8 oz | Rhone River | France | unknown | ||||
| COD-LIKE FISHES | |||||||||
| Burbot | Lota lota | S: | 11,23 | 24 lb 12 oz | Lake Louise | USA | 1976 | ||
| F: | 32,00 | 70 lb 9 oz | Lake Irtyash | Russia | 1860 | ||||
| S?: | 27,22 | 60 lb 0 oz | Alaska | USA | 19__ | ||||
| ?: | 36,00 | 79 lb 6 oz | Irtysh River | Russia | unknown | ||||
| ?: | 34,00 | 74 lb 15 oz | Alaska | USA | 18__ | ||||
| BOWFINS | |||||||||
| Bowfin | Amia calva | IGFA | S: | 9,75 | 21 lb 8 oz | Forest Lake | USA | 1980 | |
| F: | 9,87 | 21 lb 12 oz | Cedar Creek | USA | 1997 | ||||
| LUNGFISHES | |||||||||
| Marbled Lungfish | Protopterus aethiopicus | F: | 50,00 | 110 lb 4 oz | Lake Tanganyika | Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi | unknown | ||
| Australian Lungfish | Neoceratodus forsteri | F: | 50,00 | 110 lb 4 oz | Burnett River, Mary River | Australia | unknown | ||
| South American Lungfish | Lepidosiren paradoxa | F: | approx. 40,00 | approx. 88 lb | Amazon River system, Parana River system | Colombia to Argentina | unknown | ||
| Slender Lungfish | Protopterus dolloi | F: | 11,00 | 24 lb 4 oz | Zaire River system | Zaire, Congo | unknown | ||
| West African Lungfish | Protopterus annectens | F: | approx. 8,00 | approx. 18 lb | Senegal to Kenya | unknown | |||
| SPINY EELS | |||||||||
| Marbled Swamp Eel | Synbranchus marmoratus | F: | approx. 10,00 | approx. 22 lb | Mexico to Argentina | unknown | |||
| PUFFERFISHES | |||||||||
| Freshwater Puffer fish | Tetraodon mbu | F: | approx. 7,00 | approx. 15 lb | Zaire River system, Lake Tanganyika | Zaire, Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi | unknown | ||
| KNIFEFISHES | |||||||||
| Electric Eel | Electrophorus electricus | S: | over 20,00 | over 44 lb | Brazil | unknown | |||
| F: | 41,00 | 90 lb 6 oz | Aquarium of New York | USA | 193_ | ||||
| Longtail Knifefish | Sternopygus macrurus | F: | approx. 9,00 | approx. 20 lb | Peru to French Guiana | unknown | |||
| ? | Rhamphichthys rostratus | F: | approx. 7,00 | approx. 15 lb | Venezuela to Argentina | unknown | |||
| ? | Apteronotus magdalenensis | F: | approx. 6,00 | approx. 13 lb | Rio Magdalena | Colombia | unknown | ||
| SILVERSIDES | |||||||||
| Pejerrey | Odontesthes bonariensis | S: | 2,45 | 5 lb 6 oz | Ullum Reservoir | Argentina | unknown | ||
| F: | 5,20 | 11 lb 7 oz | Argentina | unknown | |||||