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| "Silure" caught near Albi |
We often see pictures of these giant catfish caught in the Tarn around Albi and Gaillac, and read stories of them attacking ducks and pigeons. Indeed in David Attenborough's latest "Life on Earth" series a sequence was shown of the pigeons in Albi being trapped by silures. Latest research has dispelled the myth that they grow to over 3 to 5 metres, the biggest ever recorded being 2.70 metres.. In an American journal the researchers of Ecolab, who were the first to film underwater footage in the Tarn - and record the communication sounds the fish make, say that stories of giant specimens are based on a larger Russian species not found locally.
Nevertheless we bet there are Tarn fishermen who swear that a whopper got away.
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