I purposely excluded the white sturgeon and other sturgeon species in this video because even though they can live in freshwater their entire lives, they are anadromous or live in brackish waters. I said this very clearly at the start of the video so please stop commenting it. Peace and love
The great lakes count as brackish waters? Sturgeon love the Great lakes so in my opinion since you took the sturgeon off of this and minus the Great lakes from this video u are a fraud, you fail.
@@clanman8278 they had catfish on here weighing 100 lb I'm pretty sure sturgeon at 200 plus is bigger than a f****** catfish and sturgeon get almost as big as alligator gar
My personal favourites from this list would have to be the Murrary Cod, Alligator Gar, Goliath Tigerfish, Nile Perch, Golden Dorado and the Wolf Fish despite the last two only getting honorable mentions. I also really like how you included a few scenes/pictures from River Monsters and Jeremy Wade's Dark Waters which is where I learned about many of the fish mentioned in this video in the first place.
14:01 Tsuki, you forgot to mention this absolute giant river monster that patrols and doggie paddles up and down the Thames. Not even Jeremy Wade could handle this!!!!
There are no recorded cases of them ever eating a human whole, we know they can scavenge a corpse if it comes near them, but we have no proof of them killing and eating a human (which would be very unlikely, a child as you said is feasible though I'm not aware of any case of a catfish found dead with a whole child inside, but adults are just too large for them to actually eat, especially as the truly massive ones are exceedingly rare nowadays and even for the upper limits of the species, a below average adult woman is already probably too large for them to swallow. It's not *impossible* that they ever killed (this is actually not too far-fetched considering their size and opportunistic behavior) and eaten (that's the very unlikely part) human at some point, but it is an extremely unlikely event
Absolutely excellent video i would have liked you to add the golden mahseer and the black carp in the asia section being some the largest growing carps at 8 feet in length
14:00 You have forgotten some incredibly amazing Fishes and they are mostly from Asia such as: Giant Snakeheads Great Snakeheads Emperor Snakeheads Barca Snakeheads Striped Snakeheads Giant Goonch Catfish Wallago Indian Shovelnose Catfish Plotosus Canius (Asian Eel Tail Catfish) ... Exetra Exetra Anyway, Thanks for such a great content. Edit: Sturgeons were also needed to be included in the video.
Even though the Wels isnt the biggest, what i like about it is how adaptable and intelligent it is (for a fish). You really don't see that very often. It can also survive almost anywhere.
The Chernobyl cooling ponds for example, being a bottom dwelling fish and given that those cooling ponds contain the highest concentrations of radioactive matter in the entirety of the region, it's shocking that they are doing so well.
hi Tsuki, i watched your videos for a while now, they are nice but are you ever gonna do a video on i don't know what flora? This is just a suggestion you can do a video about a plant if you want to.
I can tell you were very in depth when it came to Australia as you mentioned the Murray Cod, I don’t believe it would make a difference in the rankings, Murray Cod also have a dark side and are extremely territorial to their hunting grounds and nesting areas.
It's a shame that bull sharks were excluded as the Brisbane river is one of the few places where it's been proven that bull sharks are breeding in fresh water with zero contact with brackish/tidal waters. Upstream of Mt.Crosby dam but the 2011/2012 and 2022 floods all gave them an opportunity to return to the ocean and for new sharks to enter from downstream breaking the chain. The sharks are still there though.
It wouldn't surprise me if there have been 500lb lake trout in the past, mostly because they tend to be bottom dwellers as opposed to Alligator Gar who have no choice but to live mostly near the surface (fun fact Alligator Gar apparently can tolerate brackish water).
@ fair he did say that but I would think that if he is talking about the biggest fresh water fish of ever continent he should allow all fresh water fish be put on the table
After being hammered in the early days, Murray Cod are slowly recovering thanks to genuine efforts to improve habitat and massive restocking programs. Still a long way to go. Unfortunately they rely on seasonal spring flood events to trigger spawning in their natural range and these have largely been controlled by building weirs and large scale irrigation in a dry continent. Still, I’m optimistic that we will again see the monsters that were once slaughtered 100 years ago…and we will leave them alone. They are a special fish.
@@RyanYoxo Ha! Was up there a few weeks ago hoping to get one. 3 days hardcore fishing…not a touch! Mind you, the blokes with LiveScopes were doing okay…we were pretty much fishing blind. Helps when you can land a big lure right in a cod’s nose. Eildon cod fishery (and Yellowbelly) is pretty amazing.
Short-tailed river stingray of South America. They can grow to 6.2ft and weigh 490lbs. There’s a news report claiming a fisherman in Argentina caught a specimen that was 550lbs.
Antarctica had Archaeomaenidae in the Jurassic period if I remember correctly. One day (100's of years from now) when the temperature increases we'll be able to populate Antarctica again
Murray cod have also been almost completely wiped out due to water mismanagement here in Australia. Cotton farmers have been illegally irrigating their farms using water from the already dry murray darling river, which has led to algal blooms which have inturn led to massive fish kills in recent years.
A few miles from here the Nile meets the ocean there are some areas along the bank that are over 800 feet deep. That area has to have more living fossil fish than anywhere else in the world.
How did he forget about the White sturgeon? Yes they are technically andromodous but in many places they are land locked and can get to 14ft in length only outdone by beluga sturgeon from europe
The onlty reason Australia ranked so low was because it put all its nightmare points into bugs, reptiles and dropbears so the continent didn't have many points left when it came to dishing them out to the fish.
As I started the video I thought "wels catfish" for europe but I didn't imagine that it would be the third on the the list as well as the following ones would be so close to it's size 😮 ps. Giant freshwaterstingray granted to Jeremy ❤(bleeding muscles)
You got it wrong the arpima is the biggest fresh water fish in the world. They can get up to 14ft long if in the right sercum stances. But there most common at the size u said they was.
Tsuki there is this guy named ambiguous world and i think he might have footage of the thylacine but i need you to prove whether it is the thylacine or another Australian marsupial your the only animal expert i can trust on this.
Why did you misquote 1.8 meter conversion? 1.8 inch is kinda far off. If you can’t get that basic stuff correct I can’t imagine all the other things that are wrong.
even though they can live in freshwater their entire lives, they are anadromous. Otherwise i would've included the beluga sturgeon in Europe and Asia too
@@rockenlouis He literally showed the beluga sturgeon in the part of the video when he was explaining that he was excluding fish that were not primarily freshwater fish.
I purposely excluded the white sturgeon and other sturgeon species in this video because even though they can live in freshwater their entire lives, they are anadromous or live in brackish waters.
I said this very clearly at the start of the video so please stop commenting it.
Peace and love
@@TsukiCove but by that logic, the giant stingray should also be excluded, as they can live in estuaries and brackish water environments
Thank you for the information. I was not aware that the sturgeon of North America was anadromous.
The great lakes count as brackish waters? Sturgeon love the Great lakes so in my opinion since you took the sturgeon off of this and minus the Great lakes from this video u are a fraud, you fail.
@@420kingofhill lake sturgeon are native to the great lakes, the world record is only 260lbs. Do your research, you fail
@@clanman8278 they had catfish on here weighing 100 lb I'm pretty sure sturgeon at 200 plus is bigger than a f****** catfish and sturgeon get almost as big as alligator gar
Jeremy Wade, absolute goat, the true river monster.
My thoughts exactly. 👍
the river monster master!
the true river monster was him all along
that was the greatest plot twist ever
The fact that jeremy wade caught basically all of those fishes is just impressive!
Gotta love Jeremy Wade👌🐟
Yet another excellent video!
thank you i really appreciate it :)
Although they don’t fit the criteria, shoutout to the white sturgeon and beluga sturgeon for being bigger than any fish on this list 🤌
A horror movie similar to jaws about the wels catfish would be perfect
There was one in "Under Paris," though it was partially eaten by the mutant shortfin mako.
We're going back to fish videos? Oh we're so back boys!
Agree
My personal favourites from this list would have to be the Murrary Cod, Alligator Gar, Goliath Tigerfish, Nile Perch, Golden Dorado and the Wolf Fish despite the last two only getting honorable mentions. I also really like how you included a few scenes/pictures from River Monsters and Jeremy Wade's Dark Waters which is where I learned about many of the fish mentioned in this video in the first place.
Fun fact. We are more closely related to true fish, like trout, than sharks are.
😁 fun fact 2: Sharks are older than trees
Fun fact: We are still fish, at least phylogenetically. And so are all other mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians.
@@bonecanoe86 @Trundlebugg Both true facts. That! Is how the human…do.
Well,we definitely enjoy eating them more than sharks!
Gulp gulp mf😂
amphibians next?
Yess do it
i'll see what i can do :)
@@TsukiCove holy shit i love ur channel thx
asia solos
@@EuthanizeAllDogs your correct yes but north america might surprise you,after all i know something you dont
14:01 Tsuki, you forgot to mention this absolute giant river monster that patrols and doggie paddles up and down the Thames. Not even Jeremy Wade could handle this!!!!
he waddles up the humble river Avon instead haha
Very interesting video 👍😊✌️
Another excellent vodeo but you missed out the Goonch catfish
I just love your videos... All of them :)
Thank you to you and Artie for another fabulous video. I appreciate all your hard work and am glad I subscribed. 🐡🐟
thank you i really appreciate the support and so does Arnie :)
@@TsukiCoveI actually learn a lot from your videos and so does my Asia (my miniature schnauzer)
Great video!
There are no recorded cases of them ever eating a human whole, we know they can scavenge a corpse if it comes near them, but we have no proof of them killing and eating a human (which would be very unlikely, a child as you said is feasible though I'm not aware of any case of a catfish found dead with a whole child inside, but adults are just too large for them to actually eat, especially as the truly massive ones are exceedingly rare nowadays and even for the upper limits of the species, a below average adult woman is already probably too large for them to swallow.
It's not *impossible* that they ever killed (this is actually not too far-fetched considering their size and opportunistic behavior) and eaten (that's the very unlikely part) human at some point, but it is an extremely unlikely event
Absolutely excellent video
i would have liked you to add the golden mahseer and the black carp in the asia section being some the largest growing carps at 8 feet in length
14:00
You have forgotten some incredibly amazing Fishes and they are mostly from Asia such as:
Giant Snakeheads
Great Snakeheads
Emperor Snakeheads
Barca Snakeheads
Striped Snakeheads
Giant Goonch Catfish
Wallago
Indian Shovelnose Catfish
Plotosus Canius (Asian Eel Tail Catfish)
...
Exetra Exetra
Anyway, Thanks for such a great content.
Edit: Sturgeons were also needed to be included in the video.
What about Snakeheads?
@p5eudo883 I mentioned 5 of them at the starting of the list...
@@Tahmid-Khan-Talha I was being sarcastic. :P
@@p5eudo883 Oh,I got it!
Even though the Wels isnt the biggest, what i like about it is how adaptable and intelligent it is (for a fish). You really don't see that very often. It can also survive almost anywhere.
The Chernobyl cooling ponds for example, being a bottom dwelling fish and given that those cooling ponds contain the highest concentrations of radioactive matter in the entirety of the region, it's shocking that they are doing so well.
Nice video I definitely liked it. Also, have you heard that the giant catfish in South America? It’s rumored to grow 12 feet long.
The lower Trinity River in TX is a good place to find alligator gar.
hi Tsuki, i watched your videos for a while now, they are nice but are you ever gonna do a video on i don't know what flora? This is just a suggestion you can do a video about a plant if you want to.
i don't know enough about plants to make videos on them but i'm sure there are other channels that focus on that
So are we not going to talk about the beluga and white sturgeon 😂
If the freshwater stingray was on there, why not the white sturgeon as they both may spend time in saltwater ?
There here is no evidence that it crosses into marine waters, it only spends brief periods in brackish waters. The white sturgeon is anadromous
Nice video Tsuki
thanks i appreciate it :)
It’s a shame people bowfish for big alligator gar and kill em for a photo.
I can tell you were very in depth when it came to Australia as you mentioned the Murray Cod, I don’t believe it would make a difference in the rankings, Murray Cod also have a dark side and are extremely territorial to their hunting grounds and nesting areas.
It's a shame that bull sharks were excluded as the Brisbane river is one of the few places where it's been proven that bull sharks are breeding in fresh water with zero contact with brackish/tidal waters. Upstream of Mt.Crosby dam but the 2011/2012 and 2022 floods all gave them an opportunity to return to the ocean and for new sharks to enter from downstream breaking the chain. The sharks are still there though.
@ but then that starts to add a lot to the roster of potential candidates and even the Bull Shark itself could end up in multiple places.
It wouldn't surprise me if there have been 500lb lake trout in the past, mostly because they tend to be bottom dwellers as opposed to Alligator Gar who have no choice but to live mostly near the surface (fun fact Alligator Gar apparently can tolerate brackish water).
That's a BIG fish!
It would be interesting if you did a list that included marine fish that can enter freshwater. I imagine Sturgeons and Sawfish would top the list.
Team Europe, checking in
Wow that’s interesting
Next ranking video
Ranking the largest hoofed mammals by each continent
Alligator gar appreciation comment
I remember catching one when I was 19.Still my greatest catch of all time
I think you could of included the sturgeon for North America since they are a iconic North American fish
Then you’d include bullsharks etc
He specifically said he was excluding anadromous species.
@ fair he did say that but I would think that if he is talking about the biggest fresh water fish of ever continent he should allow all fresh water fish be put on the table
@@scraptrapgaming1491 in which case the bull shark is simultaneously the largest freshwater fish of Oceania, South America and Africa.
The Pike is one of my favorite fish, same with the Gar.
After being hammered in the early days, Murray Cod are slowly recovering thanks to genuine efforts to improve habitat and massive restocking programs. Still a long way to go. Unfortunately they rely on seasonal spring flood events to trigger spawning in their natural range and these have largely been controlled by building weirs and large scale irrigation in a dry continent. Still, I’m optimistic that we will again see the monsters that were once slaughtered 100 years ago…and we will leave them alone. They are a special fish.
There’s been some big boys caught at lake Eildon
@@RyanYoxo Ha! Was up there a few weeks ago hoping to get one. 3 days hardcore fishing…not a touch! Mind you, the blokes with LiveScopes were doing okay…we were pretty much fishing blind. Helps when you can land a big lure right in a cod’s nose. Eildon cod fishery (and Yellowbelly) is pretty amazing.
@@brianandrea3249 live scopes is the way I hear
Huh Just realized I hadn't been subscribed. That's been fixed.
When is the video on isopods Tsuki?
2:09, it is Jeremy Wade!! What a legend
Short-tailed river stingray of South America. They can grow to 6.2ft and weigh 490lbs. There’s a news report claiming a fisherman in Argentina caught a specimen that was 550lbs.
Hopefully these videos promote ecological conservation.
Antarctica had Archaeomaenidae in the Jurassic period if I remember correctly. One day (100's of years from now) when the temperature increases we'll be able to populate Antarctica again
I feel like, though it’s extinct, it would’ve been worth mentioning the Chinese paddlefish cause it could get up to 23ft long
I ❤ Jeremy Wade
he's from the same area as me and yes he's a legend
5 fish that can breath air
Australia also has giant freshwater whip rays and freshwater sawfish
Could’ve at least given a shoutout to the fish of 1000 casts, the Musky. 🎣
Theres another giant stingray in south america you forgot to mention. It was featured in a river monsters episode too.
7:08 rip big guy 😔✊
Murray cod have also been almost completely wiped out due to water mismanagement here in Australia. Cotton farmers have been illegally irrigating their farms using water from the already dry murray darling river, which has led to algal blooms which have inturn led to massive fish kills in recent years.
more about giant snakeheads
I hope to one day get to see Alligator Gar in the wild.
What about the Goonch Catfish and Mahseer Fish ?
Great video but you missed the largest fresh water fish in the world the sturgeon. In particular the Beluga Sturgeon in Russia.
He stated he was excluding anadromous species.
A few miles from here the Nile meets the ocean there are some areas along the bank that are over 800 feet deep. That area has to have more living fossil fish than anywhere else in the world.
can you a similar to this but for biggest eagles of each continent?
I seen me a carp bout the size of a motorcycle in the canals around Tempe town lake
I miss River Monsters.
Me too what a show it was
What about the gonch catfish
Is the white sturgeon not strictly freshwater?
The entry for North America is so confusing regarding the white sturgeon.
Even though they can survive in freshwater their entire lives, they are anadromous so don't qualify for this video
@TsukiCove Thank you sir for explaining.
no worries :)
@TsukiCove How about most dangerous household insects/arachnids?
Before watching my guess is that asia or south america will have the biggest
"I fought a bluegill once, i once lost." Wise Fisherbeater 2024
How did he forget about the White sturgeon? Yes they are technically andromodous but in many places they are land locked and can get to 14ft in length only outdone by beluga sturgeon from europe
The onlty reason Australia ranked so low was because it put all its nightmare points into bugs, reptiles and dropbears so the continent didn't have many points left when it came to dishing them out to the fish.
I'm confused how sturgeon in the Caspian sea aren't mentioned.
Caspian sea is technically brackish
@TsukiCove it's 1/3 as salty as the ocean, so I guess it really doesn't count. Still should have got a mention and why it wasn't eligible.
Woho alligator gar
What about a sturgeon?
How does the goonch compare with the Asian giants?
You forgot to mention Chili rasboras
.. you forgot the Australian sawfish. Unfortunately, critically endangered.
I want to see the largest crustean for each continent
smh no mention for muskie
Isnt Manta Ray bigger?
Not a freshwater fish
White sturgon?
They go into the ocean, which is why it was the fish shown when he said he wasn't including it
I was waiting for stargeon and Baghair...
read the top pinned comment
I think you forgot about the white sturgeon in north america
read the top comment or listen in the first minute of the video
We have a type of sturgeon in North America as well and it can get bigger than alligator gar. Is that not a native fish?
it is native but it's anadromous
@TsukiCove got you, I didn't realize that. Thank you.
As I started the video I thought "wels catfish" for europe but I didn't imagine that it would be the third on the the list as well as the following ones would be so close to it's size 😮 ps. Giant freshwaterstingray granted to Jeremy ❤(bleeding muscles)
Hey bro how did u forget about the white sturgeon they can get much bigger then the alligator gar
read the top comment or listen in the first minute of the video
What about white sturgeon for North America?
it's anadromous
Actually North Americas largest freshwater fish is the white sturgeon that can weigh over double the weight of a alligator gar.
read the top comment or listen in the first minute of the video
I love catching barramundi
I had a wels catfish i hade it frome 1954 iput him in my granma house and he still a live
4:15 that guy is a straight MENACE for putting his hand in a northern pikes mouth
i think it's actually a bass, you'd see if i let the clip run a little longer
@Tsukicove oh yeah i see that now damn thats a BIG BASS
You got it wrong the arpima is the biggest fresh water fish in the world. They can get up to 14ft long if in the right sercum stances. But there most common at the size u said they was.
Tsuki there is this guy named ambiguous world and i think he might have footage of the thylacine but i need you to prove whether it is the thylacine or another Australian marsupial your the only animal expert i can trust on this.
What about the beluga sturgeon
read the pinned comment
The white sturgeon grows up to 18 feet and 1600 pounds much larger than the alligator gar In North America
read the top pinned comment or listen in the first minute of the video
Speaking of aquariums, how's your aquarium?
Lungfish only in Mary and Burnett Rivers. MURRAY COD don't breed because of hydroelectric schemes. Breed only in Ovens River in Victoria.
Why did you misquote 1.8 meter conversion? 1.8 inch is kinda far off. If you can’t get that basic stuff correct I can’t imagine all the other things that are wrong.
What about white sturgeons? They grow bigger than alligator gar.
yes but they're anadromous and i'm not including anadromous fish
for the North America, wouldn’t it be sturgeon?
even though they can live in freshwater their entire lives, they are anadromous. Otherwise i would've included the beluga sturgeon in Europe and Asia too
@ ahhh okay, that makes sense! thank you!
Bro forgot about the beluga sturgeon
Europe has the Lochness monster 😅
I thought the beluga sturgeon is larger than the wels catfish? 🤔
it is larger but isn't considered a freshwater fish because it lives in both fresh and salt water
@Operager But that isn't a reason for it to not be classified as a freshwater fish
@@rockenlouis He literally showed the beluga sturgeon in the part of the video when he was explaining that he was excluding fish that were not primarily freshwater fish.
@danvernier198 oh really??? Oh my bad 😔
For North America are sturgeon the largest the largest could get to 20ft
they're anadromous. That's why i didn't include any sturgeon species
You didn't include Sturgeon fish.
read the top pinned comment
Alligator gar can get over 11 feet