Nghe An: Caught a 'giant' fish

(Baonghean.vn) - On November 11, Mr. Nguyen Van Duc (41 years old) and his wife in Block 6, Dung Town (Thanh Chuong) caught a "giant" eel while fishing in the river.

Mr. Duc said that at around 3am, he and his wife went fishing on the Lam River, which flows through Thanh Tien and Thanh Hung communes (Thanh Chuong), and at 4am they caught a 12kg catfish. It took them an hour to get the fish onto the boat.

When he brought the fish home, Mr. Duc did not have a dry tank so he sent it to Ms. Nguyen Thi Tam's house - a fishmonger next door - to temporarily raise it. When the locals heard about the big fish being caught, they came to see it in large numbers.

The 12 kg catfish was caught on Lam River in Thanh Chuong district.

According to Mr. Duc, the eel fish is a fish with delicious meat, usually living in streams, or deep water in rivers and lakes. Due to the strong demand for catching and hunting, the eel fish has become scarce. Occasionally, fishermen in the fishing area on the Lam River also catch some fish but they only weigh a few kilograms. Ms. Lan - Mr. Duc's wife said: "My family has been fishing since childhood, but today is the first time we caught a large eel fish like this."

At 11:00 a.m. the same day, the "giant" eel was sold to a trader from Vinh City for 9,775,000 VND. Currently, this type of eel is being sold on the market for more than 850,000 VND/kg.

Ms. Lan added that when people here catch big, delicious, rare fish, traders from other places often come to buy them right away to take to the streets./.

Huy Thu