Kicker - A fish tale

NICK EICHER, HOST: You know how fish stories go, the fish gets bigger with every telling of the story?

Well, here’s a fish story that starts big!

A fisherman in Cambodia recently netted the largest freshwater fish in recorded history.

He captured a massive stingray in the Mekong River. He let a team of scientists know about it, a conservation group called the Wonders of the Mekong.

The stingray was 13 feet from snout to tail and it weighed a mind-boggling 660 pounds!

Thankfully the fisherman didn’t have to pull this Wonder of the Mekong into the boat. The conservationists wrote out a $600 check to him, then tagged the ray and released it back into the river.

The story may grow, but the fish might, too.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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