Fish Category: K-P

PACU (SMALL SCALED PACU)

The Pacu is a common sight across the fishing lakes of Thailand but is also commonly mis-identified as the term “pacu” is often used to describe fish of several different genera. The similar looking but obviously coloured tambaqui for example is also known as a Black Pacu, while the red bellied pacu’s common name is Pirapitinga. As […]

MRIGAL CARP

The Mrigal carp is common across Asia and an important food fish. It has a smooth head with a small-scaled body and looks very similar to grass carp. They are herbivorous feeders and given their demand as a delicacy, it is rare to find specimens over 4-5kg. As with our other carp species, the Mrigal can […]

MEKONG GIANT CATFISH

The Mekong giant catfish until recently held the record as the world’s largest freshwater fish and is a true icon throughout the Thai fishing community. Unlike other native catfish species, mature specimens lack barbels and teeth and the Mekong consequently feeds on a diet of plankton, algae, shrimp and other molluscs. Their scaleless bodies are grey with […]

MAD BARB

The Mad Barb was widely known throughout Thailand by its English vernacular name of the Hoeven’s Mad Barb (leptobarbus hoevenii) but has now been shown to be a separate species from those near the Thai/Malay border, with the Chao Phraya/Mae Klong basin variety now recognised as leptobarbus rubripinna. They are a herbivorous shoal fish and have a […]