Analysis: False story that's been around since 2007.
Comments: It's a big fish, yes; but it is not a catfish, much less a man-eater. Judging by the pictures, it is a whale shark, specimens of which have measured up to 41 feet long (or more, according to undocumented reports). It is the largest existing species of fish. It lives in salt water. It eats nothing larger than plankton.
Though listed as "vulnerable to extinction" by conservation groups, whale sharks are subject to commercial fishing in parts of Asia, where their meat is sold for food and their fins for use in traditional medicine.
It's unknown precisely where and when these photos were taken, but the claim that the behemoth was caught in the Furong Reservoir in the Huadu district of China is clearly false, given that whale sharks are not freshwater fish. Nor, according to the government, have any "mysterious" drownings occurred in the reservoir over the past year. It would appear that the text accompanying these photos was entirely fabricated.
Interestingly enough, we have seen misidentified whale sharks wind up the subject of urban legends before.
It's Just a
Catfish!
For all those crazy guys who go 'noodling' for catfish and stick their arms down the fish's throat, this would be 'all the catfish you can eat.
Each year, a few people were drowning or disappearing mysteriously in Huadu's Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently, when the son of a government official went swimming, in the reservoir and was drowned, that the secret was revealed.
It is a 3 meter long man-eating catfish, whose head alone is 1 meter wide!
After cutting up the catfish, people were surprised to find the remains of another man inside!
Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden, because it is feared that another similar, man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters.
It's Just a Catfish!
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