Over the course of the 16-day competition, spearfishers removed 443 armored catfish and 29 tilapia from the river. Officials ...

It was frozen in a refrigerator for a week. But when the biologist took it out of the ice and thawed it out, it came back to life and started thrashing.

The suckermouth catfish is a tropical freshwater fish which carries little or no value as a food fish. The demand for tropical freshwater fish as the bottom cleaner in the aquarium trade.

The Negri Sembilan Fisheries Dept caught 1,094kg of invasive fish, including 942kg of suckermouth catfish and 149kg of black tilapia. Kasim (right) shows the invasive fish that were captured.

Suckermouth catfish jump in the water of the Buriganga river at Sadarghat launch terminal in Dhaka. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi Local fish are rare in the Buriganga as the river is filled with a ...