Freshwater

A fish that lives only in Baikal and in a song: a runaway crosses the “glorious sea” in an omul barrel. For two hundred years the…

One of the largest freshwater fishes in the world: the record fish weighed 293 kilograms. The grown fish has no teeth and lives on algae. Mekong…

A predator that eats only the living: it will not touch a dead fish, even starving. Its spines sting, its flesh is counted the finest in…

The most northerly freshwater fish in the world. In summer it goes out to sea and doubles its weight in a few weeks, and it winters…

A fish that anglers the world over wrote about for a century and a half, while science had no name for it. The name came only…

The biggest fish of Australia's rivers: close to two metres, over a hundred kilograms, nearly half a century of life. The settlers called it a cod…

The Egyptians named a city after it and buried it as a sacred thing. Three thousand years later it was put into Lake Victoria — and…

One of the largest freshwater fish in the world — and it breathes air: without a breath it drowns. That is how it was nearly wiped…

A fish that lives a single year, smells of fresh cucumber and fights for its own stone. On that fight the cleverest method of river fishing…

A narrow silver sabre of a fish, taken by the sackful on the Volga and mentioned only in passing in the books.

A fish that goes five thousand kilometres to spawn in a sea without shores. Nobody has ever seen it happen.