Chinese Fun Fish

The small guy and the béluga

The four-year old boy named Yangyang swims with a beluga (a type of dolphin)in Qingdao Polar Region Ocean World in east China's Shandong province, 2007 Ph. China photopress.

The beluga kiss









Weird giant catfish


Spring 2007 an enormous fish is caught in Huadu's Furong Reservoir, South of China. The rumour quickly spreds on the web talking about a man-eating catfish ... It says that a human body was found inside the fish. The killer catfish was 3 meters long and the head alone was 1 meter wide.




Supposedly a few humans died every year in this reservoir under mysterious circumstances but no proff could link this with this big fish. Actually, specialist of the marine world identified the giant catfish to be a young whale shark !



A slice of chinese catfish ?

The only remaining mystery is to know how this shark, on the point of being extinct and of no danger to man (they are exclusively herbivores and they have not the teeth or other possibilities to attack other animals or humans) came from the sea to the reservoir ?






The chinese octopus sunbath

The dried spectre is a very appreciated Chinese delicacy.

Not fresh fish

Dead fishes from a fish farm after the passage of an heat wave in the South of China July 2006.

Miraculous fishing

A chinese fish farmer with some of his catfish bred on the outskirts of Hangzhou. Fish farmers are said to have turned to illegal veterinary drugs to keep fish alive in contaminated ponds. Source: D. Barboza. NYT, January 18, 2008