The GOONCH – A GREAT Fish like no other !! | 水產百科網

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A giant silhouette moves across the river bed. The creature effortlessly glides against the fast current, in a clear stretch of the river it reveals itself….Enormous appendages frame its face, marking it apart from any other fish – a Goonch !!

Sounding like something from a Roald Dahl tale the Goonch is indeed an unusual and mysterious fish. A member of the catfish species it lives in some rivers in Northern India and Nepal, and other rivers of the Asian subcontinent where the conditions are right.

There is still much we do not know about the Goonch in the wild. Their day to day behaviour, feeding patterns, reproduction, migration, life span, interaction with each other, and potential growth, to this day remain largely unknown and undocumented.

So little is known about the wild Goonch’s behaviour that perhaps the Anglers and Guides who have been lucky enough to obs...