Scientists are investigating reports of giant killer fish from all over the world. 

In India, researches are studying a huge type of catfish after it was reported that one actually killed people.  Called a goonch, this fish may have developed a taste for human flesh after eating corpses thrown into the Great Kali River.  English biologist Jeremy Wade has researched the goonch and will report his findings in a television documentary to air in Britain.  Wade caught a specimen which weighed 73 kilograms and was 1.83m long.  He quipped,”If that got hold of you, there would be no getting away.”  The goonch may have taken a 17 year old Nepali boy in 1988 and an 18 year old Nepali in 2007. 

Meanwhile, the MonsterQuest crew searched for a 14 inch lake trout as well as man eating muskies and catfish.  The monster fish called the Goliath Grouper lives in the shallow waters of Caribbean and Florida.  In 1895, the New York Times ran a story about a grouper that weighed over 1,500 pounds.  This fish is once again growing to huge proportions and becoming very aggressive.  The Goliath Grouper is making a comeback. 

Recently, a giant piranha was found in a British river.  This is almost 7,000 miles from its natural habitat in the Amazon River.  Environment Fisheries workers were conducting a survey of fish species in the Torridge River.  Using electric fishing equipment, they found the dead fish, a Red Bellied Piranha.  It was about 14 inches long which is about six inches longer that the average length of the species.  Researchers believe the fish may have been kept as a pet.  They reached this conclusion after an examination of its stomach revealed it was full of sweetcorn.  Once it became too big for its tank, the owner probably put it in the river.

In summary, we may have gigantic catfish in India that are killing people.  People are reporting gigantic fish all over the world, including Britain where an enormous piranha was recently found.