Taimen video clip on youtube by National Geographic
Taimen Profile by National Geographic:
“The taimen is the largest member of the salmonid family, which also includes trout and salmon. These fish are fierce predators that sometimes chase their prey in packs, a practice that earned them the nickname “river wolves.” They have gray-green heads with streamlined, reddish-brown bodies. And they can be enormous, with particularly large specimens reaching six feet (two meters) long.
Taimen, also called giant Eurasian trout, are notoriously voracious and have a varied diet that includes primarily fish, but also ducks and even mammals like rats or bats. These insatiable fish will also prey upon one another. Some large taimen are known to have suffocated while trying to swallow a slightly smaller member of their own species.”
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Who did give them a permission to tag them, huh????
such an annoying
I’ve seen a lot of taimen which were suffering with that tags.
Badmaa, they have permission from Ministry of Environment for the science work, so guess that includes the tagging. I don’t like the sore that the tag makes, but the tagging has given some very interesting and useful results about population numbers. An alternative type of tag would be an electronic chip that goes under the skin (a PIT tag), and you use a scanner like in the super market to record the data, but its more expensive.