Top 10 Biggest Fishes

	FISH	max. recorded weight		notes
		(kg)	(lbs)
1.	Whale Shark	11,800	26,000	The heaviest specimen ever found (in March 1994) weighed 36,000 kg. The Whale Shark also has the thickest skin of any animal, measuring up to 6 inches (15 cm) on the back.
2.	Basking Shark	5,218	11,480
3.	Great White Shark	2,300	5,060
4.	Ocean Sunfish	1,000	2,200	the heaviest known bony fish in the world
5.	Giant Cambodian stingray	455	1,000
6.	Pirarucu	180	400	South American tropical freshwater fish (largest freshwater fish) which can grow up to 10 ft long.
7.	Mekong Giant Catfish	293	646
8.	Beluga or European Sturgeon	264	582	Unconfirmed reports of belugas reaching a length of up to 8.6 m (28 ft) and weighing as much as 2,700 kilograms (5,940 lbs).
9.	Bull Sharks	250	550	these are the largest freshwater fish
10.	Halibut	211	470	largest recently recorded halibut was 211 kilograms (470 lb) and 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) long, caught by Bosse Carlsson and Hans Oluf Nilsson outside Bodø, Norway in 2009. Wikipedia lists the halibut is the largest flat fish, averaging 11–13.5 kilograms (24–30 lb), but catch as large as 333 kilograms (734 lb) has been reported.