pirarucu

Even so, the most recent census, taken last November, counted 476 pirarucu in the lake.

The Amazon may have the world's largest freshwater fish: the pirarucu grows up to 15 feet long.

It proved to do wonders on almost everything, including the cubes of salted pirarucu.

The most conspicuous of the numerous fish species are tambaqui, piranha and pirarucu.

The agency has banned catching tambaqui under 21 inches and pirarucu under 6 feet.

At one time one could catch 250-pound pirarucu, the largest freshwater fish with scales in the world, and piraiba, catfish of similar size, were plentiful.

Large slabs of pure white fish - some cut into steaks, some rolled up like bolts of cloth, were pirarucu.

A pirarucu is caught and eaten in a season seven episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

The grilled pirarucu and pato no tucupi, duck stewed in the juice of the wild minioc root, is also recommended.

The biggest source of conflict is the mighty pirarucu, a type of striped peacock bass that is the largest freshwater fish in the world.

Inside, however, it is all Brazilian, including a fish market where workers filet massive pirarucu, and chop the ugly croaking bodó fish in half.

The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche (Arapaima gigas) is a South American tropical freshwater fish.

Some of these ingredients are: Tucupi juice, pirarucu and piraíba fishes, the herb jambu and the tapioca from manioc flour.

The pirarucu was featured in a segment of Jungle Cat, a documentary in Disney's True-Life Adventures series.

Amazonian cuisine in includes many freshwater fish such as peixe nobre (noble fish), the pirarucu (the world's largest freshwater fish), and tambaqui.

She ordered pirarucu, a South American fish, with coconut red curry vinaigrette and grilled sweet plantains, while her friend Lorna Spiro had penne with roasted veal.

The pirarucu, the viscachas, the guanaco, maras, rhea, koati and - an endearing sequence - the racing llamas, their ears flying fluorescent pink and orange fringes.

The species are as fun to pronounce as they are to eat: tambaqui, tucunaré, jaraqui, pacu and the enormous pirarucu, fresh or dried and salted like codfish.

"The pirarucu is the boss of all fish in the Amazon, definitely the king," said Antônio Pinto, president of a regional council of 11 cooperatives that practice managed fishing.

From the mixture of sulista, paulista, nordestino, and indigenous traditions arose a diverse cuisine, which unites sun-dried meat (carne-de-sol) with Arapaima (pirarucu), a typical fish of the region.

And when we stopped at a canal to throw in a net, we almost immediately caught several adult pirarucu, a species of giant bass that grows to be as long as eight feet and typically weighs more than 200 pounds.

Dishes rely on distinctive local ingredients: tucupi, a hot sauce made from manioc roots; tacacazeira, a fiery soup made of shrimp and paracress leaves, and a series of meaty river fish: pirarucu, tambaqui, surubim and tucunare.

Notable also because it "breathes" with specially evolved lungs and an air bladder and can survive a nasty dry season by lying in river mud until the flow of water returns, the pirarucu can reach lengths of up to eight feet and weigh over 200 pounds.

Queiroz received his doctorate in 2000 from St. Andrews University, Scotland, in Environmental And Evolutionary Biology, with the thesis "Natural history and conservation of pirarucu, Arapaima gigas, at the Amazonian várzea: Red giants in muddy waters."