What is the biggest fish out there?

Question

I think it looks like a whale.

Answer 1

I have no idea what to say to your question

Answer 2

Whale Shark

Answer 3

Whale Shark

Answer 4

Whales aren't fish. The largest known fish is the whale shark.

Answer 5

Whale shark

Answer 6

Yes, whales and dolphins are mammals, not fish.
The largest fish is the whale shark. Technically a shark but it is a filter feeder, feeding on krill and zooplankton.
The largest freshwater fish is the Arapaima (found in the Amazon River). Otherwise known as the Arapaima Gigas. (but truly large specimens of both the shark and the arapaima are becoming a rarity as they are both hunted.

Answer 7

The largset fish is a WHale Shark it used to be A MEGLADON A LONG LONG TIME AGO!!!

http://www.aboututila.com/PhotoGallery/Anon/Photos/Whale-Shark-01.jpg

http://www.fossilien.de/seiten/haizaehne/megalodon-.jpg

Answer 8

The largest animal that falls into the "fish" category is the whale shark:
http://www.aboututila.com/PhotoGallery/Anon/Photos/Whale-Shark-01.jpg

The largest bony fish (sharks have cartiledge) is the mola mola / sunfish: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/mola_mola.jpg

The longest bony fish is the oarfish, can it can grow to 40+ feet long.
http://castlezzt.net/Slideshow/oarfish.jpg

Answer 9

hwales are NOT fish. the biggest fish is a whale shark. luckily, it eats krill and not bigger animals (or we would be in trouble.)

Answer 10

The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest shark (fish) and the largest fish known to man. It is up to 40 feet (12 m) long and weighs up to 15 tons.

The whale shark is a gentle and slow filter feeding shark
This distinctively-marked shark is the only member of its genus Rhincodon and its family, Rhincodontidae (called Rhinodontes before 1984), which is grouped into the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. The shark is found in tropical and warm oceans and lives in the open sea. The species is believed to have originated about 60 million years ago.

As a filter feeder it has a capacious mouth which can be up to 1.5 m (5 ft) wide and can contain up to 300 rows of tiny teeth.[3] It has five large pairs of gills. Two small eyes are located towards the front of the shark's wide, flat head. The body is mostly grey with a white belly; three prominent ridges run along each side of the animal and the skin is marked with a 'checkerboard' of pale yellow spots and stripes. These spots are unique to each whale shark and because of this they can be used to identify each animal and hence make an accurate population count. Its skin can be up to 10 cm (about 4 in.) thick. The shark has two pairs each of dorsal fins and pectoral fins. A juvenile whale shark's tail has a larger upper fin than lower fin while the adult tail becomes semi-lunate (or crescent-shaped). The shark's spiracles are just behind the eyes.

The whale shark is not an efficient swimmer since the entire body is used for swimming, which is unusual for sharks and contributes to an average speed of only around 5 km/h. The largest specimen regarded as accurately recorded was caught on November 11, 1947, near the island of Baba, not far from Karachi, Pakistan. It was 12.65 m (41.5 ft) long, weighed more than 21.5 tons (47,300 lb), and had a girth of 7 m (23 ft).[4] Stories exist of vastly larger specimens - Quoted lengths of 18 m (59 ft) are not uncommon in the popular shark literature - but no scientific records exist to support their existence. In 1868 the Irish natural scientist E. Perceval Wright spent time in the Seychelles, during which he managed to obtain several small whale shark specimens, but claimed to have observed specimens in excess of 15 m (49 ft), and tells of reports of specimens surpassing 21 m (69 ft).

In a 1925 publication, Hugh M. Smith describes a huge whale shark caught in a bamboo fish trap in Thailand in 1919. The shark was too heavy to pull ashore, but Smith estimated that the shark was at least 17 m (55.7 ft) and weighed approximately 37 tonnes (81,500 lb), which have been exaggerated to an accurate measurement of 17.98 m and weight 43 tonnes in recent years. There have even been claims of whale sharks of up to 23 m (75 ft). In 1934 a ship named the "Maurguani" came across a whale shark in the Southern Pacific ocean, rammed it, and the shark consequently became stuck on the prow of the ship, supposedly with 4.6 m (15 ft) on one side and 12.2 m (40 ft) on the other.[5] No reliable documentation exists of those claims and they remain little more than "fish-stories".

The whale shark is a filter feeder - one of only three known filter feeding shark species (along with the basking shark and the megamouth shark). It feeds on phytoplankton, macro-algae, plankton, krill and small nektonic life, such as small squid or vertebrates. The many rows of teeth play no role in feeding - instead the shark sucks in a mouthful of water, closes its mouth and expels the water through its gills. During the slight delay between closing the mouth and opening the gill flaps, plankton is trapped against the dermal denticles which line its gill plates and pharynx. This fine sieve-like apparatus, which is a unique modification of the gill rakers, prevents the passage of anything but fluid out through the gills (anything above 2 to 3 mm in diameter is trapped). Any material caught in the filter between the gill bars is swallowed. Whale sharks have been observed "coughing" and it is presumed that this is a method of clearing a build up of food particles in the gill rakers.

The reproductive habits of the whale shark are obscure. Based on the study of a single egg recovered off the coast of Mexico in 1956, it was believed to be oviparous, but the capture of a female in July 1996 which was pregnant with 300 pups indicates that they are viviparous with ovoviviparous development.[2][8] The eggs remain in the body and the females give birth to live young which are 40 to 60 cm long. It is believed that they reach sexual maturity at around 30 years and the life span has been estimated to be between 60 and 150 years.

Answer 11

its in the ocean, something called a hump back whale