Piranha caught in Lake BiwaMSN-Mainichi Daily News: September 13, 2005
OTSU ---A piranha was caught in Lake Biwa, a local fisheries experiment station said Tuesday.
This is the first time that the flesh-eating fish has been found in Lake Biwa since the Shiga Prefectural Government's fisheries experiment station began a survey on life in the lake in 1994.
A fisherman found the piranha in a net he placed in the lake about one kilometer from shore at Takashima, and alerted the station, which caught the fish on Monday.
The piranha is 15.7 centimeters long and weighs 95.6 grams...more...
