Show daiche pound edible fish being raised in peru one of the largest freshwater fresh water fishes in the world the or 12 to 15 feet long and weighing up to pounds is now being raised commercially on a fish farm in peru dried and prepared in long strips the flesh from the monster fish was the poor mans beef in the amazon region for years once it was so plentiful that fishermen from one small village could count a two week catch by the thousand unrestricted fishing almost depleted the waters so peru has established a hatchery to replenish them |