Guillermo Otta Parum, a Bolivian fisherman with over 50 years of experience in the Amazon, recounts the arrival of the paiche or Arapaima gigas, a colossal freshwater fish disrupting the region's ...

The fish can grow to four metres (13ft) in length and weigh 200kg (440lb) or more Guillermo Otta Parum has been fishing in the Bolivian Amazon his whole life, for more than 50 years. At first, ...

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Guillermo Otta Parum has been fishing in the Bolivian Amazon his whole life, for more than 50 years. At first, Guillermo was catching native fish, such as the various kinds of catfish which inhabit ...