South American pacu swims in the water

A teenage angler in South Carolina was fishing for striped bass at his favorite lake, but he didn’t hook one. Instead, he pulled up something much more rare–and scary-looking: a South American pacu, an invasive cousin of the vicious freshwater carnivore, the piranha. An avid fisherman, Drew Patrick, 15, has been fishing at his family’s […]

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