Vistula Piranha

Two men from Niepołomice, southern Poland, went on a casual fishing trip only to make the most unusual of catches. According to the Fakt daily tabloid, Kazimierz Górecki was taking his son-in-law fishing on the Vistula river. After reeling in what the men thought must have been a big fish, they were only too surprised to find that they had caught a piranha. The strong-jawed culprit was 23 cm long and weighed a wholesome 320 grams.

The two men are relieved that they were not bitten, especially since Antoni Gucwinski, the director of Wrocław Zoo, was quoted in the paper as saying that the piranhas "are tough little critters, and could swim all the way up to Warsaw if they wanted to" .The zookeeper's wife Hanna also warns of the risk, as she was once bitten herself.

Intrepid explorers who want to catch a glimpse of the piranha need no longer to go to the Amazon, but rather stay in Poland.Just how the piranhas managed to arrive in the Vistula remains something of a mystery, however.

Source: Polskie Radio