The Tiger Shovelnose Catfish, Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum, is a large, predatory catfish from the Orinoco and Amazon Basins. It is a critically important food fish to humans. In the Iquitos area of Peru, it is known as "Tigre Sunguro." The taxon can attain lengths of 130 cm (over four feet). The species is over fished and much speculation about the future of the fishery exists. Overexploitation of Amazonian fisheries is a critically important issue to the communities of humans in and along the Amazon River. Many of the fisheries are stressed and over harvest is commonplace. Photographed at the Belen Market, Iquitos, Peru, 2010.