A world record-breaking “alien” fish has been captured by a shocked angler, who experts say helped narrowly avert an environmental “catastrophe”.
Bryan Baker was fishing over Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, in the US state of Oklahoma, when something monstrous snatched his line.
It was a bighead carp, an invasive alien species – and with 11 million eggs inside it, threatened to devastate the food chain.
