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Related: About this forumThe fish that is almost as old as America
By RYAN GORMAN
PUBLISHED: 23:07 EST, 1 July 2013 | UPDATED: 08:29 EST, 2 July 2013
A fish believed to be at least 200-years-old has been caught in Alaska.
A 39.08-pound rockfish caught by an insurance adjuster from Seattle on June 21 is also believed to be the oldest fish ever caught in the state, according to a local media report.
Henry Liebman reeled in the record setting catch from a depth of about 900 feet, and learned of his achievement when he brought the beast ashore.
Caught: Sport fisherman Henry Liebman caught a rockfish measuring 104 centimeters and weighing 39.08 pounds, it may also be well over 200-years-old
'I knew it was abnormally big [but I] didnt know it was a record until on the way back we looked in the Alaska guide book that was on the boat,' Liebman told the Daily Sitka Sentinal.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2353355/Record-setting-fish-caught-Alaska-predates-US-purchase-Alaska-Russia.html
sad.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Takes a special kind of asshole to kill something like that.
Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)Take a wild guess about what happens to any fish with a swim bladder when the pressure changes that quickly....geesh.
The article does not mention if the angler shared your gift of prescience about which fish would take his bait.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)How quickly, exactly?
I also dont see the stomach hanging out of its mouth, or intestines protruding from its anus. Both classic symptoms of barotrauma.
Coexist
(24,542 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,295 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)not anymore.
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)This is it. Kill the FYCK out of everything!
#humanity