Man catches 200 year old fish

[garren]

This fish is older than the state of Alaska. It was already 50 years old during the US civil war. Holy crap! :o

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-catches-200-old-40-pound-fish-135438367.html

Only to end up mounted on a wall in 2013... :nope:

Oh well.

It's Obama's fault.

[Red October1984]

I'm having trouble believing this... :hmmm:

Incredible if it's true. :o

[Stealhead]

It is very possible many animals have the potential to live long life spans especially certain species of fish.So it is very possible.
I know that several species of Sturgeon can live over 100 years.Larger Tuna like Bluefin average about 50 years.

[BossMark]

Bet it goes nice with some chips (fries) :haha:

[Jimbuna]

They make a lovely looking pair :)

[STEED]

Daily wail

Man dies of fish poisoning after eating 200 year old fish.

[Ducimus]

Looks like a gigantic Rockcod. Notice how the eyes are bulged out? That's not how they normally look. Rock fish are bottom feeders and are WAY DOWN. Like 200 to 400 feet or so, give or take. They decompress when you reel them in, and are dead by the time you get them to the surface. The ones I used to fish for, their eyes would pop out of the heads, and their air sacks would be protruding out their mouth because of the decompression. With rock fish, their's no such thing as catch and release. You reel them in, and that's pretty much the end of them.

I used to do alot of ocean fishing with my dad growing up.

[vienna]

So, 200 years old...

Was it gumming at the bait?...

<O>

[Oberon]

I had to look at the first part of Ducimus's post twice..... :oops:

[Red October1984]

I had to look at the first part of Ducimus's post twice..... :oops:

:rotfl2: Me too.

[AVGWarhawk]

How do we know for sure? Can we cut him open and count the rings? :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

How do we know for sure? Can we cut him open and count the rings? :hmmm:

Count the scales...then weigh it on them :hmm2:

[vienna]

Ask to see its AARP Card...

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[Stealhead]

Looks like a gigantic Rockcod. Notice how the eyes are bulged out? That's not how they normally look. Rock fish are bottom feeders and are WAY DOWN. Like 200 to 400 feet or so, give or take. They decompress when you reel them in, and are dead by the time you get them to the surface. The ones I used to fish for, their eyes would pop out of the heads, and their air sacks would be protruding out their mouth because of the decompression. With rock fish, their's no such thing as catch and release. You reel them in, and that's pretty much the end of them.

I used to do alot of ocean fishing with my dad growing up.


True in deed any deep dwelling fish that has a swim bladder is going to die when it gets reeled in.The swim bladder just expands until it pops.I have seen Snapper come up with the swim bladder sticking out of their mouths.

Now a shark or a skate or any other more primitive fish they do not have the swim bladder getting reeled in from the deep just annoys them.

I always thought that concept of catch and release was bogus when you are bagging a deep dwelling fish with a swim bladder it dies either way.

[TarJak]

Sounds fishy to me.

[Webster]

if I caught a fish in 900 feet of water I would cut the line because im too lazy to spend an hour reeling in all that damn line :O:

I cant even imagine trying in 2500 feet of water where they say some are caught :o

[Nippelspanner]

Sounds fishy to me.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6zXDo4dL7SU/0.jpg