The fish that is almost as old as America

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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] didn’t 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]

1. selfish prick.

Takes a special kind of asshole to kill something like that.

[Riftaxe]

2. He brought it up from 900 feet

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]

4. "that quickly"

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]

3. this is awful. why is he smiling?

[Nihil]

8. Because he is just another dick-less destroyer of life for "sport".

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Well, not any more. nt

[Javaman]

6. "it may also be well over 200-years-old"

not anymore.

[stuntcat]

7. this is Humanity

This is it. Kill the FYCK out of everything!

#humanity