100-year-old Fish Caught

1. Pudifoot
   January 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

   ummm typo? 199 year old fish??

2. Miss Cellania
   January 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

   You could give me 30 seconds or so to catch my screwups. I had several that were corrected in less than a minute.

3. Johnny Cat
   January 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

   It’s Walter!

4. Pudifoot
   January 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

   oh, i didn’t realize i checked it after only a minute or so. i figured it was up for a while.

   keep up the wonderful work, Miss C!

5. Sandman
   January 19th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

   Uh oh, here comes the flood of “Poor, pitiful fish” comments.

6. Miss Cellania
   January 19th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

   Yeah, I noticed that in the comments at the source. Even though they released it!

7. Pudifoot
   January 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   i don’t want to see old fish die, but i love to see PETA folks annoyed

8. Jim
   January 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   Ya, its a simple case of people not reading! They see the picture and just assume it must be dead.

   - Literacy is important people -

9. VonSkippy
   January 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

   Shhh - don’t tell the Japanese, they’ll want to come over and do some “scientific research” on the old fish.

10. Justin
    January 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    lol skippy

11. Pudifoot
    January 19th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    skippy: either that or they fill the fish with rice wine then let it go.

12. Oscar Zoroastor
    January 19th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    Sturgeon are definitely what people mistake for lake monsters

    Norwegians take more whales per capita than the Japanese, I don’t know why the Japs get all the vitriol

13. VonSkippy
    January 20th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    @Oscar
    It’s not that I’m a big whale lover (being a pro-Darwinist and all) it just irks me that the Japanese will nod and smile and say “we don’t hunt whales, we JUST collect several hundred a year for SCIENTIFIC studies”.

    Yet with all that “science” going on, it’s weird that Japan is not renown for their vast number of publications featuring all that whale “research” (cooking articles don’t really count).

    It be alot more honest if Japan would just man up and say, “we’re hunting whales - suck it mammal lovers”.

14. Alex
    January 20th, 2008 at 3:32 am

    Am I the only one that thinks the fish is smiling in the picture?

15. aware
    January 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    how do you know how old a fish is?

16. anonymous
    January 20th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    fish can be aged by the concentric rings on their scales — just like deciduous trees have “tree rings”. a new ring is added each year of growth and with a sampling of scales, ichthyologists are able to age fish very accurately.

17. marieissah
    January 20th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Cool!!!! Hope they can make the fish lay some more fishes for it to be more precious..

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