100-year-old Fish Caught

ummm typo? 199 year old fish??

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

It's Walter!

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!

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

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

i don't want to see old fish die, but i love to see PETA folks annoyed :-)

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

- Literacy is important people -

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

lol skippy

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

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

@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".

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

how do you know how old a fish is?

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.

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