Comments on: 100-year-old Fish Caught

By: marieissah

marieissah — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:29:03 +0000

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

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:11:35 +0000

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.

By: aware

aware — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:11:52 +0000

how do you know how old a fish is?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:32:26 +0000

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

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:40:14 +0000

@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”.

By: Oscar Zoroastor

Oscar Zoroastor — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:43:41 +0000

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

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:13:20 +0000

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

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:49:32 +0000

lol skippy

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:12:17 +0000

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

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:44:44 +0000

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

– Literacy is important people -

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:44:16 +0000

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

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:02:14 +0000

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

By: Sandman

Sandman — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:52:57 +0000

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

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:51:55 +0000

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!

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:40 +0000

It’s Walter!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:48:55 +0000

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

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:46:12 +0000

ummm typo? 199 year old fish??