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Sean Konrad caught a 48-pound rainbow trout. That’s a world record. But should it be? The trout he caught was a genetically-modified fish that escaped from a fish farm. It has three sets of chromosomes, which makes it sterile but able to grow unnaturally big. Konrad’s brother Adam caught the previous world record trout in 2007, which was also genetically modified. Whether this counts as cheating depends on how you see the sport of fishing. No matter where the fish came from, the fisherman still landed it, which involves a certain set of skills. However, fisherman elsewhere don’t have the opportunity to even try to catch a trout that big, because they don’t exist in nature. What do you think? Link
Commercial fisherman Solomon Rodney snared an 8-foot missile while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico last month. He tied the missile to the top of his boat and left it there for the remainder of his 14 day trip. There was one problem.
He brought the missile ashore Monday evening along with his 5,000 pounds of grouper. Rodney figured he’d keep the inert missile as a souvenir.
Only one problem: It was live.
After Rodney came ashore, emergency officials summoned a bomb squad from MacDill Air Force Base to a marina off the Tom Stuart Causeway where Rodney had docked.
“This is a live air-to-air missile,” Pinellas sheriff’s spokeswoman Marianne Pasha said Monday evening. “It is 8 feet long, and the MacDill team is dismantling it.”
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