Gigantic Ocean Sunfish
November 16th, 2007 by James
Fishermen in Tottori Prefecture caught a huge ocean sunfish, putting it on display for the media yesterday:
The fish was about 3 meters tall and weighed 1.3 tons, which doesn’t break any records, but still big enough to make dock workers whip out their cell phone cams and take pictures. A public viewing of the big dead fish will be held at a local supermarket.
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Wikipedia has a very comprehensive article on this fish, well worth reading, and the size of this specimen is definitely in the upper range.
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I hope Hayden Panettiere comes back to Japan to protest the death of this creature. Terrible Japanese people!
/sarcasm
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Looks delicious!
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That’s a typical man reaction – see something large or new: kill it. (NOT sarcasm).
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And is this a typical female (feminist) reaction?
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Yes, since real (i.e. not funded by the Japanese fishing industry) science studies have indicated a declining population of Mola Mola fish, I’m sure the Japanese fishermen will want to increase their “research” before they’re completely extinct. Ya know, way better to hunt them to extinction in the name of research then to play it safe and let the species repopulate a bit.
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Can you eat the sunfish? I hope they don’t just throw it away after the “wake” is over.
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Yes. It’s delicious.
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