Man catches '200-year-old' fish

[Jazzy]

An insurance broker from Seattle has caught a fish that may be the oldest of its kind ever discovered.

Henry Liebman reeled in a 39-pound shortraker rockfish in Alaska that may be 200 years old.

Shortraker rockfish are common in the Alaskan waters, where Liebman caught the 41-inch-beast.

The fish are "believed to be one of the longest-lived of all fish in the northeast Pacific," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the Daily Sitka Sentinel.

A laboratory is set to confirm the age of the fish as beating the current shortraker record of 175 years old.

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This makes me sad. I love to fish but if I had caught this fish, I would have thrown it right back in. What's he going to get for killing a 200 year old fish?

 

[JetWing34]

This makes me sad. I love to fish but if I had caught this fish, I would have thrown it right back in. What's he going to get for killing a 200 year old fish?

Nothing. This is going to be a Guinness World Record for oldest fish ever caught.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Would have been better to have kept the fish alive at an aquarium or something and let it see how long it will continue to live.

 

[Atrox]

Well congratulations to that man.