A sunfish weighing up to 350 pounds
A sunfish weighing up to 350 pounds
Written by:
Hans Kruit, 4 November 2013
A sunfish weighing up to 350 pounds. It took four men to pull the fish aboard a boat.
The 325- to 350-pound sunfish was caught by tribal gill-net fisherman targeting salmon.
On Tuesday night, Todd LaClair, a Muckleshoot tribal fisherman, got his gill net tangled into something huge in Elliott Bay off Harbor Island.
“I was fishing at about 100 feet deep, and as I pulled in the net I could feel that it was big,” LaClair said. “When it first came up, it startled me and looked like something that came from Mars.”
The mola is a bony fish that has a rather round-shaped body with a large dorsal and lower body fin, and a very rough skin texture with numerous skin parasites. They can grow very large and weigh up to 5,000 pounds, and feed mainly on jellyfish, zooplankton and algae.
source: Seattle Times
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