There really is nothing strange in this world, do you believe it? In 2013, when a grandfather in the United States was fishing in the waters near Alaska, he tried to put the fishing line to a depth of 274 meters, but he accidentally caught a 200-year-old red big fish, and after 3 days, someone offered 960,000 yuan to buy this big fish, but he refused to sell it.
Does this sound a little strange, but this is really happening, what is going on? Let's take a look together!
Henry Lieberman, an American, lives in Seattle, USA, and Henry is an actuary at a local insurance company in Seattle, usually mainly helping customers calculate insurance benefits and give the most cost-effective insurance evaluation.
In addition to working in the company, Henry usually does not have much other hobbies, that is, he likes sea fishing, as long as he has free time, he will drive his own boat to the deep sea for sea fishing, he feels that the happiest thing in the world is fishing, he said that after retirement in the future, even if he is allowed to fish every day will not feel bored.
In 2013, Henry sailed to the waters near Alaska for deep-sea fishing as usual, and Henry always wanted to catch big fish, so when he put the line, he deliberately put the line to a depth of 900 feet (274 meters).
As a result, only half an hour later, the fishing line suddenly trembled violently, Henry was very excited, because such a deep hook can be bitten by fish, this fish must not be small, sure enough, when he began to gently pull the line, the power of the fish was indeed very strong, Henry and this big fish pulled the river.
In the end, Henry won, and when he caught the big fish ashore, he found that it was a red Alaskan rock fish, when Henry measured it with a scale and a tape measure, and found that the large rock fish weighed 40 pounds (about 18 kilograms) and was 41 inches (about 104 centimeters) long.
Rockfish, also known as Pacific rock fish, snapper, rock cod, Pacific sea bass, rock fish mainly grow in the waters from Alaska to California in the United States, and the United States can catch about 50,000 to 60,000 tons of rock fish each year, two-thirds of which come from the Gulf of Alaska to the waters near Aleutian Island.
Generally speaking, the darker and brighter the color of rock fish, indicating that the deeper the water layer they live in, rock fish and our common fish are somewhat different, this fish grows extremely slowly, a 50 cm long rock fish, at least 30 to 50 years of growth cycle, and the later, the slower the growth.
If you see a rock fish that is more than 1 meter, it is definitely the birthday of a rock fish, which is delicious and is a high-priced fish, especially the two species of short-spined spiny rockfish and yellow-eyed rockfish, whose meat quality is of the highest quality, and it is usually frozen and sold to Japan, which is extremely popular in Japan's wealthy circles.
Yellow-eyed rockfish
Henry saw the fish at the time and felt very large, but when he brought the fish back to Seattle and flipped through a Seattle fishing guide, he found that he had broken the rockfish fishing record, and someone in Alaska had caught a 205-year-old rougheye rockfish, but the rockfish was only 32.5 inches, not as long as the rockfish Henry caught, so Henry said that the rockfish he caught broke the previous record, and the fish he caught was much older than the rockfish.
In general, the age of fish is mainly judged by the fins of the ear bone, and the oldest rock fish recorded is 205 years old, but the rock fish is not as big as the rock fish that Henry caught.
Henry said the rock fish he caught was about the same age as the United States, and that the rock fish existed before the United States bought Alaska, based on the age of the rockfish.
Everyone knows that rock fish is notoriously slow growing, and the rock fish that Henry caught so big has to grow to such a large age, after he caught this rock fish, it immediately caused heated discussions on the Internet, and many owners of high-end seafood restaurants have contacted him about selling fish.
One of the owners of a high-end restaurant from New York even rushed directly to Seattle to find Henry and offered to bid 130,000 US dollars (equivalent to about 960,000 yuan) to buy his 200-year-old rock fish, but Henry refused the owner after hesitating for half a day after hearing the price.
Henry said he intends to take the fish to auction and doesn't plan to sell it at the moment, but before that, he may send the rock fish to the Juno lab in Alaska for testing to see how old the fish is.
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