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Sounds Pretty Fishy To Me
Fish have a fairly varied diet, ranging
from insects to algae to other fish. But sometimes what’s found inside
your catch of the day, is just downright strange.
A seasoned ocean angler once reeled in
a 33 lb. bull dolphin that when cleaned, yielded a 5 lb. “chicken” dolphin,
so freshly swallowed, that they filleted and cooked both of them. Another
fisherman netted a redfish whose stomach yielded a dozen horseshoe crabs
that were about an inch across. They’re still trying to figure out how
to get them on a hook to use as bait.
Or how about the 33 inch fish caught in
Lake St. Clair, that seemed heavier than it’s actual size? When the lucky
angler went to gut it, he discovered a full, unopened bottle of beer, according
to Beer magazine.
The most bizarre and grizzly discovery
of all, has to be the head of a man, discovered in August 2000, in the
stomach of a 97 lb. cod, caught somewhere off Queensland, Australia. Fish
processing plant workers say the head that rolled onto the filleting table,
was wholly intact, and thought to be that of a local fisherman who had
fallen off a trawler.
At least those were real fish stories.
But not as fishy as the shipments of yellow corvinas sent from China to
Korea in 2002. They seemed a good weight. Almost too good. Metal detectors
revealed industrial bolts in the stomachs of many of the fish. In one shipment
alone, 60 bolts were found in 33 of 5,603 boxes of frozen fish.
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