This Fish Sailed From Japan to Washington on an Unmanned Tsunami Boat

On an epic two-year journey across the Pacific, a bait box in a Japanese boat turned into an aquarium when five striped beakfish made it their home.

The 6-metre fibreglass boat probably started off from Japan when the tsunami hit in March 2011. For some time, debris disloged by the giant wave has been turning up on the US west coast, usually loaded with marine plants and invertebrates such as limpets and barnacles. But this is the first time that live fish have been found after the 7600-kilometre journey.

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Apparently they are also quite tasty.

"IGFA had told me before they had never had a rule against a lure like mine”

Rodney Ply reeled in the fish of his life last year on a lake in Arkansas but now the fight over that giant 68-pound striped bass is heading to court. Ply was participating in a Mustad hooks company event offering a million dollars to anyone who caught a world-record fish with one of its products and his catch beat the record by four pounds........ that will be one million dollars please.

Not so fast.

The International Game Fish Association ruled that the scale was fine and the weight was legitimate but rejected the record based on the lure that Ply used to catch it. What's a man with an Alabama/umbrella/spreader rig to do?

Ply's lawyers plan to file suit against the IGFA in the coming days. They say they believe IGFA made its ruling against Ply because it has a bias against freshwater fishing based on its own membership, which is largely made up of saltwater fishers. Ultimately winning the million dollars was a man who caught a saltwater tuna.

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The sheepshead fish has human teeth, but it’s okay because it won’t give you a psychedelic crisis

There’s nothing like the thought of a delicious piece of meat with human teeth wrapped in prison stripes to put you to a gentle, dreamless sleep.

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Steelhead Migration Begins!

By truck.

The fact that the fish can quadruple the size of its digestive tract makes for a distinct advantage

Researchers have discovered that Dolly Varden feasts once a year and, in doing so, quadruple the size of its stomach.

Other animals have been discovered to grow and shrink their digestive tracks, but this is the first time researchers have found a wild fish to do so.

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Carp Confusion

We're winning the fight against Asian Carp!

The federal government is winning the battle to keep Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, according to an Obama administration official.

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We're losing the fight against Asian Carp!

Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greedy invader’s potential to infest waterways and crowd out native species, scientists said Tuesday.

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