Fish Tales

Marine biologist creates "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads"

Forget Angry Birds, this is one angry fish.

No laws broken in dead shark surfing incident.

Fish Tales

Fisherman in Croatia are rushing to catch a large gold-coloured fish that reportedly grants a wish each time in exchange for being put back in the water.

The bizarre pearlfish.

Scientists crack the 70-year-old mystery of why fish freak out.

They netted a wild Chinook salmon, and were getting ready to release it back into the river, when a sea lion came out of nowhere and grabbed the net and the fish.

Fish Tales

George is just your average happy-go-lucky goldfish. Except for the fact that he looks like Hitler.

Fishing is such a drag - Catfish drags anglers one mile down a Spanish river.

It turns out sawfish actually wield their snouts like chainsaw toting madmen.

Fish Tales

Charlestown woman sees Jesus on back of a stingray.

Stargazer fish the spitting image of Homer Simpson.

Chinese businessman pays $38K for a rare golden snapper "for its tasty bladder and succulent flesh."

Ferocious pufferfish nearly took Tom's toes while he was wading on Thursday Island.

Fishing In The Basement: A Manhattan Tale

Could there be three-pound carp living in streams hidden underneath Manhattan buildings, or is this the fishy equivalent of the fantasy alligators that always lurk but never emerge from the sewers of New York?

LINK (Via: NPR)

The Swordfish

Illustration by Chris Bishop

Jack Boulware's personal tale about attempting to bring a relatively fresh swordfish beak back in to the States from Chile.

At the Santiago airport, I check my bag, and the airline guys behind the counter ask what’s sticking out of my backpack. I tell them, and they chuckle. “You’re never going to get that through customs,” one says. I smile and think to myself, This is a challenge I accept.

LINK (Via:Fray)