530 Lbs Giant Fish drags boat over 20 miles

(中国日报) – A huge deep-sea fish dragged a fishing boat over 23 miles on Saturday after it got caught in a net, eventually dying of exhaustion, in Shandong Province.

Xue, a fisherman from Jimo, said the crew noticed the enormous fish when the boat was suddenly shaken and pulled forward at high speed.

The boat stopped moving after four hours and the fishermen dragged the net ashore to find a 530 pound fish in it.

Xue sold the fish to a local museum for 43,000 yuan (US$5,493).

Qingdao Morning Post

By Sun Tzu on 08-12-2006