12-kg grouper is winning catch at S'pore's largest deep sea fishing competition

[Watchman]

12-kg grouper is winning catch at S'pore's largest deep sea fishing competition


A whopping 12-kg grouper was the winning catch at Singapore's largest deep fishing competition held yesterday (Oct 17).

The Singapore Book of Records tells STOMP:

"Singapore Book of Records is pleased to announce that on 17 Oct 2009, 120 amateur fishermen went in 17 boats to the southern islands to compete for their biggest overnight catch.

"This is Singapore's largest competition of its kind to date.

"The winner is Richard Li who caught a whopping 12-kg grouper.

"The competition is organised by Waves Fishbyte, West Coast CCMC and West Coast - Ayer Rajah NC."

 

[Watchman]

Giant Grouper, the world's biggest bony fish
A grouper starts out his life as female and later switches sex to male. It can weigh up to 400kg and has at least seven rows of teeth on the middle of its lower jaw. And it looks rather ugly.

 

[Watchman]

Celine Cousteau provides a good measure of scale as she dives near a goliath grouper. This endangered species is the largest type of grouper in the western Atlantic. Growing to lengths of 8.2 feet (2.5 m), this grouper can weigh as much as 800 pounds (363 kg).

Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara)
and Cigar minnows (Decapterus macarellus)

Offshore Jupiter, Florida, USA
by Douglas David Seifert, Jupiter, Florida, USA

Goliaths are the largest members of the grouper family and are endangered throughout their
range in the Atlantic Ocean. In autumn, they gather around deep-water wrecks, caves, and
ledges off the coasts of Florida to form mating aggregations. Schooling cigar minnows form dense
clouds around the groupers to seek protection from predatory fish, such as jacks and barracuda.

 

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[ahleebabasingaporethief]

Goes to prove that S'pore cannot be the Monaco of the east....NOR provide for 1st Class World Class resort living.

What kind of 1st Class World Class resort provide only 12kg groupers? Only those that are SPUN by Prostitute News Press.

KNN....world fishermen all laughing at us.
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[drifter]

always remember , singapore sea only got ikan bilis ....if you really into deep sea fishing , forget about singapore sea .

 

[macky888]

true fish lovers would release such a giant fish back into the ocean than kill it.

what a loss to the oceans i wonder how much satisfaction one derives from eating it.

 

[Watchman]

Posted on Friday, Feb. 27, 2004
From: "FISHING ADVENTURES THAILAND"
Subject: The Mekong giant catfish current All Tackle record was broken yesterday!

Just a few words to say that we have finally broken yesterday the current All Tackle record for the Mekong giant catfish (56.50 kg held by English Terry Robert Mather). Terry's record catch was in February, last year.

Yesterday Feb. 27, English angler Richard Ainsworth (from Bedford) caught a 64.00 kg Mekong Giant Catfish (pictured below). The fish was 187 cm long for a girth of 103 cm.

 

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