In the USA, an angler caught a king triggerfish and set a Georgia state record
Angler Brian Richburg caught the largest king triggerfish in the history of the US state of Georgia. About it reports Fox News.
On May 17, Richburg was fishing with friends. He expected to catch large coryphus, wahoo and crabs, but by lunchtime he had almost stopped biting. Then the fisherman threw the bait closer to the bottom. To his surprise, it worked and he soon pulled out something he said was “big, bright and beautiful.” It was an unusually large king triggerfish, a tropical fish found in the western Atlantic.
Richburg did not immediately realize that he had come across a specimen of record size. He almost cut this fish after the others, but in the end he decided to weigh it first. It turned out that he had set a record: he caught a triggerfish weighing 4.26 kilograms. Previously, the maximum weight of a triggerfish caught in the state was almost a kilogram less – 3.44 kilograms.
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Richburg’s catch was officially recognized as a new state record.
Earlier it was reported that a UK resident caught a carp weighing 32.9 kilograms and set a new record. The woman came across a huge mirror carp – an artificially bred subspecies of common carp.
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