The Fish Fight Back!

linda1503

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Read this in practical fishkeeping, the fishes final revenge?? :eek:


fisherman who speared a protected species of grouper while diving off Florida has been killed after the fish swam into a hole and entangled him in the line attached to the speargun.

A 42-year-old Florida man, who has not been named, was free-diving in 7.6m/25' of water off the lower Florida Keys this weekend when he speared a Goliath grouper, Epinephalus itajara.

According to a report from Reuters, Detective Mark Coleman said that police divers had found the speared fish tightly wedged in a hole with the man's body entangled in the spear line: "It looks like the fish wrapped the line attached to the spear around the victim's wrist. The fish then went into a hole in a coral rock, effectively pinning the man to the bottom of the ocean."

The Goliath grouper is one of the world's largest grouper species reaching a length of over 2m/6'6" and weighing in at as much as 400kg/63 stones.
 
Youch thats gonna suck.
:crazy:

Seriously though step into my parlour said the grouper: not as dumb as spearing a Giant Grouper over here now thats a big fish.
 
i heard about a fisherman who got stabbed by a fish and then the fish took him underwater but he managed to dislodge himself and then recovered...
 

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