'I've never seen anything like it': 150kg fish found washed up on Queensland beach

[August]

'I've never seen anything like it': 150kg fish found washed up on Queensland beach

 

[nivek]

A big flounder or oarfish?...

 

[August]

A big flounder or oarfish?...

Maybe, it looks familiar ? Not a Coelacanth is it ?

 

[CasualBystander]

FROM THE DEPTHS: Experts weigh in on massive fish find

Queensland Groper seems to be the consensus.

Can be up to 400 kg. Supposedly the largest reef dwelling dish in the world.

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

A big flounder or oarfish?...

Doesn't look like either one to me.

 

[August]

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

I'd say it looks like a grouper.

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

Giant grouper - Wikipedia

Its also known as the Queensland Groper.

 

[nivek]

Giant grouper - Wikipedia

Its also known as the Queensland Groper.

Yeah Casual stated this 10 days earlier...

FROM THE DEPTHS: Experts weigh in on massive fish find

Queensland Groper seems to be the consensus.

Can be up to 400 kg. Supposedly the largest reef dwelling dish in the world.

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

Yeah Casual stated this 10 days earlier...

Sorry didn't see that.

 

[nivek]

Sorry didn't see that.

I thought an oarfish at first but it does look like a grouper...

 

[August]

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

I thought an oarfish at first but it does look like a grouper...

Oarfish never crossed my mind.....they are not that rotund.

 

[August]

Gropers are certainly rotund.

 

[August]

Asian giant groper.

 

[Castle-Yankee54]

Gropers are certainly rotund.

Yes they are.

 

[CasualBystander]

I thought an oarfish at first but it does look like a grouper...

There are no oars, that is a dead giveaway.