A man catches a large, odd looking old fish in Alaska.

[Binyamin Yisrael]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-catches-200-old-40-pound-fish-135438367.html

The fish looks like a puppet (At least it's head area. The tail area looks like a real fish.).



Is it kosher?

[syyuge]

It should be sent for scientific investigation.

[muman613]

I don't have a lot of time right now, in between Dentist appointments actually...

But aren't fish a simple matter of whether they have fins and scales? If this thing has fins and scales it is kosher according to my understanding.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137606/jewish/Fishing-for-the-Facts.htm

From a kashrus point of view, too, fish would seem to have much more going for it than meat or fowl. So much can go wrong in the process of ensuring that meat is kosher. Besides being of kosher species, animals or fowl may be slaughtered only by an expert certified shochet known for his religious piety and knowledge of detailed Torah rules. His knife must be razor-sharp without the slightest nick, and the slaughtering process can go wrong in numerous ways. The carcass has to be carefully checked for disqualifying factors such as lung-perforations, then properly salted to remove its blood.

So much can go wrong with meat, in fact, that conscientious Jews eat it only when it is certified by a rabbi or kashrus agency with whom they are closely familiar and know to be absolutely reliable. That's why, at catered affairs, even when supervised by reliable kashrus certifiers, guests very particular about kashrus often ask for fish instead of meat. In comparison to meat, the kosher requirements for fish seem tame. Other than the two signs the Torah specifies for kosher fish, fins and scales (Leviticus 11:9-10), fish needs nothing else to be kosher. Fish needs no ritual slaughter or salting; even its blood is permitted (although we don't consume it unless other fish-parts are visible in it).

[Zelhar]

It looks like a Goldfish that kept growing and growing for 100 years.

[Binyamin Yisrael]

I don't have a lot of time right now, in between Dentist appointments actually...

But aren't fish a simple matter of whether they have fins and scales? If this thing has fins and scales it is kosher according to my understanding.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137606/jewish/Fishing-for-the-Facts.htm

Actually not all scales are Halachically scales. Phil Chernofsky once pointed out on Torah Tidbits Audio that in Biology class at Yeshiva University, they dissected a shark. Sharks have scales but they learned that if something has scales according to Biology, that doesn't necessarily make it Halachic scales.

[Binyamin Yisrael]

What looks like a mouth and teeth is probably its gills.

[Super Mentalita]

I love fishes and fishing... This looks very intresting!

[angryChineseKahanist]

huge eyes

[Rubystars]

huge eyes

The eyes probably weren't popped out like that underwater. They did that due to pressure changes from coming up from very deep.

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[muman613]

How about an ugly fish contest? WARNING: Some of these cretins may cause nightmares...















And no, I don't think these ugly beasts are kosher...

[Rubystars]

That first angler fish kind of looks like the "alien" that pops out of the person's stomach in the Aliens movie.

[Havok]

He caught a Pokemon

[angryChineseKahanist]

Those are angler fish. You can get them at a local pet shop.

[Ulli]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-catches-200-old-40-pound-fish-135438367.html

The fish looks like a puppet (At least it's head area. The tail area looks like a real fish.).



Is it kosher?

I don't know if it is kosher, but it is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_fish

You can buy it in my town regulary on the market. The eyes look like this, because it lives very deep in the sea. So the pressure can not equalize if you pull it out quickly.

[Zelhar]

I don't know if it is kosher, but it is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_fish

You can buy it in my town regulary on the market. The eyes look like this, because it lives very deep in the sea. So the pressure can not equalize if you pull it out quickly.

Its natural habitat is the deep water of the north Atlantic, how did it reach the north Pacific ?

[Ulli]

Its natural habitat is the deep water of the north Atlantic, how did it reach the north Pacific ?

I have no idea. But compare the pictures.

https://www.google.de/search?q=goldbarsch&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=M1vUUc2QJ4Twsgax1oDgDg&biw=1920&bih=908&sei=N1vUUZrdCcjEtAaq6IGIBg

[Zelhar]

I have no idea. But compare the pictures.

https://www.google.de/search?q=goldbarsch&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=M1vUUc2QJ4Twsgax1oDgDg&biw=1920&bih=908&sei=N1vUUZrdCcjEtAaq6IGIBg

You are almost right. The fish he caught according to the article is a 200 years old (!!!) Shortraker Rockfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortraker_rock-fish

It looks similar to the Rose Fish of the north Atlantic because they are both from the Rockfish family of fish.

[Ulli]

You are almost right. The fish he caught according to the article is a 200 years old (!!!) Shortraker Rockfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortraker_rock-fish

It looks similar to the Rose Fish of the north Atlantic because they are both from the Rockfish family of fish.

Oh interesting.

[Debbie Shafer]

This is really interesting, looks like a cross between a Salmon, Halibut, and Grouper....Amazing..wonder how it survived this long, until getting caught.

[Rubystars]

This is just speculation but it's possible that deep water fish like that have a slow metabolism and that could be why it has a longer lifespan.

[Zelhar]

This is just speculation but it's possible that deep water fish like that have a slow metabolism and that could be why it has a longer lifespan.

Yes it is a very reasonable assumption.