Thread: Giant Salmon

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Interesting

Originally Posted by Mooseman

Interesting

Yes - but not the bit at the end :-)
"you don't know whats in the sea" FFS
He who prob eats 99% fully processed food out of a packet
Reinforces why my TV been a goner for 10 + years

Just down the road from there - I remember as a kid feeding HUGE eels
Think they still there too (not the same ones unless the live past 55 years :-)

@Sarvo yes eels can live a long time
Up to 80+ years I think

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Just down the road from there - I remember as a kid feeding HUGE eels
Think they still there too (not the same ones unless the live past 55 years :-)

Can easily live past that age. Some female longfined eels can live up to 100 years apparently.

Found out last week, a Greenland shark can live 400 plus years oldest living animal on the planet mind boggling

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Silly tart can't even read the teleprompter.

Originally Posted by madjon_

Silly tart can't even read the teleprompter.

What a bout the guy
Bloody Aucklanders :-)

Originally Posted by Sarvo

What a bout the guy
Bloody Aucklanders :-)

He is actually from southland originally

Originally Posted by NRT

Found out last week, a Greenland shark can live 400 plus years oldest living animal on the planet mind boggling

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Yeh l love finding out stuff like that ,remember a few years ago they killed a Bowhead whale in Alaska, l think, that still had a harpoon in it from the 1800's,from memory they are the oldest living mammals & the turtle Captain Cook had gifted the islanders that was still alive till a few years ago .

good stuff....anywhere there is salmon farm...SOME will escape,or be released, a population could establish themselves,makes a fella wonder if some of the big fish of early last century were this stock.....fish n game shold buy some of the ova and set about hatching to change dynamics around the show....interesting they are growing out/big in fresh water....guess they cant get out to sea so have no choice,I thought the other breeds of salmon died out after a year or two if kept in fresh water....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

good stuff....anywhere there is salmon farm...SOME will escape,or be released, a population could establish themselves,makes a fella wonder if some of the big fish of early last century were this stock.....fish n game shold buy some of the ova and set about hatching to change dynamics around the show....interesting they are growing out/big in fresh water....guess they cant get out to sea so have no choice,I thought the other breeds of salmon died out after a year or two if kept in fresh water....

Yea the anatoki salmon farm gets flooded out occasionally and the locals have a ball catching them for a while......I dont think that would happen to this farm as it is a spring fed river.

we get salmon in the Waikato river. Its not common but not unheard of to lift your whitebait net to find a non target species stuck in there. Smaller ones turn up in the mullet nets as well.

Someone should consider breeding the taimen especially the Sakhalin or Siberian types. That will be a game changer in terms of fishing and improve conservation of course.

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