A FIVE-TON FISH
Brighton’s monster skate is claimed to be the heaviest ever caught, for it weighs 2501 b, or 501 b more than the naturalists of a century ago thought it ever attained. But the devil fish of the West Indian seas, which, like the common skate, is a ray and resmebles it in structure and appearance, is often much larger. One caught in 1823 weighed nearly five . In the dramatic account of its capture we read that “three pairs of oxen, one horse and 22 men all pulling together could not convey it far.” ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12185, 9 July 1925, Page 9
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96A FIVE-TON FISH New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12185, 9 July 1925, Page 9
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