A medical student has caught a record-setting fish – a Warsaw Grouper weighing 359.1 pounds. The giant hauled in by J.J. Tabor of Thibodaux is 12 ounces above the previous Louisiana state record, a state biologist confirmed. Great photo.
“It’s been cut down to fillets. The first fillet weighed 53 pounds,” Tabor said. He caught it near an oil rig 70 miles south of Port Fourchon, in 400 feet of water, but won’t give a more specific description. “It’s J.J.’s secret,” said Joey Rodrigue, a friend from Baton Rouge who joined Tabor and Tabor’s father, John, on the record-making trip. “I don’t even know where I was. He blindfolds us on the way out.”
First off, it borders on obcene to kill a fish like that, it was probably close to 100 years old.
Second, and more important, if this guy is a medical student he ought to be thrown out of school for ignorance. The mercury level of a fish that size and age is probably far off the chart and shouldn’t be consumed by anybody.