MGoRob

May 15th, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^

Why do they insist this is the first? It's already been reported that the blue fin tuna is "warm blooded". Not to mention some sharks, but they aren't fish.

Everyone Murders

May 15th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^

Sharks are just cartiligenous fish (Chondrichthyes) rather than boney fish (Osteicthyes) like ... well ... most fish (anything that is not a shark, skate, ray, or the like).  Apologies for if I did not spell those fish classes correctly - I'm drawing off of h.s. biology here.

I also remember that the bottom scales on snakes are called "scutes".  After that, I'm pretty much dry.

ken725

May 15th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^

Opah is delicious.

Last season on a long range trip out of San Diego, someone caught a 50lber. It was really annoying because he fought the fish for 30 min while the school of giant blue fin we were chasing kept on moving.

Opah has 3 different kinds of meat. The belly meat looks like it came from a cow and not a fish.

bronxblue

May 15th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^

It's a cool discovery; we have a family friend who studies large fish like tuna at Woods Hole.  You forget how big these things can get.