Originally published at: Huge 100-pound "goldfish" washed up on Oregon Coast | Boing Boing
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Amazing they got it to safety before the gulls got to it.
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M-O-O-N
A warm-blooded fish.
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“One lucky school group will get the chance to dissect this large fish,” says the Aquarium.
My dad said in college his Biology professor was friends with someone at a zoo, and was able to dissect some exotic animals who had died there.
This is a gorgeous beach, our family favorite. Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it turnout (with a cute, serve yourself, flower cart), hardly anyone there.
Marvel at why the Astoria Country Club would
- be outside Warrenton (IRL)
- want to buy The Goonies house, being 10+ miles away (in the movie)
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I may get pilloried for this but, damn, Opah are delicious. The offshore fleet on the east coast comes across them occasionally and the better fishmongers will source them. It’s a firm flesh, nearly like swordfish, but with an amazing fatty layer under the skin.
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Opah are highly regarded and considered tasty in HI.
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& @MadLibrarian opah is delicious! The flavor is quite unique and hard to describe. People regularly catch them offshore in Oregon in late summer while fishing the albacore migration.
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Somehow my mind went right to the “dynamite the whale on the beach” video… then I re-read the headline and saw it was 100 pounds and not 1000 pounds.
More’s the pity.
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Next time I go to the coast, I’ll see if I can find that beach!
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But will we ever know the bad joke that fish just told? Because it has the same look as the ubiquitous pun dog all over the internet.
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This fish needs to be photoshopped into all kinds of places…
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