Old news is new news again -- another coelacanth tale

[j d worthington]

Indonesian fisherman nets ancient fish - Yahoo! News

I'm surprised that they're making such a big thing of it, considering; but nonetheless, it is interesting.

Title: "Indonesian fisherman nets ancient fish", from Reuters, datelined Mon., May 21, 2007.

 

[daisybee]

I am fascinated by the things we discover in the big blue.

Thanks for the link, J.d.

I always worry when they say they've caught a rare species, though, I want to yell throw it back then!!! It might be the last one ever!

Or something less hysterical.

 

[The Ace]

Wait, I'm trying to get this straight. The first Coelocanth was netted off South Africa but it turned out to be a stray. Fishermen in Indonesia, where the second one was netted, had been catching them on a regular basis for donkey's and throwing them back because they taste like sh*t. That this one survived for 17 hours is remarkable, but so what, they're hardly rare.

 

[j d worthington]

Yes, that was what caught my attention, Ace (hence the title of the thread). I mean, I think it's great that they're still around, and that we see them now and again... but I'm a bit puzzled about why this was such "big" news....

However, I thought people here, liking some of the odd stories now and again, might be interested -- hence the post.

 

[Rane Longfox]

That's quite cool - I didn't realise they weren't extinct.

Makes you wonder what else might still be lurking down there!

 

[mogora]

I like coelacanths and welcome any news of them

But if there were one critter that I would love to see make the headlines of "Thought to be extinct but not" it would be the trilobite.