Weigh Of 2 Pounds Toadzilla Graeme Sawyer

Weigh Of 2 Pounds Toadzilla Graeme Sawyer, It’s a rampant monster toad the size of a dog (assuming that dog is itself very small; say, about the size of a toad.) Anyway, click to make even bigger.
A ‘monster’ cane toad the size of a small dog has been captured.

An environmental ‘caged’ the toxic beast which is blamed for killing countless animals since being introduced to Australia in the 1930s.

The volunteer-run organization, Frogwatch, picked up the 40-centimeter-long (15-inch-long) cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.

With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 1 kilogram (2 pounds), the ‘monster toad’ is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.

‘It’s huge, to put it mildly,’ he said. ‘The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male … I would hate to meet his big sister.’

Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia’s northern sugar cane plantations.

The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia’s delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.

As part of its so-called ‘Toad Buster’ project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.

‘We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process that renders the toads nontoxic,’ Sawyer said.

‘It turns out to be sensational fertilizer,’ he added.

A 444 Pounds Halibut Caught Norway

A 444 Pounds Halibut Caught Norway, The Atlantic Halibut is an extraordinary fish, once one of the world’s largest. Old reports suggest males could have grown to 700 pounds and 15 feet (320 kg and 4.7 m). Long lived, slow growing, late maturing, and easily caught by bottom trawls and long lines, they were quickly overfished once people acquired a taste for them. Now not many are left, and the species is labelled Vulnerable or Endangered, depending on the agency assessing them.

Fishing along the New England coast and on the offshore fishing banks remains a disaster. Collapsed stocks like halibut recover very slowly, if at all, and even cod, which ought to be more resilient, have failed to show signs of recovery. Quotas are small and getting smaller, and so are fishing fleets.

Whole Foods Market is going to sell only the fish species considered sustainable by the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute, and that eliminates the Atlantic halibut – as it should. Plenty of other markets exist, but it sets a good example. We simply should not be eating any wild caught Atlantic halibut.

A very new method of aquaculture involves submerged, ‘deepwater’ AquaPod Net Pens – geodesic spherical enclosures that have been used for cod, salmon, and other species, but not yet for halibut.

Now there is a proposal to farm Atlantic halibut in a bay on the central coast of Maine, starting with one Aquapod about 30 ft in diameter, tethered to the bottom by an 18,000 pound anchor, able to spin out with tide in a 150 ft radius.

1,323.5 Pound Weigh Mako Shark

1,323.5 Pound Weigh Mako Shark, A Texas angler on Monday spent more than two hours battling an enormous mako shark off Huntington Beach, and the catch will shatter the world record if it’s approved by the International Game Fish Assn.

The shortfin mako, landed by Jason Johnston, measured 11-plus feet and tipped the certified scale at New Fishall Bait Co. in Gardena at 1,323.5 pounds.

The current record is a 1,221-pound catch made off Chatham, Massachusetts, in 2001.

Johnston was fishing out of Breakaway Charters in Huntington Harbour. His group was fishing again Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.

However, he told KTLA: “It’s unreal. This thing is definitely a killing machine. Any wrong step and I could have went out of the boat and to the bottom of the ocean.”
Kent Williams, who owns New Fishall Bait Co. and is a state-certified weigh master, said Johnston adhered to IGFA rules.

The shark as of Tuesday afternoon was in the freezer at the bait company.

News of the catch is sure to generate controversy, especially since it looks as though the shark might have been pregnant.

That could be the case, or the shark simply could have been feeding on sea lions or dolphins before its capture.

Said Keith Poe, a veteran mako angler who specializes in tagging and releasing his catches:

“It’s a great catch but I personally would have tagged and released it,” Poe said. “The shark populations are being hammered in Southern California by commercial fisheries, especially gillnets.”

Giant makos were also caught last July and August off Southern California ports.