[Sca-cooks] Big fish

[Bill Fisher]

On 7/5/05, Jeff Gedney <gedney1 at iconn.net> wrote:
> >My husband came across this and forwarded it to me--
> >It is one massive fish.
> 
> Not so large as one herring brought in at Caister during the
> Yarmouth Herring Fair (source: History of Yarmouth by William Finch-Crisp  - Published 1877) extracted on web page http://www.ean.co.uk/Data/Bygones/History/Local/Norfolk/Great_Yarmouth/Crisp/html/body_crisp1.htm
> 
> 
> "Large fish, 17 yards long, the jaw 3.25 yards long, body 4.5 yards
> thick, caught at Caister"
> 
> Capt Elias
> -Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas

Probably a small whale or one of the filter feeding sharks....


Cadoc

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