Mark,
Just a comment regarding the oarfish postings from Anna Marie island, Florida.
I was there.
The fish was intact and swimming. It was not cut in two by a boat propeller.
It swam along the coast for a mile or so. I followed it. It seemed agonal, but then it seemed like it was ok.
Another bystander tried to pick it up while it was still swimming and the fish broke in two pieces. It was incredible that the bony structure could not support it's weight.
Then as the fish started to expire, it expelled what I thought were thousands of eggs.
L. Pfaender
9 July 2002.
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