FRANCE – One fisherman is going to have to find a very big fishbowl for his latest catch!
This isn’t the type of goldfish you buy your kids at the pet store. Fisherman Raphael Biagini reeled in what is believed to be a 30-pound koi carp in France, where the fish is quite popular. The carp gives off the appearance of a giant goldfish thanks to its vivid orange color. While the picture is a few months old, it’s blazing through the Internet thanks to an article from the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
There is speculation that the picture is a fake. Given the fact that online hoaxes are a dime a dozen, these fears aren’t farfetched. However, according to Ken Peterson, communications director at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, this isn’t out of the realm of possibility. If a koi has the right amount of food and enough space to grow, he says, there’s no telling how big they can get.
Koi carp have indeed grown a lot bigger. John McCosker of the California Academy of Sciences points out that, according to FishBase.org, the largest koi on record weighed almost 90 pounds (also caught in France).
Despite all of these facts, it still seems a little odd that Biagini isn’t struggling at all with the fish. As one commenter to the Daily Mail points out, it seems as though the fisherman is holding the fish the way somebody would hold a 1-pound package.
Well, you tell us what you think…
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it's a real picture, but not real fish
its real the fish and the pic believe me i know im in germany rigt now
Dude, the pic is from france, being in germany has NOTHING to do with this picture or story.
I think if it were real, it would weigh much more than 30 pounds. I've caught 30 pound fish before and they didn't look that big.
it's absolute real photography !
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it's absolute real photography !
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Of course the fish is real the only thing fake in this is France
it's absolutely a real picture!
it is resting on the mans knee, I think it is real….well it could be real…
not real if it real, if it real y did it not show at the news at the TV
IT COULD BE POSIBLE THAT THERE IS A KIND OF A FISH OR GIANT GOLDFISH…I VOTED FOR VERY VERY REAL…
its a koy people its ok. its normal.
it's 100% real. here's another picture of it. http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/ht_b…
and here's others: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gWCkPg2UgNs/SlJFvgRoJaI… http://www.fishingfury.com/wp-content/uploads/200…
This picture is a fake. The mans shadow is casting behind him. This fish shadow is not. They should have thought about this when they cropped the picture.
Those aren't shadows they are reflections and they are exactly right.
After checking out the pic's you posted I think it's real too!
Its not real. if this fish is alive why is it not struggling to escape his arms?
gigantic fish…real for sure..dudes…
the question should be what the hell france has in it water!
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