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Monster fish killed after terrorising swimmers at Swiss lake - and served for dinner

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Police divers have harpooned a huge fish that had been terrorising swimmers in a Swiss lake, sending a few to hospital with bite wounds.

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{"commentId":8190035,"authorDomain":"tyroanee"}
The meat from the captured fish was later served up to tourists at the lake.

Oh my... you just better not piss anyone off in that village!

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  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:21 PM EDT
{"commentId":8190307,"authorDomain":"immaginedigitalimag"}

My guess is that the fish is not a Perch at all but more like a Lake Trout or Mackinaw Trout (Salvelinus namaycush, family Salmonidae).

The article said that the fish may have been suffering from a "hormone imbalance."

I shall refrain from commenting about that.

Anyway, about a year or so ago, a mysterious fish turned up in Utah (I think it was). I was surprised that biologists there could not identify it. I posted a blog article and identified the fish as a Snakehead.

ASIAN SNAKEHEAD
Temperament : Very aggressive/predacious

Distribution : Asia & South East Asia

People obtain them, usually illegally to put in an aquarium. After they eat everything, they are released into local ponds, etc..

A. Mac

I posted all this extra, non-related information for one reason.

To show off.

"Perch" my b(ass).

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Reply#2 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:35 PM EDT
{"commentId":8208256,"authorDomain":"zomzom"}
The article said that the fish may have been suffering from a "hormone imbalance."

Maybe it had fishy-gigantism! Don't call him fat, though. He's just big boned.

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  • 3 votes
#2.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
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{"commentId":8204030,"authorDomain":"rus-peterson"}

Wow, a two foot monster! Must have been a guppy.

Well, maybe the attacked swimmers were dangling their "worm" in the water and asking for trouble. Or a little slippage out of the Speedo. It is Europe, after all.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:07 AM EDT
{"commentId":8207566,"authorDomain":"KimmieLynn"}

That's a perch ?

OMGoodness I have never seen a perch like that before !

I guess even fish suffer from hormones and PMS =( .

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  • 5 votes
Reply#4 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:38 PM EDT
{"commentId":8218176,"authorDomain":"tyroanee"}

PMS

Would that be Perch Menstrual Syndrome?

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  • 5 votes
#4.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:07 PM EDT
{"commentId":8229226,"authorDomain":"ruthlessmoose"}

wakka wakka wakka

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#4.2 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:17 PM EDT
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{"commentId":8224822,"authorDomain":"bwana1961"}

If its a Perch then the hormones that are put intot he water are effecting the natural environment. Look up all the chemicals, birth control and prozac in the water...and we wonder why 50 years ago 1 in 75 people died of cancer, now its 1 in 3...

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  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:35 AM EDT
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