monkfish weighing nearly nine stones. Ed Fletcher, owner of Granite City Fish Ltd in Aberdeen, was stunned to see the gruesome-looking mammoth catch arrive from off the coast of Shetland.
Tipping the scales at 56.3 kg and measuring more than six feet, Ed says he's 'never seen anything like it' in his 38 years in the trade.
He told the Record he would be keeping it on display and potentially looking for some way to preserve the fish.He said: "A monkfish weighing 15 kg is a big one so to see one at more than 50 is just unbelievable."I went on to the internet when it arrived and the males usually grow to a maximum of 20 kg and the females a maximum of 40 kg."This old lady must have been in the water a long time to get 25% bigger than the.
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