Wisdom Fish Dies Today!

I am working in my house one evening when a little kid come over telling me that I needed to go take a picture of a fish the fishermen just can back with. So I grab my camera and follow the kid to where the fishermen were unloading their boat. Not quite sure what to expect yet knowing that it has to be something unusual for the fishermen to tell the kid to come get me. As the crowd of villagers part I see 6 men trying to pull this HUGE fish inland. As they finally get it inland and lay it down, I realize it is the fish from those stories when we were little. The big fish that imparted wisdom. It really looked like some pre-historic creature. I don't really know if these pictures do it justice.

The mouth was so big that a child could have sat inside of it. We acutally tried to get some of the kids to sit inside but they were all too scared. The man to the right, in the first picture, is the one who caught the fish. It was not meant for food but rather to sell. After they spend hours trying to cut this fish up into littler pieces to weigh it, working against the setting, it weighed in at 145 Kilos (320 lbs). And that was after they had removed all the insides, so acutally the fish was probably over 350 lbs. Now keep in mind, Tongans don't let anything go to waste, so all the insides were taken home and cleaned out. The things that were inside the stomach of this fish were absolutely amazing. It was the types of things the fishermen typically return with from the sea. There were lobsters, craps, sea turtles and a big porcupine fish among other fish.

No, they did not eat the things that was inside of the stomach, just the stomach itself.