Biggest halibut caught in Norway

October 25, 2007 » Weird & Odd

Biggest halibut caught in the nother Norway

Professional fisherman Tom Richard Kristiansen have caught the world’s biggest halibut in the northeast Norway region of Finnmark in vicinity of Russian border. The fish weights 314,5 kilos (693 lbs.) and three meters (10 feet) long).

I wonder how many people could be fed by this halibut?

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14 Responses to “Biggest halibut caught in Norway”

  1. Dores on December 14th, 2007 4:42 am

    Wow! This is really fantastic and my first time to see this such big kind of fish.

  2. Sean on March 29th, 2008 4:40 am

    Chose him out of thousands - the rest were all too flat…

  3. brsretg on June 19th, 2008 3:04 pm

    holy crap thats a huge fish. the biggest i have ever caught was 6 inches

  4. ken on July 11th, 2008 11:48 pm

    who long was this fish played for??

  5. goretzky on November 29th, 2008 9:42 pm

    my largest halibut is 84lbs. and i’m 11. still that fish is huge

  6. crystal talbert on March 2nd, 2009 7:01 pm

    omggg dannggg i wanna eat it!

  7. Charlotte on April 10th, 2009 5:59 pm

    That halibut is actually not the largest that was ever caught. The largestwas caught decades ago and weighed about 800 pounds. It was NOT line caught–it was snagged in some netting. A picture and news story hangs in The Hot Bite in Juneau, AK.

  8. blake on May 15th, 2009 12:54 pm

    dude you rock man

  9. Michael on May 21st, 2009 2:58 pm

    I was a trawlerman in the the sixties,fishing out of Lowestoft & Grimsby.
    I think it was 1965, when, what at that time,was the largest ever caught halibut,was landed at GY,it came in at 39 Stone.
    My own vessel,landed a 14st halibut at the same time.
    I saw the first one being landed across the dock & I remember that it made ours look small.
    When I watch these modern ’small’ trawlers & see the deckhands expressing their delight at what they see as a ‘BIG’ cod specimen,I think they haven’t seen any large cod.
    I could place my hand in the Gill cavity of a large cod,hold it, with it’s head upwards,my arm outstretched above my head & it’s tail would still be touching the deck.
    That’s what I call a cod,not the ’spraggs’ that today’s trawlers pick up.
    These large Halibut would at today’s prices,be worth a small fortune,compared to the early sixties prices.
    I think that 39st Halibut was placed in the, Guiness Book of Records at the time,I am not 100% sure though.

  10. Alex on May 29th, 2009 8:56 pm

    I’d damn well get a fish licence for one of those.

  11. hunter robrts on July 20th, 2009 9:56 am

    i live in juneau and i just went halibut fishing today and iv never cought a halibut before and it was a fight for a half hour it went up at the suface and back down 5 times till i tired him out he was 80 lbs and holy crap i was sore for a week

  12. lando on December 3rd, 2009 2:27 am

    WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!ive caught a bigger 1

  13. frank D on January 9th, 2010 6:06 pm

    hunter roberts talks in strange speak caught today sore for a week.Or did he go fishing a week ago and fell in and damaged his sense of time.

  14. kiesha on January 17th, 2010 5:05 pm

    OMG!!!!!! THAT IS A BIG ONE

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