Largest Species Of Deep Sea Fish

By Stacy Robinson

Fishing for the biggest fish is a usual topic of conversation among anglers. Freshwater fish can grow fairly large, but they are no competition for saltwater, deep sea fish. Those hardy anglers who venture out into the deep sea in small boats to see what they can catch are truly brave, but only a few can boast of catching really big fish.

The biggest fish the ocean has to offer are sharks. The largest shark is the whale shark. The whale shark has been reported measuring 50 feet long and weigh over 18 metric tons. This is bigger than a grey hound bus or a semi truck and trailer. It is also bigger than most of the boats anglers rent to go out deep sea fishing.

The next largest shark is the basking shark. This shark has been caught weighing over 12 metric tons and 43 feet long. It is the size of a big RV. But the basking shark and the whale shark won’t be caught by anglers unless it is an accident. They are both plankton eaters. They swim through the deep sea with their mouths open collecting plankton as the water filters through their gills. It would be possible to get a hook and line tangled up in their gills, but nothing would be able to bring them in, let alone get them on the boat!

The thresher shark is a huge fish eating shark that is catch able. These sharks have been known to grow 20 feet long and over 1000 pounds. Then there is the great white shark. This fish, which has a bad name in the world, can grow very large. In 1952, off of the coast of Cape Donnington, Australia, a great white was caught weighing 2071 lbs, which is over 1 ton. Then in 1962, off the coast of Long Island, New York, a great white was caught that dwarfed the one from Australia. This fish was 17 and a half feet long and weighed an estimated 4500lbs. That is over 2 and a half tons.

After the sharks, the blue marlin is most likely the biggest fish caught deep sea fishing. The record fish caught at Kona, Hawaii was 1100 lbs. It was caught in 1967. There was another 1100 lb blue marlin caught in 1966 at LeMorne, Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean the blue marlin are smaller. In 1956 off of the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico a 756 lb blue marlin was caught. The black sea bass is another large species of fish and it is found all over the Pacific Ocean but there seem to be a large number off of the coast of California. In August of 1956, boats from San Clemente, California, caught a black bass weighing 514 lbs. The wahoo is another deep sea species that can grow large. In 1960, off the coast of Marathon, Florida, there was a Wahoo caught weighing 139 lbs. These are some of the largest fish ever caught in the deep ocean. There maybe others that are as big or bigger because the large fish of the ocean are constantly growing.

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