Giant fish lures fishermen

On the morning of November 29, fishermen caught a crutch weighing more than 2 tons in the sea about 3 nautical miles from Ly Son Island (Quang Ngai).Struggling for three hours, the fishermen on Nguyen Phong's boat could bring the giant fish to shore.

Mr. Kieu excitedly recounted: "Off the coast at 4am, the first catch was heavy, we found a big fish waving under the seawater. We have to wait until the stingray has brought go on the boat".

Crutches weigh more than 2 tons are specialized cranes from fishing vessels
Nguyen Kieu went ashore on Ly Son Island (Quang Ngai) this morning. (Photo: Tri Tin)

The fish is too big, so he has to contact the mainland to hire a crane in the harbor to bring it from the fishing boat to shore. Wish fish weighs 2 tons.

According to many fishermen in Ly Son, this is the first time the fishermen in this island have caught more than 2 tons of crutches. The fisherman Tran Tan Dat said that usually during the sea season, the fish of the new species dragged the herd around Ly Son island to eat and net."A few years ago, the fish caught in fishermen with a large weight also reached a ton is the same," Dat said.

Ly Son fishermen often call this fish "cricket fish" , rarely eating meat, so most of them are sold to traders. From August until now, fishermen have caught in Ly Son sea about 12 crutches. On average, each animal weighs from 400 to 700kg, the largest is about one ton. Each kg of crutches sells 25,000 VND.