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What To Do If You Get a World-Record Halibut

What To Do If You Get a World-Record Halibut

by Haraldur Ólafsson

Author: Administrator Account/Friday, October 13, 2017/Categories: Articles - All, Articles - Home Page, Summer 2017 Issue 126

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Gunther Hansel, 70, a German angler, caught the largest Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglosus) yet known, and he set the world record for sea-angling an Atlantic halibut with a rod and reel. In the month of August, 2010, I received a telephone call which I will never forget, to ask if I would be the taxidermist for a 219-kg (482-pound) halibut. After I had agreed and put down the phone, I started regretting my decision as there were many problems which I had to solve before the halibut eventually was prepared and mounted.

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