A 60lb, 44" shortraker rockfish was reeled in off the coast of Alaska last month. The fish has a bone in its ear that develops rings like a tree trunk, allowing scientists to approximate the fish's age to be between 90-115 years old.
When I was your age, we didn't have "fins." Shortraker rockfish, sebastes borealisi
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