‘Largest-ever’ swordfish caught in China’s Yellow Sea ends up in market

Fishermen in northeastern China netted two large swordfish and were selling them at a local market for 100 yuan per kilogram on Saturday, local media reported.
The larger one, measuring 4.1 metres long and weighing 310kg, was reportedly the largest ever caught by Qingdao fishermen in the Yellow sea. The other one was a little over 200kg, local portal Qingdaonews.com reported.
A local fisherman said the giant fish most probably swam into the net while chasing smaller fish.
Local fishmonger Shi Donglei bought the larger fish for about 19,000 yuan (HK$23,000), or around 60 yuan per kg.
He said he could have made more money had he sold it to specimen collectors.
But he decided to cut it into pieces and sell it on the market “so that more Qingdao residents could have a taste of it”, according to the report.
