July 4th is US Independence Day. In recent days, there has been increasing news about this holiday in the United States. The news introduced this time is one of them.

A fish with an estimated age over 200 years was found in Alaska, USA. The New York Daily News reports.


The fish was caught by Seattle-based insurance assessor Henry Liebman. He caught 39.08 pounds of reef fish on June 21 in Alaska.

The reef fish that Liebman caught this time is 41 inches (about 104 cm) in length. It greatly exceeds the previous record of length of 32.5 inches (about 82.6 cm) by fish of the same species.


The age of the 32.5 inch fish is assessed to be 205 years. The fish Liebman caught may be over 205 years old because they are larger than the fish.

Troy Tidingco, Sitka Regional Manager for the Department of Fish, Birds and Beasts, Alaska, told the local newspaper Daily Sitka Sentinel:

"A reef fish assessed as 205 years old is 32.5 inches long, but Liebman's fish are about 41 inches long, which could make Liebman's fish much older."

Fish samples are sent to a laboratory in Junho, the capital of Alaska, where accurate fish age assessments are made. If the fish is 237 years old, it is the same age as the United States.