seafood feast as much as there is to celebrate about converging crabs, there's also much to mourn - yesterday, a 124-pound blue catfish was caught in the mississippi river near the southern illinois town of alton. it was deemed the largest ever catfish caught in illinois. today, en route to a restaurant where it was supposed to be on display, it died.

"our big fish died, so now we have big fry," said an alton telegraph editor.

i suppose the fish was really old and decided that years of dodging nets and ignoring dangling, squirming worm has made it succumb.

"We're baffled by this," Fred Cronin, a fisheries biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, told The Kansas City Star. "We took a lot of precautions to see that the fish was comfortable." [ more ]

poor fish. i suppose i would die too if i'm being transported to a place where they fry your kind.

i should lighten up: we have crabs! we have fish!

"that fish would taste nasty," said my colleague.

but i'm not picky... what a feast.   ¶ 5/25/2005 10:26:00 PM