Freeland Tribune

A Big Halibut.

There was landed recently at Stromness, Orkney, a halibut of extraordinary dimensions, measuring six feet ten inches in length, and weighing no less than 245 pounds. The fish was discovered by two lads who were engaged in hauling lobster creels at the back of the Holms, a distance of about a mile and a half from Stromness Pier. It was observed in the sand apparently asleep, and as they had no appliances with which to attempt a capture, they marked the spot and returned home to acquaint their father. Armed with a kind of harpoon, to which a line was attached, they went back to the place and found that the huge fish had not moved; carefully watching an opportunity the father succeeded in planting the harpoon in the back of the halibut. The weapon entered the spine and rendered the fish powerless, but on account of its size and weight it was only after considerable difficulty that it was got on board. It proved a splendid specimen of the halibut, and was in a first-rate condition. In its stomach was found a variety of small fish, which weighed upward of six pounds. It was at once carefully packed and despatched by steamship and rail to the London market. - London Field.