I found this on story on the Baja-Mex fish reort. I was able to contact Barb & Ron Albright who found the fish out in front of there home down in Baja. Here is what Barb reported to me on the find of this rare fish.
One of our friends was walking on the beach he sees this LARGE thing, he is just staying with us. He has no clue what it is but thinks it should be back in the water.. It took him about 5 minutes to get it turned back to sea.
Then we see it, all the neighbors came out at that time. There are only 7 homes here so it wasn't a huge crowd. A couple of the guys got into the inflatable to go out to see what was happening. They could tell it wasn't going to live to long. They jumped into the water with the Oarfish, trying to get it turned back to shore. It took another 15 minutes to get it to shore. They were so gentle with it not wanting to hurt it any more. We figured it was around 150 lbs and about 14 feet long minus a tail that is. The three guys holding it is Troy Tinney, Steve Lawerance, and Mike Shaw.
We contacted Palmas de Cortez to see it they wanted it. They were thrilled to get it, that is where it's at right now. I do know that Scripps had been contacted but not sure what will happen there. They would like to have it but it's here in Baja so that might not happen.
The colors were so fantastic it wasn't like anything I have seen before. It was still alive on shore but you could tell it wasn't going to make it. This we felt was a once in a life time thing, to see something this beautiful coming up from the sea..........
I have saved a set of the best photos to my site on webshots as well as I have posted the link to the complete set on Barb's album as well.
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