Oldest Rockfish: Henry Liebman Caught 200-Year-Old Fish Off Alaska Coast [VIDEO]

A 39-pound, 41-inch catch is enough to be amazed by. What's even more remarkable about Henry Liebman's story is the age of his monster catch. The sport fisherman out of Seattle is believed to have caught a fish swimming the waters of the North Pacific for 200 hundred years, the Epoch Times reported.

Liebman caught the ancient fish off the coast of Alaska, and it is possibly the oldest rockfish ever captured. Troy Tydingco of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said the previous rockfish on record clocked in at 175 years, but it was much smaller than the one Leibman reeled in. Samples of the catch have been sent to facilities in Juneau to determine its exact age, Yahoo News reported. The creature's girth could mean Leibman will break a size record as well.

"I knew it was abnormally big [But I]didn't know it was a record until on the way back we looked in the Alaska guide book that was on the boat," Leibman said.

He told reporters that he plans to have the fish mounted and his story is surely gaining him loads of attention. Twitter has been buzzing with some criticism of the fisherman for removing the fish from its home.