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| 1939 New York Mayor LaGuardia with a 300 lb halibut |
by Callum Roberts, University of York
Almost 400 years ago, Captain John Smith, the founder of the Jamestown colony, wrote dramatically about the wonderful fishing off the coast of Virginia, in particular the "large-sized fish called Hallibut":
"Some are taken so big that two men have much a doe to hall them into the boate; but there is such plenty, that the fisher men onely eate the heads & fines, and throw away the bodies."
Such a catch would not happen today, because most giant fish are long gone.
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