Fishermen catch record rockfish from 1,000 feet deep.

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Keith DeGraff hooked into a fish that he thought was a halibut as he was fishing in the deep waters of Prince William Sound in Alaska.

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However, the fish he was actually going for was black cod. It turned out that neither of those were true.

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According to the publication Saltwater Sportsman, DeGraff reeled in a shortraker rockfish that weighed in at 40.1 pounds

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which was greater than the previous record of 39.1 pounds set by Henry Liebman of Seattle in 2013.

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When DeGraff got back to the secluded cabin where his fiancee Betsey Wilson and three of their friends were staying

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he initially weighed the fish there. According to unofficial reports

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Therefore, DeGraff cut the fish's fins.

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However, there would be a delay of three days before it could be properly weighed on a certified scale.

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