Can a Frozen Fish Come Back to Life?
"In turn, I pass on a story I'd heard from Richard MacDonald, a high school mathematics teacher from Haileybury, Ont., whose word I've always found to be reliable. Fishing near Iroquois Falls in northeastern Ontario, he once landed a huge pike. He left it on the ice, where it quickly froze. Some hours later, he threw it into the unheated back of his pick-up truck for the drive home, where he put it straight into the freezer. Six weeks went by. Then one day there was a power failure. MacDonald, returning home from work, checked the basement freezer to assess the damage, and lo and behold, the pike had not only thawed but come back to life – and had chewed a big chunk out of the hindquarters of a moose he had in the freezer. "Pike are incredibly resilient," MacDonald had stressed, recommending that anyone keen on the science of cryogenics should study the species."
I read this and was skeptical (as always) so I decided to search Google for any hint of scientific support to the idea that a frozen pike, or any fish for that matter, could come back to life after a long period of time. I found nothing at all, although it may be that I didn't search properly. I know fish can twitch after their death, but come back to life, I think not.
Labels: ice fishing
Subscribe to my Feed!
2 Comments:
Yes they can!! In the early 1900's a man by the name of Bob went to the artic to explore. What amazed him is that at the villagers when fishing would catch one and it instantly froze when being exsposed to 50 below temps.They stored hundreds of fish..frozen.Upon them thawing Bob would see some jump back to life.
He took this back to the states and started a booming company on this pricipal..Frozen foods..Bob is what his freinds called him..His real name was Clarence Birdseye.
Yes, frozen fish can be reanimated, I've done it many times with Goldfish and Freon. Unfortunately, the core of the fish has to remain semi-liquid, or the fish will not revive.
There was an old TV show "Science Fiction Theatre" with a narrator "Truman Bradley" who demonstrated this on TV once.
Post a Comment
<< Home