Arnaz and Mark Erdmann saw a strange-looking fish in Kuala Jengki, a fish market in Manado, on 18 September 1997. The fish was recognized as coelacanth similar to the well known living fossil Latimeria chalumnae from the Comoran Archipelago.
On 30 July 1998, Lameh Sonathan and his crew found a living coelacanth trapped in their deep-set shark gill-net near the island of Manado Tua, about 10 km off the coast of Manado. The fish was 124 cm long and weighed 29.2 kg. It was the first living specimen known to science and it was then named Latimeria menadoensis.
At about sunrise, on 19 May 2007, another living specimen of Manado coelacanth was hooked in Malalayang beach in Manado by a local fisherman Justinus Lahama and his son Delvi. The fish bite a malalugis lure at about 60 m depth. When retrieved the fish was 130 cm long and weighed 50 kg.
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