I don't believe that to the case in fish.  Their biology is just too different in many ways.  For example, fish have indeterminate growth (i.e. they never stop growing) where as I bet your grandmother is shorter now than she was when she was 25.   

Bigger fish = more eggs and bigger eggs = more fecundity and more viability

In the end a 38# pound fish will produce many more viable offspring than eight 5# fish.  It  might actually take as many as ten to fifteen 5# fish to produce as many viable offspring.

Brian

While you're waiting for the official word on the length estimate, I took a stab at it based on this paper.

http://astro.temple.edu/~tud02746/publications/Lowry%20et%20al.,%202009.pdf

Everything in the paper is in metric and they provide log-log regression equations for various species of sharks to convert bite size and tooth distance to total shark length.    There are two slightly different equations for GWS depending on whether you are using upper jaw or lower jaw IDD (inter-dental distance), but they are close enough that I only bother with the upper jaw equation.  Solving for x (total length) I came up with the following plot which I converted back to good ol' American imperial units.

Based on this image..


The IDD looks to be about 2 inches even which puts this shark at 21.4 ft long


There is another set of equations in the paper if you happen to have the circumference of the bite.

siphonophore

That's a really bad angle to identify a fish from, but my guess would be that it's a blenny of some sort, probably one of the many small species of kelpfish in the area.  Kelpfish tend to have a small mouth, pointy head and a long body.  If I could see the dorsal and anal fins I could be certain.

Brian

Oh CNN... the things you will do to grab viewer's attention.  I've never heard lamprey being called "vampire fish".  Lamprey invaded the rest of the Great Lakes from Lake Ontario years ago when the US and Canada made a shipping channel around Niagara Falls.   

Up in on here in Oregon, lamprey are actually in trouble and they are taking measures to protect them.

At least it wasn't the Mermaid "documentary" that aired on Animal Planet.

I would avoid the $20 ukuleles, they never stay in tune.
There are several brands out there that cost between $60 - $300 depending on the wood choice that are actually stay in tune and sound pretty good.  They're all made in china.  If you want "Made in Hawaii" you'll pay $500+.

I'm personally partial to the Kala brand.   I have a low end "Makala" line soprano pinapple uke from Kala and for $50 it's great.

http://kalaukulele.com/index.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Kala-MK-P-Makala-Pineapple-Ukelele/dp/B001LU39F6

When I changed out the factory strings for some Aquila Nylguts it sounded even better..

http://www.amazon.com/Aquila-Nylgut-Soprano-Ukulele-Strings/dp/B003NJF1G8/ref=pd_bxgy_MI_text_y

DOTY is up and running

The DOTY rss stuff already exists..

http://doty.norcalkayakanglers.com/leaderboard/rss
http://doty.norcalkayakanglers.com/leaderboard/rss_recent

Yep, that's a jacksmelt.