"It’s a beast and it wasn’t cheap that’s for sure," Mickel told the news outlet. "It was wrapped up after I bought it and shipped to me on two pallets."
Mickel owns a seafood market in Edinburgh, where he reportedly sold filets of the fish to restaurants around the Scottish capital.

"The hardest part was getting it into the shop window on display," he explained. "It took four men to get it up there, it’s not the easiest job in the world lifting the dead weight of a 77kg (169 lbs.) slimy fish. It dwarfed the other halibut next to it."